Integration
Connect YNAB to EmailOctopus
When Goal Completed fires in YNAB, your agent runs Add Tag to Contact in EmailOctopus. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
Build solutions, not workarounds.
What do you want YNAB and EmailOctopus to do together?
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https://mcp.apiant.aiOne 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.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Example flows
What YNAB can start in EmailOctopus
When Goal Completed in YNAB
then Add Tag to 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 YNAB and EmailOctopus
Triggers and actions 14 triggers · 20 actions
- Category Overspent
Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.
- Goal Completed
Triggers when a goal is completed.
- Low Account Balance
Triggers when a Checking or Savings account balance drops below a certain amount during a month.
- Low Category Balance
Triggers when a category balance drops below a certain amount.
- New Account
Triggers when a new account is created.
- New Category
Triggers when a new category is created.
- New or Updated Account
Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated.
- New or Updated Category
Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated.
- New or Updated Scheduled Transaction
Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated.
- New or Updated Transaction
Triggers when a transaction is created or updated.
- New Payee
Triggers when a new payee is created.
- New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is created.
- Spending in Account
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is created in an account.
- Spending in Category
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is assigned to a category.
- Budget to a Category
Budgets to a category in the current month.
- Create Transaction
Creates a new transaction.
- 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.
- Get Current Month Summary
Returns the current budget month's summary, including age of money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.
- 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.
- Add list
Creates a new mailing list in EmailOctopus and returns the list's details.
- Add tag
Creates a new tag on an EmailOctopus list so it can be applied to contacts.
- Add Tag to Contact
Adds a tag to an existing contact in an EmailOctopus list, leaving the contact's other tags unchanged.
- Delete contact
Permanently deletes a contact from an EmailOctopus list.
- Delete list
Deletes an EmailOctopus list, along with its contacts, fields and tags.
- Get campaign
Returns the details of an EmailOctopus campaign, including its status, subject, sender, recipient lists and HTML content.
- 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.
- Get list
Returns the details of an EmailOctopus list, including its custom fields, tags and subscriber counts.
- List campaigns
Returns every campaign in your EmailOctopus account, including its status, subject, sender and the lists it was sent to.
- List lists
Returns all mailing lists in the EmailOctopus account, with each list's fields, tags, contact counts and dates.
- 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.
- Start automation for contact
Starts an EmailOctopus automation for a contact. The automation must be one that is started through the API.
- Unsubscribe Contact
Unsubscribes a contact from an EmailOctopus list so they stop receiving campaigns, and returns the updated contact.
- Update Contact's Email Address
Changes the email address of an existing contact on an EmailOctopus list and returns the updated contact.
- Update list
Renames an existing EmailOctopus list and returns the updated list.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
YNAB and EmailOctopus, 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 EmailOctopus when something happens in YNAB?
Any of EmailOctopus's 16 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 YNAB?
EmailOctopus has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in YNAB. 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 YNAB 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 YNAB 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.