--- title: "Connect Grist and Timing - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New or Updated Record\" fires in Grist, your agent runs \"Create Project\" in Timing, or \"New Project\" in Timing to \"Create or Update Record\" in Grist." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-timing" --- # Connect Grist and Timing When **New or Updated Record** fires in [Grist](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist), your agent runs **Create Project** in [Timing](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing), or **New Project** in Timing to **Create or Update Record** in Grist. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grist **4** triggers Grist **21** actions Timing **4** triggers Timing **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Grist and Timing 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 Grist and Timing can do together ### From Grist to Timing - When **New or Updated Record** in Grist then **Create Project** in Timing - When **New Record** in Grist then **Update Project** in Timing ### From Timing to Grist - When **New Project** in Timing then **Create or Update Record** in Grist - When **New Team** in Timing then **Create Record** in Grist 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 Grist and Timing ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **New or Updated Record** Triggered when a row in a Grist table is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Record (Instant)** Triggers when a Record is updated, or a new Record is added. - Trigger **New Record** Triggered when a new row is added to a Grist table. - Trigger **New Record (Instant)** Triggers when a new Record is created - Action **Add Column** Adds a column to a table in a Grist document. - Action **Add Table** Creates a new table in a Grist document, optionally with a starting set of columns. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new document in a Grist workspace and returns its document ID. - Action **Create or Update Record** Adds a row to a Grist table, or updates the existing row when the match column already holds the match value. Returns the row ID. - Action **Create Record** Adds a new row to a Grist table and returns its row ID. - Action **Create Workspace** Creates a new workspace in a Grist organization and returns its ID. - Action **Delete Document** Deletes a Grist document permanently. - Action **Delete Records** Deletes one or more rows from a Grist table by row ID. - Action **Delete Workspace** Deletes a Grist workspace along with every document inside it. - Action **Find Record** Searches a Grist table for a row whose column holds a given value and returns that row's ID and column values. - Action **Get Document** Returns the details of one Grist document — its name, web address, workspace, and organization. - Action **Get Org** Returns the details of one Grist organization (team site) — its name, subdomain, owner, and your access level. - Action **Get Workspace** Returns the details of one Grist workspace, including the documents it contains. - Action **List Columns** Returns the columns of a Grist table, with each column's ID, label, and type. - Action **List Orgs** Returns every Grist organization (team site) this connection can reach. - Action **List Tables** Returns the tables in a Grist document. - Action **List Workspaces** Returns the workspaces in a Grist organization, each with the documents it contains. - Action **Run SQL Query** Runs a read-only SELECT statement against a Grist document and returns the rows. - Action **Update Document** Renames a Grist document or changes whether it is pinned. Anything left blank stays as it is. - Action **Update Record** Changes the column values of one row in a Grist table. Columns left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Workspace** Renames a Grist workspace. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Timing. - Trigger **New Team** Triggered when you are added to a new team in Timing. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Timing. - Trigger **New Timer Started and Running** Triggered when a new timer is started and is still running in Timing. - Action **Batch Update Time Entries** Updates several Timing time entries at once — moves them to a project, retitles them, sets notes, billing status or custom fields. Anything left blank is left untouched on the entries. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Timing, optionally under a parent project, and returns the created project. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs a finished block of work in Timing between a start and end time, optionally against a project, and returns the created time entry. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project in Timing, along with all of its child projects. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry in Timing. - Action **Find Project** Searches your Timing projects by title and returns the first match, plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Team** Finds a team you belong to in Timing by its name and returns the first match, plus every team whose name matched. - Action **Generate Report** Builds a time report in Timing over a date range, broken down by the columns you choose, and returns the report rows with their durations. - Action **Get Activity Hierarchy** Returns a readable breakdown of what you worked on in Timing over a date range, as tab-indented text grouped by project and app with durations. - Action **List Projects** Returns the projects you can see in Timing, optionally filtered by title, team, or hiding archived ones. - Action **List Team Members** Returns the active members of a Timing team. People with a pending invitation are not included. - Action **List Teams** Returns all the Timing teams you are a member of. - Action **List Time Entries** Returns your Timing time entries, optionally narrowed by date range, project, team member, search text or billing status. - Action **Show Latest Time Entry** Returns your most recent time entry in Timing. - Action **Show Project** Returns a single Timing project with its colour, notes, billing default, parent and child projects. - Action **Show Running Timer** Returns the timer that is currently running in Timing. Errors with a not-found if no timer is running. - Action **Show Time Entry** Returns a single Timing time entry with its times, duration, project, notes and billing status. - Action **Start Timer** Starts a running timer in Timing, stopping any timer that is already running, and returns the new entry. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the timer that is currently running in Timing and returns the finished time entry. - Action **Update Project** Updates a Timing project's name, colour, notes, archive state or billing default. Anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates a Timing time entry — its times, project, title, notes or billing status. Anything left blank keeps its current value. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grist** Grist combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet with the robustness of a database to organize your data...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grist) - [ **Timing** Timing is an automatic time tracking app for macOS.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Grist - [ **Grist to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-gmail) - [ **Grist to Clickhouse** Column-oriented database for real-time analytical SQL queries at petabyte scale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-clickhouse) - [ **Grist to Mistral AI** Mistral AI is a platform for building, customizing, and deploying advanced AI models and agents for...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-mistral-ai) - [ **Grist to OpusClip** OpusClip is a AI video tool that turns long videos into viral shorts with captions and transcripts.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-opusclip) - [ **Grist to Postman** Postman is a platform for building and testing APIs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-postman) - [ **Grist to RuneScape** The RuneScape Wiki API exposes data for RuneScape and Old School RuneScape.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grist-to-runescape) ## More into Timing - [ **Favro to Timing** Plan a wedding, build an award winning video game or even send a rocket into space.](https://apiant.ai/connect/favro-to-timing) - [ **Pipefy to Timing** The easy button for processes and workflows Easily organize and run all your processes in one place, leaving...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipefy-to-timing) - [ **HubSpot to Timing** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-timing) - [ **Salesforce to Timing** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-timing) - [ **Slack to Timing** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-timing) - [ **Gmail to Timing** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-timing) Questions ## Grist and Timing, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Grist? Any of Grist's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New or Updated Record, New or Updated Record (Instant), New Record and New Record (Instant). Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Timing when something happens in Grist? Any of Timing's 21 actions, including Create Project, Create Time Entry, Update Project and Update Time Entry. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Timing to Grist? Yes. When something happens in Timing, your agent can act in Grist too. This page covers both directions: Timing's triggers and Grist's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grist or Timing? 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 Grist and Timing 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.