Overview

Easyteam was designed with AI-native platforms in mind. By connecting your MCP server to Easyteam's workforce management infrastructure, you unlock powerful, context-aware automation capabilities without building complex scheduling, time tracking, or compliance layers yourself.

This guide explains what an MCP server is, how it connects to Easyteam, and the types of use cases it enables.

Why Easyteam Supports MCPs Natively

Easyteam is built from the ground up to support modular and intelligent systems. Our APIs and data structures:

Support multi-location orgs, complex shift structures, and role hierarchies

Expose shift, availability, and performance data

Allow full programmatic control over schedules, staff assignments, and labor data

Are composable with any AI toolset (from general-purpose language models to internal optimization engines)

Whether you’re building a conversational assistant, predictive scheduler, or compliance engine, Easyteam provides the operational infrastructure to bring it to life.

How to Integrate Your MCP with Easyteam

1. Authenticate Securely

Your MCP server will authenticate using Easyteam’s token exchange flow. This allows secure access to all relevant organization, location, staff, and shift data.

2. Collect Workforce Context

Your MCP can pull data such as:

Who’s working this week?

Who has upcoming PTO?

Who hasn’t met their target hours?

What shifts are unassigned?

This context powers your reasoning layer, whether that’s an LLM or a rule engine.

3. Apply AI Decisions

Once your model or logic generates a recommendation:

Assign staff to open shifts

Swap existing shifts between employees

Alert managers about overstaffed days

Log rationale and audit changes

These actions are executed through Easyteam’s APIs.

🧠 Example Use Cases

Your MCP server becomes the decision-making layer between data and action. Below are practical scenarios where your platform can leverage Easyteam data to deliver intelligent, proactive workforce solutions.

📅 “Who’s available next week?”

Retrieve all existing shifts and time-off requests for the upcoming week.

Filter out employees already scheduled or unavailable.

Return a structured list of staff with open availability, sorted by location, role, or contractual hours.

🔁 “Switch Dana and Eli’s Friday shifts”

Query shifts by employee and date.

Validate that both employees are qualified for the respective roles.

Ensure no conflicts or labor law violations (e.g., rest time, overtime).

Patch the updated timesheets to reflect the reassignment.

🧾 “Which employees haven’t completed their timesheets?”

Retrieve the current pay period’s timesheets.

Cross-reference against active employees and expected working days.

Flag missing, incomplete, or unapproved entries.

📊 “Summarize this week’s labor cost per location”

Pull approved timesheets and hourly wage data.

Calculate total scheduled vs. actual hours worked.

Return insights by location, department, or role.

🔔 “Remind everyone to approve their timesheets by Friday”

Check for unsubmitted or unapproved timesheets.

Trigger notifications to the relevant employees or managers.

Optionally follow up with escalations or summaries.

🧍‍♀️ “Who’s approaching overtime this week?”

Aggregate actual and scheduled hours per employee.

Compare against contractual limits or legal thresholds.

Return a list of at-risk employees along with a timeline projection.

✈️ “Show all approved PTO for next week by location”

Pull time-off requests filtered by status and date.

Group results by location or department.

Generate a summary of who’s out and when.

🚫 “Prevent assigning shifts to employees on leave”

Before assigning a shift, the MCP queries the employee’s PTO status.

If the employee has approved leave during that time, the shift assignment is blocked or flagged.

Alternative staff suggestions can be proposed automatically.

📥 “Draft next week’s shifts based on who worked last Sunday”

Query timesheets from the previous Sunday.

Use that data to pre-fill potential shift candidates for the same time slots.

Include logic to rotate or balance shift fairness.

Want to explore how these use cases apply to your platform? Schedule a call with our integration team.

Integrating an MCP Server with Easyteam

Overview#

Why Easyteam Supports MCPs Natively#

How to Integrate Your MCP with Easyteam#

1. Authenticate Securely#

2. Collect Workforce Context#

3. Apply AI Decisions#

🧠 Example Use Cases#

📅 “Who’s available next week?”#

🔁 “Switch Dana and Eli’s Friday shifts”#

🧾 “Which employees haven’t completed their timesheets?”#

📊 “Summarize this week’s labor cost per location”#

🔔 “Remind everyone to approve their timesheets by Friday”#

🧍‍♀️ “Who’s approaching overtime this week?”#

✈️ “Show all approved PTO for next week by location”#

🚫 “Prevent assigning shifts to employees on leave”#

📥 “Draft next week’s shifts based on who worked last Sunday”#

Overview

Why Easyteam Supports MCPs Natively

How to Integrate Your MCP with Easyteam

1. Authenticate Securely

2. Collect Workforce Context

3. Apply AI Decisions

🧠 Example Use Cases

📅 “Who’s available next week?”

🔁 “Switch Dana and Eli’s Friday shifts”

🧾 “Which employees haven’t completed their timesheets?”

📊 “Summarize this week’s labor cost per location”

🔔 “Remind everyone to approve their timesheets by Friday”

🧍‍♀️ “Who’s approaching overtime this week?”

✈️ “Show all approved PTO for next week by location”

🚫 “Prevent assigning shifts to employees on leave”

📥 “Draft next week’s shifts based on who worked last Sunday”