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An AI teammate for Flatfile.

Connect Flatfile and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 12 Flatfile actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Flatfile
  • What changed in Flatfile this week compared with last week?
  • Pull these numbers from Flatfile into a sheet and chart them.
  • Text me if the daily figure in Flatfile drops by more than 20%.
  • Build me a Monday summary from Flatfile.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Flatfile

12 Flatfile actions, picked for what you ask.

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

Reads

9 in all · always allowed
  • Get Job
    Get detailed status, outcome, result, and diagnostic information for one Flatfile asynchronous job.
  • Get Sheet
    Get one sheet's field configuration and record counts before reading or writing records.
  • Get Space
    Get safe metadata for one Flatfile space without exposing transient access credentials or…
  • List Jobs
    Find asynchronous Flatfile jobs by environment, space, workbook, file, or parent job and inspect…
  • List Files
    Discover import or export files and their processing status, optionally within a Flatfile space.
  • List Spaces
    Find Flatfile spaces by environment, text, namespace, archive state, or template status.
  • List Records
    Read one page of records from a Flatfile sheet, optionally filtering by validity, field, record ID,…
  • List Workbooks
    List workbooks, optionally within a space, with their nested sheets so an agent can continue to…
  • List Environments
    List Flatfile environments visible to the connected environment secret key and return the IDs…

Changes

3 in all · off when Flatfile is read-only
  • Delete Records
    Permanently delete one to 100 explicitly identified records from one Flatfile sheet.
  • Insert Records
    Insert one or more rows into a Flatfile sheet using simple field-key to value objects.
  • Update Records
    Update one or more existing Flatfile records by ID using simple field-key to value objects.

Showing 12 of 12. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Flatfile

    Open Connections, find Flatfile and paste an API key from your Flatfile account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Flatfile with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Flatfile job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Flatfile, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Questions

Flatfile and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Flatfile?

Yes. Flatfile is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Flatfile?

Open Connections, find Flatfile and paste an API key from your Flatfile account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Flatfile?

12 actions: 9 that read from Flatfile and 3 that change things in it, for example get job, get sheet, get space. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Flatfile?

Yes. In Connections, set Flatfile to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Flatfile from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Flatfile jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Flatfile data safe?

Your Flatfile login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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