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Flag expansion asks in support tickets for account owners

Finds new Zendesk tickets that ask for seats, SSO, higher limits or another team with Jev, and notes each in HubSpot for its owner.

Outcome

  • A table of every new ticket that asks for more, with what kind of expansion it is, its company and Jev's confidence.

  • A note on each company's HubSpot record quoting the ask.

  • A Slack post for each expansion ask that mentions the company's owner.

How it works

  1. 1

    Pull new tickets

    Zendesk

    Search for tickets (type:ticket) created after since. Keep each ticket's ID, subject, description and requester ID.

  2. 2

    Spot the asks

    TypeSafe AI

    Send each subject and description as the state, with a noul expansion (asks for something that means buying more), a choice kind of more_seats, sso_or_security_review, higher_limits (more usage than the plan allows), new_team_or_use_case, api_access, plan_upgrade and none, and a score readiness on three levels (asking what is possible; comparing plans; ready to buy). Keep every answer with its confidence or probability.

  3. 3

    Check the unsure ones with the user

    Your agent

    Keep the tickets whose expansion is yes. Show the user the ones whose expansion is unsure or whose kind confidence is below min_confidence, and keep what the user decides. Look up each kept ticket's requester email, a read-only call.

  4. 4

    Find the account

    HubSpot

    Search companies by each requester's email domain, skipping personal email domains. Keep the company's record ID, name and hubspot_owner_id, and look up each owner's name and email, a read-only call. Note the tickets with no match.

  5. 5

    Note the ask

    HubSpot

    After the user approves, add a note to each company quoting the ticket's ask, with its kind, readiness and ticket ID.

  6. 6

    Find the owners in Slack

    Slack

    Look up each owner's email. Keep their Slack user ID.

  7. 7

    Alert the owner

    Slack

    Post each ask to am_channel, mentioning the company's owner, with the company, the kind, the readiness and the ticket's first line, the most ready first.

You'll be asked for

  • When the last run started, as a time, so only newer tickets are read

    e.g. 2026-09-28T09:00:00Z

  • How sure Jev must be before its answer is used without you

    e.g. 0.8; a yes-or-no answer counts as yes at or above it and as no at or below 1 minus it

  • The Slack channel account managers watch

    e.g. #expansion

The file your agent runs

support-expansion-signals.md

Flag expansion asks in support tickets for account owners

Finds new Zendesk tickets that ask for seats, SSO, higher limits or another team with Jev, and notes each in HubSpot for its owner.

Set up the tools below, then run the steps in order for the user, carrying each step's results into the next. The run is done when the user has the outcome below.

Outcome

  • A table of every new ticket that asks for more, with what kind of expansion it is, its company and Jev's confidence.
  • A note on each company's HubSpot record quoting the ask.
  • A Slack post for each expansion ask that mentions the company's owner.

Inputs

Ask the user for these before you start.

  • since: when the last run started, as a time, so only newer tickets are read, e.g. 2026-09-28T09:00:00Z
  • min_confidence: how sure Jev must be before its answer is used without you, e.g. 0.8; a yes-or-no answer counts as yes at or above it and as no at or below 1 minus it
  • am_channel: the Slack channel account managers watch, e.g. #expansion

Set up

Search tickets, users and organizations (Zendesk, tool:zendesk/search)

Use the API.

Note: {subdomain} is your Zendesk subdomain, as in acme.zendesk.com. Tokens from OAuth clients created since April 30, 2026 expire after 30 minutes.

Note: Returns at most 1,000 results per query and 100 per page; for more, use GET /api/v2/search/export.

Answer typed questions (TypeSafe AI, tool:typesafe/answer-typed-questions)

Use the API.

Note: Put every question about one record in one request. GET /v1/models lists the models and is the cheapest check of a key; a request over the rate limit gets a 429 with a Retry-After header.

Note: Send state, model (jev-latest) and named questions, each with type, instructions and criteria: a choice maps labels to descriptions, a score lists its levels in order, a noul's is optional. Read a score by its most likely level; send unsure answers to a person.

