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Find prospects' emails and send a personal intro each day

Each day the next people on your list get their email found with Hunter and a short, personal intro sent from your Gmail, up to a daily limit.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Gmail, Hunter.io
AI
Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
Access
Hunter key; gmail.send

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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 9, take the next 20 people from my Prospects sheet, find their email with Hunter, write a short personal intro and send it from my Gmail. Mark each row as sent.

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

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Outreach works best when it is steady and personal, but finding addresses and writing each email by hand means it happens in bursts, when there is a spare afternoon, and then stops for weeks.

Founders, consultants and small agencies use it to keep a small, steady flow of personal first emails going out every day, without it taking over their mornings.

What you get out of it

  • Steady, not bursty

    A fixed number of emails each weekday keeps your pipeline moving and your sending pattern healthy.

  • Personal, not mail-merge

    Each intro mentions the person's role and company, which earns more replies than a template.

  • Addresses found for you

    Hunter finds each work email, and people it cannot find are skipped rather than guessed.

  • A clear record

    Each row is marked sent with the date, so you always know who has been contacted.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every weekday, ClickRuntime takes the next people from your list who have not been contacted.

  2. Hunter finds each person's work email; people it cannot find are marked and skipped.

  3. AI writes a short intro that mentions their role and company.

  4. The email is sent from your Gmail, and the row is marked sent with the date.

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

What you get

RunsDaily
Find prospects' emails and send a personal intro each daytoday, 9:00Succeeded
Gmail · SentQuick question for Dana: Hi Dana, I saw Northwind just launched its spring range online. How are you handling the jump in product pages?

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

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
  • 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.
find_someone_s_email_and_send_personalised_outreach.pyexample
import base64
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai

SHEET_ID, DAILY = "your-spreadsheet-id", 20

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_trigger
def run(event):
    sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")),
                   cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
    rows = sheets.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Prospects!A2:D").execute().get("values", [])
    queue = [(i + 2, r) for i, r in enumerate(rows) if len(r) == 3][:DAILY]
    for n, (first, last, domain) in queue:
        f = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/email-finder", params={"domain": domain, "first_name": first, "last_name": last,
                     "api_key": credentials.secret("HUNTER_API_KEY")}).json().get("data") or {}
        if f.get("email"):
            body = ai.generate(f"Write a 60-word intro email to {first}, {f.get('position') or 'a leader'} at {domain}, from a "
                               "studio that builds Shopify stores. Specific, friendly, one question. No subject line.",
                               max_output_tokens=180).text.strip()
            send(f["email"], f"Quick question for {first}", body)
        sheets.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Prospects!D{n}", valueInputOption="RAW",
                      body={"values": [["Sent " + event.get("scheduled_time", "")[:10] if f.get("email") else "Not found"]]}).execute()
    return {"processed": len(queue)}

FAQ

Common questions

Can I review emails before they go?
Yes. Ask for drafts instead of sending, and each email is saved in Gmail drafts for you to check and send.
Why a daily limit?
Sending a small number each day protects your domain's reputation and keeps replies manageable. Twenty a day is a sensible start for most people.
Where does the list come from?
A sheet with first name, last name and company domain. Add rows whenever you like and they join the queue.
What permissions does it need?
Hunter key; gmail.send. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
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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