Integration
Connect Instantly and SendGrid
When New Event fires in Instantly, your agent runs Create or update contact in SendGrid, or New bounce in SendGrid to Add lead list in Instantly. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
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What do you want Instantly and SendGrid to do together?
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Claude Code
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Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)Claude, web and desktop
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Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Zed
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Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app
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Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Any other MCP client
Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.
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What Instantly and SendGrid can do together
From Instantly to SendGrid
When New Event in Instantly
then Create or update contact in SendGrid
From SendGrid to Instantly
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 Instantly and SendGrid
Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 32 actions
- New Event
Triggers when an Instantly event occurs, such as an email sent, a reply received, or a lead status change.
- Activate campaign
Starts a campaign, or resumes a paused one, and returns the updated campaign.
- Add campaign
Creates a new Instantly campaign with its sending schedule, email sequence and sending options. Returns the created campaign.
- Add lead list
Creates a new lead list in Instantly for storing leads.
- Add Lead to Campaign
Adds a lead to an Instantly campaign, with their contact details, personalization and custom variables. Returns the created lead.
- Add Tags to Campaigns
Assigns one or more custom tags to one or more campaigns.
- Add to Blocklist
Adds an email address or domain to the workspace's blocklist so it no longer receives emails.
- Create a New Tag
Creates a new custom tag in your Instantly workspace for organizing accounts and campaigns.
- Delete blocklist entry
Deletes a blocked email or domain entry from your Instantly block list, returning the removed entry.
- Delete lead
Permanently deletes a lead from your Instantly workspace and returns the deleted lead.
- Find Lead
Finds leads in your Instantly workspace by email address or search term, optionally narrowed to a campaign, list or lead status. Returns the matching leads and the first match.
- Get Blocklist Entry
Returns a single block list entry (a blocked email address or domain) by its ID.
- Get campaign
Returns a campaign's full details, including its schedule, sequences, sending accounts and settings.
- Get lead
Returns a single Instantly lead by its ID, including contact details, campaign, status, engagement counts and custom variables.
- List campaigns
Returns the campaigns in your Instantly workspace, optionally filtered by name, tags, status or AI Sales Agent.
- List lead lists
Returns the lead lists in your Instantly workspace, optionally filtered by name or by whether they run enrichment.
- List leads
Returns leads from your Instantly workspace, optionally filtered by campaign, list, status, search term or email address.
- List Tag Mappings
Returns the tag assignments in the workspace, showing which custom tags are attached to which email accounts and campaigns.
- Pause campaign
Stops (pauses) a running campaign so it no longer sends emails, and returns the updated campaign.
- Remove Lead From Campaign
Removes one or more leads from an Instantly campaign, deleting them from that campaign.
- Remove Tags From Campaigns
Removes one or more custom tags from Instantly campaigns.
- Update lead
Updates an existing lead's details in Instantly, such as name, company, phone, interest status and custom variables, and returns the updated lead.
- Update Lead Status
Updates the interest status of a lead in Instantly (for example Interested, Meeting booked, or Not interested), optionally scoped to one campaign or list.
- New bounce
Polls the v3 Suppression Bounces API for bounced email addresses. Emits one record per bounce.
- New global suppression
Polls the v3 Suppressions API for globally-suppressed (unsubscribed) email addresses. Emits one record per suppressed email.
- New or updated recipient
Triggered when a recipient is created or updated.
- New suppressed email
Triggered when a new email is suppressed.
- Add to suppression group
Add a recipient's email to a SendGrid suppression group (unsubscribe group).
- Create custom field
Creates a new custom field.
- Create list
Creates a new marketing contact list via the v3 Marketing Lists API.
- Create or update contact
Adds or updates a marketing contact (upsert by email) via the v3 Marketing Contacts API. Optionally assigns to lists.
- Create or update recipient
Creates a new recipient if the email does not exist, otherwise updates the existing recipient.
- Delete contacts
Deletes one or more marketing contacts by their contact IDs via the v3 Marketing Contacts API.
- Get contact by email
Looks up a marketing contact by email address via the v3 Marketing Contacts search-by-emails endpoint.
- Remove from suppression group
Remove a recipient's email from a SendGrid suppression group (unsubscribe group).
- Send an email
Sends an email via the v3 Mail Send API to a single recipient with subject and plain-text or HTML body.
- Send an email using template
Sends an email via the v3 Mail Send API using a dynamic template ID. Dynamic template data is passed as a JSON object.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Instantly and SendGrid, answered
What can start an automation from Instantly?
Any of Instantly's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Event. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in SendGrid when something happens in Instantly?
Any of SendGrid's 10 actions, including Create custom field, Create list, Create or update contact and Create or update recipient. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from SendGrid to Instantly?
Yes. When something happens in SendGrid, your agent can act in Instantly too. This page covers both directions: SendGrid's triggers and Instantly's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Instantly or SendGrid?
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.
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.