Daily
Send your outreach only to verified addresses
Before each day's outreach goes out, every address is checked with Hunter and only the valid ones are emailed from your Gmail.
- Runs
- Daily
- Apps
- Gmail, Hunter.io
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
- Hunter key; gmail.send
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every weekday at 10, check the addresses in my Outreach sheet that are ready to send with Hunter, send my email to the valid ones from Gmail, mark the rest as skipped and email me a summary.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Every bounced email chips away at your sender reputation. Send to enough dead addresses and even your good emails start landing in spam, which costs far more than the list was worth.
Sales teams, recruiters and founders running their own outreach use it to protect their domain while still sending from their own Gmail.
What you get out of it
Fewer bounces
Invalid and risky addresses are dropped before sending, not discovered afterwards.
Your domain stays trusted
A clean sending record keeps your everyday email out of spam folders.
Nothing extra to remember
Checking happens as part of sending, so it cannot be skipped on a busy day.
A summary each day
You get a short note of how many were sent and skipped, and why.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every weekday, ClickRuntime reads the rows in your outreach sheet that are ready to send.
Each address is checked with Hunter.
Valid addresses get your email from your Gmail; invalid and risky ones are skipped.
Each row is marked sent or skipped, and you get a short summary email.
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
- 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
import base64
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify
SHEET_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id"
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="Outreach!A2:E").execute().get("values", [])
ready = [(i + 2, r) for i, r in enumerate(rows) if len(r) == 4]
skipped = []
for n, (name, email, subject, body) in ready:
v = http.get("https://api.hunter.io/v2/email-verifier", params={"email": email,
"api_key": credentials.secret("HUNTER_API_KEY")}).json().get("data") or {}
ok = v.get("status") == "valid"
send(email, subject, body.replace("{name}", name)) if ok else skipped.append(f"{email}: {v.get('status', 'unknown')}")
sheets.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Outreach!E{n}", valueInputOption="RAW",
body={"values": [["Sent" if ok else f"Skipped ({v.get('status')})"]]}).execute()
sent = len(ready) - len(skipped)
if ready:
notify.email_me(f"Outreach: {sent} sent, {len(skipped)} skipped", "\n".join(skipped) or "All addresses valid.")
return {"sent": sent, "skipped": len(skipped)}FAQ
Common questions
What happens to risky addresses?
Where does the email text come from?
Is each address checked every time?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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