--- title: "Connect Elfsight to Perplexity - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Form Submission\" fires in Elfsight, your agent runs \"Chat Completion\" in Perplexity." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-perplexity" --- # Connect Elfsight to Perplexity When **New Form Submission** fires in [Elfsight](https://apiant.ai/connections/elfsight), your agent runs **Chat Completion** in [Perplexity](https://apiant.ai/connections/perplexity). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Elfsight **1** trigger Perplexity **5** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Elfsight and Perplexity 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 Elfsight can start in Perplexity - When **New Form Submission** in Elfsight then **Chat Completion** in Perplexity - When **New Form Submission** in Elfsight then **Generate contextualized embeddings** in Perplexity 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 Elfsight and Perplexity ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 5 actions - Trigger **New Form Submission** Triggers instantly when someone submits an Elfsight form. Paste this trigger's webhook URL into the form widget under Integrations > Webhooks, then publish the widget. Each answer arrives under the field's key with its label and value (e.g. the email field's value). - Action **Chat Completion** Sends a conversation to a Perplexity Sonar model and returns its web-grounded answer, along with the citations and search results it used. - Action **Generate contextualized embeddings** Generates embeddings for chunks of one or more documents, where chunks from the same document are encoded with awareness of that document's context. Returns the embedding vectors grouped by document. - Action **Generate embeddings** Generates embedding vectors for one or more texts with a Perplexity embedding model, for use in semantic search, clustering and similar applications. - Action **Run agent** Runs a Perplexity agent on your prompt, with optional web search, tools and reasoning, and returns the agent's answer along with its search results and usage. - Action **Search** Searches the web with Perplexity and returns matching web pages with their titles, URLs, snippets and dates. ## Each app on its own - [ **Elfsight** Elfsight Forms is an easy way to create contact, feedback, survey, subscription and any other kind of form.](https://apiant.ai/connections/elfsight) - [ **Perplexity** Perplexity is a search engine that uses AI to answer questions and provide information.](https://apiant.ai/connections/perplexity) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Elfsight - [ **Elfsight to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-hubspot) - [ **Elfsight to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-salesforce) - [ **Elfsight to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-slack) - [ **Elfsight to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-google-sheets) - [ **Elfsight to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-gmail) - [ **Elfsight to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/elfsight-to-google-calendar) ## More into Perplexity - [ **HubSpot to Perplexity** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-perplexity) - [ **Salesforce to Perplexity** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-perplexity) - [ **Slack to Perplexity** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-perplexity) - [ **Google Sheets to Perplexity** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-perplexity) - [ **Gmail to Perplexity** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-perplexity) - [ **Google Calendar to Perplexity** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-perplexity) Questions ## Elfsight and Perplexity, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Elfsight? Any of Elfsight's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Form Submission. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Perplexity when something happens in Elfsight? Any of Perplexity's 5 actions, including Chat Completion, Generate contextualized embeddings, Generate embeddings and Run agent. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Perplexity to Elfsight? Perplexity has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Elfsight. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Perplexity's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Elfsight or Perplexity? 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 Elfsight and Perplexity without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in Perplexity 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.