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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.

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

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

  1. Every weekday, ClickRuntime reads the rows in your outreach sheet that are ready to send.

  2. Each address is checked with Hunter.

  3. Valid addresses get your email from your Gmail; invalid and risky ones are skipped.

  4. 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

RunsDaily
Send your outreach only to verified addressestoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · Outreach summaryOutreach: 18 sent, 2 skipped old.contact@acme.example: invalid · info@northwind.example: accept_all

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
  • 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.
verify_emails_before_sending.pyexample
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?
They are skipped by default and marked Risky in the sheet. You can choose to include accept-all addresses if your list is high quality.
Where does the email text come from?
From a column in your sheet, or a template with the person's first name filled in.
Is each address checked every time?
No. Each address is checked once, just before its first send, and the result is kept in the sheet.
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 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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