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Palpaca

Getting Started

Welcome to Palpaca, the AI-powered platform for building HubSpot UI Extensions. This guide walks you through the dashboard and helps you take your first steps.

What is Palpaca?

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Palpaca lets you create custom UI extensions for HubSpot CRM using an AI agent. Describe what you want in plain language, and the agent generates production-ready components that embed directly into HubSpot record pages, sidebars, and more.

No front-end coding experience is required. The agent handles the code — you focus on what your team needs.

The Dashboard

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After connecting your HubSpot portal, you land on the dashboard. This is your home base for managing projects.

The dashboard shows:

  • Project grid — all your projects displayed as cards, each showing the project name, creation date, and status (Draft or Deployed)
  • New Project card — the dashed card at the end of the grid for creating a new project
  • Top bar — access the Gallery, view your credit balance and active function count, and open documentation or support

Your First Steps

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  1. Connect a HubSpot portal — if you have not already, the onboarding flow walks you through connecting your HubSpot account and granting Palpaca access to your CRM data
  2. Create a project — click New Project, give it a name and optional description, then click Create
  3. Add a card — inside your project, click the New Card dashed card, choose an object type and location, then open the editor
  4. Describe what you want — type a prompt like “Show the contact’s name, email, and last activity date in a clean layout” and hit Send
  5. Upload to HubSpot — when you are happy with the result, click the Upload button to push it live
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  • UI tab — your project dashboard (selected by default)
  • Gallery tab — browse the 40 HubSpot SDK components available to the agent
  • Left sidebar — switch between connected portals, add new connections, and access settings
  • Right sidebar — contextual documentation (you are reading it now) and support chat

Next Steps

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  • Read Platform Overview to understand how projects, cards, and the agent work together
  • Jump into Adding a New Connection if you need to connect your HubSpot portal
  • Or just create a project and start building