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Paradigm Zapier integration: no trigger, 1 action, no search step. Zapier can hand data from your other tools to Paradigm, the research platform that runs agents on your behalf, and ask it to turn that data into rows of a sheet. It runs on the free plan.

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Overview

What the Paradigm Zapier integration actually does

The Paradigm Zapier integration links Paradigm, a research platform where AI agents gather and enrich data for you, to Zapier, a service that runs small automations between apps. On Zapier, Paradigm does one thing: it receives data and instructions, and adds the result as rows to one of your sheets.

Three outcomes people build with that single action. A lead list that enriches itself: each new contact captured by a form or a CRM goes to Add Sheet Rows with an instruction on what to pull out, and lands as a row your team can work from. A research inbox: a forwarded article, a note or a message becomes raw material, and Paradigm extracts what your instruction asks for into a sheet. A clean log from messy inputs: free text typed by a colleague is turned into structured rows instead of being copied by hand.

Now what Zapier does not do for Paradigm. There is no trigger, so nothing that happens inside Paradigm can start a Zap: a finished row, a new sheet or a completed research task stays invisible to Zapier. Every Zap therefore starts in another app. There is no search step either, so a Zap cannot read back a row it wrote. And there is no action to create a sheet: the sheet must already exist in your Paradigm account. If your plan needs Paradigm to report back to another tool, this integration will not carry it.

Vocabulary

Zapier words you will meet on this page

Seven terms, one line each. Paradigm only uses a few of them, but the page leans on all of them.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run every time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event in an app that starts the Zap. Paradigm offers none, so the trigger always comes from another tool.
Action
What the Zap does once it has started: the step that writes, sends or moves something for you, here rows in a sheet.
Task
The unit Zapier bills: one action your Zap completes successfully. The count on your plan is a count of those.
Polling vs instant
A polling trigger is checked on a timer by Zapier; an instant one is reported by the app the moment the event happens.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A filter or a second action makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a Paradigm Zap really costs

Paradigm is not reserved for paid plans on Zapier, so it works from the free plan. The trigger of the other app never costs a task.

  • Tasks on the free plan100 per month
  • Zaps on the free planUnlimited
  • Steps on the free plan1 trigger + 1 action
  • Cost of the trigger0 tasks

You pay in tasks. Each time Add Sheet Rows succeeds, it counts once; when it fails, nothing is counted. Checking for new data in the starting app costs nothing, however often Zapier looks. The free plan stops at two steps, one trigger and one action, so adding a filter to skip empty inputs makes the Zap multi-step and moves you to a paid plan. A few apps and actions take more than one task per run, so read the count after your first runs.

Connect

Connect your Paradigm account to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open your connections

    In your Zapier account, go to the Apps page and click + Add connection. A connection is your Paradigm account linked to Zapier once, then reused by every step that uses Paradigm.

  2. 02

    Pick Paradigm

    In the dialog that opens, type Paradigm in the search box and select it in the results. Then click Add connection, and Zapier opens a new tab for the sign-in.

  3. 03

    Sign in and grant access

    Sign in to Paradigm in that tab and allow Zapier to use the account. You need a Paradigm account, plus read or write rights on any sheet you do not own and want the Zap to fill.

First Zap

Your first Zap: turn form answers into a Paradigm sheet

GoalEach new form answer goes to Paradigm with an instruction, and comes back as a row in your sheet.

  1. 01

    Start in the other app

    In the Build step, pick the tool that collects your data, a form app for instance, and its event for a new answer. Paradigm has no trigger, so this first card always belongs to another app.

  2. 02

    Test the trigger

    Run the trigger test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items of that account, and you pick one, so everything you map afterwards comes from a real answer.

  3. 03

    Hold back empty answers

    Add a filter from the plus icon and set the field to check, the rule and the value. It saves tasks on blank inputs, but it makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan.

  4. 04

    Add the Paradigm action

    Add Add Sheet Rows. Pick the Sheet, write in Prompt how the data should be pulled into it, and map the form answer into Data.

  5. 05

    Test, then publish

    Run the action once and check the new row in Paradigm. When it reads right, click Publish to switch the Zap on. The Zapier training covers the editor in depth.

