Campaigns: Multi-Step Email Sequences

A campaign is an ordered sequence of emails that the Agent sends to a lead over time — a first touch, then a follow-up a week later, then another — stopping the moment the lead replies. You build them on the Agents tab.

What a campaign is made of

Three things, all edited in one panel:

Entry filters

Who is allowed in — by label, status, source, or industry. Leave every filter blank and the campaign matches any lead.

Steps

An ordered list of templates. Each step after the first carries a Wait days value — how long to hold before sending it.

Priority

Which campaign wins when a lead matches more than one. Lower number goes first.

Targeting by language (and anything else)

There is no language field on a campaign. You target language the same way you target everything else — with labels. Create a label such as Japanese, apply it to the relevant leads, then filter a campaign whose templates are written in Japanese to that label. The same trick works for region, company size, or any segment you can label.

How a lead moves through it

  1. It gets enrolled. On the next tick, the Agent finds the highest-priority active campaign whose filters the lead matches, and enrolls it.
  2. Step 1 sends immediately. Enrollment and the first send happen together — that is why step 1 has no wait, and shows sends on enrollment instead of a wait-days box.
  3. Later steps wait, then check for a reply. Step 2 becomes due after its Wait days, but only sends if nothing has come back from that lead since the last send.
  4. It exits. When the sequence finishes — or anything below happens — the lead leaves the campaign.

What stops a sequence

What happensWhy it stops
The lead repliesThe whole point. Any inbound email from that lead ends the sequence so a human can take over.
Status becomes Qualified, Disqualified or ConvertedSomeone has taken the lead in hand. Automation gets out of the way.
The lead is opted outThe Automation opt-out flag excludes it from every stage, not just campaigns.
The campaign is deactivated or archivedEveryone currently enrolled exits.
All steps have been sentThe sequence is simply complete.

Build one

  1. Open the Agents tab in your workspace and expand Settings.
  2. Write at least one template. In Outbound templates, click + Add template and save a subject and body.
  3. Add the campaign. In Campaigns, click + Add campaign. Give it a Name and a Priority.
  4. Choose who enters. Under Entry filters, click the Labels, Status and Source chips you want, or type into Industry. Filters are any-of: a lead matching any selected value gets in. Leave them all blank to match every lead.
  5. Add the steps. Click + Add step, pick a template, and set Wait days for each step after the first.
  6. Switch it on. Tick Active — it stays disabled until the campaign has at least one step — then save.

Seeing what happened

Each campaign row shows how many steps it has, a summary of its filters, and how many leads are currently enrolled. After a send, the lead picks up a label named after the campaign, so you can filter your Leads list by who received what. Individual sends appear in the Agent's audit trail as Campaign · step N, and a lead's detail panel shows which campaign and step it is on.

Campaigns respect everything else you have already set: the daily email cap, the pause switch, per-lead opt-out, and the post-send Teams card all behave exactly as they do for any other automated send.

Published on 2026-08-14
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