Bannerbear

Bannerbear

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Turn any data into on-brand visuals, automatically

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Bannerbear is an API-first image and video generation engine that renders production-ready marketing creatives — social banners, personalised certificates, dynamic ad images, and more — from reusable templates and your live data. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create images on demand, poll for completed renders, assemble multi-format creative collections in a single call, and react to generation events the moment a visual is ready — all without a designer in the loop.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Bannerbear automation eliminates the manual cycle of opening a design tool, swapping in personalised data, exporting, renaming, and uploading assets for every campaign, event, or customer touchpoint.

Schedule

What your Bannerbear agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Bannerbear × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~32 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

Welcome kit visual, ready before the call

When a new customer's welcome email arrives in Gmail, the agent reads the company name and plan tier, renders a personalised onboarding banner in Bannerbear, and posts the finished image to the #new-customers Slack channel — all before the CSM has opened their calendar. The kickoff call gets booked in Google Calendar with the welcome graphic already in the invite description, so the customer sees a polished first impression the moment they accept.

~9 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a new customer welcome email lands in Gmail
Result
Create an image (render personalised welcome banner)Post banner and customer details to #new-customersCreate kickoff call event with banner in description
The win
Saved per run
35 min
Runs / week
~15×
Polished first impression before the CSM opens their laptop
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual sales collateral export

    Reps open Figma or Canva, swap in prospect details, export the PNG, rename the file, and attach it to an email — 18 minutes per deal.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent renders personalised deal assets

    When a deal advances in HubSpot, the agent fires a Bannerbear image job with the prospect name and logo, and the finished banner lands in the email draft automatically.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Social creative resizing

    A designer manually resizes the campaign hero image for five platforms — story, feed, banner, OG, and email header — every campaign cycle.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates all sizes in one collection call

    The agent submits a single Bannerbear collection request and receives all five correctly sized assets in parallel, ready to drop into the scheduler.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Manual certificate generation

    Support manually opens a design file, fills in the customer's name and date, exports a PDF, and emails it — repeated for every completion or renewal.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent auto-generates and delivers certificates

    When a customer's completion event fires, the agent renders a personalised Bannerbear certificate and sends the link in the confirmation email — no human touch.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Employee recognition graphics

    HR opens Canva for every 'Employee of the Month' or work-anniversary post, manually types the name, downloads the image, and posts it to Slack.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent auto-renders recognition visuals

    On the recognised date, the agent pulls the employee's name and photo from the HRIS, generates the Bannerbear graphic, and posts it to #celebrations without HR lifting a finger.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Monthly KPI report covers

    Finance manually creates a branded cover image for each monthly board report — typography, period label, and logo positioned by hand in PowerPoint.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent renders branded report covers on schedule

    On the first of the month, the agent reads the reporting period from a Google Sheet and renders the cover via Bannerbear, saving the URL to the report template automatically.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Event signage and material prep

    Ops manually produces speaker cards, venue signs, and attendee badges in a design tool for each event, costing 25 minutes of layout work per event.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent batch-renders all event materials

    When an event is confirmed in Google Calendar, the agent submits a Bannerbear collection for all event assets at once and routes every file to the print queue and digital displays.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Compliance document cover pages

    Legal hand-assembles branded cover pages for NDAs and contracts — inserting party names and dates into a Word template before each signature request.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates branded doc covers automatically

    When a contract is initiated in the CRM, the agent renders the branded Bannerbear cover with the counterparty name and date, attaches the image to the DocuSign envelope header.

+ 100s of other Bannerbear automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 person
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on Bannerbear's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Bannerbear into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path to Bannerbear. Actionist installs the Bannerbear MCP server and exchanges your Project API Key through a secure handshake — no token management, no manual credential rotation.

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Open the Apps tab

Find Bannerbear in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in Bannerbear

Actionist will prompt you for your Bannerbear Project API Key. In Bannerbear, go to your project's Settings page and copy the API Key from the API Key section — it starts with 'bb_'.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 action your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 event your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with Bannerbear

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

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MCP servers

MCP servers that work with Bannerbear

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FAQs

Questions about Bannerbear + Actionist

How do I connect Bannerbear to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find Bannerbear, and click Connect. The fastest path is MCP — Actionist installs the Bannerbear MCP server and handles the token exchange automatically. If you prefer manual control, switch to the API Key method: go to your Bannerbear project's Settings page, copy the Project API Key from the API Key section, and paste it into Actionist. Either way, Actionist runs a read-only test call to confirm the handshake before saving.
Which Bannerbear API key do I need, and where do I find it?
You need a Project API Key, not a personal account token. In Bannerbear, navigate to your project, open Settings, and look for the API Key section — the key starts with 'bb_'. Each project has its own key, so if you run multiple brand workspaces as separate Bannerbear projects, you'll connect each one separately in Actionist with its corresponding key.
Can my agent generate images for multiple Bannerbear projects?
Yes — add each project as a separate Bannerbear connection in Actionist, one per API key. In your workflows, tell the agent which connection to use ('use the Acme Corp Bannerbear project'). The agent will route Create an image and collection calls to the correct project and keep template libraries separated between brands.
What's the difference between creating an image synchronously versus asynchronously?
Synchronous image creation (Create an image) blocks until the render is done and returns the URL immediately — ideal for single assets where you need the result in the same workflow step. Asynchronous creation (Create an image async) returns a job ID instantly so the agent can continue other work in parallel. Use async for bulk campaigns where you're submitting dozens or hundreds of jobs at once, then collect results via Get an image polling or the Image generation completed trigger.
What are Bannerbear collections and when should I use them?
A collection lets you render multiple templates in a single API call using one shared data payload — for example, a story, a feed post, and a LinkedIn banner all from the same product name and image URL. Use collections any time a single event needs to produce a coordinated set of creatives at different sizes or formats. The agent submits one collection request and the Collection rendered trigger fires when all templates are complete.
How do I make sure my agent always uses the right template?
Use Get all templates to have the agent fetch your full template library and match by name or tag at runtime — for example, filtering for templates that contain 'LinkedIn' or 'Sale'. This is more robust than hard-coding a template ID, which breaks if you rename or duplicate a template. For critical workflows, pair this with Get a template to inspect the available layers before building the render payload.
How does the Generation failed trigger help me avoid silent render failures?
Without it, a failed Bannerbear job surfaces nothing — the agent moves on and your campaign goes live with a broken image. With the Generation failed trigger active, the moment any job errors the agent receives the failure reason, can alert the right channel, and optionally retry with corrected parameters. Set it up for any workflow that routes Bannerbear images to customer-facing content.
Can the agent generate personalised images for every contact in a large list?
Yes, and async creation is the right approach for scale. Have the agent loop through your contact list, submit one async image job per contact with their name and any personalised fields, collect all the job IDs, and then retrieve results in bulk once Bannerbear has processed them. Bannerbear's API supports concurrent requests, so a list of 500 contacts typically renders in a few minutes rather than hours.