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An AI teammate for Ordinal.

Connect Ordinal and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 13 Ordinal 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 Ordinal
  • Compare last week's Ordinal results with the week before and tell me what changed.
  • Which Ordinal campaign cost the most for the least this month?
  • Send me a Monday summary of Ordinal in Slack.
  • Pull the Ordinal 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 Ordinal

13 Ordinal actions, picked for what you ask.

About Ordinal: Ordinal is a collaborative social media planning platform for creating, reviewing, scheduling, and analyzing content across connected channels.

Reads

7 in all · always allowed
  • Get Post
    Return one Ordinal post by ID with its full channel content, attached assets, labels, profiles,…
  • List Ideas
    List non-archived content ideas with filters and one cursor-controlled page of results.
  • List Posts
    List non-archived workspace posts with filters and one cursor-controlled page of results.
  • List Labels
    Return workspace labels and their IDs for filtering or labeling posts and ideas.
  • Get Workspace
    Return the workspace bound to the connected Ordinal API key, including its ID, name, slug,…
  • List Profiles
    List connected social profiles by capability so their IDs can be used for scheduling, analytics, or…
  • Get Profile Analytics
    Return follower history or post performance for one connected LinkedIn or X scheduling profile over…

Changes

6 in all · off when Ordinal is read-only
  • Create Idea
    Create reusable Ordinal content for one or more supported social channels without adding it to the…
  • Create Post
    Create an Ordinal calendar post with content for one or more social channels.
  • Update Post
    Update selected fields or channel content on a non-archived Ordinal post.
  • Schedule Post
    Schedule or reschedule an Ordinal post for external publication to its configured social channels.
  • Unschedule Post
    Cancel a pending scheduled publication and change the Ordinal post status to Finalized.
  • Add Idea To Calendar
    Convert an existing Ordinal idea into a regular calendar post on a chosen date.

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 Ordinal

    Open Connections, find Ordinal and paste an API key from your Ordinal 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 Ordinal 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 Ordinal job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Ordinal, 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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Questions

Ordinal and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Ordinal?

Yes. Ordinal 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 Ordinal?

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

What can Cicada do in Ordinal?

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

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Ordinal?

Yes. In Connections, set Ordinal 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 Ordinal 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 Ordinal jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Ordinal data safe?

Your Ordinal 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.

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