Apollo

Apollo

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Find, enrich, and close — your agent works Apollo's 200M contacts

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Apollo is a B2B sales intelligence and engagement platform with a 200M+ contact and 35M+ company database at its core. Connect it to Actionist and your agent can prospect by ICP filter, enrich every lead with verified emails and direct dials, create and update contacts and deals, enrol prospects into sequences, and react to account changes in real time — all without a rep touching a keyboard.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Apollo automation eliminates the manual prospecting, lead enrichment, CRM data entry, and sequence-enrolment tasks that consume SDR and AE time between calls.

Schedule

What your Apollo agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Apollo × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~53 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
Featured4 apps

From inbound email to CRM record in 60 seconds

When a prospect emails your support alias for the first time, your agent reads the sender address, enriches the person and company through Apollo, creates a fully-populated contact and account, and posts a formatted brief to Slack — by the time a human looks at the inbox, the lead is already in the pipeline with title, LinkedIn, headcount, and tech stack attached. No tab-switching, no manual data entry, no leads falling through the cracks.

~10 hrs / week

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When an unrecognised email address sends a message to a monitored Gmail inbox
Result
Create contact and account if not foundPost enriched lead brief to #new-leads channelBlock 15-min discovery slot on rep's calendar
The win
Saved per run
1 hrs
Runs / week
~10×
Zero manual lead entry
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual prospect research

    SDRs spend 2–3 hours per day building lists, verifying emails, and logging contacts before a single outreach email goes out.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent prospects and enrols automatically

    Agent searches Apollo by ICP filters, enriches every match, creates the contact, and adds them to the correct sequence — the SDR reviews a ready-to-send list.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    List hygiene before campaigns

    Marketing manually exports, deduplicates, and re-enriches prospect lists before each email send — a multi-hour task every campaign cycle.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent refreshes and dedupes on schedule

    Agent re-searches Apollo segments before each send, flags new contacts, and updates stale records — the list is always current at send time.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Unknown sender lookup

    Support reps manually search Apollo or LinkedIn to identify inbound emailers, copying data into the ticket before they can respond meaningfully.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces contact profile instantly

    Agent resolves every inbound email address against Apollo and drops the full profile — title, company, deal history — into the ticket within seconds.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Candidate company research

    Recruiters manually look up employer details for candidates — headcount, funding stage, recent layoffs — before scheduling outreach or making offers.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent enriches companies on demand

    Agent calls Apollo's company enrichment for each candidate's current employer and returns headcount, funding, and tech stack in a structured brief.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Deal-close ARR entry

    Finance manually transcribes contract value and company data from sales notes into revenue trackers after each closed deal, introducing lag and errors.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent writes ARR on deal close

    Agent detects the Closed Won trigger, updates the Apollo deal with final contract value, and pushes the enriched account to the financial reporting sheet automatically.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Import list enrichment

    Ops teams receive prospect CSVs and spend hours enriching each row with firmographic data before the list is usable by sales or marketing.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent enriches every import row

    Agent processes each imported row through Apollo enrichment as it arrives, returning headcount, revenue band, and tech stack before the next row lands.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Counterparty company lookup

    Legal manually verifies company registration details, employee count, and funding status for new contract counterparties before risk review.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent pulls company snapshot on request

    Agent enriches the counterparty domain in Apollo and returns a structured profile with headcount, funding, and listed contacts — counterparty diligence in 30 seconds.

+ 100s of other Apollo automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 people
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on Apollo's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Apollo into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path — Actionist connects to Apollo's official MCP server, giving your agent full access to contacts, accounts, sequences, and enrichment through a single permissioned handshake. No tokens to copy, no API docs to read.

1
Open the Apps tab

Find Apollo in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in Apollo

A browser window opens to Apollo's OAuth screen. Log in, grant the requested scopes (read/write contacts, accounts, and sequences), then close the tab to return to Actionist.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

16 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

4 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

Skills

Skills that pair with Apollo

Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.

