Integration · Marketing
AI agents for Lob
Send real postcards and letters by mail and verify US addresses with Lob.
- Actions
- 10
- Read
- 6
- Write
- 4
Actions
What your agents can do in Lob
Send real postcards and letters by mail and verify US addresses with Lob: check that an address is deliverable, mail a postcard or letter from HTML, a template or a PDF link, follow its USPS tracking, and cancel a scheduled piece before it prints.
Read 6
Look things up. Nothing changes.
Verify a US address
Checks a US or US-territory address against USPS data and returns it corrected and standardized, with deliverability.
List saved addresses
Lists the addresses saved in the Lob account, newest first, each with its id (adr_…), name, company and address lines.
Get a postcard
Reads one postcard by its ID (psc_…): addresses, proof url, send_date, expected_delivery_date and its USPS tracking_events.
Get a letter
Reads one letter by its ID (ltr_…): addresses, proof url, send_date, expected_delivery_date, tracking_number for certified mail and its USPS tracking_events, oldest first.
List postcards
Lists postcards, newest first, optionally only scheduled ones or those of one send date, with each one's id, addresses, send_date and expected_delivery_date.
List letters
Lists letters, newest first, optionally only scheduled ones, with each one's id, addresses, send_date and expected_delivery_date.
Write 4
Create, change or send.
Send a postcard
Prints and mails a postcard through USPS.
Send a letter
Prints a letter, puts it in an envelope and mails it through USPS.
Cancel a postcardDeletes data
Cancels a scheduled postcard before its send_date, so it is not printed, mailed or charged.
Cancel a letterDeletes data
Cancels a scheduled letter before its send_date, so it is not printed, mailed or charged.
A person can approve first
Any write action can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, so an agent asks before it changes anything. Actions that delete data ask first by default.
Connection
How it connects
Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.
Enter the API credentials from your Lob account.
What you enter
- API key
Kept safe
- Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
- They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
- Calls go only to the tool's own servers.
Ideas
Ideas to start with
Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.
- 01
Ask about your Lob data
Ask a question in plain words. The agent can verify a US address, list saved addresses or get a postcard in Lob, then answers with what it found.
- 02
Let an agent update Lob
Have the agent send a postcard or send a letter in Lob as part of a larger task. Turn on approval and a person signs off on each change first.
- 03
Share what it finds in Slack
Give one agent Lob and Slack: it can verify a US address in Lob and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.
Works well with
More Marketing tools
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- Klaviyo3 actionsCreate or update Klaviyo profiles, subscribe people to email marketing on a list, and record events that start flows.
- ActiveCampaign4 actionsCreate or update ActiveCampaign contacts, find them by email, and add them to lists and tags.
- LinkedIn2 actionsPublish text posts on a member's LinkedIn profile and read the signed-in member's name and email, after the member signs in with LinkedIn.
- X4 actionsPost and delete on X as the signed-in account, read an account's recent posts, and look up X users by username.
- YouTube4 actionsRead a YouTube channel's statistics, its uploaded videos, a video's details and the comments people leave, signed in with the channel owner's Google account.
FAQ
Lob and MyDeepAgents
Can MyDeepAgents connect to Lob?
Yes. The Lob connector has 10 actions: 6 read and 4 make changes. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.
How do I connect Lob?
Enter the API credentials from your Lob account. You'll need: API key. Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys and are opened only at the moment of a call.
Can an agent change data in Lob without asking?
Only if you let it. Each of the 4 actions that change data can be set to wait for a person's approval before it runs, and the 2 that delete data ask first by default.
Can I use Lob in workflows as well as agents?
Yes. Every Lob action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.
Early access
Put Lob to work
Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.