--- title: "Connect Zendesk to Clever Elements - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Messaging Conversation\" fires in Zendesk, your agent runs \"Find subscriber by email\" in Clever Elements." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-clever-elements" --- # Connect Zendesk to Clever Elements When **New Messaging Conversation** fires in [Zendesk](https://apiant.ai/connections/zendesk), your agent runs **Find subscriber by email** in [Clever Elements](https://apiant.ai/connections/clever-elements). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Zendesk **3** triggers Zendesk **18** actions Clever Elements **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Zendesk and Clever Elements 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 Zendesk can start in Clever Elements - When **New Messaging Conversation** in Zendesk then **Find subscriber by email** in Clever Elements - When **New Ticket** in Zendesk then **Add list** in Clever Elements 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 Zendesk and Clever Elements ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 32 actions - Trigger **New Messaging Conversation** Triggers when a customer starts a new conversation through Zendesk messaging (the web widget, mobile SDK or a social messaging channel). Each conversation arrives as its Zendesk ticket. - Trigger **New Ticket** Polling trigger that fires when a new ticket is created. - Trigger **New User** Polling trigger that fires when a new user is created. - Action **Add Comment to Ticket** Adds a public or private comment to an existing ticket. - Action **Create Organization** Creates a new organization. - Action **Create Ticket** Creates a new ticket in Zendesk. - Action **Create User** Creates a new user (end-user or agent). - Action **Delete Ticket** Deletes a ticket by ID. - Action **Delete User** Soft-deletes a user by ID. - Action **Get Messaging User ID** Returns the Zendesk messaging ID for a user, so their messaging conversation can be looked up in Zendesk Messaging. - Action **Get Organization** Retrieves a single organization by ID. - Action **Get Ticket** Retrieves a single ticket by ID. - Action **Get User** Retrieves a single user by ID. - Action **List Organizations** Lists organizations in the account. - Action **List Ticket Comments** Lists all comments on a ticket. - Action **List Tickets** Lists tickets in the account. - Action **Search** Runs a Zendesk search query across tickets, users, and organizations. - Action **Search Users** Searches users by query (name, email, etc.). - Action **Update Organization** Updates an existing organization by ID. - Action **Update Ticket** Updates an existing ticket by ID. - Action **Update User** Updates an existing user by ID. - Action **Add list** Creates a new subscriber list in your Clever Elements account, with an optional description. - Action **Add Subscriber** Adds a subscriber to a Clever Elements subscriber list without double opt-in, optionally setting personalization fields. An existing subscriber's personalization fields are overwritten. - Action **Add subscriber field** Creates a new subscriber (personalization) field in your Clever Elements account. - Action **Delete list** Deletes a subscriber list from your Clever Elements account. Subscribers on the list are kept in the account. - Action **Delete subscriber** Deletes a subscriber from your Clever Elements account by subscriber ID. - Action **Find subscriber by email** Finds a subscriber by email address and returns their subscriber ID, personalization field values and the newsletters they have received. - Action **Get list details** Returns one subscriber list's details by list ID: its name, description, and subscriber and unsubscriber counts. Fails if the list is not found. - Action **Get subscriber** Returns a subscriber's subscription status on each list: the list ID with the times they subscribed and unsubscribed. - Action **List lists** Returns every subscriber list in the Clever Elements account, with each list's ID and name. - Action **List subscriber fields** Returns every subscriber personalization (custom) field defined in the Clever Elements account, with its ID, name, description and type. - Action **List subscribers** Returns every subscriber on a Clever Elements list, with each subscriber's ID, email address and subscribe/unsubscribe times. - Action **Unsubscribe Subscriber From All List** Unsubscribes a subscriber from every subscriber list in the Clever Elements account. The subscriber record itself is kept. - Action **Unsubscribe Subscriber From List** Unsubscribes a subscriber from one Clever Elements list. The subscriber stays in the account and on any other lists. - Action **Update Subscriber** Updates an existing subscriber's personalization fields in a Clever Elements list, identified by email address. ## Each app on its own - [ **Zendesk** Zendesk is a web-based help desk and customer support platform for managing tickets, users, and organizations.](https://apiant.ai/connections/zendesk) - [ **Clever Elements** We've built the road to email marketing. Email marketing cloud since 2003.](https://apiant.ai/connections/clever-elements) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Zendesk - [ **Zendesk to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-zoom) - [ **Zendesk to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-linkedin) - [ **Zendesk to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-facebook) - [ **Zendesk to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-anthropic) - [ **Zendesk to Supabase** Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service providing a Postgres database, authentication, storage, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-supabase) - [ **Zendesk to ElevenLabs** ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zendesk-to-elevenlabs) ## More into Clever Elements - [ **HubSpot to Clever Elements** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-clever-elements) - [ **Salesforce to Clever Elements** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-clever-elements) - [ **Slack to Clever Elements** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-clever-elements) - [ **Google Sheets to Clever Elements** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-clever-elements) - [ **Gmail to Clever Elements** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-clever-elements) - [ **Google Calendar to Clever Elements** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-clever-elements) Questions ## Zendesk and Clever Elements, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Zendesk? Any of Zendesk's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Messaging Conversation, New Ticket and New User. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Clever Elements when something happens in Zendesk? Any of Clever Elements's 14 actions, including Update Subscriber, Add list, Add Subscriber and Add subscriber field. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Clever Elements to Zendesk? Clever Elements has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Zendesk. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Clever Elements's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Zendesk or Clever Elements? 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 Zendesk and Clever Elements 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.