diff --git a/crates/models/src/connector.rs b/crates/models/src/connector.rs
index 788879cd99..1bc7ad193a 100644
--- a/crates/models/src/connector.rs
+++ b/crates/models/src/connector.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use super::RawValue;
 use schemars::JsonSchema;
-use serde::{Deserialize, Deserializer, Serialize};
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 
 /// Splits a full connector image name into separate image and tag components.
diff --git a/crates/runtime/Cargo.toml b/crates/runtime/Cargo.toml
index a6cdf8de7d..c87a071a95 100644
--- a/crates/runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ license.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 assemble = { path = "../assemble" }
 async-process = { path = "../async-process" }
-connector-init = { path = "../connector-init"  }
-coroutines = { path = "../coroutines"  }
+connector-init = { path = "../connector-init" }
+coroutines = { path = "../coroutines" }
+dekaf = { path = "../dekaf" }
 derive-sqlite = { path = "../derive-sqlite" }
 doc = { path = "../doc" }
 extractors = { path = "../extractors" }
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ proto-grpc = { path = "../proto-grpc", features = [
     "materialize_client",
     "materialize_server",
     "runtime_server",
-    ]}
+] }
 simd-doc = { path = "../simd-doc" }
 tuple = { path = "../tuple" }
 
diff --git a/crates/runtime/src/unary.rs b/crates/runtime/src/unary.rs
index 7ad7e28b82..2cd3b502d8 100644
--- a/crates/runtime/src/unary.rs
+++ b/crates/runtime/src/unary.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use super::{LogHandler, Runtime};
 use futures::{stream::BoxStream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
-use proto_flow::{capture, derive, materialize};
+use proto_flow::{capture, derive, flow::materialization_spec, materialize};
 
 impl<L: LogHandler> Runtime<L> {
     pub async fn unary_capture(
@@ -20,8 +20,17 @@ impl<L: LogHandler> Runtime<L> {
         self,
         request: materialize::Request,
     ) -> anyhow::Result<materialize::Response> {
-        let response = self.serve_materialize(unary_in(request)).boxed();
-        unary_out(response).await
+        match materialization_spec::ConnectorType::try_from(
+            request.validate.as_ref().unwrap().connector_type,
+        ) {
+            Ok(materialization_spec::ConnectorType::Dekaf) => {
+                dekaf::connector::unary_materialize(request).await
+            }
+            _ => {
+                let response = self.serve_materialize(unary_in(request)).boxed();
+                unary_out(response).await
+            }
+        }
     }
 }