--- title: "Connect Kenect Text Messaging and MyDesk - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Lead Push\" fires in Kenect Text Messaging, your agent runs \"Find Contact\" in MyDesk." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-mydesk" --- # Connect Kenect Text Messaging and MyDesk When **Lead Push** fires in [Kenect Text Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging), your agent runs **Find Contact** in [MyDesk](https://apiant.ai/connections/mydesk), or **New Appointment** in MyDesk to **Add contacts to contact group** in Kenect Text Messaging. 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 MyDesk **7** triggers MyDesk **4** 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 MyDesk 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 Kenect Text Messaging and MyDesk can do together ### From Kenect Text Messaging to MyDesk - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Find Contact** in MyDesk - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Find Task** in MyDesk ### From MyDesk to Kenect Text Messaging - When **New Appointment** in MyDesk then **Add contacts to contact group** in Kenect Text Messaging - When **New Company** in MyDesk then **Push Lead** in Kenect Text Messaging 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 MyDesk ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 16 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. - Trigger **New Appointment** Triggered when a new appointment is created in MyDesk. - Trigger **New Company** Triggers when a new company is created in MyDesk. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created in MyDesk. - Trigger **New Opportunity** Triggered when a new opportunity is created in MyDesk. - Trigger **New Task** Triggered when a new task is created in MyDesk. - Trigger **Task Completed** Triggers when a task is marked as completed in MyDesk. - Trigger **Task Overdue** Triggers when an open task passes its planned date without being completed. - Action **Find Contact** Returns the MyDesk contacts that match the name, email address, your own identifier or filter you supply. - Action **Find Country** Returns the countries in your MyDesk environment that match a name, your own identifier or an extra condition. - Action **Find Opportunity** Returns the opportunities in MyDesk that match your own identifier or a filter condition. - Action **Find Task** Returns the MyDesk tasks that match your identifier, subject or filter condition. ## 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) - [ **MyDesk** MyDesk: Get started quickly with a user-friendly CRM for sales.](https://apiant.ai/connections/mydesk) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Kenect Text Messaging - [ **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) - [ **Kenect Text Messaging to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into MyDesk - [ **HubSpot to MyDesk** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-mydesk) - [ **Google Sheets to MyDesk** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-mydesk) - [ **Gmail to MyDesk** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-mydesk) - [ **Google Calendar to MyDesk** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-mydesk) - [ **Google Drive to MyDesk** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-mydesk) - [ **Mailchimp to MyDesk** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-mydesk) Questions ## Kenect Text Messaging and MyDesk, 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 MyDesk when something happens in Kenect Text Messaging? Any of MyDesk's 4 actions, including Find Contact, Find Country, Find Opportunity and Find Task. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from MyDesk to Kenect Text Messaging? Yes. When something happens in MyDesk, your agent can act in Kenect Text Messaging too. This page covers both directions: MyDesk's triggers and Kenect Text Messaging's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Kenect Text Messaging or MyDesk? 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 MyDesk 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.