--- title: "Connect PaintScout to Brex - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Update a Budget - “Brex Empower” Customers Only\" in Brex." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-brex" --- # Connect PaintScout to Brex When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Update a Budget - “Brex Empower” Customers Only** in [Brex](https://apiant.ai/connections/brex). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **25** actions Brex **27** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want PaintScout and Brex to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What PaintScout can start in Brex - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Update a Budget - “Brex Empower” Customers Only** in Brex - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Create User** in Brex Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with PaintScout and Brex ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 52 actions - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new contact is created in PaintScout. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent to a customer, including when an invoice is re-sent. - Trigger **Invoice Status Changed** Triggers when an invoice's status changes, delivering the invoice with its new status. - Trigger **Quote Status Changed** Triggers when a quote's status changes, for example when it is sent, accepted or declined. - Trigger **Quote Tag Added** Triggers when a tag is added to a quote, optionally only for one specific tag. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in PaintScout with its name, contact details, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Add deal** Creates a new deal in PaintScout, with its contact, job address, pipeline stage and value. - Action **Add event** Creates a scheduled event (such as a consultation or production job) on a PaintScout deal. - Action **Add invoice item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout invoice, with its name, price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add note** Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note. - Action **Add quote item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout quote, with its price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add task** Creates a task in PaintScout, optionally linked to a deal and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in PaintScout with names, email, phone numbers, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice in PaintScout, optionally with its contact, job address, line items, discount and tax, and returns the created invoice. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in PaintScout for a contact, with its job address, notes, pricing adjustments and tags. - Action **Find companies** Returns the companies that match a search filter, such as a name, email or city. - Action **Find Contact** Returns up to 100 contacts that match the search you specify, such as an email address, name or company. - Action **Find deals** Returns the deals that match a search filter, such as a deal name, pipeline, stage or lead source. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices that match a search, such as a status, invoice number, contact name or date range. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a search filter, such as a quote number, status or contact name. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single PaintScout contact by its ID, including name, company, email, phone, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single PaintScout deal by its ID, including its contact, job address, pipeline stage, value, tags, linked quotes and invoices, and job costing. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single PaintScout invoice with its contact, line items, payments, taxes, discounts and totals. Can optionally return the work-order view, which includes per-item material costs. - Action **Get quote** Returns a single PaintScout quote by its ID, including contact, job address, totals, tax, discount, payments, tags and customer-view links. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing PaintScout company's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner or tags. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing PaintScout contact's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in PaintScout — its name, contact, job address, pipeline and stage, lead source, owner, tags and job costing. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update invoice** Updates an existing PaintScout invoice — its status, contact, line items, notes, terms, discount, tax and other details. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Quote** Updates an existing PaintScout quote, such as its status, contact, job address, notes, discount or tags, and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status. - Action **Create Department** Creates a new department in your Brex account and returns its ID, name and description. - Action **Create Location** Creates a new location in your Brex account and returns its ID, name and description. - Action **Create User** Creates a new Brex employee user without sending an invitation, leaving the user inactive until they are invited later. Returns the id of the new user. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a new vendor in Brex, with optional contact details and payment accounts, and returns the created vendor. - Action **Disable User** Disables (suspends) an active Brex user and returns the updated user. Optionally changes the user's manager, department, location, title, cost center, legal entity or metadata at the same time. - Action **Email Card Details** Sends a secure email containing a card's number, CVV, and expiration date to the recipient you specify. - Action **Find a Card by ID** Returns a single Brex card by its ID, including its owner, status, type, spend controls, addresses and expiration date. - Action **Find a User** Returns the Brex users that match a name, email address or identity-provider ID, optionally narrowed by status, manager, department, location, title, cost center, legal entity or custom field value. - Action **Find Department by Name** Returns the Brex departments that match the specified department name. - Action **Find Location by Name** Returns the Brex locations that match the specified name. - Action **Find User by Email** Returns the Brex user whose email address exactly matches the one you specify, or reports that no user was found. - Action **Find Vendor by Name** Returns the vendors whose name matches the name you supply. - Action **Get Card Number** Returns the full card number, CVV, expiration date and cardholder name for a Brex card. - Action **Get Card Transactions** Returns settled card transactions across all of the company's Brex card accounts, optionally narrowed by user or posted date. - Action **Get Cash Transactions** Returns the transactions for a Brex cash account, optionally only those posted on or after a given date. - Action **List cards** Returns the company's Brex cards, optionally only those belonging to one user. - Action **List Cash Accounts** Returns all of the company's Brex cash accounts with their status, balances, account and routing numbers, and which one is primary. - Action **List departments** Returns the departments in your Brex account, optionally filtered by name. - Action **List Expenses** Returns the expenses on the Brex account, optionally narrowed by user, budget, type, status or date range. Admins and bookkeepers see every expense; other users see only their own. - Action **List locations** Returns the locations in your Brex account, optionally filtered by name. - Action **List users** Returns the users in your Brex account, optionally narrowed by name, email, status, manager, department, location, title, cost center, legal entity or custom field value. - Action **List vendors** Returns the vendors in the Brex account, optionally only those matching a vendor name. - Action **Terminate card** Permanently terminates a Brex card and returns the updated card. The card owner is notified. - Action **Update a Budget - “Brex Empower” Customers Only** Updates an existing Brex budget's name, description, parent, owners, period, amount or dates. Available to Brex Empower customers only. - Action **Update card** Updates an existing Brex vendor card's spend controls and metadata, and returns the updated card. - Action **Update User** Updates a Brex user's status, manager, department, location, title, cost center, legal entity or metadata. Anything left blank is unchanged. - Action **Update Vendor by Name** Finds a Brex vendor by its company name and updates that vendor's name, email, phone, beneficiary name or payment accounts. ## Each app on its own - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) - [ **Brex** Handle your company’s deposits, payments, credit cards, spend management, and accounting in one place.](https://apiant.ai/connections/brex) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PaintScout - [ **PaintScout to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-salesforce) - [ **PaintScout to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-slack) - [ **PaintScout to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-stripe) - [ **PaintScout to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-shopify) - [ **PaintScout to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **PaintScout to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-pipedrive) ## More into Brex - [ **HubSpot to Brex** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-brex) - [ **Salesforce to Brex** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-brex) - [ **Slack to Brex** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-brex) - [ **Google Sheets to Brex** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-brex) - [ **Gmail to Brex** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-brex) - [ **Google Calendar to Brex** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-brex) Questions ## PaintScout and Brex, answered ### ### What can start an automation from PaintScout? Any of PaintScout's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Created, Invoice Status Changed, Quote Status Changed and Quote Tag Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Brex when something happens in PaintScout? Any of Brex's 27 actions, including Create Department, Create Location, Create User and Create Vendor. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Brex to PaintScout? Brex has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in PaintScout. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Brex's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or Brex? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use PaintScout and Brex without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.