What building it yourself involves
For each provider, you need to:- Run an OAuth flow. Authorization URLs, state handling, PKCE for some providers, code exchange, error redirects, and provider quirks such as non-standard token responses or per-tenant URLs.
- Store tokens safely. Access and refresh tokens are credentials to your customers’ data. They need encryption at rest, key management, and access controls.
- Keep tokens fresh. Tokens expire on different schedules. Refreshes fail, race each other when two requests arrive at once, and rotate refresh tokens on some providers.
- Handle failure. Timeouts,
429s,502s and503s happen. You need to know which requests are safe to retry, how long to wait, and when to give up. - Protect providers from yourself. One noisy customer or a runaway job can exhaust a provider’s quota for everyone.
- See what happened. When a customer says “the Slack sync is broken”, you need a log of every outbound call, its status and its latency.
- Normalize data if you support several providers in the same category. Three Git hosts return three different shapes for “a repository”.
What BundleUp handles
What you keep control of
Your OAuth app. You always bring your own OAuth credentials. Your users see your app name on the provider’s consent screen, and the provider’s rate limits, reviews and approvals are tied to your app, not to one shared with other BundleUp customers. Your scopes. You choose exactly which permissions to request for each integration. Your data path. The Proxy streams the provider’s response straight back to you. BundleUp doesn’t store request or response bodies. Your escape hatch. Need something the Unified API doesn’t model? Drop down to the Proxy and call the provider’s API directly, using the same connection.When BundleUp is a good fit
- You connect to your users’ accounts in third-party tools (as opposed to only your own company account).
- You support, or plan to support, more than one or two providers.
- You want AI agents to act in users’ tools without handing tokens to the agent.
- You’d rather spend engineering time on your product than on OAuth plumbing.
When it may not be
- You only call one provider with your own company’s API key, and never on behalf of users. A plain HTTP client is simpler.
- You need to keep every outbound call inside your own network. BundleUp is a hosted service that sits in the request path.

