# Connect YNAB to ESPY

When **Goal Completed** fires in [YNAB](https://apiant.ai/connections/ynab), your agent runs **Email Search Lookup** in [ESPY](https://apiant.ai/connections/espy). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

YNAB **14** triggers YNAB **4** actions ESPY **9** 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 ESPY to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

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 ESPY

- When **Goal Completed** in YNAB then **Email Search Lookup** in ESPY
- When **New Account** in YNAB then **Get search record** in ESPY

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 ESPY

## Triggers and actions 14 triggers · 13 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

**Delete search record**

Deletes a search record from your IRBIS account by its id.

- Action

**Email Search Lookup**

Starts an IRBIS E-mail Lookup for an email address and returns the request id and status; results are retrieved later.

- Action

**Find breaches**

Starts a BreachScan search of breach and deep-web data for a value such as a password or email. Returns a request id used to retrieve the results.

- Action

**Find companies**

Starts an IRBIS Company Search for a company by name, registration ID or website, optionally narrowed by jurisdiction. Returns the lookup request id and status.

- Action

**Find person by name**

Starts an IRBIS Name SocialScan search for a person by full name and returns the request id used to retrieve results.

- Action

**Geolocate IP address**

Starts an IRBIS IP geolocation lookup for an IP address, returning the request id used to retrieve the city, region, country and coordinates.

- Action

**Get credit balance**

Returns your IRBIS account's current credit balance, currency, credit count, expiration date and account status.

- Action

**Get search record**

Returns a single IRBIS search request by its id, including its status and results.

- Action

**Psycho Profile Analysis**

Starts an AI-generated psychological profile or personal summary of a person from their Facebook ID. Returns the request id used to retrieve the results.

## 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)
- [ **ESPY** ESPY is a comprehensive tool for validating phone numbers, verifying customer identities, and leveraging API...](https://apiant.ai/connections/espy)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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- [ **YNAB to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/ynab-to-google-sheets)
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- [ **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 ESPY

- [ **HubSpot to ESPY** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-espy)
- [ **Salesforce to ESPY** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-espy)
- [ **Slack to ESPY** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-espy)
- [ **Google Sheets to ESPY** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-espy)
- [ **Gmail to ESPY** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-espy)
- [ **Google Calendar to ESPY** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-espy)

Questions

## YNAB and ESPY, answered

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### 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.

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### What can your agent do in ESPY when something happens in YNAB?

Any of ESPY's 9 actions, including Email Search Lookup, Find breaches, Find companies and Find person by name. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from ESPY to YNAB?

ESPY has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in YNAB. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ESPY's API documentation and adds it.

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### Do I have to build a connector for YNAB or ESPY?

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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
