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title: "Connect Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Benchmark Email Classic, your agent runs \"Create a Task\" in Dastra."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/benchmark-email-classic-to-dastra"
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# Connect Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra

When **New Contact** fires in [Benchmark Email Classic](https://apiant.ai/connections/benchmark-email-classic), your agent runs **Create a Task** in [Dastra](https://apiant.ai/connections/dastra), or **New Task** in Dastra to **Add Contact to List** in Benchmark Email Classic. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Benchmark Email Classic **6** triggers Benchmark Email Classic **10** actions Dastra **1** trigger Dastra **17** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra can do together

### From Benchmark Email Classic to Dastra

- When **New Contact** in Benchmark Email Classic then **Create a Task** in Dastra
- When **New Contact in Segment** in Benchmark Email Classic then **Update task** in Dastra

### From Dastra to Benchmark Email Classic

- When **New Task** in Dastra then **Add Contact to List** in Benchmark Email Classic
- When **New Task** in Dastra then **Unsubscribe Contact** in Benchmark Email Classic

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra

## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 27 actions

- Trigger

**Email Opened**

Triggers when a contact opens the selected email campaign.

- Trigger

**Link Clicked**

Triggers when a contact clicks a link in the selected email campaign.

- Trigger

**New Contact**

Triggers when a new contact is added to the selected Benchmark Email contact list.

- Trigger

**New Contact in Segment**

Triggers when a contact is added to the selected segment.

- Trigger

**New List**

Triggers when a new contact list is created in your Benchmark Email account.

- Trigger

**New Unsubscriber**

Triggers when a contact unsubscribes from the selected email campaign.

- Action

**Add Contact to List**

Adds a contact to a Benchmark Email contact list.

- Action

**Add list**

Creates a new contact list in Benchmark Email.

- Action

**Delete contact**

Deletes a contact from a Benchmark Email contact list.

- Action

**Find Contact**

Finds contacts by email address across all lists, returning each list membership found.

- Action

**Get contact**

Returns the details of one contact in a contact list, including its name, email, opt-in info and custom field values.

- Action

**Get email**

Returns the details of an email campaign, including its subject, sender, contact lists and content.

- Action

**List contacts**

Returns the contacts in a Benchmark Email contact list, optionally filtered by a search value or status.

- Action

**List emails**

Returns the email campaigns in the Benchmark Email account, optionally filtered and sorted.

- Action

**List lists**

Returns the contact lists in the Benchmark Email account.

- Action

**Unsubscribe Contact**

Unsubscribes a contact by moving them from a list to the account's Do Not Contact (master unsubscribe) list.

- Trigger

**New Task**

Triggers when a new task is created in the chosen Dastra workspace.

- Action

**Add asset**

Creates an asset (software, building, network, data store and so on) in a Dastra workspace and returns the new asset record.

- Action

**Add data processing**

Creates a new data processing activity in your Dastra record of processing activities, in the organizational unit you choose.

- Action

**Attach an Actor to a Data Processing**

Links one or more actors (vendors, internal services, third parties, data controllers) to a data processing activity in your Dastra register, as recipients, data controllers, stakeholders or referents.

- Action

**Create an Actor**

Creates an actor (a vendor, partner, processor or other third party) in a Dastra workspace and returns the new actor record.

- Action

**Create a Task**

Creates a task in a Dastra workspace, with its priority, dates, assignee, project and links to other Dastra records.

- Action

**Delete actor**

Deletes an actor (a controller, processor or other third party) from a Dastra workspace.

- Action

**Delete task**

Deletes a task from a Dastra workspace.

- Action

**Get actor**

Returns one actor (vendor, processor, controller or other third party) from a Dastra workspace by its id, including its contact details, tags, contracts and custom field values.

- Action

**Get data processing**

Returns a data processing activity from your Dastra register of processing activities, including its purposes, recipients, data subject rights and custom fields.

- Action

**Get task**

Returns a single Dastra task by its id, including its state, priority, deadline, assignee and custom field values.

- Action

**List assets**

Returns the assets (software, buildings, networks, data stores and other resources) in a Dastra workspace, optionally filtered by type, state, owner, tag, organizational unit or a search text.

- Action

**List tasks**

Returns the tasks in a Dastra workspace, optionally filtered by state, priority, assignee, project, linked object, dates or search text.

- Action

**Search Actor**

Returns the actors (vendors, data controllers, third parties and other organizations or people) in a Dastra workspace that match the search text and filters.

- Action

**Search Data Processing**

Searches the data processing activities in a Dastra workspace by text and optional filters, returning every matching activity with its full record.

- Action

**Update actor**

Updates an existing actor (vendor, partner or person) in a Dastra workspace. Fields you leave blank keep their current values.

- Action

**Update data processing**

Updates an existing data processing activity in a Dastra workspace, changing only the fields you fill in, and returns the updated record.

- Action

**Update task**

Updates an existing Dastra task. Fields you leave blank keep their current values.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Benchmark Email Classic** Benchmark Email Classic is an easy-to-use email marketing tool, the original version that has helped...](https://apiant.ai/connections/benchmark-email-classic)
- [ **Dastra** Dastra is a simple and guided data protection solution to make your entire organization accountable for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/dastra)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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- [ **Benchmark Email Classic to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/benchmark-email-classic-to-salesforce)
- [ **Benchmark Email Classic to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/benchmark-email-classic-to-slack)
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Questions

## Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Benchmark Email Classic?

Any of Benchmark Email Classic's 6 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New Contact in Segment, New List and New Unsubscriber. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Dastra when something happens in Benchmark Email Classic?

Any of Dastra's 17 actions, including Create an Actor, Create a Task, Update actor and Update data processing. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Dastra to Benchmark Email Classic?

Yes. When something happens in Dastra, your agent can act in Benchmark Email Classic too. This page covers both directions: Dastra's triggers and Benchmark Email Classic's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Benchmark Email Classic or Dastra?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

###

### Can my AI client use Benchmark Email Classic and Dastra without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

###

### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