HubSpot (tool:hubspot/search-crm-records, tool:hubspot/create-note)

For each call, use the first option your agent supports that lists it.

Notes:

  • Search CRM records: The MCP tool takes up to five groups of six filters and returns up to 200 records per page.
  • Create a note: hs_timestamp is required; attach the note to existing records with an associations object.
MCP (official, remote)

Add this server to your agent's MCP settings, then sign in when asked.

{ "mcpServers": { "hubspot": { "url": "https://mcp.hubspot.com" } } }
  • Search CRM records: call the MCP tool search_crm_objects
API (official)
  • Base URL: https://api.hubapi.com
  • Search CRM records: POST /crm/objects/2026-09/{objectType}/search
  • Create a note: POST /crm/objects/2026-09/notes
  • Auth: send the header Authorization: Bearer $HUBSPOT_API_KEY

Note: Use a service key or an app's static access token with the CRM scopes the calls need; paths carry a dated version such as 2026-09.

Slack (tool:slack/find-user-by-email, tool:slack/post-message)

Use the first option your agent supports.

Notes:

  • Find a user by email: Needs the users:read.email scope; a deactivated user returns users_not_found.
  • Post a message: Needs the chat:write scope. Over MCP it posts as the signed-in user; the API and CLI post as the app's bot.
MCP (official, remote)

Add this server to your agent's MCP settings, then sign in when asked.

{ "mcpServers": { "slack": { "url": "https://mcp.slack.com/mcp" } } }
  • Find a user by email: call the MCP tool slack_search_users
  • Post a message: call the MCP tool slack_send_message
CLI (official)

Install the command, then confirm it runs.

curl -fsSL https://downloads.slack-edge.com/slack-cli/install.sh | bash
slack --version
  • Find a user by email: run slack api users.lookupByEmail
  • Post a message: run slack api chat.postMessage

Set $SLACK_BOT_TOKEN in your environment first (get a key: https://api.slack.com/apps).

Before step 1, confirm access to each service with its cheapest read-only call, like a list or a search. Never send or change anything to test access.

Steps

  1. Pull new tickets with Search tickets, users and organizations (Zendesk). Search for tickets (type:ticket) created after since. Keep each ticket's ID, subject, description and requester ID.
  2. Spot the asks with Answer typed questions (TypeSafe AI). Send each subject and description as the state, with a noul expansion (asks for something that means buying more), a choice kind of more_seats, sso_or_security_review, higher_limits (more usage than the plan allows), new_team_or_use_case, api_access, plan_upgrade and none, and a score readiness on three levels (asking what is possible; comparing plans; ready to buy). Keep every answer with its confidence or probability.
  3. Check the unsure ones with the user yourself. Keep the tickets whose expansion is yes. Show the user the ones whose expansion is unsure or whose kind confidence is below min_confidence, and keep what the user decides. Look up each kept ticket's requester email, a read-only call.
  4. Find the account with Search CRM records (HubSpot). Search companies by each requester's email domain, skipping personal email domains. Keep the company's record ID, name and hubspot_owner_id, and look up each owner's name and email, a read-only call. Note the tickets with no match.
  5. Note the ask with Create a note (HubSpot). After the user approves, add a note to each company quoting the ticket's ask, with its kind, readiness and ticket ID.
  6. Find the owners in Slack with Find a user by email (Slack). Look up each owner's email. Keep their Slack user ID.
  7. Alert the owner with Post a message (Slack). Post each ask to am_channel, mentioning the company's owner, with the company, the kind, the readiness and the ticket's first line, the most ready first.

Notes

Support still answers every ticket; a question like "can we add SSO before the security review" also reaches the person who owns the renewal.

Run it daily with since set to the time the previous run started.

Rules

  • Use only the services set up above. The read-only calls they need, like listing ids or polling for results, are fine.
  • Ask the user before anything that sends messages, costs money, or changes data, and say how many records it touches. One approval covers a batch the user has seen.
  • Never print API keys.