Text messaging

Text MadMax like a person, and your workflows run. One platform number serves everyone — identity comes from your phone, not from which number you text.

Verify your phone (once)

In Settings → messaging, add your mobile number and confirm the 6-digit code we text you. That verified number becomes your SMS identity: texts from it reach your workflows, and texts from any unverified number are dropped before anything is processed.

The Text trigger

Drop a Text trigger on the canvas — there's nothing to configure. The inspector shows the number to text, and the step arms as soon as your phone is verified. Payload:

• payload.from — your number
• payload.text — the message you sent
• payload.message_id, payload.received_at

Testing it

Press Run, text the number from your phone, and watch the run animate on the canvas — the message doubles as the step's pinned sample.

When you have several text workflows

MadMax answers like an operator:

You: expense 14.50 lunch at joe's MadMax: Which workflow should run that? 1 Expense tracker · 2 Standup notes — reply with the number. You: 1 MadMax: Running "Expense tracker".

Your original message is held while the question is pending and routed untouched when you answer — you never retype. With exactly one text workflow running, messages route to it instantly, no question asked.

Good to know

• A workflow receives texts only while it's Active (or while you're testing with Run) — parked drafts are invisible to routing.
• Text STOP any time to stop receiving messages, START to resume, HELP for help. Message and data rates may apply; frequency varies. Details in our terms and privacy policy.