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An AI teammate for Lob.

Connect Lob and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 13 Lob actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.

Things to ask about Lob
  • Compare last week's Lob results with the week before and tell me what changed.
  • Which Lob campaign cost the most for the least this month?
  • Send me a Monday summary of Lob in Slack.
  • Pull the Lob numbers into a sheet with a chart.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Lob

13 Lob actions, picked for what you ask.

About Lob: Direct Mail Automation and Address Verification APIs

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Get Link
    Retrieve a single shortened link. Use when you need to fetch details about a specific link by its…
  • Get Domain
    Retrieve details for a single domain from Lob. Use when you need to get configuration status,…
  • List Domains
    Retrieve a list of all created domains. Use when you need to view or manage custom domains…
  • Validate Identity
    Validate whether a given name is associated with an address.
  • List Shortened Links
    Retrieve a list of shortened links. The list is sorted by creation date, with the most recently…
  • List Uploads
    List uploads from Lob. Use when you need to retrieve all uploads or filter uploads by campaign ID.
  • List QR Code Analytics
    Retrieve a list of your QR codes and their analytics data.

Changes

6 in all · off when Lob is read-only
  • Create Link
    Create a shortened URL from a long URL using Lob's link shortening service.
  • Create Domain
    Add a new custom domain for creating custom links. Use when you need to register a domain for short…
  • Delete Domain
    Delete a registered domain. Use only after confirming all associated links with the domain are…
  • Delete Link
    Delete a shortened link. Use when you need to remove a previously created short link from the…
  • Update Link
    Update any properties of a shortened link. Use when you need to modify the redirect URL, title, or…
  • Delete Upload
    Delete an existing upload by its unique identifier. Use when you need to permanently remove an…

Showing 13 of 13. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Lob

    Open Connections, find Lob and paste an API key from your Lob account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Lob with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Lob job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Lob, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

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Often used alongside

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Questions

Lob and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Lob?

Yes. Lob is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Lob?

Open Connections, find Lob and paste an API key from your Lob account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Lob?

13 actions: 7 that read from Lob and 6 that change things in it, for example get link, get domain, list domains. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Lob?

Yes. In Connections, set Lob to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Lob from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Lob jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Lob data safe?

Your Lob login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

One teammate. The output of a team.

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