# Atlas Labs

> Atlas Labs is a free, anonymous API sandbox: Atlas Print Works & Co., a fictional printing company with a real API, is yours for thirty minutes with no sign-up. Start one with the button on the page or with `POST /labs/api/v1/sandboxes`, then follow the [quickstart](https://automationatlas.io/labs/docs/quickstart/).

Canonical: `https://automationatlas.io/labs/` · Checked: `2026-10-15`

Atlas Labs is a fictional company's API; every figure in every response is simulation data.

## The factory and the head office don't talk to each other.

They hold separate data behind separate keys. Anything that has to cross between them goes over the bridge — running on autopilot, or written by you.

- **The factory**: Press runs, plate changes and scrap rates. Stock, pallets and despatch notes. Machines that break down when you least want them to. Key prefix: `lab_fac_…`.
- **The head office**: Orders, quotes and customer credit. Supplier invoices and payments. Staff, payroll and leave, if you switch HR on. Key prefix: `lab_off_…`.

Every state change can fire a signed webhook once you subscribe a URL. Every write takes an `Idempotency-Key`, so a retry never double-prints.

## Start however you work.

- **In code.** A curl-first quickstart, the full REST reference, OpenAPI in three flavours, and webhook signature verification in Node and Python. [Read the quickstart](https://automationatlas.io/labs/docs/quickstart/)
- **As an agent.** An MCP server, an `llms-full.txt` carrying the canonical create-act-retry loop, and a self-describing index at the API root. [Point your agent at it](https://automationatlas.io/labs/docs/tools/ai-agents/)
- **Without code.** Field-by-field recipes for Zapier, Make, n8n, Power Automate, Moxo and Frends, starters for Pipedream and Postman, plus a spreadsheet of the company's history to check your work against. [Browse the integrations](https://automationatlas.io/labs/docs/tools/)

## Why this is free: A sandbox that belongs to no vendor.

Atlas Labs is part of Automation Atlas, the independent site that reviews automation tools. A vendor's demo is built to show one product at its best. Ours is curated by automation engineers who build and fix these integrations for real businesses, so it has the retries, the rate limits, the signed webhooks and the supplier who misses a date. Test there instead, free of charge. We keep almost nothing about you, and the About page lists exactly what.

[Read why it's free →](https://automationatlas.io/labs/about/)

## Is Atlas Print Works a real company?

No. None of it is real. Atlas Print Works & Co. is a fictional company invented for Atlas Labs, a free sandbox for practising automation and AI-agent workflows. Nothing about its orders, staff, suppliers or finances describes a real business, and every figure on this page is simulation data generated for testing, never real commerce.

When a sandbox expires it goes read-only for a short grace window, then the sandbox and its keys are deleted. Nothing you create is used to train anything, nothing that identifies you or your sandbox is published, and the [About page](https://automationatlas.io/labs/about/) lists what we keep and for how long.