How can an AI marketing agent use Lemlist for marketing?
An AI marketing agent can use Lemlist as the place where its outbound work actually reaches people, and as the record of how each prospect responded. Lemlist is a sales engagement platform. Teams use it to run campaigns that contact a list of leads through a sequence of emails, LinkedIn actions, calls, and other steps, with follow-ups that stop once someone replies.
That makes Lemlist a good place for an agent to finish outbound work. The agent can research who should hear from you, write a personal line for each person, and put them into the right campaign. Then it can read the replies and the results for every step and decide what to change. Kite is one example of an agent that does this through your connected Lemlist account.
Marketing jobs Kite can do with Lemlist
The jobs below follow a Lemlist campaign from the leads that go into it to the conversations that come out of it. Kite fills the campaign, builds the sequence, watches for timely reasons to reach out, handles the replies, and uses the results to improve the next round.
Add qualified leads to the right Lemlist campaign
Kite turns a researched prospect list into leads inside a Lemlist campaign, with every field the sequence needs already filled in. Say you sell scheduling software to physical therapy clinics and ask Kite for owners of practices with three or more locations. Kite finds the companies and people with its built-in research sources, confirms each person's current role, and scores every prospect from one to five against your ideal customer profile. Then it adds the best matches to the campaign you picked.
Each lead it adds can carry:
- the person's first name, last name, work email, phone number, and timezone
- their job title and LinkedIn profile
- the company name and website domain
- a personalized icebreaker, written from what Kite learned about that clinic
- custom variables your templates use, such as the number of locations or the city
Kite can tell Lemlist to skip anyone already in another of your campaigns, so a prospect your colleague emailed last month doesn't get a second, unrelated sequence. It can also assign each lead to the teammate who owns the account.
Lemlist has its own people and company database too. When you'd rather prospect there, Kite searches it with Lemlist's filters, such as job title, seniority, location, industry, and company size. When it adds a lead, Kite can also ask Lemlist to find a missing email or phone number, verify the email, or enrich the record from the person's LinkedIn profile.
Write and set up a multichannel sequence
Kite builds the campaign itself, not just the lead list. It creates the campaign and writes each step of its sequence in your brand voice, around what your prospects care about. Lemlist sequences can mix channels, so Kite can write:
- emails, with a subject line and body for the first message and every follow-up
- LinkedIn steps that visit a prospect's profile, send a connection invite, or send a message
- phone and WhatsApp steps
- manual tasks for something a person should do by hand
- conditional steps that branch the sequence, such as sending a LinkedIn invite only to people who opened the first email
Kite also sets the timing. It writes the delay between steps and creates the sending schedule, with the days, hours, timezone, and daily limit you want. It chooses the campaign settings too, such as stopping the sequence for a lead who replies, books a meeting, or clicks a link, and whether to track opens and clicks.
When the campaign is ready, Kite brings you the sequence, the audience, and the schedule to review. You start the campaign from Lemlist when you're happy with it. If a running campaign needs to stop, such as when your offer changes mid-week, Kite can pause it for you.
Reach out when a prospect has a reason to talk
Lemlist watchlists track the moments that make a prospect worth contacting now, and Kite reads them. Lemlist calls these moments signals. They include:
- a person changing jobs
- a company hiring, adding a new employee, or raising a round of funding
- someone from a target company visiting your website
- activity on a LinkedIn profile or topic you follow
Kite judges each one against your ideal customer profile before it acts. Say your watchlist shows that a head of operations who loved your product at their last company just started at a new clinic group. Kite checks that the new company fits, writes an icebreaker that mentions the move, and adds them to a campaign written for champions in new roles. If the moment calls for a personal touch instead, Kite creates a task for the right teammate with a due date and a note about what changed.
You can ask Kite to check your watchlists on a regular schedule, such as every weekday morning. Kite reviews the new items each time and reports what it did with them.
Sort replies and keep lead statuses current
Kite reads the conversation history with each lead, then updates the lead's status in Lemlist so your team knows who to talk to first. When a clinic owner replies asking for pricing, Kite marks them as interested in that campaign. When someone says the timing is wrong, Kite marks them as not interested, or pauses them so the follow-ups stop without losing the record.
Kite can also act across all of your campaigns at once. If a prospect asks you to stop contacting them, Kite marks them as not interested everywhere and adds their email, or their whole company domain, to your Lemlist unsubscribe list. If someone opts back in later, Kite can remove them from that list.
Interested replies need a person to follow up, so Kite creates a task for the right teammate with the context they need. It can also add a note to the company's record in Lemlist, such as what the prospect asked about and which step they replied to. Kite can draft a response, and your teammate sends it from Lemlist.
Read campaign results and improve the next round
Kite reads each campaign's results in Lemlist and uses them to decide what to change. It can look at any date range and break the numbers down by channel, by sender, and by the A and B versions of a step you're testing. It also reads the activity on each lead, such as opens, clicks, replies, and LinkedIn invites accepted.
Those numbers point to specific fixes. Say the LinkedIn invite in your clinic campaign gets accepted often but the email that follows gets few replies. Kite rewrites that email to build on the new connection and updates the step in Lemlist. If one subject line version clearly beats the other, Kite rewrites the step around the winner.
Kite can also pull the list of leads in each state, such as everyone who opened but didn't reply, everyone who booked a meeting, or everyone whose email bounced. That gives it a ready audience for the next step, like a different follow-up for people who opened three times.
