--- title: "Connect Kenect Text Messaging to Spike.sh - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Lead Push\" fires in Kenect Text Messaging, your agent runs \"Add alert rule\" in Spike.sh." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/kenect-text-messaging-to-spike-sh" --- # Connect Kenect Text Messaging to Spike.sh When **Lead Push** fires in [Kenect Text Messaging](https://apiant.ai/connections/kenect-text-messaging), your agent runs **Add alert rule** in [Spike.sh](https://apiant.ai/connections/spike-sh). 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 Spike.sh **25** 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 Spike.sh 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. 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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 Spike.sh - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Add alert rule** in Spike.sh - When **Lead Push** in Kenect Text Messaging then **Add escalation** in Spike.sh 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 Spike.sh ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 37 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 **Acknowledge incident** Acknowledge one or more Spike.sh incidents by counter id or incident id. - Action **Add alert rule** Create a new alert routing/automation rule with conditions and actions. - Action **Add escalation** Creates a new escalation policy for a Spike.sh team, defining who is notified, through which channel, and how long to wait between steps. - Action **Add integration** Create a new integration for a team (source system that sends alerts into Spike). - Action **Add on-call** Create a new on-call schedule for a team. - Action **Add service** Create a new service in a team, with name and description. - Action **Create Incident** Creates a Spike incident through one of your integrations and sends alerts. The integration decides which service and escalation policy the incident is routed to. - Action **Delete alert rule** Archives (soft-deletes) a Spike alert rule so it no longer applies to incoming incidents. - Action **Delete escalation** Archives (soft-deletes) a Spike escalation policy by its ID. - Action **Escalate incident** Escalates one or more Spike incidents to the next step of their escalation policy. - Action **Get escalation** Get escalation policy details by id. - Action **Get incident** Fetch a single incident by counter id. - Action **Get integration** Fetches an integration by its token, including its name, type, service, escalation settings and webhook URL. An error occurs if the integration is not found. - Action **Get service** Get a Spike service's details, along with its incidents and open-incident count. - Action **List alert rules** Lists all alert rules (enabled and disabled) configured for a Spike team. - Action **List escalations** Lists the escalation policies that belong to a Spike team. - Action **List incidents** Lists the incidents for a Spike.sh team. - Action **List on-calls** Lists the on-call schedules for a team. - Action **List services** Lists the services in a Spike team. - Action **List teams** Lists every team in your Spike organisation. Use a team's ID from here wherever other Spike actions ask for a team. - Action **Resolve incident** Resolve one or more incidents by counter id array. - Action **Update alert rule** Replace an existing Spike alert rule's name, conditions and actions. - Action **Update escalation** Replaces an existing escalation policy's name, steps and start delay. The whole policy is replaced, so send every step you want to keep. - Action **Update on-call** Updates an on-call schedule's name and/or moves it to another team. Rotations and layers are not changed by this action. - Action **Update service** Updates the name and/or description of an existing Spike.sh service. ## 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) - [ **Spike.sh** Spike is an incident management system with unlimited alerts and on-call schedules](https://apiant.ai/connections/spike-sh) 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 Spike.sh - [ **HubSpot to Spike.sh** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-spike-sh) - [ **Salesforce to Spike.sh** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-spike-sh) - [ **Slack to Spike.sh** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-spike-sh) - [ **Google Sheets to Spike.sh** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-spike-sh) - [ **Gmail to Spike.sh** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-spike-sh) - [ **Google Calendar to Spike.sh** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-spike-sh) Questions ## Kenect Text Messaging and Spike.sh, 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 Spike.sh when something happens in Kenect Text Messaging? Any of Spike.sh's 25 actions, including Create Incident, Update alert rule, Update escalation and Update on-call. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Spike.sh to Kenect Text Messaging? Spike.sh has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Kenect Text Messaging. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Spike.sh's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Kenect Text Messaging or Spike.sh? 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 Spike.sh 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.