From reading your post to being in a sequence
Somebody engaged with three of your posts and scores well against the kind of person who hires you. The next step is obvious and it is also the step nobody takes, because it means leaving what you were doing and going to find an email address.
With Apollo connected, that is one action. The lookup runs, the work email comes back, and the person can go into a sequence without you opening anything else.
Connecting it
- 1In Inklined, open Settings and connect Apollo with a key from your own Apollo account. Lookups are charged to your account, not resold by Inklined.
- 2Choose a sender mailbox. Apollo will not accept a sequence add without one, and an Apollo account with no linked mailbox has none to choose. Link one in Apollo first if the list comes back empty.
- 3Apollo is tried first where both it and lemlist are connected. Either one on its own is enough.
What Inklined takes
- →A work email address, looked up while you wait. Apollo answers immediately rather than queueing the job.
- →The person as a contact in Apollo, because Apollo will only add an existing contact to a sequence.
- →The sequence add itself, once a sender is chosen.
What happens to it
The first thing that happens to a transcript is that the names come out of it. People become role descriptors, so a participant is stored as “Host [GTM Consultant]” rather than by name. Companies become sector descriptors, so a client called Acme Corp is stored as “a B2B SaaS startup”. Email addresses, phone numbers, office addresses and profile links are removed. This runs once, on the way in, before anything else touches the text.
What is left is split into passages and indexed, so that when Inklined asks you something tomorrow it can show you the 40 seconds of the call the question came from rather than asserting that you said it.
Then a second rule applies, and it is the one that matters most if your calls are client work. Only speech attributed to you can become something you publish. On a typical consulting corpus most of the words belong to the other person, and offering those back to you as “something you said” is how somebody ends up publishing a client’s thinking under their own name. Anything that still names an organisation after all that asks you to confirm before it will draft from it.
One limitation worth stating rather than hiding: a client name that opens a sentence is not always caught, because “Sona ran this play” is shaped exactly like “Pricing pages need an owner”. The title check is the reliable one, and the confirmation step exists because no automatic check is enough on its own.
More on this: how Inklined works.
When it does not work
A connection that authenticates and then returns nothing looks exactly like a healthy one, which is why Apollo going quiet is hard to diagnose from the outside.
- The sender list is empty and the send button will not work
- Apollo needs a linked mailbox before it will accept a sequence add, and an account can be perfectly valid with none linked. Inklined asks Apollo which senders exist rather than assuming none are needed, so an empty list stops you rather than producing a rejected send.
- No email address was found
- It happens, and it is reported plainly rather than dressed up. Nothing further is attempted for that person and no sequence add is made against a guessed address.
- The lookup is rate-limited
- Apollo is throttling the requests. Waiting a short while and trying again is the whole fix.
- The account is reported as no longer connected
- The key has been revoked or rotated in Apollo. Reconnect in Settings and anything already found is unaffected.
Questions
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