01 · Records and state owned
Projects, documents, data, contacts, users, folders, document comments, highlights, channel themes, project tags, insights, and research search.
Dovetail
Dovetail
A leading research repository with a read/write developer API for projects, notes, tags, insights, people, and research artifacts—ideal for evidence-centered customer-owned interfaces.
Research, forms & feedbackSystem of intelligenceExtensible SaaS
Concrete capability record
Data, retrieval, actions, identity, and operating limits
A field-by-field summary of what the reviewed first-party references actually support. Publisher update dates and BYO-UI review dates are shown separately below.
02 · Data you can retrieve
Search workspace research and retrieve projects, transcripts, published docs, highlights, contacts, users, folders, document comments, channel themes, project tags, and filtered results.
03 · Actions and write paths
Create projects, docs, research data, highlights, and channel data within the connected Dovetail workspace.
04 · Authentication and permissions
First-party connectors use a Dovetail login; other clients may use a Personal API Key or local server. All access and changes inherit the connected user's workspace and project permissions.
05 · Monitoring, approval, and recovery
Keep generated summaries and drafts linked to projects, transcripts, highlights, and published evidence. Before creation, show the connected workspace, destination project or channel, source evidence, and acting user's permission context.
06 · Limits and caveats
Setup varies by AI client: some use a first-party login connector, while others require a Personal API Key or a local server. The public guide does not specify MCP plan eligibility or rate limits.
First-party access
Documented surfaces
Agent access
MCP support
Official MCP serverDovetail hosted research MCPCurrent documented service
Support: Official MCP server
Read scope: Search and retrieve projects, transcripts, docs, highlights, contacts, users, folders, comments, channel themes, project tags, and supporting research evidence.
Write scope: Create supported research content through documented tools.
Authentication: Dovetail login for first-party connectors; Personal API Key or a documented local-server setup for other clients.
Approval boundary: Confirm the target workspace, project or channel, source evidence, and new project, doc, data, highlight, or channel content before creation.
Protocol does not erase product boundaries.
Confirm the current tool catalog, plan, region, scopes, rate limits, terms, and write behavior before implementation.
Editorial assessment
Access-maturity dimensions
A comparative architecture lens—not a quality score, market ranking, or buying recommendation. Scale: 1–5.
Data access4
Action access4
Event access1
Identity4
Governance4
Agent access4
UI extensibility4
Portability3
Observability3
Documentation2
Proposed customer-shaped experiences
What customers could create on top.
The output could be an export, report, graph, artifact, application, agent, workflow, or downstream feed. These proposals are derived from documented access—not claims that Dovetail ships them.
Single-platform patterns
- Evidence-backed customer insight room
- Research synthesis room
- Feedback triage console
- Evidence-backed insight brief
Multi-platform compositions
- Dovetail + CRM or product analytics: research synthesis room
- Dovetail + work and knowledge system + content or planning platform: cross-system decision workspace
Evidence and dates
First-party references, with publisher and review dates separated
“Publisher updated” is shown only when the page exposes an update date. “BYO-UI reviewed” records when this research checked the reference. A missing publisher date is reported as missing—not replaced with the review date.
3 recorded sources
MCP / agent-role validationRepresentative source
https://docs.dovetail.com/integrations/mcp-server ↗Dovetail documents MCP access to research projects, transcripts, highlights, searches, and content creation.
- Publisher updated
- Jul 11, 2026
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 12, 2026
Targeted first-party MCP/agent-role review; broader API inventory retained
Developer APISource inventory
https://developers.dovetail.com/ ↗First-party read/write API documentation.
- Publisher updated
- Not stated by publisher
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 10, 2026
Inventory source: structurally normalized; content was not individually reopened in this pass.
HomepageSource inventory
https://dovetail.com/ ↗Product overview.
- Publisher updated
- Not stated by publisher
- BYO-UI reviewed
- Jul 10, 2026
Inventory source: structurally normalized; content was not individually reopened in this pass.
Verified fact
Tied to cited first-party evidence reviewed for this profile.
Source inventory
Official links recorded for deeper research but not necessarily reopened endpoint by endpoint.
Editorial assessment
System role, maturity interpretation, and architectural boundary.
Proposed design
Interface patterns and compositions—not vendor product claims.