--- title: "Connect Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Authentication\" fires in Bread & Butter, your agent runs \"Add contacts to contact group\" in Kenect Text Messaging." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-kenect-text-messaging" --- # Connect Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging When **New Authentication** fires in [Bread & Butter](https://apiant.ai/connections/bread-butter), your agent runs **Add contacts to contact group** in [Kenect Text Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging), or **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging to **Add lead list** in Bread & Butter. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Bread & Butter **6** triggers Bread & Butter **24** actions Kenect Text Messaging **1** trigger Kenect Text Messaging **12** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging 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 Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging can do together ### From Bread & Butter to Kenect Text Messaging - When **New Authentication** in Bread & Butter then **Add contacts to contact group** in Kenect Text Messaging - When **New Contact Us Submission** in Bread & Butter then **Get contact** in Kenect Text Messaging ### From Kenect Text Messaging to Bread & Butter - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Add lead list** in Bread & Butter - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Add contact us submission** in Bread & Butter 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 Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 36 actions - Trigger **New Authentication** Triggers every time a user signs in. - Trigger **New Contact Us Submission** Triggers when a user submits the Contact Us tool. - Trigger **New Custom Fields** Triggers when a user submits the Custom Fields for Registration. - Trigger **New Custom User Event** Triggers when a user subscribes to custom events, selected in the triggers section below. - Trigger **New Email Captured** Triggers when a user enters their email address, or signs in with SSO for the first time. - Trigger **New Profile Verified** Triggers when a user signs in for the first time. - Action **Add contact us submission** Records a Contact Us submission from a visitor's device in a Bread & Butter app. - Action **Add event** Records an event (such as a page view or custom event code) for a device in a Bread & Butter app. - Action **Add form submission** Records a form submission from a visitor's device in a Bread & Butter app, capturing their email, name and any extra form fields. - Action **Add lead list** Creates a lead list in a Bread & Butter app from a set of leads, returning the new list with its lead count and credit quote. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in a Bread & Butter app. - Action **Add user custom values** Saves custom field values (key/value pairs) for a visitor in a Bread & Butter app. - Action **Create custom event definition** Creates a custom event definition in a Bread & Butter app, which users can then trigger and which can be subscribed to. - Action **Create webhook** Subscribes a webhook URL to a Bread & Butter event so Bread & Butter posts each new occurrence to it. Returns the id of the new subscription. - Action **Delete tag** Deletes a tag from a Bread & Butter app. - Action **Get credit balance** Returns the credit balance for a Bread & Butter app, including credits used this period, the monthly allowance and pending enrichments. - Action **Get device profile** Returns the sign-in options and the visitor's profile state for one registered device. - Action **Get lead list** Returns a Bread & Butter lead list by its ID, including its processing status, lead counts and credit usage. - Action **Identify user** Identifies an anonymous visitor's device as a known person in a Bread & Butter app by attaching their email address and name. - Action **List app triggers** Returns the triggers set up in a Bread & Butter app, including webhook subscriptions, with their kind, filters and activity state. - Action **List custom event definitions** Returns the event definitions configured in a Bread & Butter app, optionally filtered to enabled or disabled ones. - Action **List Events** Returns the events recorded in a Bread & Butter app — sign-ins, page views, custom events, form submissions and more — optionally narrowed to one user or a date range. - Action **List lead lists** Returns all lead lists in a Bread & Butter app, including each list's status, lead counts and credit usage. - Action **List tags** Returns every tag defined in a Bread & Butter app, with each tag's id and name. - Action **List user events** Returns the page views and events (sign-ins, custom events, form submissions and more) a user recorded during one of their sessions in a Bread & Butter app. - Action **List users** Returns the users (visitors and leads) recorded in a Bread & Butter app, optionally narrowed to one email address or user state. - Action **List user sessions** Lists the sessions of one Bread & Butter user, newest first, with each session's ID, start time, location, device and page view count. - Action **Record external authentication** Records that a visitor signed in through your own login system, linking their device to the user with that email address. - Action **Register device** Registers a new visitor device in a Bread & Butter app and returns its device ID. - Action **Update user lead status** Updates a user's lead status in a Bread & Butter app by setting their lead status rank. - Trigger **Lead Push** Triggers when a new conversation starts in Kenect, the closest record Kenect's API exposes to an incoming lead. - Action **Add contacts to contact group** Adds one or more contacts to an existing contact group and returns the per-contact processing status. - Action **Find contact by phone** Finds the contact at a Kenect location that has the given phone number. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single Kenect contact by its contact ID, including its phone numbers and contact groups. - Action **Get conversation** Returns one Kenect conversation with its messages, contact, assignment and read status. - Action **List contact groups** Returns the contact groups in a Kenect location, with each group's name and its contact, opt-in and opt-out counts. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your Kenect account, optionally narrowed by location, search text or status, and sorted the way you choose. - Action **List locations** Returns all the Kenect locations available to your account, including each location's name and address. - Action **List reviews** Returns all Google and Facebook reviews for the locations assigned to the connected Kenect user, including their ratings, comments and reply status. - Action **List users** Returns the users on the Kenect account, optionally only those with permissions in a chosen location. - Action **Push Lead** Submits a lead to a Kenect location, which begins a text conversation with the person making the inquiry. Returns the id of the new lead. - Action **Reply to conversation** Sends a reply in an existing Kenect conversation from a chosen location, with optional subject and attachments. - Action **Review Request** Sends a review request to a contact's phone number from a Kenect location and returns the message that was sent. ## Each app on its own - [ **Bread & Butter** Augment your lead funnel with first-party data.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bread-butter) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging** Kenect is a texting platform that allows companies to send and receive texts, attachments, web leads, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Bread & Butter - [ **Bread & Butter to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-hubspot) - [ **Bread & Butter to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-salesforce) - [ **Bread & Butter to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-slack) - [ **Bread & Butter to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-google-sheets) - [ **Bread & Butter to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-gmail) - [ **Bread & Butter to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bread-butter-to-google-calendar) ## More into Kenect Text Messaging - [ **HubSpot to Kenect Text Messaging** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-kenect-text-messaging) - [ **Google Sheets to Kenect Text Messaging** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-kenect-text-messaging) - [ **Gmail to Kenect Text Messaging** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-kenect-text-messaging) - [ **Google Calendar to Kenect Text Messaging** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-kenect-text-messaging) - [ **Google Drive to Kenect Text Messaging** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-kenect-text-messaging) - [ **ActiveCampaign to Kenect Text Messaging** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-kenect-text-messaging) Questions ## Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Bread & Butter? Any of Bread & Butter's 6 triggers in the catalog, including New Authentication, New Contact Us Submission, New Custom Fields and New Custom User Event. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Kenect Text Messaging when something happens in Bread & Butter? Any of Kenect Text Messaging's 12 actions, including Add contacts to contact group, Find contact by phone, Get contact and Get conversation. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Kenect Text Messaging to Bread & Butter? Yes. When something happens in Kenect Text Messaging, your agent can act in Bread & Butter too. This page covers both directions: Kenect Text Messaging's triggers and Bread & Butter's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Bread & Butter or Kenect Text Messaging? 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 Bread & Butter and Kenect Text Messaging 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.