--- title: "Connect PPM Express and Vapi - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Idea Created\" fires in PPM Express, your agent runs \"Add assistant\" in Vapi, or \"New Assistant\" in Vapi to \"Create Project Task\" in PPM Express." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-vapi" --- # Connect PPM Express and Vapi When **Idea Created** fires in [PPM Express](https://apiant.ai/connections/ppm-express), your agent runs **Add assistant** in [Vapi](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi), or **New Assistant** in Vapi to **Create Project Task** in PPM Express. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PPM Express **8** triggers PPM Express **9** actions Vapi **3** triggers Vapi **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 PPM Express and Vapi 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What PPM Express and Vapi can do together ### From PPM Express to Vapi - When **Idea Created** in PPM Express then **Add assistant** in Vapi - When **Key Date Created** in PPM Express then **Add phone number** in Vapi ### From Vapi to PPM Express - When **New Assistant** in Vapi then **Create Project Task** in PPM Express - When **New Call** in Vapi then **Update Project Task** in PPM Express 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 PPM Express and Vapi ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **Idea Created** Triggers when a Idea is created. - Trigger **Key Date Created** Triggers when a Key Date is created. - Trigger **Key Date Updated** Triggers when a Key Date is updated. - Trigger **Project Created** Triggers when a Project is created. - Trigger **Project Updated** Triggers when a Project is updated. - Trigger **Task Created** Triggers when a Task is created. - Trigger **Task Deleted** Triggers when a Task is deleted. - Trigger **Task Updated** Triggers when a Task is updated. - Action **Create Idea** Creates a new idea in PPM Express, optionally under a challenge, with its name, description and any other idea fields. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project in PPM Express with the field values you supply, such as name, description, manager, program and portfolio. - Action **Create Project Key Date** Creates a key date (milestone) on a PPM Express project and returns the new key date. - Action **Create Project Task** Creates a task in a PPM Express project with the field values you supply. - Action **Delete Project Task** Deletes a task from a PPM Express project. - Action **Update Idea** Updates the field values of an existing idea in PPM Express and returns the updated idea. - Action **Update Project** Updates the fields of an existing project, including custom fields, and returns the updated project. - Action **Update Project Key Date** Updates the field values of an existing key date in a PPM Express project. - Action **Update Project Task** Updates field values on an existing task in a PPM Express project and returns the updated task. - Trigger **New Assistant** Triggers when a new assistant is created in your Vapi organization. - Trigger **New Call** Triggers when a new call is created in Vapi, optionally limited to one assistant or phone number. - Trigger **New File** Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your Vapi account. - Action **Add assistant** Creates a new Vapi voice assistant with its model, voice, transcriber, first message and call behavior. - Action **Add phone number** Adds a phone number to Vapi: a free Vapi number, or one you bring from Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx or your own SIP trunk. Returns the new phone number record. - Action **Add squad** Creates a squad: a group of assistants that hand a call off to one another, starting with the first member. - Action **Add tool** Creates a tool in Vapi (for example a function, end-call, transfer-call or API-request tool) that assistants can use during calls. - Action **Create Call** Starts a Vapi call (or a batch of outbound calls) using a saved or one-off assistant, squad or workflow, and returns the created call. - Action **Create Chat** Sends a message to a Vapi assistant or squad as a text chat and returns the chat, including the assistant's reply messages. - Action **Delete assistant** Deletes an assistant from your Vapi account and returns the deleted assistant. - Action **Delete Call Data** Deletes a call and its data, including recordings, and returns the deleted call. - Action **Delete Chat** Deletes a chat from your Vapi account and returns the deleted chat's details. - Action **Delete File** Deletes a file from your Vapi account. - Action **Find Call** Finds calls matching a call id, assistant, phone number, or created/updated date range. Returns up to 1000 matching calls. - Action **Get assistant** Returns a Vapi assistant's full configuration, including its model, voice, transcriber and first message. - Action **Get file** Returns a file uploaded to Vapi, including its name, size, type, processing status and download URL. - Action **List assistants** Returns the voice assistants in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or last updated. - Action **List chats** Returns the chats in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by assistant, squad, session or creation/update date. - Action **List files** Returns the files uploaded to your Vapi account, optionally filtered by purpose. - Action **List phone numbers** Returns the phone numbers in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **List tools** Returns the tools configured in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **Update Call** Updates the name of an existing Vapi call. - Action **Update phone number** Updates a Vapi phone number's name, the assistant, squad or workflow that answers it, and its provider settings. - Action **Upload File** Uploads a file to Vapi, for use by assistants or knowledge bases, and returns the stored file record. ## Each app on its own - [ **PPM Express** PPM Express is Product Portfolio Management platform to easily integrate and orchestrate your existing...](https://apiant.ai/connections/ppm-express) - [ **Vapi** Vapi is a developer-first Voice AI platform for building natural, low-latency, multilingual phone agents via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PPM Express - [ **PPM Express to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-salesforce) - [ **PPM Express to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-slack) - [ **PPM Express to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-stripe) - [ **PPM Express to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-shopify) - [ **PPM Express to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **PPM Express to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-trello) ## More into Vapi - [ **HubSpot to Vapi** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-vapi) - [ **Salesforce to Vapi** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-vapi) - [ **Slack to Vapi** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-vapi) - [ **Google Sheets to Vapi** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-vapi) - [ **Gmail to Vapi** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-vapi) - [ **Google Calendar to Vapi** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-vapi) Questions ## PPM Express and Vapi, answered ### ### What can start an automation from PPM Express? Any of PPM Express's 8 triggers in the catalog, including Idea Created, Key Date Created, Key Date Updated and Project Created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Vapi when something happens in PPM Express? Any of Vapi's 21 actions, including Create Call, Create Chat, Update Call and Update phone number. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Vapi to PPM Express? Yes. When something happens in Vapi, your agent can act in PPM Express too. This page covers both directions: Vapi's triggers and PPM Express's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PPM Express or Vapi? 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 PPM Express and Vapi 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.