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PaintScout integrations

Connect PaintScout to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.

Connects with an API keypaintscout.com

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with PaintScout?

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Connect your AI client

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)
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.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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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.

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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.

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Pair it

Connect PaintScout with another app

What your agent can do with PaintScout

Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 19 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 note

    Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note.

  • 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 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 task

    Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status.

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Questions

PaintScout, answered

Is there a PaintScout MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with PaintScout. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run PaintScout actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use PaintScout. Nothing to install.

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 PaintScout?

Any of PaintScout's 19 actions, including Create Contact, Create Quote, Update company and Update Contact. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use PaintScout directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with PaintScout two ways. Ask it to do something in PaintScout 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 on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the PaintScout API?

No. APIANT connects to the PaintScout API for you, with your PaintScout API key. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the PaintScout triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the PaintScout API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can PaintScout connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs PaintScout with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

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.