Papercrane CLI turns Claude Code into a live dashboard builder
Papercrane CLI is a that lets Claude Code connect to business data, build a dashboard from a question, and publish it as a shareable link. Dashboards made by often become static files with numbers fixed at the moment they were created, but Papercrane puts the data connection inside the dashboard so the figures can keep updating after the chat is over. It connects to more than 50 services, including GA4, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Postgres, and BigQuery, through normal browser sign-in instead of pasted secret keys.
Credentials are encrypted by Papercrane, shared at the organization level, logged for review, and removable from one central place. `papercrane publish` turns the dashboard into a hosted link with , embedding, and options. A dashboard can also write changes back to connected tools, such as changing a Salesforce deal stage from inside the dashboard.
If a needed connection is missing, the agent can create one as a , and the dashboard code remains in the user’s workspace as Next.js and React source that can be pushed to GitHub. The tool is built around Claude Code, but Papercrane says Codex, Cursor, and other that can read and command output can use it too.
Key points
- Claude Code can use Papercrane CLI to connect data, generate a dashboard, and publish it.
- It supports more than 50 data sources, including GA4, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Postgres, and BigQuery.
- The dashboard is a live Next.js app that calls an authenticated API instead of showing numbers frozen at build time.
- The free tier includes five dashboards and all connectors; paid plans add team features and s.
- Papercrane is aimed at Claude Code, but it is also presented as usable with Codex, Cursor, and similar .