--- title: "Connect YNAB to Cirkus - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Goal Completed\" fires in YNAB, your agent runs \"Add contact\" in Cirkus." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-cirkus" --- # Connect YNAB to Cirkus When **Goal Completed** fires in [YNAB](https://apiant.ai/connections/ynab), your agent runs **Add contact** in [Cirkus](https://apiant.ai/connections/cirkus). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. YNAB **14** triggers YNAB **4** actions Cirkus **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 YNAB and Cirkus 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 YNAB can start in Cirkus - When **Goal Completed** in YNAB then **Add contact** in Cirkus - When **New Account** in YNAB then **Update contact** in Cirkus 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 YNAB and Cirkus ## Triggers and actions 14 triggers · 15 actions - Trigger **Category Overspent** Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance. - Trigger **Goal Completed** Triggers when a goal is completed. - Trigger **Low Account Balance** Triggers when a Checking or Savings account balance drops below a certain amount during a month. - Trigger **Low Category Balance** Triggers when a category balance drops below a certain amount. - Trigger **New Account** Triggers when a new account is created. - Trigger **New Category** Triggers when a new category is created. - Trigger **New or Updated Account** Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Category** Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Scheduled Transaction** Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Transaction** Triggers when a transaction is created or updated. - Trigger **New Payee** Triggers when a new payee is created. - Trigger **New Transaction** Triggers when a new transaction is created. - Trigger **Spending in Account** Triggers when a new outflow transaction is created in an account. - Trigger **Spending in Category** Triggers when a new outflow transaction is assigned to a category. - Action **Budget to a Category** Budgets to a category in the current month. - Action **Create Transaction** Creates a new transaction. - Action **Get Current Budget Month** Returns the current month of the last-used budget, including Age of Money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts. - Action **Get Current Month Summary** Returns the current budget month's summary, including age of money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts. - Action **Add booking** Creates a new booking in Cirkus, optionally scheduling people or resources on it and linking it to projects, subprojects and tasks. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in a Cirkus workspace. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in a Cirkus workspace, optionally linked to a company. - Action **Create Calendar Event** Adds a calendar event to a Cirkus booking, scheduling a person or resource for a given activity between a start and end time. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in a Cirkus workspace, optionally linked to a company, contact or project template. - Action **Delete project** Deletes a Cirkus project. - Action **Get project** Returns a Cirkus project by its ID, including its dates, owner, linked company and contact, task counts and custom field values. - Action **Update booking** Updates an existing Cirkus booking — its name, description, color, schedule status, booked events, linked projects and tasks, and custom fields. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing company in Cirkus — its name, description, active status, template link and custom field values. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing contact in Cirkus, such as its name, email, phone, company or active status, and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing Cirkus project, such as its name, dates, owner, linked company or contact, status and custom fields. Fields left blank keep their current values. ## Each app on its own - [ **YNAB** YNAB is an award-winning personal finance app and method that helps you gain total control of your money.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ynab) - [ **Cirkus** Cirkus is a task and project management software built for media and post-production teams to organize work...](https://apiant.ai/connections/cirkus) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from YNAB - [ **YNAB to MILKEE** MILKEE is a all in one accounting tool for Swiss Freelancers and small businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-milkee) - [ **YNAB to The Muse** Job board and company profiles](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-the-muse) - [ **YNAB to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-google-sheets) - [ **YNAB to Google Drive** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-google-drive) - [ **YNAB to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-zoom) - [ **YNAB to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-linkedin) ## More into Cirkus - [ **HubSpot to Cirkus** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-cirkus) - [ **Salesforce to Cirkus** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-cirkus) - [ **Slack to Cirkus** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-cirkus) - [ **Google Sheets to Cirkus** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-cirkus) - [ **Gmail to Cirkus** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-cirkus) - [ **Google Calendar to Cirkus** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-cirkus) Questions ## YNAB and Cirkus, answered ### ### What can start an automation from YNAB? Any of YNAB's 14 triggers in the catalog, including Goal Completed, New Account, New Category and New or Updated Account. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Cirkus when something happens in YNAB? Any of Cirkus's 11 actions, including Create Calendar Event, Create Project, Update booking and Update company. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Cirkus to YNAB? Cirkus has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in YNAB. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Cirkus's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for YNAB or Cirkus? 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 YNAB and Cirkus 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.