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Flatfile, worked by an AI employee

Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Flatfile account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.

  • Developer Tools
  • Connects with a key
  • 12 ready-made tools
  • Asked in Slack or Teams
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An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.

What Flatfile is

Flatfile is a data exchange platform for collecting, validating, transforming, and managing structured data across collaborative workflows.

You paste in a key from your own Flatfile account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Flatfile whenever you like.

How a run works

One message in, the work done in Flatfile.

  1. 01

    You ask

    You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.

  2. 02

    It works out the step

    It decides what the job needs in Flatfile. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.

  3. 03

    It does the work

    Signed in to your own Flatfile account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.

  4. 04

    It reports back

    It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.

12 tools it already has

What it can do in Flatfile

These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Flatfile. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.

  • Delete RecordsPermanently delete one to 100 explicitly identified records from one Flatfile sheet. This action never performs an unfiltered delete. Flatfile hooks are disabled, so these deletion
  • Get JobGet detailed status, outcome, result, and diagnostic information for one Flatfile asynchronous job.
  • Get SheetGet one sheet's field configuration and record counts before reading or writing records.
  • Get SpaceGet safe metadata for one Flatfile space without exposing transient access credentials or token-bearing guest links.
  • Insert RecordsInsert one or more rows into a Flatfile sheet using simple field-key to value objects. Returns Flatfile's success receipt and commit ID, not created record IDs. Use List Records se
  • List EnvironmentsList Flatfile environments visible to the connected environment secret key and return the IDs needed to find spaces.
  • List FilesDiscover import or export files and their processing status, optionally within a Flatfile space.
  • List JobsFind asynchronous Flatfile jobs by environment, space, workbook, file, or parent job and inspect progress at a glance.
  • List RecordsRead one page of records from a Flatfile sheet, optionally filtering by validity, field, record ID, search value, or FFQL expression.
  • List SpacesFind Flatfile spaces by environment, text, namespace, archive state, or template status.
  • List WorkbooksList workbooks, optionally within a space, with their nested sheets so an agent can continue to sheet and record tasks.
  • Update RecordsUpdate one or more existing Flatfile records by ID using simple field-key to value objects. Flatfile hooks are disabled, so these updates do not trigger hook-driven workflows.
Access, and who is in charge of it

You stay the boss of your Flatfile account.

Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.

How we handle your data
  • It signs in to your own Flatfile account. You are not moving anything into ours.
  • You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
  • Everything it does in Flatfile is written down, with what it did and when.
  • Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
Other apps in the same corner of the business

It works in Flatfile and the rest of your software in the same job

A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.

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Questions people ask about Flatfile

Can an AI employee really work inside Flatfile?
Yes. It signs in to your own Flatfile account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
Do I have to move anything out of Flatfile?
No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Flatfile, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
How does it get into my Flatfile account?
You paste in a key from your own Flatfile account. It is kept encrypted, and you can withdraw it from inside Flatfile whenever you like. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
What can it actually do in Flatfile?
It has 12 ready-made tools in Flatfile today, among them Delete Records, Get Job and Get Sheet. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
Can it use Flatfile and the rest of my software in the same job?
Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Flatfile and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
Who decides what it is allowed to do in Flatfile?
You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Flatfile is written down with what it did and when.