--- title: "Connect Dovetail and Easy Project - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Project\" fires in Dovetail, your agent runs \"Create Project\" in Easy Project." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-easy-project" --- # Connect Dovetail and Easy Project When **New Project** fires in [Dovetail](https://apiant.ai/connections/dovetail), your agent runs **Create Project** in [Easy Project](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-project), or **New Project** in Easy Project to **Add Data to Project** in Dovetail. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Dovetail **3** triggers Dovetail **4** actions Easy Project **3** triggers Easy Project **11** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Dovetail and Easy Project 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 Dovetail and Easy Project can do together ### From Dovetail to Easy Project - When **New Project** in Dovetail then **Create Project** in Easy Project - When **New Published Insight** in Dovetail then **Create Task** in Easy Project ### From Easy Project to Dovetail - When **New Project** in Easy Project then **Add Data to Project** in Dovetail - When **New Task** in Easy Project then **Add Contact** in Dovetail 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 Dovetail and Easy Project ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers ยท 15 actions - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created - Trigger **New Published Insight** Triggers when a new insight is published. - Trigger **Updated Project** Triggers when a project is updated. - Action **Add Contact** Adds a contact to the contacts database. - Action **Add Data Point to Channel** Adds a data point to a channel. - Action **Add Data to Project** Adds data to an existing project. - Action **Add Insight to Project** Adds an insight to an existing project. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in Easy Project. - Trigger **New Task** Triggers when a new task is created in Easy Project. - Trigger **Task Comments Web Hook Trigger** Triggers when a comment is added to a task in Easy Project. - Action **Create Planned Project Expense** Creates a planned (expected) expense in a project's budget in Easy Project, with its amount, currency, VAT and planned date. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Easy Project with its name, dates, manager, parent project, tags and custom field values. - Action **Create Project Expense** Creates an actual (other) expense on a project's budget in Easy Project, with amounts, VAT, currency, date, tags and custom fields. - Action **Create Project Income** Creates an actual income (other revenue) on an Easy Project project's budget, with amounts, VAT, currency, date and optional milestone, tags and custom fields. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task (issue) in an Easy Project project, with its tracker, status, priority, assignee, dates and custom field values. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs spent time in Easy Project against a project, and optionally a task, for a user on a given date. - Action **Find Project** Returns the projects whose details match the search text you supply. - Action **Get Planned Project Expense** Returns a single planned project expense by its ID, including its amounts, currency, project, milestone, custom fields and tags. - Action **Get Project Expense** Returns a single project expense by its ID, including its project, milestone, amounts, VAT, currency, date, custom fields and tags. - Action **Get Project Income** Returns a single project income (other revenue) record by its ID, including amounts, currency, project, custom fields and tags. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing task in Easy Project, changing only the fields you fill in, and can add a comment to it. ## Each app on its own - [ **Dovetail** Dovetail is an AI-first customer insights hub that combines feedback and research to create a single source...](https://apiant.ai/connections/dovetail) - [ **Easy Project** Easy Project is a professional project management software for you, your team and the whole company.](https://apiant.ai/connections/easy-project) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Dovetail - [ **Dovetail to Minecraft Server Status** Minecraft Server Status pings a Minecraft server address and reports what it finds.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-minecraft-server-status) - [ **Dovetail to TypeSafe** TypeSafe's Jev model answers typed questions about a piece of content and tells you how certain it is.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-typesafe) - [ **Dovetail to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-hubspot) - [ **Dovetail to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-salesforce) - [ **Dovetail to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-slack) - [ **Dovetail to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/dovetail-to-google-sheets) ## More into Easy Project - [ **ActiveCampaign to Easy Project** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-easy-project) - [ **Airtable to Easy Project** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airtable-to-easy-project) - [ **Asana to Easy Project** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-easy-project) - [ **ClickUp to Easy Project** ClickUp is an all-in-one app to plan, track, and manage your work in a beautifully intuitive environment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clickup-to-easy-project) - [ **Discord to Easy Project** Discord is an all-in-one voice and text chat for gamers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/discord-to-easy-project) - [ **Brevo to Easy Project** Brevo is the leading CRM suite designed to cultivate long-term customer relationships and help businesses...](https://apiant.ai/connect/brevo-to-easy-project) Questions ## Dovetail and Easy Project, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Dovetail? Any of Dovetail's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Project, New Published Insight and Updated Project. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Easy Project when something happens in Dovetail? Any of Easy Project's 11 actions, including Create Planned Project Expense, Create Project, Create Project Expense and Create Project Income. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Easy Project to Dovetail? Yes. When something happens in Easy Project, your agent can act in Dovetail too. This page covers both directions: Easy Project's triggers and Dovetail's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Dovetail or Easy Project? 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 Dovetail and Easy Project 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.