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Automate Smartlead

Keep on top of Smartlead campaigns across all your sending accounts. Positive replies, lead category changes and daily send numbers can come to you instead of you digging through each campaign. 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: read each new Smartlead reply and label it interested, out of office or unsubscribe. Post the interested ones to #pipeline in Slack with the lead's email, campaign and reply.

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

Ideas

What you can automate in Smartlead

Replies sorted before you read them, a ping when a lead is categorised as interested, and a morning table of yesterday's campaign numbers. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
The moment it happensAI

Classify Smartlead replies and flag the interested ones

Every reply is read and labelled, and only the interested leads are posted for you.

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The moment it happens

Get a Slack ping when Smartlead marks a lead Interested

When a lead's category changes to Interested, you see the lead and their reply in Slack.

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On a schedule

Email yourself yesterday's Smartlead numbers

Each morning a table shows sends, opens and replies for every active campaign.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

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

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Build your own

Build any Smartlead automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what Smartlead 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 day, check Smartlead email accounts and tell me which ones have a warmup reputation below 90 percent.

When a Smartlead lead replies, create a contact in HubSpot with the campaign name.

When a Smartlead lead replies positively, have AI draft my answer, create a Pipedrive deal and post the reply in Slack.

Beyond chat

Have Smartlead work when you're not in the chat

Connecting Smartlead 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 Smartlead

You connect Smartlead with the static API key from your own Smartlead settings. Smartlead only accepts the key as a URL parameter, not in a header.

Smartlead

Cold email

  1. In Smartlead, open Settings and find API Key.
  2. Copy the key.
  3. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the key as a secret for Smartlead. It is added to each request as the api_key query parameter.

Good to know

Smartlead limits that affect automations

  • Smartlead allows about 10 API requests every 2 seconds. A daily report across many campaigns makes one call per campaign, so it takes a little longer with a large account.
  • Because the key travels in the request URL, treat it like a password and create a new one in Smartlead if you think it was exposed.
  • Smartlead can take up to about 2 hours to register some replies, so a category-change alert may arrive later than the email itself.

FAQ

Questions about automating Smartlead

What can ClickRuntime read from Smartlead?
Whatever your API key can reach: your campaigns, their analytics by date, and reply and lead category events Smartlead sends to a ClickRuntime link.
Why did a positive-reply alert arrive late?
The alert runs as soon as Smartlead changes the lead's category, but Smartlead itself can take up to about 2 hours to pick up some replies.
What's the difference between the two reply automations?
One relies on the category Smartlead sets on the lead. The other reads every reply itself and decides whether it is interested, out of office or an unsubscribe.
Do I need AI for Smartlead automations?
Only for classifying replies yourself. The category alert and the daily stats email run without it. Classification uses the AI that comes with every ClickRuntime plan, so you don't need your own AI key.
Is this a Smartlead connector for ChatGPT or Claude?
Not for chatting with Smartlead data. A chat connector lets your assistant read and change Smartlead 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 Smartlead event.

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