First off…Love the username @fairlypainless…Reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy view of humans as Mostly Harmless 
If you are looking to setup more API calls where the value for display wants to be in confirmation, notification or used in fields later in any of your exports or business processes, there is a fairly painless (read no code) approach you could consider with Gravity Flow’s outgoing webhook step and its’ response mapping settings. Here’s a similar forum post answer where I showed the step settings, confirmation use of merge tag for the field value, etc.
Cheers,
Jamie