Bundle multiple files into a single upload for API integrations

Converts a batch of files into the encoded format many outside systems require for bulk uploads.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per file.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14) ยท Synchronisation (3)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Document Processing & OCR
Connects
HTTP Request

The problem it solves

You're trying to send several files at once to an outside system, but it demands a very specific encoded format your tools don't produce natively. Manually converting and packaging each file is slow and error-prone, and one wrong format gets the whole upload rejected.

Who it fits

Operations or technical teams who need to send batches of files to systems with strict upload formats.

How it works

  1. Takes a set of files from a folder or archive
  2. Splits them out into individual files
  3. Converts each file into the required encoded text format
  4. Rebuilds the file name and path for each one
  5. Combines everything into one package ready to send to the destination system
What you get

Files converted and ready to send

You get every file in your batch automatically converted and packaged in the exact format your destination system expects.

What you get

A single package containing all your files in the format the destination system requires.

What you need

Access to wherever the files are stored and to the destination system's upload requirements.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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