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Syncs lead lists and campaign performance into your CRM, automates the enrichment of new prospects, and manages email warmup cycles based on sending volume.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Instantly integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Instantly calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Instantly data, across all 115 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Instantly access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Instantly, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Instantly is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Instantly.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Instantly action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Instantly, and when to use it.

Create campaign
Use this when you have a new outreach sequence ready and want to launch it with specific settings.
Create lead
Add a single prospect to a campaign. Use this for single lead imports from a landing page or manual entry.
Create lead list
Use this to organize a batch of prospects into a dedicated list before assigning them to multiple campaigns.
Create AI enrichment
Use this to generate AI driven insights for a lead list to personalize your outreach messages.
Enable account warmup
Start the warmup process for one or more email accounts to improve your sender reputation.
Disable account warmup
Stop the warmup process for specific accounts before launching a high volume critical campaign.
Get campaign analytics
Pull performance metrics for one or multiple campaigns to track open and reply rates.
Get daily campaign analytics
Retrieve per day performance metrics to identify trends or spikes in campaign engagement.
List leads
Pull a list of leads using filters like status or search terms to audit your prospect pool.
Mark thread as read
Update the read status of an email thread after the agent has processed the response.
Check email verification status
Retrieve the current verification status of a specific email address after a request is submitted.
Create inbox placement test
Measure how your emails land across different providers using a prepared recipient list.
Count Unread Emails
Tool to retrieve the count of unread emails. Use when you need to know how many unread messages are in your inbox before sending new emails.
Create API Key
Tool to create a new API key. Use when you need to generate credentials for programmatic access to the Instantly API.
Create Webhook
Tool to create a new webhook endpoint. Use when you need to receive Instantly event notifications via HTTP callbacks.
Delete API Key
Tool to delete an API key. Use when you need to remove a specific API key by its ID after confirming its existence.
Delete Campaign
Tool to delete a campaign. Use when you need to remove a specific campaign by ID.
Delete Lead
Tool to delete a lead by its ID. Use when you need to remove a specific lead after confirming its existence.
Delete Lead List
Tool to delete a lead list by ID. Use when you need to remove a specific lead list after confirming its existence.
Delete Webhook
Tool to delete a webhook. Use when you need to remove a specific webhook by its UUID.
Get Campaign
Tool to retrieve campaign details. Use when you need full campaign configuration for a given campaign ID.
Get Email Service Provider Options
Tool to retrieve email service provider options for inbox placement tests. Use when you need valid recipients_labels options.
Get Inbox Placement Test
Tool to retrieve inbox placement test results. Use when you need details for a specific inbox placement test by ID.
Get Lead
Tool to retrieve details of a specific lead by its ID. Use when you have the lead UUID and need full lead metadata.
Get Lead List
Tool to retrieve details of a specific lead list by its ID. Use when you have the lead list UUID and need list metadata.
Get Lead List Verification Stats
Tool to retrieve verification statistics for a lead list. Use when you need summary counts by verification status for a specific lead list.
Get Webhook
Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook subscription. Use when you have the webhook ID and need full webhook configuration.
Get Webhook Event
Tool to retrieve details of a specific webhook event. Use when you need to inspect a particular webhook event by its ID.
List Email Accounts
Tool to list all email accounts for the authenticated user. Use after obtaining auth credentials to retrieve available accounts.
List API Keys
Tool to list all API keys. Use when you need to retrieve your API keys with optional pagination after authentication.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven acts as the bridge between your lead sources and Instantly. When a new lead enters your system, the agent can automatically call the Create Lead or Create Lead List actions. It ensures that lead data is cleaned and verified before it ever hits your sending account. If you have a complex segmentation strategy, Ceven can map specific lead attributes to custom tags in Instantly, allowing you to drop prospects into the exact campaign sequence that fits their persona. This happens in real time, so your prospects receive your first outreach while the lead is still warm and interested.
Yes. Ceven can monitor your campaign analytics and deliverability reports. If the agent detects a drop in open rates or an increase in bounce rates, it can trigger a workflow to disable active campaigns and enable account warmup for the affected accounts. By using the Enable Account Warmup and Disable Account Warmup tools, Ceven maintains a healthy sender reputation without you needing to log in and toggle switches manually. This proactive approach prevents your domains from being blacklisted by major providers like Google or Microsoft during aggressive scaling phases.
When you trigger an AI enrichment workflow, Ceven calls the Create AI Enrichment tool for your specified lead list. Instantly then processes the leads to find personalized data points. Ceven monitors the job status and, once complete, can use that data to customize the variables in your email templates. For example, the agent can pull a specific recent achievement from a prospect's LinkedIn profile via Instantly and insert it into the first line of your email, significantly increasing the likelihood of a positive response compared to generic templates.
Absolutely. Ceven can list all email accounts associated with your Instantly profile and perform bulk actions across them. Whether you need to toggle warmup for twenty different domains or check the unread count across multiple inboxes, the agent handles the iteration. You can set up a master workflow that ensures every new account added to Instantly is automatically put into warmup mode for fourteen days before it is allowed to be added to a live campaign, ensuring a safe ramp up period for every single domain.
Ceven can be configured to listen for reply events via webhooks. Once a reply is detected, the agent can pull the full email thread, analyze the sentiment of the response, and mark the thread as read in Instantly. If the lead expresses interest, Ceven can automatically create a deal in your CRM, notify the assigned sales rep via Slack, and stop any further automated follow ups in the Instantly sequence. This ensures that the transition from automated outreach to human conversation is seamless and immediate.
Yes, Instantly imposes rate limits on their API endpoints to ensure platform stability. If a Ceven workflow attempts to perform thousands of individual lead creates in a very short window, you may encounter 429 too many requests errors. To mitigate this, Ceven implements automatic retries with exponential backoff. However, for very large datasets, we recommend using the Create Lead List tool to batch your prospects rather than making individual API calls for every single lead, which is a more efficient way to utilize your API quota.
Ceven integrates with the Instantly verification tools to ensure you never send to a dead address. The agent can trigger a verification job for a new lead list and then use the Check Email Verification Status tool to monitor progress. Only leads that return a valid status are pushed into the active campaign. If a lead is marked as risky or invalid, Ceven can automatically move them to a separate cleanup list or delete them entirely, keeping your bounce rate low and your sender reputation high.
Yes, the agent can manage the setup and analysis of A B tests. Ceven can create two identical campaigns with different subject lines and split your lead list between them. After a set period, the agent uses the Get Campaign Analytics tool to pull the open and reply rates for both versions. It then compares the data and can automatically move the remaining leads into the winning campaign while archiving the losing one, ensuring your outreach is always optimized for the highest possible conversion rate.

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