Carbone Skill for AI

Carbone: Generate and convert any document efficiently | Product Hunt

Generate and convert any document efficiently

4.8•6 reviews•

157 followers

Generate and convert any document efficiently

4.8•6 reviews•

157 followers

Visit website

Automation tools

Automate the generation of documents from a universal templating engine. Create templates with your favourite text editor, and add dynamic content with Carbone tags (text, colours, images, graphs). Anybody can design beautiful documents, not only developers.

Overview

Launches2

Reviews6

Alternatives

Team

More

This is the 2nd launch from Carbone. View more

Carbone Skill for AI

Launching today

Teach your AI to build document templates

Carbone is a universal document-generation engine: feed it a template file and JSON file, and it produces pixel-perfect documents at scale. The Carbone Skill teaches AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT the entire Carbone templating language. Describe what you want in plain language and your AI writes correct Carbone syntax, builds templates in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML or PDF, and validates tags before you render automatically at scale.

Free

Launch tags:Productivity•Artificial Intelligence•Marketing automation

Launch Team

Subscribe

SocialLinkedInX

Previous Carbone Launches

CarboneGenerate and convert any document efficiently

Launched on February 15th, 2023

4.8

Based on 6 reviews

Review Carbone?

Reviews

Most Informative

Promoted

Maker

📌

Bonjour 👋 I'm Steeve from Carbone. Quick context on why we built this:

Carbone has always been a no-code-friendly way to generate documents (invoices, contracts, reports, certificates, etc...) from a template you create in a text editor, merged with a JSON file. But writing the templates meant learning Carbone's syntax: loops, filters, formatters, conditionals, aggregations and more. Powerful, but a learning curve.

The Carbone Skill removes that curve. It teaches AI assistants the full Carbone language, so you can build templates quickly and automate your documents faster. Once installed, you can:

• Build templates in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, HTML, CSV, Markdown or PDF just by describing them.
• Generate complex logic in plain language: "show this row only if the client isn't tax-exempt, format the total in euros, hide the VAT line for exempt customers" → it gives you the correct Carbone tags.
• Fix and improve existing templates yourself: paste a Carbone tag or a whole template and the AI corrects the syntax, no support ticket needed.
• Migrate templates from another document tool: the AI translates your existing template's syntax into clean Carbone tags, so switching to Carbone is fast and painless.
• Validate existing tags before you render, catching errors early.
• Work inside the tools you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, VS Code and others.

Tips to use the fewest tokens while getting the best results:

• For HTML templates, use Claude Code (or another coding AI)
• For DOCX templates, use Claude for Word
• For XLSX templates, use Claude for Excel
• For PPTX templates, use Claude for PowerPoint

The Skill is open source on GitHub and updated for every new version of Carbone: https://github.com/carboneio/car...

And once your template is ready, you can automate document generation right inside the tools you already run on: n8n, Make, Zapier, HubSpot, Salesforce, Odoo and more. Build once, then let your documents generate themselves.

Happy to answer anything: syntax, integrations to automate, or what's on the roadmap.

What documents are you automating today? Cheers from France 🍻

Report

22h ago

Carbone has been great for no-code setups, but handling complex loops and formatters always required a bit of developer hand-holding. This completely changes things for growth ops teams. Excited to plug this into our Make workflows.. good work team

Report

2m ago

•1 review

It's an excellent report generator for all apps and automations happy to use a REST API.

1. Transform your data into JSON
2. Set up a report template as a DOCX or XLSX (or some other format) document
3. Call the carbone.io REST API with JSON + template
4. Receive your formatted report as PDF (or some other format)

It's really easy! I'm impressed.

For placement of your data on the report carbone.io provides a rich toolbox of functions for formatting and conditional layout. Data placeholders are really simple and can address the JSON in any depth. The syntax for using the toolbox functions, though, needs a bit getting used to. But with the help of carbone's responsive support, I was able to get my templates set up quickly and into production in make.com scenarios.

carbone.io also comes with some "design help" called "Studio" where you get a live view of data rendered with an uploaded template.

The pricing plans are ok: there is a free tier for testing, and the sandbox plan is a small step you can take for getting carbone into production.

Report

11 views3yr ago

•1 review

After a long vendor selection process through wich i challenged the main report generation engines out there, i bumped into Carbone and it met all requirements (studio, formats, configurability, high availability, security, gdpr compliance) I've been using it since version 2, it's a very powerful and flexible report generation api and the support / documentation is excellent.

Report

10 views3yr ago

•1 review

Definitely worth a try. Carbone requires no programming knowledge, but you should be prepared for a learning curve if you're a non-coder. The system is constantly evolving, and the team is very attentive to user feedback. The support provided by Carbone is empathetic and timely.

Report

8 views3yr ago