Build Agents in Relevance AI with Access to Live Monday.com Data via CData Connect AI
Relevance AI is an AI automation and agent-building platform that enables organizations to create autonomous workflows powered by natural language reasoning. Users can visually design agents that interact with APIs, databases, and third-party systems to complete everyday business tasks or data operations.
By integrating Relevance AI with CData Connect AI through the built-in MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, your agents can query, summarize, and act on live Monday.com data in real time. This connection bridges Relevance AI intelligent workflow engine with the governed enterprise connectivity of CData Connect AI ensuring every query runs securely against authorized sources without manual data export.
This article outlines the steps to configure Monday.com connectivity in Connect AI, register the CData MCP Server in Relevance AI, and build an agent that interacts with live Monday.com data.
Step 1: Configure Monday.com Connectivity for Relevance AI
Connectivity to Monday.com from Relevance AI is made possible through CData Connect AI's Remote MCP Server. To interact with Monday.com data from Relevance AI, we start by creating and configuring a Monday.com connection in CData Connect AI.
- Log into Connect AI, click Sources, and then click Add Connection
- Select Monday.com from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Monday.com.
You can connect to Monday.com using either API Token authentication or OAuth authentication.
Connecting with an API Token
Connect to Monday.com by specifying the APIToken. Set the AuthScheme to Token and obtain the APIToken as follows:
- API tokens for admin users
- Log in to your Monday.com account and click on your avatar in the bottom left corner.
- Select Admin.
- Select "API" on the left side of the Admin page.
- Click the "Copy" button to copy the user's API token.
- API tokens for non-admin users
- Click on your profile picture in the bottom left of your screen.
- Select "Developers"
- Click "Developer" and then "My Access Tokens" at the top.
- Select "Show" next to the API token, where you'll be able to copy it.
Connecting with OAuth Authentication
Alternatively, you can establish a connection using OAuth (refer to the OAuth section of the Help documentation).
- API tokens for admin users
- Click Save & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab and update user-based permissions
Add a Personal Access Token
A Personal Access Token (PAT) is used to authenticate the connection to Connect AI from Relevance AI. It is best practice to create a separate PAT for each integration to maintain granular access control.
- Click the gear icon () at the top right of the Connect AI app to open Settings
- On the Settings page, go to the Access Tokens section and click Create PAT
- Give the PAT a descriptive name and click Create
- Copy the token when displayed and store it securely. It will not be shown again
With the Monday.com connection configured and a PAT generated, Relevance AI can now connect to Monday.com data through the CData MCP Server.
Step 2: Configure Connectivity in Relevance AI
The CData Connect AI MCP endpoint and authorization details are registered within Relevance AI so that agents can call live data from Connect AI.
- Sign in to Relevance AI and create an account if you do not already have one
- From the sidebar, navigate to Agents and then click on New Agent
- Select Build from scratch and name the agent (eg; CData MCP Server)
- Inside the agent editor, select Advanced and then switch to the MCP Server tab
- Click + Add Remote MCP Tools
- In the dialog that appears, fill out the fields as follows:
- URL: https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp
- Label: Any custom label (eg; cdata_mcp_server)
- Authentication: Select Custom headers
- Add header key:value pair. Combine your email and PAT as email:PAT and encode that string in Base64 and then prefix with the word Basic
- Key: Authorization
- Value: Basic base64(email:PAT)
Click Connect to establish the connection. Relevance AI will verify your credentials and register the CData Connect AI MCP Server for use in agents.
Step 3: Build and Run a Relevance AI Agent with Live Monday.com Data
- Switch to the Run tab for your agent
- Enter a task for example, "List the five most recent incidents from ServiceNow"
- The agent will query Connect AI via the MCP endpoint and display live results from Monday.com data
With the connection complete, Relevance AI agents can now issue queries, retrieve records, and perform AI-driven tasks over live Monday.com data through CData Connect AI MCP Server.
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