--- title: "Connect eSputnik and Help Scout - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in eSputnik, your agent runs \"Add Customer Email\" in Help Scout." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-help-scout" --- # Connect eSputnik and Help Scout When **New Contact** fires in [eSputnik](https://apiant.ai/connections/esputnik), your agent runs **Add Customer Email** in [Help Scout](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout), or **New Conversation** in Help Scout to **Add contact to segment** in eSputnik. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. eSputnik **2** triggers eSputnik **12** actions Help Scout **4** triggers Help Scout **19** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want eSputnik and Help Scout 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 eSputnik and Help Scout can do together ### From eSputnik to Help Scout - When **New Contact** in eSputnik then **Add Customer Email** in Help Scout - When **New Contact in Segment** in eSputnik then **Create Customer** in Help Scout ### From Help Scout to eSputnik - When **New Conversation** in Help Scout then **Add contact to segment** in eSputnik - When **New Customer** in Help Scout then **Add emails to unsubscribed list** in eSputnik 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 eSputnik and Help Scout ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 31 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created in eSputnik, optionally limited to contacts matching the details you enter. - Trigger **New Contact in Segment** Triggers when a contact is added to the eSputnik segment you choose. - Action **Add contact to segment** Adds one or more contacts to a static segment in eSputnik, identified by contact IDs or external customer IDs. - Action **Add emails to unsubscribed list** Adds one or more email addresses to the eSputnik list of unsubscribed contacts. - Action **Add/Update Contact** Adds a new contact or updates the existing matching contact, including its channels, address and additional fields, and returns the contact's ID. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact by its eSputnik contact ID, optionally erasing all of the contact's data permanently. - Action **Delete contact from segment** Removes one or more contacts from a static segment, identified by their eSputnik contact IDs or external customer IDs. - Action **Find contacts** Returns up to 500 contacts that match the specified external ID, email address, phone number, first name or last name. - Action **Get contact** Returns an eSputnik contact by ID, including its channels, address, segments and additional field values. An error occurs if the contact is not found. - Action **List segments** Returns the contact segments in the eSputnik account, optionally narrowed by name, with each segment's id, name and type. - Action **Send Email** Sends an email message to one or more recipients. A new contact is created for any address that does not already exist in eSputnik. - Action **Send Event** Sends a backend event for a contact to eSputnik, where it can start workflows and supply dynamic content for messages. - Action **Send Viber message** Sends a Viber message to a list of phone numbers or to a segment, and returns the queueing result for each recipient. A new contact is created for a phone number that does not exist yet. - Action **Subscribe Contact** Subscribes a contact through a double opt-in flow, creating an unconfirmed contact if none exists or updating the existing one, and returns the contact's ID and email subscription status. - Trigger **New Conversation** Polls for newly created conversations across mailboxes. - Trigger **New Customer** Polls for newly created customers. - Trigger **New Mailbox** Polls for newly created mailboxes. - Trigger **New User** Polls for newly added users (team members). - Action **Add Customer Email** Add an email address to a customer. - Action **Create Customer** Create a new customer record. - Action **Create Note** Add an internal note thread to a conversation. - Action **Create Thread (Reply)** Add a reply thread to an existing conversation. - Action **Delete Conversation** Delete a conversation by ID. - Action **Get Conversation** Retrieve a single conversation by ID. - Action **Get Customer** Retrieve a single customer by ID. - Action **Get Mailbox** Retrieve a single mailbox by ID. - Action **Get User** Retrieve a single user by ID. - Action **List Conversations** List conversations, optionally filtered by mailbox, status, tag, or query. - Action **List Conversation Threads** List all threads on a conversation. - Action **List Customers** List customers, optionally filtered by email, mailbox, or query. - Action **List Mailboxes** List all mailboxes in the account. - Action **List Mailbox Folders** List the folders within a mailbox. - Action **List Tags** List all tags in the account. - Action **List Users** List all users (team members) in the account. - Action **Update Conversation** Update a conversation's subject, status, mailbox, assignee, or owner via JSON Patch. - Action **Update Conversation Tags** Replace the tags on a conversation. - Action **Update Customer** Update a customer's profile fields. ## Each app on its own - [ **eSputnik** ESputnik is a marketing automation service made to embody the toughest ideas of enterprise level solutions...](https://apiant.ai/connections/esputnik) - [ **Help Scout** Help Scout is a help desk and shared inbox platform for customer support teams.](https://apiant.ai/connections/help-scout) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from eSputnik - [ **eSputnik to Karbon** Karbon is the collaborative practice management platform for accounting firms.](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-karbon) - [ **eSputnik to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-hubspot) - [ **eSputnik to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-salesforce) - [ **eSputnik to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-slack) - [ **eSputnik to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-google-sheets) - [ **eSputnik to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/esputnik-to-gmail) ## More into Help Scout - [ **ActiveCampaign to Help Scout** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-help-scout) - [ **Beanstalk to Help Scout** Beanstalk is a code hosting and deployment workflow tool for Git and Subversion.](https://apiant.ai/connect/beanstalk-to-help-scout) - [ **BigML to Help Scout** BigML is a machine learning platform for building, evaluating, and running predictive models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bigml-to-help-scout) - [ **Caspio to Help Scout** Caspio is a low-code database platform for building online database applications.](https://apiant.ai/connect/caspio-to-help-scout) - [ **Cliniko to Help Scout** Cliniko is a practice management platform — manage patients, appointments, invoices, contacts, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/cliniko-to-help-scout) - [ **CNBC to Help Scout** Get the latest business news, stock market, financial and earnings stories from CNBC's public RSS feeds.](https://apiant.ai/connect/cnbc-to-help-scout) Questions ## eSputnik and Help Scout, answered ### ### What can start an automation from eSputnik? Any of eSputnik's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact and New Contact in Segment. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Help Scout when something happens in eSputnik? Any of Help Scout's 19 actions, including Create Customer, Create Note, Create Thread (Reply) and Update Conversation. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Help Scout to eSputnik? Yes. When something happens in Help Scout, your agent can act in eSputnik too. This page covers both directions: Help Scout's triggers and eSputnik's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for eSputnik or Help Scout? 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 eSputnik and Help Scout 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.