Connect Kafka and
Salesforce Marketing Cloud with AI

Stream real-time customer events from Kafka directly into Marketing Cloud to power triggered campaigns and personalized journeys. Stop writing custom integration code, maintaining brittle data pipelines, and waiting hours for batch syncs to complete.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Stream clickstream events to trigger real-time email and mobile campaigns

Capture product views, cart abandonments, and conversion events from Kafka topics and immediately trigger personalized email sequences or push notifications in Marketing Cloud. Build event-driven journeys that respond within seconds instead of waiting for overnight batch processing.

Sync purchase and transaction events to customer profiles for segmentation

Flow order confirmations, subscription changes, and payment events from Kafka into Marketing Cloud contact records to keep customer profiles current. Enable marketers to segment and target based on real-time transaction data without involving engineering.

Route behavioral signals to build dynamic audience segments at scale

Stream app activity, content engagement, and product interaction events from Kafka to automatically update Marketing Cloud data extensions and audience filters. Keep millions of customer segments fresh without manual exports or scheduled imports.

Capture campaign engagement data into Kafka for cross-platform analytics

Push email opens, clicks, unsubscribes, and journey milestones from Marketing Cloud into Kafka topics for unified analytics across your data warehouse and BI tools. Combine marketing performance with product usage and revenue data in real time.

Alert engineering teams when critical campaign data feeds fail or lag

Monitor data flow health between Kafka producers and Marketing Cloud imports, automatically notifying teams in Slack or PagerDuty when event volumes drop or delays exceed thresholds. Catch data quality issues before they impact live campaigns.

Archive Marketing Cloud subscriber activity to data lake via Kafka

Stream consent changes, preference updates, and customer communication history from Marketing Cloud through Kafka to your data lake for compliance reporting and long-term retention. Maintain complete audit trails without bloating your marketing platform storage.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Kafka and Salesforce Marketing Cloud with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird AI understands both Kafka's event streaming architecture and Marketing Cloud's data extension schemas, journey triggers, and contact model — no custom mapping or transformation code required.

AI that speaks both event streams and marketing automation

Redbird automatically maps Kafka message schemas to Marketing Cloud data extensions, contact attributes, and journey entry events. Our AI handles schema evolution, data type conversion, and batching requirements without manual configuration. Whether you're streaming JSON events, Avro records, or protobuf messages, Redbird translates them into Marketing Cloud's subscriber model and triggers the right campaign actions.

Auto-map event schemas to data extensions
Handle nested JSON and complex types
Route to journeys or contact attributes
Batch for Marketing Cloud API limits
10×

faster than building custom Kafka consumers and Marketing Cloud API integrations

No Kafka Connect configuration, REST API boilerplate, or custom transformation logic

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Kafka and Salesforce Marketing Cloud simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Kafka or Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Kafka into Salesforce Marketing Cloud, or from Salesforce Marketing Cloud back into Kafka. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start from any event in Kafka or campaign activity in Marketing Cloud to automate workflows across your entire marketing and data infrastructure.

Kafka
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New message in topic

Trigger when a new event arrives in any Kafka topic, with filter conditions on message content or headers.

Trigger

Consumer lag threshold exceeded

Detect when consumer group lag surpasses defined limits, indicating processing delays or failures.

Trigger

Schema registry update

Fire when a new schema version is registered, enabling proactive data pipeline adjustments.

Action

Publish message to topic

Write structured events to any Kafka topic with custom partitioning and header metadata.

Action

Create or update consumer offset

Manually manage consumer group offsets for replay or skip scenarios in data processing.

Action

Query topic for matching events

Search recent messages in a topic based on key, value patterns, or timestamp ranges.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Contact enters journey

Trigger when a subscriber begins a specific journey or reaches a defined milestone within it.

Trigger

Email engagement event

Fire on email opens, clicks, bounces, or unsubscribes for specific campaigns or journey messages.

Trigger

Data extension row added or updated

Detect when new records are inserted or existing rows modified in target data extensions.

Action

Upsert contact or subscriber

Create new contacts or update existing subscriber attributes and preference data in All Subscribers.

Action

Add row to data extension

Insert or update records in any data extension to power segmentation or journey entry criteria.

Action

Trigger journey entry event

Fire API-triggered journey entry events to immediately enroll contacts into specific campaign flows.

Kafka
+
Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Ready to connect your stack?

Connect Kafka and Salesforce Marketing Cloud in minutes, not sprints. Let Redbird AI handle the complexity of streaming event data into personalized campaigns so your team can focus on what converts.

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