--- title: "Connect Sendblue to Perplexity - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Inbound Message\" fires in Sendblue, your agent runs \"Chat Completion\" in Perplexity." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-perplexity" --- # Connect Sendblue to Perplexity When **New Inbound Message** fires in [Sendblue](https://apiant.ai/connections/sendblue), 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. Sendblue **2** triggers Sendblue **7** actions 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 Sendblue 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 Sendblue can start in Perplexity - When **New Inbound Message** in Sendblue then **Chat Completion** in Perplexity - When **New Outbound Message** in Sendblue 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 Sendblue and Perplexity ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 12 actions - Trigger **New Inbound Message** Triggers when someone texts one of your Sendblue numbers, with the sender, text, service and any attachment. - Trigger **New Outbound Message** Triggers when a message is sent from one of your Sendblue numbers to a contact. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a Sendblue contact by phone number. - Action **Find Contact** Finds a Sendblue contact by phone number and returns its name, owner, tags and opt-out state. - Action **Get Message** Returns one Sendblue message by its id, with sender, recipient, content, service and status. - Action **Get Message Status** Returns the current delivery status of a message you sent, looked up by its message handle. - Action **Lookup iMessage Support** Checks whether a phone number can receive iMessage or only SMS. - Action **Send Outbound Message** Sends an iMessage, SMS or MMS to one recipient from your Sendblue number. Returns the queued message with its handle and status. - Action **Send Typing Indicator** Shows or stops the typing bubble on a recipient's iMessage conversation with your Sendblue number. - 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 - [ **Sendblue** Sendblue is a software that provides iMessage for customers](https://apiant.ai/connections/sendblue) - [ **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 Sendblue - [ **Sendblue to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-slack) - [ **Sendblue to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-stripe) - [ **Sendblue to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-shopify) - [ **Sendblue to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-trello) - [ **Sendblue to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-zoom) - [ **Sendblue to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sendblue-to-twilio) ## 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 ## Sendblue and Perplexity, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Sendblue? Any of Sendblue's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Inbound Message and New Outbound Message. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Perplexity when something happens in Sendblue? 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 Sendblue? Perplexity has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Sendblue. 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 Sendblue 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 Sendblue and Perplexity 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.