--- title: "Connect Cartes and TextIt - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New marker\" fires in Cartes, your agent runs \"Add contact\" in TextIt, or \"New contact\" in TextIt to \"Add map\" in Cartes." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-textit" --- # Connect Cartes and TextIt When **New marker** fires in [Cartes](https://apiant.ai/connections/cartes), your agent runs **Add contact** in [TextIt](https://apiant.ai/connections/textit), or **New contact** in TextIt to **Add map** in Cartes. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Cartes **1** trigger Cartes **11** actions TextIt **2** triggers TextIt **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 Cartes and TextIt 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 Cartes and TextIt can do together ### From Cartes to TextIt - When **New marker** in Cartes then **Add contact** in TextIt - When **New marker** in Cartes then **Add contact field** in TextIt ### From TextIt to Cartes - When **New contact** in TextIt then **Add map** in Cartes - When **New message** in TextIt then **Add marker** in Cartes 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 Cartes and TextIt ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 23 actions - Trigger **New marker** Triggers when a new marker is added to a Cartes map. - Action **Add map** Creates a new map on Cartes.io and returns it, including the one-time map token needed to edit or delete it. - Action **Add marker** Adds a marker at a latitude and longitude on a Cartes.io map, in an existing or new category. - Action **Delete map** Deletes a map from Cartes.io. - Action **Delete marker** Deletes a marker from a Cartes.io map. - Action **Find maps by keyword** Returns public Cartes.io maps that match a keyword. - Action **Get map** Returns a single Cartes.io map, including its title, description, privacy setting and categories. - Action **List categories** Returns all marker categories available on Cartes.io. - Action **List maps** Returns the public maps on Cartes.io, optionally filtered by ID, category or query. - Action **List markers** Returns all markers on a Cartes.io map, optionally including expired ones. - Action **Update map** Updates the title, description, privacy or marker-creation setting of an existing Cartes.io map. - Action **Update marker** Updates a marker on a Cartes.io map: change its description, or (as the map owner) flag it as spam. - Trigger **New contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to your TextIt workspace, optionally only contacts in a chosen group. - Trigger **New message** Triggers when a new message is sent or received in your TextIt workspace, optionally limited to a folder or label. - Action **Add broadcast** Creates and sends a new message broadcast to contacts, phone numbers/URNs or contact groups. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in your TextIt workspace with a name, language, URNs (phone, email, etc.), groups and contact field values. - Action **Add contact field** Creates a new custom contact field in your TextIt workspace. - Action **Add group** Creates a new contact group in your TextIt workspace. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact, identified by its UUID or one of its URNs. - Action **Find contacts** Finds contacts by UUID, URN, group or modification date and returns the matching contacts. - Action **Find messages** Returns messages in your TextIt workspace, filtered by message, folder, label or creation date, most recent first. - Action **List broadcasts** Returns the broadcasts sent from your TextIt workspace, most recent first, optionally filtered by broadcast id or creation date. - Action **List contact fields** Returns the custom contact fields defined in your TextIt workspace, with each field's key, name and data type. - Action **Perform contact action** Performs a bulk action on up to 100 contacts: add to or remove from a group, block, unblock, interrupt active flow runs, or permanently delete. - Action **Start Flow** Starts contacts, groups or URNs down a TextIt flow and returns the created flow start. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing TextIt contact, identified by its UUID or one of its URNs. Only the values you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Cartes** Open-source platform for creating live, community-driven, anonymous maps with custom markers via API.](https://apiant.ai/connections/cartes) - [ **TextIt** TextIt provides a way of automating conversational interactions over SMS, messaging bots and phone calls.](https://apiant.ai/connections/textit) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Cartes - [ **Cartes to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-hubspot) - [ **Cartes to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-salesforce) - [ **Cartes to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-slack) - [ **Cartes to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-google-sheets) - [ **Cartes to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-gmail) - [ **Cartes to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cartes-to-google-calendar) ## More into TextIt - [ **HubSpot to TextIt** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-textit) - [ **Salesforce to TextIt** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-textit) - [ **Slack to TextIt** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-textit) - [ **Google Sheets to TextIt** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-textit) - [ **Gmail to TextIt** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-textit) - [ **Google Calendar to TextIt** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-textit) Questions ## Cartes and TextIt, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Cartes? Any of Cartes's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New marker. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in TextIt when something happens in Cartes? Any of TextIt's 12 actions, including Update contact, Add broadcast, Add contact and Add contact field. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from TextIt to Cartes? Yes. When something happens in TextIt, your agent can act in Cartes too. This page covers both directions: TextIt's triggers and Cartes's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Cartes or TextIt? 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 Cartes and TextIt 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.