Daily
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
Send this to your assistant
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.
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
Every weekday, ClickRuntime takes the next people from your list who have not been contacted.
Hunter finds each person's work email; people it cannot find are marked and skipped.
AI writes a short intro that mentions their role and company.
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
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
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
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
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Where does the list come from?
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