Instantly
Automated email outreach with a B2B lead database, deliverability tools and an AI-powered CRM.
Updated Sep 29, 2026
Overview
Instantly runs cold email outreach: it connects and warms up sending
accounts, sends campaigns with sequences and subsequences, finds leads in its
SuperSearch B2B lead database, verifies email addresses, and keeps replies in
its Unibox inbox and CRM. API v2 takes a workspace API key as a Bearer token;
each key carries scopes, every path starts with /api/v2, and the workspace
shares a limit of 100 requests per second and 6,000 per minute. The
instantly CLI reads the same key from INSTANTLY_API_KEY.
Instantly also hosts an MCP server at https://mcp.instantly.ai/mcp with a
tool for every API v2 endpoint, named like list_campaigns or create_lead.
It authenticates with the API key in the Authorization header, and
instantly mcp runs a local MCP server from the CLI.
Workflows
Workflows that use Instantly's tools.
TContributed by thedogwiththedataonitSort cold email replies by intent and answer the warm onesReads new Instantly replies, labels each one's intent with Jev, sets the lead's interest status, and drafts answers to the warm ones.
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S- TContributed by thedogwiththedataonitTurn referral and out-of-office replies into new leads
Finds Instantly replies that name someone else or say the lead left, finds the person's email with Hunter, and adds them to a campaign.
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PContributed by philsoerensenHow Brew books 20 demos per week with outboundRuns cold email and LinkedIn as one system, opens with finished work for each prospect, and steers every warm reply to one next step.
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Tools
What agents can reach at Instantly.
- Add leads to a campaign
Adds up to 1,000 leads to one Instantly campaign or lead list, checking their emails against blocklists and existing leads.
- Import leads from SuperSearch
Adds the people matching a SuperSearch query to an Instantly lead list, creating the list if needed, and enriches them with work emails or LinkedIn profiles as you ask.
- List emails
Returns the emails in the workspace's Unibox, newest first, filtered by campaign, type or sending account, such as only the replies received, or searched by a lead's email address.
- Reply to an email
Sends a reply to an email in an Instantly inbox from one of the workspace's connected sending accounts.
- Search people
Returns people from Instantly's SuperSearch lead database who match filters such as job title, department, level, location, industry or employee count, without their email addresses.
- Set a lead's interest status
Sets the interest status of one lead, found by email address and optionally a campaign, such as interested, not interested, out of office or wrong person.
- Verify an email address
Checks whether one email address is deliverable and returns verified, invalid or pending, whether its domain is catch-all, and the credits used.