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An AI teammate for Saperly.

Connect Saperly and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 30 Saperly 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 Saperly
  • Summarise what I missed in Saperly today, most important first.
  • Draft replies to the Saperly messages waiting on me.
  • Tell me if anyone mentions the Northwind contract in Saperly.
  • Send the team the weekly update through Saperly on Friday at 5.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Saperly

30 Saperly actions, picked for what you ask.

About Saperly: Saperly is the phone carrier for AI agents — phone numbers, voice, SMS, and compliance in one API.

Reads

15 in all · always allowed
  • Get Call
    Fetch a single call by its id, returning its status, per-minute rate, final duration (durationSec)…
  • List Calls
    Return the full voice-call history (inbound + outbound) for the connected Saperly workspace.
  • List Voices
    List the text-to-speech voices available for Saperly connections.
  • Check Consent
    Check whether a contact currently has active TCPA consent for one of your Saperly numbers, given…
  • List Messages
    Return SMS messages in the connected Saperly workspace (both inbound and outbound).
  • Get Connection
    Fetch a single connection (the AI answering brain / persona that handles calls and SMS) by its id,…
  • List Languages
    Return the spoken languages Saperly supports for voice connections, each as a {code, name} pair…
  • Get Phone Number
    Fetch a single phone number by its id, returning its E.164 phoneNumber, bound connectionId,…
  • List Connections
    Return every connection (the AI persona / answering 'brain' that handles calls and SMS) in the…
  • Get Call Recording
    Get the audio recording for a call and return it as a downloadable file.

Changes

15 in all · off when Saperly is read-only
  • End Call
    End an in-progress call by its id, hanging up and settling the metered cost.
  • Send SMS
    PAID / METERED: send a single SMS from one of your Saperly numbers to an E.164 destination.
  • Place Call
    PAID / METERED — places a REAL outbound voice call that RINGS A REAL PHONE and BILLS PER MINUTE…
  • Transfer Call
    PAID / METERED — BLIND-transfers a LIVE, in-progress voice call to another destination `to` (an…
  • Record Consent
    Record TCPA consent for a contact so outbound SMS (SAPERLY_SEND_SMS) and calls (SAPERLY_PLACE_CALL)…
  • Revoke Consent
    Revoke a contact's TCPA consent for a given Saperly number, blocking further outbound contact to…
  • Create Connection
    Create a connection: the AI 'brain' that answers calls and (optionally) SMS on a Saperly phone…
  • Delete Connection
    PERMANENTLY AND IRREVERSIBLY delete a connection (the AI answering brain / persona that handles…
  • Update Connection
    Partially update a connection (the AI answering brain bound to a number).
  • Set Number Webhook
    Set the HTTPS webhook URL that Saperly POSTs this number's events (inbound SMS/calls, status) to.

Showing 20 of 30. 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 Saperly

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

Works with your other tools

Saperly, 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

Saperly and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Saperly?

Yes. Saperly 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 Saperly?

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

What can Cicada do in Saperly?

30 actions: 15 that read from Saperly and 15 that change things in it, for example get call, list calls, list voices. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Saperly?

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

Is my Saperly data safe?

Your Saperly 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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