Every 15 minutes

Post new Brevo contacts to Slack

Within 15 minutes of joining, each new contact shows up in Slack with their email and list.

Runs: Every 15 minutes
Apps: Brevo
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check Brevo for new contacts and post each email and list name to #signups in Slack.

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

Contacts reach a Brevo account from many directions: signup forms, imports, API calls, integrations with a shop or CRM. The people responsible for following up, a sales rep or community manager, may never log into Brevo. A promising lead from a pricing page form joins the list on Monday and gets a first personal reply on Thursday, by which time they have talked to a competitor.

Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime asks Brevo for contacts created or modified since the last check, using its saved timestamp, and posts each new one to Slack. It then saves a checkpoint so the next run begins where this one ended. Nobody is posted twice and nobody is skipped.

It helps teams where the person who acts on new signups sits in Slack instead of in the email platform. Because it polls rather than waiting for an event, it needs no webhook configuration in Brevo.

What you get out of it

Fast first contact with new leads
A reply within a quarter hour dramatically improves the odds of a conversation. A channel post puts the new name in front of someone who can send it. Follow-up that is quick also feels more personal to the new contact.
Sales sees marketing results
Seeing contacts join as they arrive shows salespeople what the campaigns produce. Marketing gets credit, and sales can say which sources bring better prospects. Honest feedback between teams improves targeting over time, because each side sees the same stream of people.
Odd signups are noticed early
A burst of strange addresses can indicate a bot attack on a form. Seeing it appear in a channel means someone can add protection before the list fills with junk.
Checkpointing prevents gaps and repeats
Saving the time of the last check means a delayed run still catches every contact. You will not miss someone because a run was late, and you will not see them twice.
Small teams get a live pulse
A scrolling list of new contacts is a motivating sign of growth. Staff see the effect of a launch or a newsletter feature in real time. Launch days feel livelier, and the whole team learns what works.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 15 minutes ClickRuntime checks Brevo for contacts created since its last check, so each contact is posted only once.
For each new contact it looks up the names of the lists they are on.
Each one is posted to your #signups Slack channel with their email and lists.

Before it runs live

Connect Brevo

What you get

RunsEvery 15 minutes

Post new Brevo contacts to Slacktoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #signupsNew contact: dana@acme.example · Newsletter

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 Brevo 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.

new_contact_alert_brevo.pyexample

from datetime import datetime, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, state, notify, report_fetched

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    h = {"api-key": credentials.secret("BREVO_API_KEY")}
    since = state.get("since") or datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z")
    contacts = http.get("https://api.brevo.com/v3/contacts", params={"createdSince": since, "limit": 100},
                        headers=h).json().get("contacts", [])
    report_fetched(len(contacts))
    if not contacts:
        return {"summary": "Nothing new"}
    lists = {l["id"]: l["name"] for l in http.get("https://api.brevo.com/v3/contacts/lists",
                                                  params={"limit": 50}, headers=h).json()["lists"]}
    for c in contacts:
        names = ", ".join(lists.get(i, str(i)) for i in c["listIds"]) or "no list"
        notify.slack(f"New contact: {c['email']} · {names}", channel="#signups")
    state.set("since", max(c["createdAt"] for c in contacts))
    return {"posted": len(contacts)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it include contacts that were updated but not new?

It asks Brevo for contacts created since the last check. If you used the modified filter, updated contacts would be included. The workflow is set up to post new contacts, so edits to existing ones are not announced unless you change that.

What does the Slack post include?

It includes details from the Brevo contact such as the email address and any attributes you choose, like name or source. Add the fields you want to the message so the reader can act without opening Brevo.

Can I limit it to one Brevo list?

Yes. If you only care about a particular list, the workflow can check list membership and post only for contacts on that list. Tell your AI assistant which list ID to watch and approve the change.

What permissions does it need?

read. 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 each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new 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.

The moment it happens