Smartlead MCP connector
The Smartlead connector brings your outreach campaigns, leads, email accounts and reply analytics to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and the Elaichi Agent, so your team can check, adjust and report on cold email from any AI client.
- Connects with an API key
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Which Smartlead campaigns had the most replies last week?
Working in Smartlead with Elaichi
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List all Smartlead campaigns
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Get single Smartlead campaign by ID
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Smartlead campaigns get all leads activities
How to connect Smartlead to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
Smartlead MCP connector for 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.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Smartlead MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
Smartlead MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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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. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Smartlead MCP connector for 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.
Smartlead MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
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.
What teams do with Smartlead through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in Smartlead is logged.
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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.”
What connecting Smartlead gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your Smartlead account.
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, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about campaigns, get real answers.
Plain language questions answered from live Smartlead campaigns, leads and reply activity.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
One Smartlead endpoint for every client.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot connect over OAuth, no SDK and no shared key.
Tool catalog
All 135 Smartlead tools, ready to call.
Campaigns, subsequences, schedules, lead activities and analytics, with no custom code written.
Toolboxes
Each team gets its own toolbox.
Curate Smartlead toolboxes per team so outbound, RevOps and support see different scopes.
Shared connections
Teammates send campaigns without seeing keys.
Each Smartlead connection shows who connected it and which teams and members use it.
Audit log
Every campaign change has a name on it.
When, who, what happened, type and resource, appended for each Smartlead call.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
Smartlead digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch campaigns
Smartlead
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
0.1s -
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
6.2s -
Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
Smartlead
Queued
Automations
A schedule runs the whole reply digest.
Fetch Smartlead lead activities, group them, draft a digest, approve, post back.
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%
Collections and dashboards
Campaign health computed, not requested.
Four metrics, 14 days of leads added and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Smartlead
All three can connect Smartlead to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over Smartlead tools | Allow or restrict single Smartlead tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per Smartlead call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
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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Questions, answered
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, Microsoft Copilot, 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 restricting campaign deletion or schedule changes. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
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, Microsoft Copilot and every other client together.
Does the Smartlead MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Smartlead is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Smartlead?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Smartlead. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Smartlead call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for Smartlead?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Smartlead: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put Smartlead in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot