Content & Documents · Integration
DocsAutomator
Add DocsAutomator to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
DocsAutomator works from api.docsautomator.co and is built around automations that already bind a Google Docs template to a data source, so an API call triggers an existing automation rather than describing a document from scratch. Placeholders in the template are plain text tokens, and line-item tables are driven by a separate prefixed marker set, which means repeating rows require the payload keys to match that prefix exactly or the table renders once. Output lands in the customer's own Google Drive or is returned as a PDF link depending on how the automation is configured, so your product does not control where the file is stored. Because the Google account is connected on the DocsAutomator side, a revoked Drive authorisation breaks generation while the API key itself keeps validating. fastn holds each customer's key, surfaces that upstream connection state and handles ongoing upkeep.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let a customer connect their own DocsAutomator account and pick which automation your product may trigger
Generate a proposal or report document from a record in your app and hand back the PDF link
Populate line-item tables in a customer's template from an order or timesheet held in your product
Detect when a customer's Google Drive authorisation has lapsed and prompt them to reconnect before generation fails
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
Let an agent trigger a named automation with a validated payload and return the generated document link
Have an agent report which generations failed and whether the cause was the payload or a lapsed Drive connection
Audit, per tenant, every automation an agent triggered in DocsAutomator and the document it produced
Example prompt
Did the proposal document generate for this deal in DocsAutomator, and where did the file end up?
Set up DocsAutomator in 4 steps
- 01Enable the DocsAutomator connector from your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own DocsAutomator account, so calls run under their credentials rather than a shared key.
- 03Decide which files, documents and versions your product needs, map those fields, then enable the actions and triggers you want.
- 04Call it from your product and expose it to your agents through the same governed connection.
Why teams use the DocsAutomator integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a DocsAutomator integration without building it. Your customers connect their own DocsAutomator account inside your product and work their files, documents and versions there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: permissions and versioning are easy to get subtly wrong, and mistakes expose content. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a DocsAutomator update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed DocsAutomator connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you let your product work with your customers' documents in place without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a DocsAutomator integration to my product?
Enable the DocsAutomator connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own DocsAutomator account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no DocsAutomator client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own DocsAutomator account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own DocsAutomator account and only ever sees their own files, documents and versions. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this DocsAutomator integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. Let an agent trigger a named automation with a validated payload and return the generated document link
Who maintains the DocsAutomator integration?
fastn does. When DocsAutomator changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Whose permissions does the DocsAutomator integration run under?
Each customer's own DocsAutomator grant. Where DocsAutomator holds a library, their existing folder and item permissions apply and your product cannot reach content the connected account could not reach itself. Where it processes content you supply rather than storing it, the call runs under that customer's own credentials and is logged per tenant.
Can my product create or update content in DocsAutomator automatically?
Where DocsAutomator supports writes, documents, entries and assets can be created, updated and filed from your product or by an agent within scoped permissions, with each action logged. Where it is a read surface, the same connection serves reads only.
What can I build with the DocsAutomator integration?
A common starting point: let a customer connect their own DocsAutomator account and pick which automation your product may trigger. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the DocsAutomator integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding DocsAutomator does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add DocsAutomator to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.