Sales Enablement
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.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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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.
In Elaichi
Connect Smartlead once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Smartlead.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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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.
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
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Smartlead to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Smartlead to Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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.
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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.
Copy the endpoint
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
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
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
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
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
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch campaigns
Smartlead
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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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
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 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.