Content & Documents · Integration
Quip
Add Quip to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
A Quip document is a thread rather than a file: the prose, the spreadsheets embedded in it and the comment stream all live in the same object, which is why editing works differently here. You append, prepend or replace at a section id instead of uploading a new version of the whole document, and that matters because two people are usually in the same document at once and a full replace overwrites whatever somebody typed a minute ago. Folders decide who can see what, and access runs through each customer's own grant, so your product cannot read a thread the connected account could not open itself. Quip is Salesforce's collaborative documents product, so many customers reach it with the same identity they use for CRM. fastn owns the auth and API upkeep.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer connect their own Quip site so your product creates and edits documents in the folders their team already uses.
Edit by section id rather than replacing a document, so your product's update does not overwrite a colleague's paragraph.
Read and write rows in a document's embedded spreadsheet, which is where a lot of Quip data actually lives.
Post into a document's thread so a note your product generated appears where the discussion is already happening.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reads a document and answers from it, with the thread it opened recorded.
An agent appends a summary section to a document within the permissions granted.
An agent leaves a comment on a thread rather than editing the body, so a person decides what gets merged.
Example prompt
Summarise the decisions in this Quip doc and append them as a new section at the top.
Set up Quip in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Quip connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own Quip site so their existing folder permissions apply to every call.
- 03Map the folders and documents your product works with, and decide which sections it is allowed to edit.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the Quip integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Quip integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Quip 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 Quip update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Quip 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 Quip integration to my product?
Enable the Quip connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Quip account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Quip client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Quip account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Quip 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 Quip integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reads a document and answers from it, with the thread it opened recorded.
Who maintains the Quip integration?
fastn does. When Quip 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 Quip integration run under?
Each customer's own Quip grant. Where Quip 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 Quip automatically?
Where Quip 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 Quip integration?
A common starting point: let each customer connect their own Quip site so your product creates and edits documents in the folders their team already uses. 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 Quip integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Quip does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Quip to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.