--- title: "Connect Quaderno to Brainbase Labs - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Quaderno, your agent runs \"Add task\" in Brainbase Labs." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-brainbase-labs" --- # Connect Quaderno to Brainbase Labs When **New Contact** fires in [Quaderno](https://apiant.ai/connections/quaderno), your agent runs **Add task** in [Brainbase Labs](https://apiant.ai/connections/brainbase-labs). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Quaderno **3** triggers Quaderno **24** actions Brainbase Labs **15** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Quaderno and Brainbase Labs 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 Quaderno can start in Brainbase Labs - When **New Contact** in Quaderno then **Add task** in Brainbase Labs - When **New Invoice** in Quaderno then **Add thread message** in Brainbase Labs 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 Quaderno and Brainbase Labs ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 39 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created in Quaderno. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Quaderno. - Trigger **New Sale** Triggers when a new sale is recorded in Quaderno, i.e. a new invoice or receipt is created. - Action **Add invoice payment** Records a payment against a Quaderno invoice. When total payments reach the invoice amount, the invoice is marked as paid. - Action **Add product** Creates a new product in Quaderno that can be used as a line item on invoices, credit notes and expenses. - Action **Add receipt** Creates a paid receipt in Quaderno for a completed sale, with its customer, line items and payment method. - Action **Calculate tax rate** Calculates the tax rate and tax amount that applies to a sale for a given customer location and product type. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact (customer or vendor) in Quaderno and returns the created contact. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates an estimate (proforma) in Quaderno for a customer, with line items, dates and notes. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in Quaderno for a vendor, with its line items, and returns the new expense. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice for a customer with line items; optionally records full payment so the invoice is marked paid. - Action **Create Paid Invoice** Creates an invoice for a customer and records a full payment against it, so the invoice is marked paid. - Action **Create Sale** Records a sale in Quaderno, which calculates taxes and issues the matching invoice or receipt for the customer. - Action **Delete contact** Permanently deletes a contact (customer or vendor) from your Quaderno account. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts whose name, email or tax ID matches the search text, or whose payment-processor ID matches. - Action **Find Sale** Finds sales (invoices) by invoice number, customer name or PO number, payment processor transaction id, customer, state or issue date range, and returns the matches. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single Quaderno contact (customer or vendor) by its ID. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns a single estimate (proforma) by its id, including its number, customer, line items, taxes and totals. - Action **Get Expense** Returns the details of an existing expense in your Quaderno account. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single invoice by its id, including number, contact, line items, taxes, totals and payments. - Action **Get product** Returns a single product (item) from your Quaderno account by its id, including its name, code, price and tax settings. - Action **Get Receipt** Returns a receipt by its id, including number, totals, taxes, contact and payment details. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing Quaderno contact. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update invoice** Updates the editable fields of an existing invoice: PO number, tags, payment details, notes, custom metadata and billing address. - Action **Update product** Updates an existing product in Quaderno. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Validate tax ID** Checks whether a customer's tax ID (EU/UK VAT, ABN, NZBN, QST, Swiss UID) is valid and belongs to a real business. - Action **Void invoice** Voids an existing invoice in Quaderno and returns the voided invoice. - Action **Add agent** Creates a new Brainbase agent with a title, instructions, runtime and optional tools, skills and secrets, and returns the created agent. - Action **Add alert** Creates an alert that sends a webhook when a chosen event happens on a team, group, orchestration, agent or thread. - Action **Add machine** Creates a new Brainbase machine (sandbox environment), optionally associated with an agent. - Action **Add task** Creates a task that runs a Brainbase agent. - Action **Add template** Creates an agent template in a Brainbase team, with its instructions, MCP servers, skills and secret definitions. - Action **Add thread** Creates a new Brainbase thread, running an existing agent or an inline agent definition on the input you provide. - Action **Add thread message** Appends one or more messages to a Brainbase thread, and optionally starts the agent run. - Action **Delete agent** Deletes an agent from your Brainbase workspace. - Action **Delete task** Deletes a task from your Brainbase account. - Action **Get agent** Returns one agent's full configuration, including its title, instructions, model, machine settings, MCP servers and metadata. - Action **Get task** Returns a single Brainbase task, including its agent, status, title, metadata and machine details. - Action **List agents** Returns the agents on your Brainbase account, optionally filtered by group or metadata. - Action **List machines** Returns the machines in your Brainbase account, optionally filtered by kind and including torn-down machines. - Action **Update agent** Updates an agent's title, instructions, tools, skills, secrets or settings. - Action **Update task** Updates a task's title, labels or the model its next turn runs on. ## Each app on its own - [ **Quaderno** Quaderno is a tax software that handles sales tax, VAT, and GST for your online business.](https://apiant.ai/connections/quaderno) - [ **Brainbase Labs** AI agent cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents/employees across models, tools, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/brainbase-labs) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Quaderno - [ **Quaderno to Hyperstack Certificates** Hyperstack helps you easily create and manage digital certificates & badges for your events or courses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-hyperstack-certificates) - [ **Quaderno to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-salesforce) - [ **Quaderno to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-slack) - [ **Quaderno to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-stripe) - [ **Quaderno to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-shopify) - [ **Quaderno to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quaderno-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into Brainbase Labs - [ **HubSpot to Brainbase Labs** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-brainbase-labs) - [ **Salesforce to Brainbase Labs** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-brainbase-labs) - [ **Slack to Brainbase Labs** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-brainbase-labs) - [ **Google Sheets to Brainbase Labs** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-brainbase-labs) - [ **Gmail to Brainbase Labs** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-brainbase-labs) - [ **Google Calendar to Brainbase Labs** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-brainbase-labs) Questions ## Quaderno and Brainbase Labs, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Quaderno? Any of Quaderno's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New Invoice and New Sale. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Brainbase Labs when something happens in Quaderno? Any of Brainbase Labs's 15 actions, including Update agent, Update task, Add agent and Add alert. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Brainbase Labs to Quaderno? Brainbase Labs has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Quaderno. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Brainbase Labs's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Quaderno or Brainbase Labs? 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 Quaderno and Brainbase Labs 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.