diff --git a/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/api.py b/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/api.py
index 789eb835..f879a6ee 100644
--- a/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/api.py
+++ b/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/api.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import re
 
 # third-party imports
+from celery.app.control import Inspect
 import celery
 
 # local imports
@@ -15,6 +16,29 @@ logg = logging.getLogger()
 sms_tasks_matcher = r"^(cic_notify.tasks.sms)(\.\w+)?"
 
 
+re_q = r'^cic-notify'
+def get_sms_queue_tasks(app, task_prefix='cic_notify.tasks.sms.'):
+    host_queues = []
+
+    i = Inspect(app=app)
+    qs = i.active_queues()
+    for host in qs.keys():
+        for q in qs[host]:
+            if re.match(re_q, q['name']):
+                host_queues.append((host, q['name'],))
+   
+    task_prefix_len = len(task_prefix)
+    queue_tasks = []
+    for (host, queue) in host_queues:
+        i = Inspect(app=app, destination=[host])
+        for tasks in i.registered_tasks().values():
+            for task in tasks:
+                if len(task) >= task_prefix_len and task[:task_prefix_len] == task_prefix:
+                    queue_tasks.append((queue, task,))
+    
+    return queue_tasks
+
+
 class Api:
     # TODO: Implement callback strategy
     def __init__(self, queue='cic-notify'):
@@ -22,17 +46,9 @@ class Api:
         :param queue: The queue on which to execute notification tasks
         :type queue: str
         """
-        registered_tasks = app.tasks
-        self.sms_tasks = []
+        self.sms_tasks = get_sms_queue_tasks(app)
+        logg.debug('sms tasks {}'.format(self.sms_tasks))
 
-        for task in registered_tasks.keys():
-            logg.debug(f'Found: {task} {registered_tasks[task]}')
-            match = re.match(sms_tasks_matcher, task)
-            if match:
-                self.sms_tasks.append(task)
-
-        self.queue = queue
-        logg.info(f'api using queue: {self.queue}')
 
     def sms(self, message, recipient):
         """This function chains all sms tasks in order to send a message, log and persist said data to disk
@@ -44,12 +60,17 @@ class Api:
         :rtype: Celery.Task
         """
         signatures = []
-        for task in self.sms_tasks:
-            signature = celery.signature(task)
+        for q in self.sms_tasks:
+            signature = celery.signature(
+                    q[1],
+                    [
+                        message,
+                        recipient,
+                        ],
+                    queue=q[0],
+                    )
             signatures.append(signature)
-            signature_group = celery.group(signatures)
-            result = signature_group.apply_async(
-                args=[message, recipient],
-                queue=self.queue
-            )
-            return result
+
+        t = celery.group(signatures)()
+
+        return t
diff --git a/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/runnable/send.py b/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/runnable/send.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5126736e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/cic-notify/cic_notify/runnable/send.py
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# standard imports
+import sys
+import os
+import logging
+import argparse
+import tempfile
+
+# external imports
+import celery
+import confini
+
+# local imports
+from cic_notify.api import Api
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.WARNING)
+logg = logging.getLogger()
+
+config_dir = os.path.join('/usr/local/etc/cic-notify')
+
+argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+argparser.add_argument('-c', type=str, default=config_dir, help='config file')
+argparser.add_argument('--env-prefix', default=os.environ.get('CONFINI_ENV_PREFIX'), dest='env_prefix', type=str, help='environment prefix for variables to overwrite configuration')
+argparser.add_argument('-v', action='store_true', help='be verbose')
+argparser.add_argument('-vv', action='store_true', help='be more verbose')
+argparser.add_argument('recipient', type=str, help='notification recipient')
+argparser.add_argument('message', type=str, help='message text')
+args = argparser.parse_args()
+
+if args.vv:
+    logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+elif args.v:
+    logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+config = confini.Config(args.c, args.env_prefix)
+config.process()
+config.censor('PASSWORD', 'DATABASE')
+config.add(args.recipient, '_RECIPIENT', True)
+config.add(args.message, '_MESSAGE', True)
+
+# set up celery
+app = celery.Celery(__name__)
+
+broker = config.get('CELERY_BROKER_URL')
+if broker[:4] == 'file':
+    bq = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    bp = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    app.conf.update({
+            'broker_url': broker,
+            'broker_transport_options': {
+                'data_folder_in': bq,
+                'data_folder_out': bq,
+                'data_folder_processed': bp,
+            },
+            },
+            )
+    logg.warning('celery broker dirs queue i/o {} processed {}, will NOT be deleted on shutdown'.format(bq, bp))
+else:
+    app.conf.update({
+        'broker_url': broker,
+        })
+
+result = config.get('CELERY_RESULT_URL')
+if result[:4] == 'file':
+    rq = tempfile.mkdtemp()
+    app.conf.update({
+        'result_backend': 'file://{}'.format(rq),
+        })
+    logg.warning('celery backend store dir {} created, will NOT be deleted on shutdown'.format(rq))
+else:
+    app.conf.update({
+        'result_backend': result,
+        })
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    a = Api()
+    t = a.sms(config.get('_RECIPIENT'), config.get('_MESSAGE'))
diff --git a/apps/cic-notify/requirements.txt b/apps/cic-notify/requirements.txt
index 7a952e58..0b7de273 100644
--- a/apps/cic-notify/requirements.txt
+++ b/apps/cic-notify/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-cic_base[full_graph]~=0.1.2a46
\ No newline at end of file
+cic_base[full_graph]~=0.1.2a61
diff --git a/apps/cic-notify/setup.cfg b/apps/cic-notify/setup.cfg
index 4ef87f2c..9daf04a9 100644
--- a/apps/cic-notify/setup.cfg
+++ b/apps/cic-notify/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = cic-notify
-version= 0.4.0a2
+version= 0.4.0a3
 description = CIC notifications service
 author = Louis Holbrook
 author_email = dev@holbrook.no
@@ -45,3 +45,4 @@ testing =
 [options.entry_points]
 console_scripts =
 	cic-notify-tasker = cic_notify.runnable.tasker:main
+	cic-notify-send = cic_notify.runnable.send:main