Apollo

Interact with Apollo.io's REST API to search and enrich people and organisations, manage contact lists, and query the 200M+ contact database.

Apollo (OAuth)

Apollo.io integration with managed OAuth — search and enrich contacts and companies, manage accounts, and run sequence operations with credential refresh handled automatically.

Competitive Intelligence & Market Research

Run B2B SaaS competitive intelligence across 24 scenarios spanning Sales, HR, Fintech, and Operations — pairs naturally with Apollo's technographic data.

MCP servers

MCP servers that work with Apollo

Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.

apollo
Official

Search and enrich contact and company data from Apollo's 210M+ person and 35M+ company database via a single MCP tool call.

mcp-apollo
Official

Apollo.io MCP server exposing people search, contact enrichment, email finding, and company research as discrete agent tools.

Apollo MCP Server
Official

Exposes Apollo GraphQL operations — queries and mutations — as typed MCP tools that AI models can call directly.

FAQs

Questions about Apollo + Actionist

What credentials does Actionist need to connect Apollo?
The MCP path uses OAuth — you authorise via Apollo's browser login and Actionist receives a scoped token that covers read/write on contacts, accounts, sequences, and deals. No API key to manage. If you prefer the API key method, generate one at Apollo → Settings → Integrations → API and paste it into Actionist. Both methods are revocable from the Apollo settings panel at any time.
Which Apollo objects can the agent read and write?
Via the connected integration, your agent can create and update contacts, accounts, deals, and tasks. It can also search and enrich people and companies, retrieve verified emails and phone numbers, and add or remove contacts from sequences. Trigger coverage includes New Contact, Contact Updated, New Account, and Account Updated webhooks — all four fire in real time.
How do I avoid duplicate contacts when the agent creates records?
Use the Find or Create Contact action as your default entry point — it searches by email before creating, so if the record exists it returns the existing one without writing a new row. For bulk imports, run a Search Contacts pass first and filter out any email addresses that already resolve; only pass the unmatched rows to Create Contact. Apollo also deduplicates internally on email address, but querying first prevents wasted API calls.
Can the agent trigger on every Apollo webhook event, or only specific object types?
The current trigger set covers the four Webhook-based events: New Contact, Contact Updated, New Account, and Account Updated. These fire in real time whenever the matching record is created or modified in Apollo. Deal-level webhooks are not yet in the trigger catalog — use a polling workflow via Search Contacts or Search Accounts on a schedule if you need deal-change reactions today.
Does the agent's sequence enrolment respect Apollo's opt-out and DNC rules?
Yes — Apollo enforces opt-out status server-side before any sequence step executes. If a contact is marked opted out or globally unsubscribed in Apollo, the Add to Sequence call will reject the enrolment and return an error the agent can handle. To be safe, run a Find Contact check before enrolment and inspect the opt-out field; if it is true, skip the contact rather than attempting the enrol.
What happens to in-progress sequences when the agent updates a contact's record?
Updating a contact's fields (title, email, stage) does not automatically pause or cancel their active sequences — Apollo treats the sequence membership and the contact record as independent. If you need to stop outreach on a record update (e.g. a champion leaves the company), pair the Update Contact action with a Remove from Sequence call in the same workflow to explicitly halt the cadence.
Are there rate limits I should design around for high-volume enrichment?
Apollo's REST API applies rate limits that vary by plan — typically 200–600 requests per minute on Business and above. For bulk enrichment jobs (importing hundreds of contacts), add a short delay between Enrich Person calls or batch them using the API Request action with Apollo's bulk endpoints. Actionist's built-in retry logic handles transient 429 errors, but sustained overrun will require pacing at the workflow level.
How do I disconnect Apollo without losing historical contact data?
Disconnecting Apollo in Actionist's Apps settings revokes the OAuth token or deactivates the API key — no data is deleted from either platform. Your Apollo contacts, accounts, deals, and sequences remain exactly as the agent left them. Existing workflows that use Apollo actions will start failing with an auth error once disconnected; deactivate those workflows before revoking the connection to avoid noisy error logs.