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Smartlead MCP connector

The Smartlead connector brings your outreach campaigns, leads, email accounts and reply analytics to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so your team can check, adjust and report on cold email from any AI client.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Smartlead to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Smartlead once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Smartlead.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Smartlead API key. One person generates a token in Smartlead and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

smartlead
Smartlead
Autobound
Gong
Interseller
Lemlist
Outreach
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Connect Smartlead to Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Connect Smartlead to ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Connect Smartlead to Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Smartlead to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Smartlead through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • Sales development

    Check how a campaign is doing before standup

    Ask for open, reply and bounce rates on a live Smartlead campaign, by day if you want, and get a plain answer instead of digging through dashboards.

  • Sales development

    Pause a campaign that has gone sideways

    When a sequence starts drawing complaints or bounces, pause it, change its sending schedule, or duplicate it as a fresh draft to rework the copy.

  • Sales

    Pull up a lead's full outreach history

    Before a call, see every email a prospect received and every reply they sent across Smartlead campaigns, so nobody walks in cold.

  • Revenue operations

    Keep sending mailboxes healthy

    List every email account, spot the ones that have disconnected or failed, and reconnect them before a campaign quietly stops sending.

  • Marketing

    Spin up and test a new sequence

    Create a campaign, add a follow-up subsequence for people who opened but did not reply, and send a test email to yourself before it goes live.

  • Sales leadership

    Export leads and report on the week

    Export a campaign's leads to a spreadsheet and summarize top-level results across all Smartlead campaigns for a Monday pipeline review.

Try asking

  • “Which Smartlead campaigns had the most replies last week?”
  • “Pause the Q2 outbound campaign and update its schedule.”
  • “Export leads from the enterprise Smartlead campaign as CSV.”

See all 135 Smartlead tools below

AI tools

Smartlead tools for your AI agents

135 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Smartlead, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Smartlead gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Smartlead account.

The agent

Ask about campaigns, get real answers.

Plain language questions answered from live Smartlead campaigns, leads and reply activity.

  • campaigns
  • leads
  • subsequences
  • email accounts

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Which Smartlead campaigns had the most replies last week?

Pause the Q2 outbound campaign and update its schedule.

Export leads from the enterprise Smartlead campaign as CSV.

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One Smartlead endpoint for every client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, no SDK and no shared key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emma Laurent

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
S

Sofia Ricci

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
C

Clara Nowak

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

All 135 Smartlead tools, ready to call.

Campaigns, subsequences, schedules, lead activities and analytics, with no custom code written.

  • List all Smartlead campaigns
  • Create a Smartlead campaign
  • Get single Smartlead campaign by ID
  • Update a Smartlead campaign by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Smartlead campaigns List List all SmartLead email campaigns ordered by newest first. Returns: id, created_at, updated_at, message. Optional client_id filter and include_tags flag.
Create a Smartlead campaign Create Create a new SmartLead email campaign in DRAFTED status with default settings. Returns: ok, id, name, created_at. Name defaults to 'Untitled Campaign' if omitted; other settings must be configured via separate update endpoints after creation.
Get single Smartlead campaign by ID Get Get a single SmartLead campaign by id with full configuration and lead statistics. Returns: success, data. Required: id.
Update a Smartlead campaign by ID Update Update SmartLead campaign settings including tracking, sending limits, stop conditions, AI matching, plain text mode, and out-of-office detection. Returns: success, data, message. Required: id.
Delete a Smartlead campaign by ID Delete Permanently delete a SmartLead campaign by id, removing all sequences, lead mappings, statistics, and history. Returns: success, message. Required: id. This action cannot be undone; active campaigns must be stopped first.

Toolboxes

Each team gets its own toolbox.

Curate Smartlead toolboxes per team so outbound, RevOps and support see different scopes.

  • Outbound
  • SDR team
  • RevOps
  • Marketing
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

Outbound toolbox

Smartlead · campaigns and sequences

Smartlead starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

SDR team toolbox

Smartlead · leads and replies

9 Mar 2, 2026

RevOps toolbox

Smartlead · analytics and schedules

24 Feb 27, 2026

Marketing toolbox

Smartlead · campaign copy and subsequences

Smartlead starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Deliverability toolbox

Smartlead · email accounts and warmup

31 Jan 30, 2026

Leadership toolbox

Smartlead · top level analytics

12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates send campaigns without seeing keys.

Each Smartlead connection shows who connected it and which teams and members use it.

  • Outbound EMEA
  • Outbound AMER
  • SDR team
  • Marketing
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
SM

Smartlead (Outbound EMEA)

Connected by Emma Laurent

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
SM

Smartlead (Outbound AMER)

Connected by James Whitfield

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
SM

Smartlead (SDR team)

Connected by Sofia Ricci

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
SM

Smartlead (Marketing)

Connected by Daniel Ortega

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
SM

Smartlead (RevOps)

Connected by Clara Nowak

Personal • Active Not shared
SM

Smartlead (Agency clients)

Connected by Michael Brennan

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every campaign change has a name on it.

When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each Smartlead call.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emma Laurent

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

James Whitfield

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

S

Sofia Ricci

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

D

Daniel Ortega

[email protected]

Smartlead Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

C

Clara Nowak

[email protected]

Smartlead Campaigns Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

M

Michael Brennan

[email protected]

Smartlead Campaigns List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule runs the whole reply digest.

Fetch Smartlead lead activities, group them, draft a digest, approve, post back.

Smartlead digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent

  1. Schedule

    Every weekday at 08:00

    0.2s
  2. Fetch campaigns

    Smartlead

    1.4s
  3. Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Smartlead

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Campaign health computed, not requested.

Four metrics, 14 days of leads added and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.

Smartlead health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the campaigns collection

Live

Campaigns

1,284 ↓ 12%

Leads

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Campaigns created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

Outbound EMEA 34%

Outbound AMER 27%

SDR team 21%

Marketing 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Smartlead to Claude?

In Elaichi, choose Smartlead and paste the API key from your Smartlead account settings; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself and Smartlead is ready to use in Claude in a few minutes.

Does Smartlead work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Smartlead is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Smartlead once and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Smartlead data?

With Smartlead connected, an agent can list your campaigns, report open and reply rates by date, pull a lead's full email history, and export campaign leads to a spreadsheet. It can also create or duplicate a campaign, pause or resume one, change its schedule, add a follow-up subsequence, send a test email, and reconnect email accounts that have stopped sending. Because Smartlead exposes a lot of actions, short concrete asks such as "pause the Q3 SaaS campaign" work better than long paragraphs.

Does connecting Smartlead give the AI access to every campaign and mailbox in my workspace?

The AI only sees what the person who signed in can see in Smartlead. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example to reporting only or to a specific team, but it can never widen it beyond what that person's Smartlead access already allows.

Can my team share one Smartlead connection?

Yes. One person connects Smartlead in Elaichi and shares it with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log records exactly who paused a campaign or exported a lead list.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Smartlead?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply to each Smartlead action separately, so you can allow reading campaign analytics while blocking campaign deletion or schedule changes. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.

What happens to a Smartlead connection when someone leaves?

When you offboard someone in Elaichi, their access to Smartlead through every AI client ends at once. A shared Smartlead connection keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you ever want to remove Smartlead entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Put Smartlead in front of your team

Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.