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An AI teammate for Textit.

Connect Textit and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 21 Textit 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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Things to ask about Textit
  • Summarise what I missed in Textit today, most important first.
  • Draft replies to the Textit messages waiting on me.
  • Tell me if anyone mentions the Northwind contract in Textit.
  • Send the team the weekly update through Textit on Friday at 5.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Textit

21 Textit actions, picked for what you ask.

About Textit: TextIt is a platform that enables users to build scalable, interactive chatbots across various channels without writing code.

Reads

14 in all · always allowed
  • List Runs
    Retrieve a list of flow runs. use when you need to filter or browse run history by flow, contact,…
  • List Groups
    List contact groups. use when you need to fetch and paginate groups after authenticating.
  • List Labels
    Retrieve a list of message labels. use when you need to paginate through labels in your Textit…
  • List Topics
    List topics in the workspace. use when you need to retrieve all topics, optionally paginated.
  • Get Campaign
    Retrieve details about a specific campaign. use when you have the campaign's uuid and need its full…
  • List Globals
    List global variables. use when you need to retrieve all workspace-level variables after…
  • List Archives
    Retrieve a list of message and run archives. use when you need to browse or manage existing…
  • List Channels
    List channels. use when you need to retrieve a paginated list of your organization's channels after…
  • List Contacts
    Retrieve a list of contacts. use when you need to fetch contacts with optional filters (uuid, urn,…
  • List Campaigns
    List campaigns. use after authentication to retrieve campaigns, optionally filtering by uuid or…
  • List Broadcasts
    List broadcasts. use when you need to retrieve broadcasts with optional filters and pagination.
  • List Flow Starts
    Retrieve a list of manual flow starts. use when you need to fetch flow start records with optional…
  • List Campaign Events
    Retrieve a list of campaign events. use when you need to inspect scheduling or delivery settings;

Changes

7 in all · off when Textit is read-only
  • Create Label
    Create a new message label. use when you need to categorize messages.
  • Delete Contact
    Delete an existing contact. use when you have the contact's uuid and need to remove it.
  • Send Broadcast
    Send a new broadcast message. use after composing message translations and selecting recipients…
  • Update Contact
    Update an existing contact. use after identifying the contact's uuid or urn and preparing details.
  • Create Campaign
    Create a new campaign in Textit. use when you need to start a messaging campaign for a specific…
  • Create Contact Group
    Create a new contact group. use when segmenting contacts before sending messages.
  • Delete Contact Group
    Delete an existing contact group. use after ensuring the group has no active triggers or campaigns.

Showing 20 of 21. 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 Textit

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

Works with your other tools

Textit, 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.

More email & messaging integrations

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Often used alongside

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See all 888 integrations

Questions

Textit and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Textit?

Yes. Textit 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 Textit?

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

What can Cicada do in Textit?

21 actions: 14 that read from Textit and 7 that change things in it, for example list runs, list groups, list labels. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Textit?

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

Is my Textit data safe?

Your Textit 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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