--- title: "Connect Paperless to Crelate - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Document updated\" fires in Paperless, your agent runs \"Add email\" in Crelate." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-crelate" --- # Connect Paperless to Crelate When **Document updated** fires in [Paperless](https://apiant.ai/connections/paperless), your agent runs **Add email** in [Crelate](https://apiant.ai/connections/crelate). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Paperless **2** triggers Paperless **6** actions Crelate **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Paperless and Crelate 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 Paperless can start in Crelate - When **Document updated** in Paperless then **Add email** in Crelate - When **New document created** in Paperless then **Create Task** in Crelate 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 Paperless and Crelate ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 20 actions - Trigger **Document updated** Fires when a document is updated (e.g. name changed). Backed by the document.updated webhook event. - Trigger **New document created** Fires when a new document is created. Backed by the document.created webhook event. - Action **Create Document (From Template)** Creates a new Paperless document from an existing template, optionally filling in recipients, form-field defaults and variables, and optionally sending it right away. - Action **Delete Document** Permanently delete a document by ID. - Action **Get Document** Retrieves a single Paperless document by its id. - Action **Get Template** Retrieves a single Paperless template by its id. - Action **List Templates** List all templates the API key's integration has access to, used to pick a template_id before creating a document. - Action **Update Document** Updates an existing Paperless document: rename it, set its recipients, form field defaults and variables, or send it by setting its state to dispatched. - Action **Add email** Logs an email activity in Crelate on a contact, company or job record. - Action **Create Note** Creates a note on a Crelate contact, company or job record. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task in Crelate attached to a contact, company or job record. - Action **Create Webhook (Company Created)** Subscribes a URL to receive a notification whenever a company is created in Crelate. - Action **Delete company** Permanently deletes a company record from Crelate. - Action **Delete contact** Permanently deletes a contact from Crelate. - Action **Delete job** Permanently deletes a job in Crelate. - Action **Find Company** Searches Crelate companies by name, phone, email, city or postal code and returns the matching companies. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts by name, email, phone, contact number, city or postal code, returning up to 200 matches. - Action **Find Job** Searches jobs by name keywords or job number and returns the matching jobs. - Action **Get company** Returns a single Crelate company record, including its custom fields, by its id. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single Crelate contact by its id, including all standard and custom fields. - Action **Get job** Returns a single job record by its id, including its custom fields. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing Crelate task. Only the fields you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Paperless** Paperless lets you create, sign, and manage intelligent documents on a single platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paperless) - [ **Crelate** Crelate is modern Talent Relationship Management platform paired with simple, flexible Applicant Tracking...](https://apiant.ai/connections/crelate) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Paperless - [ **Paperless to Google Maps Platform** APIs and SDKs for maps, geocoding, routing, places search, and location-based data in apps.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-google-maps-platform) - [ **Paperless to Metropolitan Museum of Art** The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API exposes the museum's open-access catalogue of more than four...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-metropolitan-museum-of-art) - [ **Paperless to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML is a German e-invoice compliance service for creating, validating...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Paperless to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-salesforce) - [ **Paperless to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-slack) - [ **Paperless to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-stripe) ## More into Crelate - [ **HubSpot to Crelate** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-crelate) - [ **Salesforce to Crelate** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-crelate) - [ **Slack to Crelate** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-crelate) - [ **Google Sheets to Crelate** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-crelate) - [ **Gmail to Crelate** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-crelate) - [ **Google Calendar to Crelate** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-crelate) Questions ## Paperless and Crelate, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Paperless? Any of Paperless's 2 triggers in the catalog, including Document updated and New document created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Crelate when something happens in Paperless? Any of Crelate's 14 actions, including Create Note, Create Task, Create Webhook (Company Created) and Update task. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Crelate to Paperless? Crelate has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Paperless. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Crelate's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Paperless or Crelate? 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 Paperless and Crelate 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.