Productivity · Integration
Basecamp
Add Basecamp to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Basecamp gives every project the same fixed set of tools, a message board, a to-do set, a schedule, a chat, a docs and files vault and optionally a card table, and that consistency is a gift to an integration: there are no custom workflows to discover, so what you build for one customer works for the next. Two practical details save a lot of time. One login can carry access to several Basecamp accounts, so a connection has to settle which of them it is working in before it can address a project. And every tool in a project is addressed through that project rather than globally, which means the path to a to-do runs through its list and its to-do set. Comments and events hang off individual items, so your product can follow a single to-do rather than watching everything. fastn keeps each authorisation per tenant and refreshes the tokens.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer connect their own Basecamp account and choose which of their accounts and projects your product uses.
Create a to-do with an assignee and a due date when your product needs somebody to act, then complete it automatically.
Post to a project's message board so an announcement lands where the team is already reading.
Read schedules and card tables so your product reflects what a project actually has in flight.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent reports what is due in a project this week and which to-dos have no assignee.
An agent posts a status update to the message board on request, attributed to the agent that wrote it.
An agent summarises the comments on a to-do so nobody has to read the whole thread.
Example prompt
What is overdue across our Basecamp projects, and who is each of those to-dos assigned to?
Set up Basecamp in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Basecamp connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own Basecamp account and select which account your product operates in.
- 03Choose the projects and tools your product touches, and map the to-do fields you set.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same governed connection to your agents.
Why teams use the Basecamp integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Basecamp integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Basecamp account inside your product and work their work items, assignees and due dates there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: every team configures its own fields, statuses and workflow stages. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Basecamp update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Basecamp connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you keep work items in step with what happens in your product without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a Basecamp integration to my product?
Enable the Basecamp connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Basecamp account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Basecamp client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Basecamp account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Basecamp account and only ever sees their own work items, assignees and due dates. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Basecamp integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent reports what is due in a project this week and which to-dos have no assignee.
Who maintains the Basecamp integration?
fastn does. When Basecamp changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Can my product create and update work in Basecamp automatically?
Yes. Items can be created, updated, assigned and transitioned from your product, and changes made in Basecamp can trigger your workflows in return.
Does it adapt to each team's own Basecamp setup?
Yes. However a team has configured Basecamp, whether that is custom fields, statuses and workflow stages or its own calendars and working hours, those are mapped per customer, so an unusual setup works without custom code from you.
What can I build with the Basecamp integration?
A common starting point: let each customer connect their own Basecamp account and choose which of their accounts and projects your product uses. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Basecamp integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Basecamp does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Basecamp to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.