--- title: "Connect SmartEmailing and VideoAsk - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in SmartEmailing, your agent runs \"Update contact\" in VideoAsk." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-videoask" --- # Connect SmartEmailing and VideoAsk When **New Contact** fires in [SmartEmailing](https://apiant.ai/connections/smartemailing), your agent runs **Update contact** in [VideoAsk](https://apiant.ai/connections/videoask), or **New Videoask** in VideoAsk to **Add Contact list** in SmartEmailing. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. SmartEmailing **2** triggers SmartEmailing **15** actions VideoAsk **1** trigger VideoAsk **15** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want SmartEmailing and VideoAsk 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 SmartEmailing and VideoAsk can do together ### From SmartEmailing to VideoAsk - When **New Contact** in SmartEmailing then **Update contact** in VideoAsk - When **Updated Contact** in SmartEmailing then **Add tag to contact** in VideoAsk ### From VideoAsk to SmartEmailing - When **New Videoask** in VideoAsk then **Add Contact list** in SmartEmailing - When **New Videoask** in VideoAsk then **Send custom email** in SmartEmailing 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 SmartEmailing and VideoAsk ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to your SmartEmailing account. - Trigger **Updated Contact** Triggers when an existing contact is updated in SmartEmailing. - Action **Add Contact list** Creates a new contact list in SmartEmailing. - Action **Add Custom field** Creates a new contact custom field in SmartEmailing with the given name and type. - Action **Delete Contact** Permanently deletes a contact and anonymizes its data (GDPR forget). This cannot be undone. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a single contact by email address or ID, including contact list memberships and custom field values. - Action **Get Contact list** Returns a single contact list by its ID with all its properties, such as name, sender details and engagement rates. - Action **List Contact lists** Returns all contact lists in your SmartEmailing account. - Action **List Contacts** Returns contacts in your SmartEmailing account, optionally filtered by email, name, company and other contact details, including their list memberships and custom field values. - Action **List Contacts in list** Returns the contacts that belong to a contact list, with their details and list memberships. - Action **List Custom fields** Returns the custom field definitions set up in your SmartEmailing account, optionally with their options. - Action **List Newsletters** Returns your finished newsletters with their sender details, send times and open, click and unsubscribe counts. - Action **Send custom email** Sends a SmartEmailing email or email template to one recipient, with optional subject, preheader and dynamic content overrides. - Action **Send transactional email** Sends a transactional email (no unsubscribe link) to one recipient, either from a saved email/template or from a subject and body you supply. - Action **Unsubscribe Contact** Unsubscribes a contact from a chosen contact list. - Action **Update Contact email address** Changes a contact's email address in SmartEmailing, moving all of the contact's data to the new address. - Action **Update Contact list** Updates an existing contact list's name, public name, sender name, sender email or reply-to address. Only the values you provide are changed. - Trigger **New Videoask** Triggers when a new videoask is created in the selected VideoAsk organization. - Action **Add question** Adds a new question step to a videoask, using a video from a public link, media already in VideoAsk, or a new upload. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in a VideoAsk organization that can be applied to contacts. - Action **Add tag to contact** Adds an existing tag to a VideoAsk contact and returns the tags now on that contact. - Action **Create a Contact in a Videoask (OLD)** Creates a contact in your VideoAsk organization from an email address, with an optional name and phone number. - Action **Create a Contact in VideoAsk (Recommended)** Creates a contact in your VideoAsk organization from an email address, with an optional name and phone number. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact (respondent) and their contact details from your VideoAsk organization. - Action **Delete form** Deletes a VideoAsk form (videoask). Optionally performs a soft delete so the form can be restored later. - Action **Find conversations by filter** Returns the responses (conversations) on a videoask that match the filters you choose, such as unread only, reply status, tag, score range or creation date range. - Action **Find forms by keyword** Returns the videoasks in an organization whose titles match the specified keyword. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single VideoAsk response (contact) for a videoask, with the respondent's details and, optionally, their answers and the conversation messages. - Action **Get form** Returns a videoask (form) by its id, including all of its questions. - Action **List forms** Returns all videoasks (forms) in a VideoAsk organization, newest first. - Action **List tags** Returns the tags in a VideoAsk organization, optionally only those with a given title. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing VideoAsk contact's name, email address or phone number. - Action **Update form** Updates an existing videoask's title, privacy, contact form, scheduled close date and display settings such as the end screen. ## Each app on its own - [ **SmartEmailing** SmartEmailing is an e-marketing automation tool in the Czech Republic and the Slovak.](https://apiant.ai/connections/smartemailing) - [ **VideoAsk** VideoAsk is a business tool to help your business have meaningful interactions using the proximity of video.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videoask) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from SmartEmailing - [ **SmartEmailing to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-stripe) - [ **SmartEmailing to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-trello) - [ **SmartEmailing to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-zoom) - [ **SmartEmailing to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-twilio) - [ **SmartEmailing to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-typeform) - [ **SmartEmailing to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartemailing-to-webflow) ## More into VideoAsk - [ **HubSpot to VideoAsk** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-videoask) - [ **Salesforce to VideoAsk** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-videoask) - [ **Slack to VideoAsk** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-videoask) - [ **Google Sheets to VideoAsk** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-videoask) - [ **Gmail to VideoAsk** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-videoask) - [ **Google Calendar to VideoAsk** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-videoask) Questions ## SmartEmailing and VideoAsk, answered ### ### What can start an automation from SmartEmailing? Any of SmartEmailing's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact and Updated Contact. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in VideoAsk when something happens in SmartEmailing? Any of VideoAsk's 15 actions, including Create a Contact in a Videoask (OLD), Create a Contact in VideoAsk (Recommended), Update contact and Update form. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from VideoAsk to SmartEmailing? Yes. When something happens in VideoAsk, your agent can act in SmartEmailing too. This page covers both directions: VideoAsk's triggers and SmartEmailing's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for SmartEmailing or VideoAsk? 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 SmartEmailing and VideoAsk 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.