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Automations & email sequences

Answer: Automations fire on triggers, email sequences drip multi-step follow-up to enrolled leads, and broadcasts send one-time emails. Sends skip bounced, invalid, and unsubscribed addresses — they do not guarantee inbox placement.

Trigger-based automations, multi-step email sequences with lead enrollment, and one-time broadcasts. Sequences and broadcasts skip bounced, invalid, and unsubscribed addresses.

The Automations view is a three-tab control center: Workflows (one trigger → one action), Sequences (multi-step drip campaigns), and Broadcasts (one-time messages to a filtered audience).

Automations: if this, then that

  1. 1Open the Automations view and switch to the Workflows tab.
  2. 2Click New workflow.
  3. 3Pick a trigger: a lead is created (lead_created), a lead changes status (status_changed), a lead crosses a score threshold (score_threshold), or a task becomes overdue (task_overdue).
  4. 4Pick one action: create a task, send an email, update the score, change status, or write a note on the lead (send_notification). The form only collects extra copy for create_task.
  5. 5Save and enable the workflow.
Pro tip: A classic setup: 'When a lead's status changes to Qualified, create a task titled Send quote.' One workflow, one action. Send_email and send_notification need their copy in the stored action config — the New workflow form only asks for a task title when the action is create_task.

Email sequences: multi-step drip campaigns

  1. 1Open the Sequences tab and create a new sequence.
  2. 2Add steps — each step is an email with a delay (Day 1 → 3 → 7).
  3. 3Enroll leads into the sequence, either one by one or from a filtered set.
  4. 4LeadFlow tracks enrollments and sends each step on schedule.

Sequence steps are their own subject and body, with {name} and {company} filled per lead. Saved templates are a picker inside the one-off email composer, not a separate Automations screen. Enrolled leads show sends on the lead's Messages tab.

Broadcasts: one message to many

  1. 1Open the Broadcasts tab.
  2. 2Write a subject and body.
  3. 3Filter the audience by lead status and source.
  4. 4Send — preview counts matching leads; send skips bounced, invalid, and unsubscribed.
  • Broadcasts skip invalid, bounced, and unsubscribed addresses. That is skip-list hygiene, not a promise that remaining mail lands in the inbox.
  • You still need a verified Resend domain. There is no separate suppression-list UI — bounced and unsubscribed flags on the lead are the list.

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