--- title: "Connect Azure File Storage to Contactout - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New File\" fires in Azure File Storage, your agent runs \"Check personal email\" in Contactout." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-contactout" --- # Connect Azure File Storage to Contactout When **New File** fires in [Azure File Storage](https://apiant.ai/connections/azure-file-storage), your agent runs **Check personal email** in [Contactout](https://apiant.ai/connections/contactout). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Azure File Storage **1** trigger Azure File Storage **7** actions Contactout **8** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Azure File Storage and Contactout to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Azure File Storage can start in Contactout - When **New File** in Azure File Storage then **Check personal email** in Contactout - When **New File** in Azure File Storage then **Verify email** in Contactout Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Azure File Storage and Contactout ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 15 actions - Trigger **New File** Triggers when a new file is added to a folder in a file share. - Action **Create Directory** Creates a new folder in a file share. - Action **Delete Directory** Deletes an empty folder from a file share. - Action **Delete File** Deletes a file from a file share. - Action **Download File** Downloads a file from a file share so later steps can attach it or upload it elsewhere. - Action **Get File Properties** Returns a file's size, media type, hash and timestamps without downloading it. - Action **List Files and Directories** Returns the files and folders in a file share folder, optionally only those whose name starts with a prefix. - Action **Upload File** Uploads a file from a URL into a file share folder, replacing any file with the same name. - Action **Check personal email** Contact Checker — Personal Email Checker: check whether ContactOut has a personal email on file for a LinkedIn profile. - Action **Check phone number** Contact Checker — Phone Number Checker: check whether ContactOut has a phone number on file for a LinkedIn profile. - Action **Find companies** Company Search API — search ContactOut's company index by industry/size/location etc. - Action **Find people** People Search API — search ContactOut's people index by title/company/location/keywords etc, with boolean equations support. - Action **Get company by domain** Company information from domains — enrich a company record from its website domain. - Action **List campaigns** Campaigns API — list the account's email outreach campaigns. - Action **Start campaign** Campaigns API — start sending an existing outreach campaign. - Action **Verify email** Email Verifier API (single) — check deliverability/validity of one email address. ## Each app on its own - [ **Azure File Storage** Cloud file share service offering SMB/NFS mounting and a REST API for managed file storage.](https://apiant.ai/connections/azure-file-storage) - [ **Contactout** Find anyone's personal email & phone number. Hire talent 10x faster with the most powerful sourcing platform...](https://apiant.ai/connections/contactout) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Azure File Storage - [ **Azure File Storage to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-hubspot) - [ **Azure File Storage to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-salesforce) - [ **Azure File Storage to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-slack) - [ **Azure File Storage to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-google-sheets) - [ **Azure File Storage to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-gmail) - [ **Azure File Storage to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/azure-file-storage-to-google-calendar) ## More into Contactout - [ **HubSpot to Contactout** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-contactout) - [ **Salesforce to Contactout** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-contactout) - [ **Slack to Contactout** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-contactout) - [ **Google Sheets to Contactout** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-contactout) - [ **Gmail to Contactout** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-contactout) - [ **Google Calendar to Contactout** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-contactout) Questions ## Azure File Storage and Contactout, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Azure File Storage? Any of Azure File Storage's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New File. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Contactout when something happens in Azure File Storage? Any of Contactout's 8 actions, including Check personal email, Check phone number, Find companies and Find people. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Contactout to Azure File Storage? Contactout has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Azure File Storage. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Contactout's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Azure File Storage or Contactout? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Azure File Storage and Contactout without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.