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Create a prospect

Creates a prospect, the person record Outreach sequences and tasks act on, from a name, emails, title and company, and returns its id.

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Updated Sep 27, 2026Available asMCPAPI

Description

Required and custom fields differ between orgs: on the MCP server, `input_fields_fetch` lists them before you create. Over the API, send `data.type` set to `prospect` with fields such as `firstName`, `lastName`, `emails` and `title` under `data.attributes`, and link the prospect to an account through its `account` relationship.

create-prospect.md

Create a prospect

Creates a prospect, the person record Outreach sequences and tasks act on, from a name, emails, title and company, and returns its id.

Required and custom fields differ between orgs: on the MCP server, input_fields_fetch lists them before you create. Over the API, send data.type set to prospect with fields such as firstName, lastName, emails and title under data.attributes, and link the prospect to an account through its account relationship.

Set up

Use the first option your agent supports.

MCP (official, remote)

Add this server to your agent's MCP settings, then sign in when asked.

{ "mcpServers": { "outreach": { "url": "https://api.outreach.io/mcp" } } }

Call the MCP tool prospect_create.

Server URL: https://api.outreach.io/mcp

API (official)

Before doing anything else, make one read-only call to confirm access.

Rules

  • Ask the user before anything that sends messages, costs money, or changes data.
  • Never print API keys.

Built from these files in the repository

The layout and the rules come from lib/catalog/render-markdown.ts, the set-up wording from lib/catalog/render-access.ts.

Ways in

RouteSourceCallRequiredDocs
MCPOfficial · remoteprospect_createOAuthDocs
APIOfficialPOST /prospectsOAuthDocs

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