Connect a custom in-house tool to your automation system

Lets your automation safely reach a custom tool running on your own computer and use its results directly.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
API & Webhook Integration
Connects
Ngrok

The problem it solves

You've built a custom tool or script for your business, but it only runs on one machine, so your other systems can't reach it and someone has to run it and copy results over by hand.

Who it fits

Technical operators or small teams with an in-house tool they want to plug into their automation.

How it works

  1. The custom tool runs on a local machine, ready to respond
  2. A secure tunnel makes that local tool reachable from the internet
  3. The automation sends a request to the tool through the tunnel
  4. The tool's response is passed back into the automation to use
What you get

In-house tool results reaching your automations

You get your own custom tool connected safely into your automation workflows.

What you get

Results from your in-house tool delivered directly into your automation.

What you need

A computer running your custom tool and a tunneling service to expose it.

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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