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Dovetail MCP for AI Agents. Synthesize Insights from Raw User Data

Dovetail MCP connects your user research data directly to your AI agent. It lets you manage entire cycles of product discovery—from listing projects and retrieving notes to publishing structured insights—all through natural conversation.

Dovetail MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Dovetail MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Dovetail MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Dovetail MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Dovetail MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Dovetail MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Dovetail MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Dovetail MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Project Oversight

List all active research projects and retrieve specific goals or metadata for any study.

Data Capture and Organization

Create new, structured research notes containing raw data like interview transcripts or usability test summaries.

Insight Publishing

Automatically draft and publish official research findings and key themes that maintain a high-fidelity record of discoveries.

Advanced Data Retrieval

Search across all projects to find relevant data using powerful filters on titles or content.

Team Management

Get a complete list of users working within your research workspace, helping coordinate tasks and access rights.

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What AI agents can do with Dovetail: 7 Tools for UX Data Management

These tools let your agent perform specific actions inside Dovetail, such as listing projects, creating new notes, or publishing structured research insights.

Make your AI actually useful.

Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.

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Create Insight

Drafts and publishes a new, structured summary of key research findings.

Create Note

Generates and organizes a brand-new raw data record, such as an interview transcript...

Get Project Details

Retrieves detailed metadata about a specific research project's goals and...

List Insights

Lists all existing published research insights to give an overview of findings.

List Notes

Provides a list of available raw research notes, helping you track where data lives.

List Projects

Generates a directory listing of every active research project in the workspace.

List Workspace Members

Retrieves a full list and directory of all people who belong to the research workspace.

Security and governance baked right in.

Pick your AI client below to get set up. Just create a Vinkius account, subscribe, and you're instantly up and running. We handle the entire backend infrastructure, delivering out-of-the-box support for HTTPS Streamable, SSE, and OAuth2—zero messy routing required.

Dovetail MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Dovetail integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
  • Create Agent Skills with progressive disclosure
  • Deploy to edge with MCPFusion framework
  • Built in DLP, auth, and compliance on each call
  • Real time usage dashboard and cost metering
  • Publish to catalog or keep private
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Make Your AI Do More

Start with Dovetail, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

  • Use this MCP plus 5,200+ others, all in one place
  • Add new capabilities to your AI anytime you want
  • Connections are secured and governed automatically
  • Track usage and costs across all your servers
  • Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
  • New servers added to the catalog weekly
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Finding Patterns in a Pile of Transcripts Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway

Today, finding patterns means opening dozens of documents. You jump between transcripts, usability test reports, and meeting notes. You copy key quotes into Notion or a spreadsheet, then you manually tag them with 'Pain Point' or 'Opportunity'. It’s tedious, and half the time, the data gets siloed because it wasn't attached to its original source.

With this MCP, your agent handles the heavy lifting. Instead of copy-pasting, you simply ask: 'What are the top three pain points mentioned in Q3?' Your agent coordinates across all projects and uses powerful search filters to pull out relevant quotes and publish them as official insights.

Publishing Insights with Dovetail

The manual steps that disappear are the exporting, renaming, and cross-referencing of findings. You don't have to manually decide which notes qualify as 'insights.' The system handles the record keeping.

Now, every discovery is captured in a structured way using `create_insight`. It’s not just text; it’s an actionable, indexed finding attached directly to your research history. That changes everything.

What your AI can actually do with this

Stop spending hours manually scrubbing interview transcripts or navigating complex project folders just to find a single piece of feedback. This MCP connects your Dovetail account, giving your AI agent full control over your entire user research lifecycle.

Your agent acts like a dedicated coordinator for your product insights. Need to know what pain points were raised in the 'Mobile UX Redesign' study? Your agent finds them across multiple notes and can even draft an official insight record instantly. You can ask it to list all active projects, then pull up every piece of raw data related to a specific user complaint.

If your team needs visibility into who owns which project or what goals were set for the quarter, this MCP handles that retrieval. Because Vinkius hosts this connection, you send one API key and get access to these advanced research workflows right from any compatible AI client.

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Questions you might have

Can I use Dovetail MCP to list all my projects? +

Yes, you can use the list_projects tool to retrieve a comprehensive directory of every active study in your workspace. This is useful for getting an overall inventory before starting any deep dive.

How do I create research notes using Dovetail MCP? +

You use the create_note tool, specifying the content type (like HTML or Markdown) and the required data. Your agent will generate a structured record that immediately belongs to your project.

Is Dovetail MCP just for reading data? +

No, it's fully bi-directional. You can read using tools like list_insights, but you can also write and manage data by calling create_insight or create_note.

What if I need to know who is on my team for Dovetail MCP? +

The list_workspace_members tool lets your agent retrieve a complete directory of everyone in the workspace. This helps you coordinate tasks and manage access permissions.

Does Dovetail MCP help me find specific user pain points? +

Yes, you can use powerful search queries against projects and notes to pinpoint relevant data across multiple studies. The agent makes this deep search easy to initiate with a simple prompt.