What Kite reads and changes in Lemlist
Kite reads your Lemlist account to plan and measure its work, and it writes leads, sequences, statuses, and tasks. The lists below separate the two.
Information Kite can read
- Campaigns and sequencesYour campaigns, their status, each sequence's steps and conditions, and which teammates send which campaigns. Kite reads them before it adds leads or changes a step.
- LeadsA lead's details found by email address, and the leads in a campaign filtered by their latest state, such as contacted, interested, meeting booked, bounced, or unsubscribed.
- Campaign statisticsResults for any date range, broken down by email or LinkedIn, by sender, and by test version, plus a full export of a campaign's statistics.
- Campaign activityRecent opens, clicks, replies, and other events for a campaign or a single lead.
- ConversationsThe messages exchanged with a contact, which Kite reads to sort replies and draft responses.
- Watchlist signalsJob changes, hiring, funding, new hires, website visits, and LinkedIn activity, filtered by type, status, date, and watchlist.
- People and company databaseLemlist's own database of prospects and companies, with the filters available for searching it.
- Companies and notesThe companies in your Lemlist records and the notes logged against each one.
- TasksThe open tasks assigned to your team, filterable by campaign and assignee.
- UnsubscribesThe full list of unsubscribed emails and domains, and whether a specific address has opted out.
- CreditsHow many Lemlist credits your team has left.
Information Kite can create or change
- Leads in campaignsNew leads with names, email, phone, job title, LinkedIn profile, company details, an icebreaker, and an owner, plus custom variables added later. Kite can also ask Lemlist to find an email or phone number, verify the email, and enrich the lead from LinkedIn.
- Lead statusInterested or not interested in one campaign or in all of them, paused, or removed from a campaign.
- CampaignsNew campaigns, campaign settings such as stop conditions and tracking, and pausing a running campaign.
- Sequence stepsNew steps added to a sequence and edits to existing ones, including their message, subject, delay, and conditions.
- Sending schedulesNew schedules and changes to the days, hours, timezone, and daily limit, attached to the right campaign.
- Unsubscribe listEmails or whole domains added, or removed when someone opts back in.
- TasksNew follow-up tasks with an assignee, due date, and priority, plus updates to existing tasks and dismissing the ones that no longer matter.
- Company notes and labelsNotes on a company's record and new labels for organizing conversations in your Lemlist inbox.
How Kite connects to Lemlist
Add an API key for your Lemlist account. Kite uses the access granted to that key. You can find the key in your Lemlist settings. Lemlist isn't one of Kite's built-in tools, so you'll need your own Lemlist account, along with the email and LinkedIn accounts your team already sends from in Lemlist.
The prospect research that fills your campaigns comes from Kite's built-in sources, including Apollo and Clay, so you don't need a separate data subscription to get started. From there, you can begin with the result you want. Ask Kite to "find 150 operations leaders at clinic groups like our best customers and add them to a Lemlist campaign." Kite already knows your positioning, customers, and competitors from its research on your business. It proposes the audience, the sequence, and the schedule, and it shows you the plan before anyone is contacted.
How-to guides using Lemlist
- How to add qualified leads to Lemlist Kite builds a scored list of companies and people that fit your ideal customer profile, writes an icebreaker for each one, and adds them to the Lemlist campaign you choose without duplicating anyone already in your other campaigns.
- How to send Apollo prospects to Lemlist Kite finds and enriches prospects with Apollo, checks each one against your criteria, and carries their names, emails, job titles, and LinkedIn profiles into a Lemlist campaign.
- How to send Clay prospects to Lemlist Coming soon Kite uses Clay to fill in missing emails and company details from several data providers, then loads the finished leads into Lemlist with the fields and custom variables your sequence uses.
Where Lemlist fits in Kite's marketing work
Lemlist is where a finished lead list goes to work. Kite finds, qualifies, and scores the companies and people, then adds them to a Lemlist campaign with the personalization each sequence needs. Lemlist watchlists also feed the list, because a job change or a funding round can move an account to the top.
Lemlist is the sending and measurement layer for this use case, across email and LinkedIn. Kite writes the sequence and sets its schedule, your team starts it, and Kite reads the replies and step-by-step results to decide what to change in the next round.
Limits and product-specific details
- Your team starts campaigns in Lemlist. Kite creates the campaign, writes the sequence, sets the schedule, and fills it with leads. You start it from Lemlist, and Kite can pause it later.
- Your team sends replies from Lemlist. Kite reads and sorts replies, updates statuses, and drafts a response, and a teammate sends it from Lemlist.
- LinkedIn steps run from your team's LinkedIn accounts. Kite writes the invites and messages, and Lemlist carries them out through the LinkedIn account each sender has connected in Lemlist.
Common questions
Does Kite use my Lemlist credits?
Only for work that runs inside Lemlist. Kite's own research, scoring, and writing don't use your Lemlist credits. Finding a missing email or phone number, verifying an email, and enriching a lead from LinkedIn do. Kite checks how many credits your team has left before it starts a large batch, and it uses its built-in sources first when you'd rather save them.
Can Kite work with the campaigns my team already built in Lemlist?
Yes. Kite reads your existing campaigns, their sequences, the teammates who send them, and their results. It can add leads to a campaign you built, rewrite a weak step, add a LinkedIn step to an email-only sequence, or pause a campaign that's underperforming.
