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Automate Instantly

Turn what your Instantly campaigns produce into action for your team. Leads marked interested, fresh replies and finished campaigns can be passed on with the numbers attached, so nobody has to keep checking Instantly to find out. Describe what you want to your AI assistant, check what it will do, and it keeps running with your laptop closed.

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: when a lead is marked Interested in Instantly, post their email, company, campaign and reply text to #sales in Slack and mention @maria.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

Ideas

What you can automate in Instantly

Interested leads handed straight to sales, every reply in front of the right person, and a results summary when a campaign wraps up. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happens

Send interested Instantly leads to Slack

When a lead is marked Interested, sales sees who it is, which campaign it came from and what they wrote.

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The moment it happens

Get every Instantly reply in Slack

Each new reply is posted with the first lines of the message, so nothing waits unread.

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The moment it happens

Get campaign results when an Instantly campaign ends

When a campaign finishes, you get its sent, opened and replied totals in one message.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with Instantly, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any Instantly automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Instantly should do in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

Every morning, have AI read new Instantly replies and label each one as interested, out of office or not interested.

When an Instantly lead replies, add them to a Google Sheet with the campaign name and reply text.

When an Instantly lead is marked interested, create a Pipedrive deal, send me a Slack message and remove the lead from other campaigns.

Beyond chat

Have Instantly work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Instantly to ChatGPT or Claude lets you ask about it while you chat. ClickRuntime handles the part that should happen on its own: checks on a schedule and actions on each new event, set up from the same chat and running after you close it.

Setup

Connect Instantly

You connect Instantly with an API v2 key that you create in your workspace and limit to the scopes you choose. Keys from the old v1 API won't work.

Instantly

Cold email

  1. In Instantly, open Settings, then Integrations, then API Keys.
  2. Choose Create API key and select the scopes your automations need, such as webhooks and reading campaigns.
  3. Copy the key.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Instantly. It is sent as a Bearer token.

Good to know

Instantly limits that affect automations

  • Only API v2 keys work. A key made for the older v1 API will be rejected.
  • Keys are scoped, so an automation can only do what you selected. Alerts need the webhooks scope, and campaign results need read access to campaigns.
  • Interested-lead, reply and campaign-completed alerts are triggered by Instantly events, so they arrive as things happen.

FAQ

Questions about automating Instantly

What can ClickRuntime see in Instantly?
Only what your key's scopes allow. With the webhooks scope it receives lead and reply events. With campaign read access it can pull a campaign's sent, opened and replied counts.
Does an alert wait for a schedule?
No. Instantly sends the event when a lead is marked interested, a reply lands or a campaign completes, and the automation runs straight away.
My old Instantly key doesn't work. Why?
It is probably a v1 key. Create a new key under API Keys, which gives you a v2 key, and save it in the ClickRuntime dashboard.
Do I need AI for Instantly automations?
Not for the alerts listed here. If you later ask for replies to be summarised or sorted, that uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Instantly connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Instantly data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Instantly while you're in the conversation. ClickRuntime is for the work that should happen without you: you set up an automation from the chat once, and it keeps running on a schedule or on each Instantly event.

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