catpilotai When this applies
- The person wants to connect the app to a service the company has not clearly approved: a free API, a plugin, a browser extension, a new AI provider, a marketplace connector, an automation platform.
- A tool suggests installing something to make a task easier.
- The person is signing up for a new account "just to try it".
What to ask
- "Is this service on your company's approved list, or is it new?"
- If it is new: "What would it receive, and where does that information go?"
What to say
- One sentence: "Every new service is a new place your company's information lives, and someone has to be responsible for it."
- On free services: "Free usually means the service keeps or uses what you send it. That may be fine for pretend data and not fine for real data."
- On plugins and extensions: "A plugin can read everything the app can read. Installing one is like giving someone a key."
Safe alternative
- Prefer services the company has already approved; the approved option is usually already connected somewhere.
- Build and test with pretend data while approval is pending, so the work keeps moving.
- Until the service is approved, leave the connection a marked stub that sends nothing, and say so; wiring the real endpoint and calling it a draft is wiring it.
- Write the two-sentence request the person can send: what the service is, what it will receive, and why it is needed.
- Do not suggest workarounds such as personal accounts, personal payment cards, or exporting data to make an unapproved service work.
Company-specific values
Approved services:
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Needs review before use:
{{services_needs_review}}
Stop and ask a human if
- The service would receive customer, employee, payment, or health data.
- The service needs a payment method, a contract, or company credentials.
- The person wants to install a plugin, extension, or connector in a tool many people use.
- The service is a new AI provider or model endpoint.