# smartlead-cold-email-operator

> Drop in your list. Get a Smartlead campaign, an opener for every lead, and a warm-inbox check — ready to launch. Preinstalled on Claude Code. Fork it, export your key, go. Nothing auto-sends.

- Agent: Claude Code
- Plan: Starter (1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 10 GiB disk)
- Forks: 0 · Stars: 0
- Creator: https://www.jurniti.com/creator-ca0ff2
- Requires config (you provide): ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
- Skills: smartlead-outbound

**To fork:** open https://www.jurniti.com/templates/smartlead-cold-email-operator and use the Fork action — it starts a Stripe Checkout for a new VM seeded with this template's persist disk (same flat plan price, no fork fee).

## README

# Build the whole campaign. Then don't send it.

You already know the Smartlead motion — and the one part you never want automated is the send.

Import the list. Write a sequence. Personalize the opener. Check the inboxes are warm. Launch. Then work the replies.

What you do *not* want: rebuilding that by hand in the Smartlead UI every launch, or re-explaining the whole motion to a blank chat. Worst of all: handing an AI your domain and hoping it doesn't blast 400 people with "Hi {{first_name}}."

This template is that motion, already on **Claude Code**. It preps the whole campaign end to end and stops at the send.

Fork it. Log into **your** Claude. `export SMARTLEAD_API_KEY` from **your** Smartlead account. Then paste:

> Here's my leads.csv from Clay. Build a 3-step Smartlead campaign for it, write a personalized opener for each lead, and check my sending accounts are warm.

You get a **draft** campaign in Smartlead, a real sequence, an opener for all 400 leads from one paste (Smartlead's per-request max), and a deliverability go/no-go — under `~/outputs/`. Ask it to "send it" and it says: open Smartlead and hit Start. It does not send on your behalf. **That refusal is the feature.**

## What it does

- **sequence-builder** — creates the campaign in draft and saves a multi-step sequence with merge fields. Real subject and body copy, not placeholder text.
- **opener-personalizer** — one opener per lead from real enrichment (title, company, a funding or hiring signal). Can't personalize a lead? It flags that lead instead of faking a line that torches your domain.
- **deliverability-watch** — warmup health, mailbox rotation, bounce risk. A plain go/no-go *before* you launch.
- **reply-triage** — pulls the reply queue and sorts it: positive, out-of-office, not interested, wrong contact. Drafts your reply to the positives. You send it.

## First five minutes

1. Fork this template → open the terminal.
2. Log into Claude Code (`claude` or your Anthropic key).
3. `export SMARTLEAD_API_KEY=...` (Smartlead → Settings → API).
4. Paste the demo prompt above.

Your Smartlead sending and credits are **yours** — same as the Smartlead UI. No markup. No mystery keys in the snapshot.

## Who this is for

- Founders and GTM engineers who already run Smartlead
- People who want Claude Code to *drive* Smartlead, not re-learn the API every session
- Anyone who wants AI to do the tedious 90% and stop at the send

## Who this is *not* for

- Teams who want the full Smartlead UI as the control plane (use Smartlead's product)
- Anyone who wants one-click autonomous send on day one (the human gate is the point)
- Tire-kickers with no Smartlead plan (sending is real, on your account)

## Pairs with

- **Clay Outbound Engine** — builds the list this template sends. Clay finds the 20 CEOs and the work emails; this turns them into a ready-to-launch Smartlead campaign.

## BYOK

| You bring | Notes |
| --- | --- |
| Claude Code login / `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` | Run-time only |
| `SMARTLEAD_API_KEY` | Smartlead → Settings → API. Environment only, stays on *your* VM. Never written to a file. |

## Upstream

- Product: https://www.smartlead.ai/
- API docs: https://helpcenter.smartlead.ai/en/articles/125-full-api-documentation

## The rule that keeps you safe

**Never auto-send.** This agent builds the campaign, the sequence, and the first line for every lead. It creates everything in draft and never flips a campaign to Start. You hit send in Smartlead.

Fork it. It's yours.

## Nothing's trapped here

Cancel anytime and it all stays yours — your Smartlead account, your sending, your sequences, your list. None of it ever lived in our platform; the key was only ever an env var on your VM. On top of that: jurniti **30-day money-back** on your first paid purchase.

Fork it. `export SMARTLEAD_API_KEY`. Paste your list.