--- title: "Connect Circleback to EmailOctopus - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Action Item\" fires in Circleback, your agent runs \"Add Tag to Contact\" in EmailOctopus." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-emailoctopus" --- # Connect Circleback to EmailOctopus When **New Action Item** fires in [Circleback](https://apiant.ai/connections/circleback), your agent runs **Add Tag to Contact** in [EmailOctopus](https://apiant.ai/connections/emailoctopus). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Circleback **2** triggers Circleback **24** actions EmailOctopus **18** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Circleback and EmailOctopus to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Circleback can start in EmailOctopus - When **New Action Item** in Circleback then **Add Tag to Contact** in EmailOctopus - When **New Meeting** in Circleback then **Add/Update Contact** in EmailOctopus Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Circleback and EmailOctopus ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **New Action Item** Triggers when a new action item is created in your Circleback meetings. - Trigger **New Meeting** Triggers when a new meeting appears in your Circleback account. - Action **Create Action Item** Creates a Circleback action item owned by you. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a shared Circleback folder in a workspace. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a Circleback tag. - Action **Delete Action Item** Deletes a Circleback action item. - Action **Delete Folder** Deletes a shared Circleback folder; its meetings stay with their owners. - Action **Delete Meeting** Deletes a Circleback meeting you own. - Action **Delete Tag** Permanently deletes a Circleback tag and removes it from every meeting. - Action **Get Company** Returns a company by its domain, with its people and external links. - Action **Get Folder** Returns a Circleback folder with its members, teams and rules. - Action **Get Meeting** Returns a Circleback meeting with its notes, attendees, recording link and action items. - Action **Get Meeting Transcript** Returns the speaker-labeled transcript of a Circleback meeting, one entry per spoken segment. - Action **Get Person** Returns a person by profile ID with their profile details. - Action **Import Meeting** Imports an existing meeting into Circleback with its name and notes. - Action **List Action Items** Returns action items across your Circleback meetings, optionally filtered by status. - Action **List Calendar Events** Returns upcoming events from your calendars connected to Circleback. - Action **List Companies** Returns the companies whose people attend your Circleback meetings. - Action **List Folders** Returns the Circleback folders you can see. - Action **List Meetings** Returns a page of your Circleback meetings. - Action **List People** Returns the people who attend your Circleback meetings, most recent first. - Action **List Tags** Returns every Circleback tag available to you. - Action **Search Meetings** Searches your Circleback meetings by name and content. - Action **Update Action Item** Updates a Circleback action item's title, description or status. - Action **Update Meeting** Updates a Circleback meeting's name, notes or private notes; fields left blank stay the same. - Action **Update Tag** Updates a Circleback tag's name or description. - Action **Add field** Creates a new custom field on an EmailOctopus list, such as a text, number, date or choice field that contacts can hold a value for. - Action **Add list** Creates a new mailing list in EmailOctopus and returns the list's details. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag on an EmailOctopus list so it can be applied to contacts. - Action **Add Tag to Contact** Adds a tag to an existing contact in an EmailOctopus list, leaving the contact's other tags unchanged. - Action **Add/Update Contact** Creates a contact on an EmailOctopus list, or updates it if a contact with that email address already exists on the list. - Action **Delete contact** Permanently deletes a contact from an EmailOctopus list. - Action **Delete list** Deletes an EmailOctopus list, along with its contacts, fields and tags. - Action **Find Contact** Finds a contact on an EmailOctopus list by email address and returns its details, field values, tags and subscription status. - Action **Get campaign** Returns the details of an EmailOctopus campaign, including its status, subject, sender, recipient lists and HTML content. - Action **Get campaign summary report** Returns the summary report for an EmailOctopus campaign: how many contacts it was sent to, plus its bounce, open, click, complaint and unsubscribe counts. - Action **Get list** Returns the details of an EmailOctopus list, including its custom fields, tags and subscriber counts. - Action **List campaigns** Returns every campaign in your EmailOctopus account, including its status, subject, sender and the lists it was sent to. - Action **List lists** Returns all mailing lists in the EmailOctopus account, with each list's fields, tags, contact counts and dates. - Action **Remove Tag From Contact** Removes a tag from a contact on an EmailOctopus list, leaving the contact's other tags unchanged. Returns the updated contact. - Action **Start automation for contact** Starts an EmailOctopus automation for a contact. The automation must be one that is started through the API. - Action **Unsubscribe Contact** Unsubscribes a contact from an EmailOctopus list so they stop receiving campaigns, and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update Contact's Email Address** Changes the email address of an existing contact on an EmailOctopus list and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update list** Renames an existing EmailOctopus list and returns the updated list. ## Each app on its own - [ **Circleback** Circleback provides AI-powered meeting notes and automations.](https://apiant.ai/connections/circleback) - [ **EmailOctopus** EmailOctopus is a simple to use email marketing platform that helps you grow your audience, send beautiful...](https://apiant.ai/connections/emailoctopus) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Circleback - [ **Circleback to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-hubspot) - [ **Circleback to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-salesforce) - [ **Circleback to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-slack) - [ **Circleback to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-google-sheets) - [ **Circleback to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-gmail) - [ **Circleback to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circleback-to-google-calendar) ## More into EmailOctopus - [ **HubSpot to EmailOctopus** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Salesforce to EmailOctopus** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Slack to EmailOctopus** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Google Sheets to EmailOctopus** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Gmail to EmailOctopus** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Google Calendar to EmailOctopus** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-emailoctopus) Questions ## Circleback and EmailOctopus, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Circleback? Any of Circleback's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Action Item and New Meeting. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in EmailOctopus when something happens in Circleback? Any of EmailOctopus's 18 actions, including Update Contact's Email Address, Update list, Add field and Add list. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from EmailOctopus to Circleback? EmailOctopus has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Circleback. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads EmailOctopus's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Circleback or EmailOctopus? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Circleback and EmailOctopus without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.