Actions

The Paradigm action on Zapier

Paradigm gives you 1 action. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

1

Add Sheet Rows

Action

In Zapier“Adds rows to a sheet”

Sends a piece of data to Paradigm with an instruction, and adds what comes out as rows in the sheet you chose. The instruction is plain language: what to extract, and how to lay it out.

When to use it
new leads, articles or notes land in another tool and you want them sorted into a research sheet, no copying by hand.
Watch out
Sheet, Prompt and Data are all required, so the trigger must bring something for Data on every run.
When it breaks

When a Paradigm Zap breaks

Zapier ties no help article to Paradigm, so the traps below are the general ones, read through the shape of this integration: one action, fed by another app.

Since the trigger lives elsewhere, the first place to look is often the starting app, not Paradigm. Read these cases first, then Zapier troubleshooting if a run still fails.

  • Old data is never sent

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Answers or records that existed before are not sent to Paradigm, and moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A loop that eats your tasks

    A Zap that writes into the very place its own trigger watches sets itself off again and again. Keep the starting app and the place Paradigm fills apart.

  • A bulk import gets held back

    A trigger that suddenly returns a huge batch, after an import or a migration in the starting app, can be held back by Zapier's flood protection.

  • No duplicates from polling

    When the starting app uses a polling trigger, Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same item is not sent to Paradigm twice.
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FAQ

Paradigm Zapier integration: frequent questions

01Is the Paradigm Zapier integration free?
Yes, as long as the Zap stays at two steps. Paradigm is not reserved for paid plans on Zapier, so the free plan covers it: 100 tasks a month and as many Zaps as you like. The limit is the shape of the Zap. On the free plan you get one trigger from another app and one action, Add Sheet Rows, nothing more. Put a filter in between to skip empty inputs, or add a second action, and the Zap becomes multi-step, which needs a paid plan.
02How many tasks does a Paradigm Zap use?
One task each time Add Sheet Rows succeeds. The trigger in the other app is free, and so are the checks Zapier runs on that app, however often they happen. A run where the action fails is not counted. A few apps and actions take more than one task when they complete, and nothing in Zapier's data says whether this one does, so read the task count in your account after the first runs. On 100 tasks a month, the volume of your starting app sets the pace.
03Can Paradigm start a Zap in real time?
No, because Paradigm has no trigger at all on Zapier. Nothing that happens inside Paradigm can start a Zap. The Zap starts in another app, and the timing is that app's. If its trigger is instant, the app reports the event to Zapier itself and no plan interval applies. If it is a polling trigger, Zapier checks on a timer: 15 minutes on Free, 2 on Professional, 1 on Team and Enterprise. Check the starting app's trigger type before you promise anyone a delay.
04What do you need to connect Paradigm to Zapier?
A Paradigm account, plus rights on the sheets the Zap will fill. If a sheet belongs to someone else, your account needs read or write access to it. The connection itself takes three moves: open the Apps page of your Zapier account and add a connection, pick Paradigm in the dialog, then sign in to Paradigm in the new tab and let Zapier use the account. You also need a connection to the starting app, since every Paradigm Zap begins there.
05Why is the Sheet list empty in Add Sheet Rows?
Because the action only writes into a sheet that already exists, and there is no Zapier action to create one. The Sheet field is required, along with Prompt and Data. So the sheet has to be built in Paradigm first, with the same account you connected to Zapier, before it can show up in the editor. If it belongs to a colleague, your account needs access to it. Once the sheet is there, pick it, then write the instruction and map the incoming data.
06What if the Paradigm operation you need is not on Zapier?
Then the editor will not offer it, and no setting brings it back. On Zapier, Paradigm has exactly one operation: Add Sheet Rows. There is no trigger, no search step, no action to create a sheet or read rows back. If the job needs Paradigm to send results on to another tool, or to look something up, that part still happens inside Paradigm or by hand. Check the event list in the Zap editor before you build a plan around a missing step.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for Paradigm?
Decide on criteria, not on a ranking. On Zapier, Paradigm works on the free plan and offers one action, fed by any trigger from another app. If your need is exactly that, sending data with an instruction into a sheet, a two-step Zap covers it and stays free. If you need Paradigm to start the flow, to send results onward, or several steps per run, check what each tool actually offers for Paradigm and what your volume would cost on each before you commit.
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