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The moment it happens

Get an email only for strong form leads

When someone fills in your form, their email is checked and enriched with Hunter, and you get an email only if they look like a real business lead.

Runs
The moment it happens
Apps
Gmail, Hunter.io
AI
Not needed
Access
Hunter key; gmail.send

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: when my form sends a new lead to this link, verify the email with Hunter, look up their company, and if it's a valid business address email me the lead details from my Gmail.

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

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

A website form attracts students, job seekers, competitors and spam alongside real buyers. When every submission lands in your inbox looking the same, the good ones wait while you sort through the rest.

Founders, consultants and small sales teams use it to hear about real business leads right away, with the company already looked up, and to let everything else wait.

What you get out of it

  • Only real leads interrupt you

    Personal, disposable and invalid addresses are filtered out before you see them.

  • Company context included

    The email shows the person's role, company, size and industry where Hunter knows them.

  • Faster first replies

    Getting a strong lead in front of you within a minute makes a same-hour reply easy.

  • Each lead handled once

    Repeat deliveries of the same submission are ignored, so you never get a lead twice.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. When someone submits your form, the lead arrives at your automation's link straight away.

  2. Hunter checks the email address and looks up the person and their company.

  3. Leads with a valid business address pass; personal, invalid or repeat submissions are skipped.

  4. You get an email from your Gmail with the lead's details and company information.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Google through your own Google app (a one-time, 10-minute setup), so it works with your own Gmail
  • Connect Hunter.io
  • Paste your automation's link into the other app's webhook settings

What you get

RunsThe moment it happens
Get an email only for strong form leadsjust nowSucceeded
Email · Strong leadStrong lead: Acme Logistics · Priya Raman · Operations Director · 51-250 employees · Transportation

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. 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.

Changes you can ask for

  • Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
  • Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Gmail and Hunter.io steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
enrich_form_leads_and_email_me_the_good_ones.pyexample
import base64
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_event, credentials, http, state

ME = "me@example.com"

def send(to, subject, body):
    raw = f"To: {to}\r\nSubject: {subject}\r\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n\r\n{body}"
    build("gmail", "v1", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).users() \
        .messages().send(userId="me", body={"raw": base64.urlsafe_b64encode(raw.encode()).decode()}).execute()

@on_event
def handle(event):
    email = str((event.json or {}).get("email", "")).strip()
    if not email or state.get(f"seen:{email}"):
        return {"skipped": True}
    key = credentials.secret("HUNTER_API_KEY")
    check = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/email-verifier", params={"email": email, "api_key": key}).json().get("data") or {}
    state.set(f"seen:{email}", True)
    if check.get("status") != "valid" or check.get("webmail"):
        return {"sent": False, "status": check.get("status")}
    info = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/combined/find", params={"email": email, "api_key": key}).json().get("data") or {}
    person, company = info.get("person") or {}, info.get("company") or {}
    send(ME, f"Strong lead: {company.get('name') or email}",
         f"{(person.get('name') or {}).get('fullName', '')} · {(person.get('employment') or {}).get('title', '')}\n{email}\n"
         f"{company.get('name', '')} · {company.get('metrics', {}).get('employees', '?')} employees · "
         f"{company.get('category', {}).get('industry', '')}\n\nMessage: {(event.json or {}).get('message', '')}")
    return {"sent": True}

FAQ

Common questions

What counts as a business email?
An address Hunter reports as valid that is not from a free webmail provider such as Gmail or Outlook. You can relax this if your buyers often use personal addresses.
What happens to leads that don't pass?
They are not emailed to you. Your form tool still keeps every submission, so nothing is lost.
Who receives the alert?
You, from your own Gmail address, or a teammate's address if you prefer.
What permissions does it need?
Hunter key; gmail.send. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run for each event the app sends.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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