--- title: "Connect Kenect Text Messaging to JobTread - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Lead Push\" fires in Kenect Text Messaging, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in JobTread." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-jobtread" --- # Connect Kenect Text Messaging to JobTread When **Lead Push** fires in [Kenect Text Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [JobTread](https://apiant.ai/connections/jobtread). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Kenect Text Messaging **1** trigger Kenect Text Messaging **12** actions JobTread **20** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Kenect Text Messaging and JobTread to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Kenect Text Messaging can start in JobTread - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Create Customer** in JobTread - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Create Customer Contact** in JobTread 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 Kenect Text Messaging and JobTread ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 32 actions - 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. - Action **Assign Access** Grants a team member access to a JobTread record such as a job, so they can see and work on it. - Action **Create Comment** Creates a comment on a JobTread record such as a job, customer or vendor, optionally as a reply to another comment. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer account in your JobTread organization. - Action **Create Customer Contact** Creates a contact person on a JobTread customer account. - Action **Create Job** Creates a job in JobTread at an existing customer location, optionally copying costs or tasks from another job and setting budget line items and custom fields. - Action **Create Location** Creates a location (job site address) for a JobTread customer. A location is required before a job can be created for that customer. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task or to-do on a JobTread job, customer/vendor account, or organization. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a new vendor account in your JobTread organization. - Action **Create Vendor Contact** Creates a contact person on a vendor account in JobTread. - Action **Find a Customer** Finds customers in your JobTread organization by exact name and returns the matching customer records. - Action **Find a Job** Finds jobs in your JobTread organization by job name or job number and returns the matches. - Action **Find a Location** Finds JobTread locations in your organization by exact name and returns the first match plus all matches. - Action **Find a Membership** Finds a team member's membership in your JobTread organization by the user's name, returning the membership with its user and role. - Action **Find a Vendor** Finds vendors in a JobTread organization by exact name and returns the first match along with all matches. - Action **Import Task Template** Copies the tasks from a JobTread task template onto a job or other target, scheduled from an optional start date. - Action **Query API** Runs any JobTread Pave query or mutation you write and returns the raw result, for reading or changing data the other JobTread actions don't cover. - Action **Update Customer** Updates an existing customer in JobTread, such as its name, tax status or custom field values. - Action **Update Location** Updates an existing location's name, address, contact, tax settings or custom fields in JobTread. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing vendor in JobTread, including its name, tax settings and custom field values. - Action **Upload Files** Uploads a file from a public URL into JobTread and attaches it to a job or other record. ## Each app on its own - [ **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) - [ **JobTread** JobTread is construction estimating & project management software that will help you keep your budget and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/jobtread) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Kenect Text Messaging - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Adyntel** Ad intelligence API that finds which LinkedIn, Google, and Meta ads a target company is running.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-adyntel) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-salesforce) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-slack) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-mailchimp) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-stripe) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-shopify) ## More into JobTread - [ **HubSpot to JobTread** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-jobtread) - [ **Salesforce to JobTread** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-jobtread) - [ **Slack to JobTread** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-jobtread) - [ **Google Sheets to JobTread** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-jobtread) - [ **Gmail to JobTread** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-jobtread) - [ **Google Calendar to JobTread** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-jobtread) Questions ## Kenect Text Messaging and JobTread, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Kenect Text Messaging? Any of Kenect Text Messaging's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Lead Push. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in JobTread when something happens in Kenect Text Messaging? Any of JobTread's 20 actions, including Create Comment, Create Customer, Create Customer Contact and Create Job. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from JobTread to Kenect Text Messaging? JobTread has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Kenect Text Messaging. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads JobTread's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Kenect Text Messaging or JobTread? 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 Kenect Text Messaging and JobTread 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.