Before you start
- At least one list to use as the audience.
- At least one connected sender account for each channel you plan to use.
- Optional but recommended: a product and your brand voice, so messages sound like you and pitch the right thing.
Create the campaign
1
Click New campaign
In Campaigns, click New campaign. A setup sheet opens.
2
Name it
Use something you will recognize later, such as “Series B fintech founders - Q4”.
3
Pick the audience
Choose the lists to include (required). Optionally choose lists to exclude, so anyone on those lists is never contacted by this campaign.
4
Set product, goal, and context (optional)
- Product or service - which product this campaign pitches.
- Goal - what success looks like, for example “Book a 15-min intro call.” Guhan uses it to shape the call to action.
- Context - a short note on who you are targeting and your hook.
5
Choose senders
Pick the sender accounts for each channel. If your workspace has exactly one active account for a channel, it is selected for you.
6
Click Create
You arrive on the Sequence tab with a blank canvas: a Start step connected to an Exit step. You add every step in between.
Change campaign settings later
Click the Start step on the canvas to reopen the same settings in a side sheet. It also holds one setting the creation sheet does not:- Re-entry - turn Allow re-entry on to let a prospect enter this campaign more than once. You set a cooldown (in days) between entries and an optional maximum number of entries. With re-entry off, each prospect can enroll only once.
Build the sequence
The sequence editor shows your steps as a top-to-bottom tree. Branching steps split the tree into side-by-side columns.- Add a step. Click the + on any connector line and pick a step type. The picker only offers steps that make sense at that spot, and greyed-out options tell you why (for example, “AI reply must follow a wait for a reply”).
- Edit a step. Click the step card, or its pencil icon, to open its settings.
- Copy, paste, or delete. Each card has copy and trash icons. Deleting a step in a straight line offers to bridge the gap or remove everything after it. On a branch, you can keep one path and drop the others. Copy works the same way, and a copied step can be pasted on any connector.
- Undo and redo. Press Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z (Ctrl on Windows).
- Autosave. Changes save automatically as a draft. The header shows save status and whether the sequence is valid.
Step types
Send a message
Send a message
The core step. Pick a channel, then what to do on it:
- LinkedIn: send an invite, send a DM (to a connection), visit their profile, comment on one of their posts, or react to one of their posts.
- Email: send an email. Follow-up emails in the same sequence reply in the same thread (subject shown as “Re: …”).
- WhatsApp: send a WhatsApp message.
- Require approval before sending - Guhan drafts the message, then holds it in your Tasks until you click Send. Available on steps that have text.
- Reference their recent posts & activity - LinkedIn DMs only. Guhan reads one of the prospect’s recent posts and can open with it. If they have no usable post, the message is written without one.
- Comment and react steps - choose whether Guhan targets their latest post or their most-engaged recent post, and how old a post may be (default 30 days). For reactions, choose the reaction type. If the prospect has no qualifying post, the step is skipped and the sequence moves on.
- Visit profile triggers a “viewed your profile” notification for the prospect.
Wait
Wait
Pauses the prospect for a fixed time. Set days and hours. A wait cannot sit directly next to a wait-for-event step.
Wait for reply / event
Wait for reply / event
Pauses until something happens, or until a timeout passes (default 7 days). You pick the channel first, then the event:
Events are only available when an earlier step can produce them. For example, “Invite accepted” needs an earlier LinkedIn invite step. This step needs at least one earlier message step. Email open tracking is not offered.The step has two paths out: the event happened, or the timeout passed.
Branch on a condition
Branch on a condition
Splits the sequence in two. Build a rule from one or more rows (field, comparison, value) and choose whether all or any rows must match. Prospects who match follow the Yes path; everyone else follows No.You can branch on:
- Prospect: job title, department, seniority, headline, location, has email, has phone number, do not contact.
- Company: industry, headcount, HQ country, HQ city, founded year.
- How they were added: signal source, agent search, manual paste, CSV upload, or cloned from another list.
- Lists: also in a list, or not in another list.
- Time: days since added, days in list, days enrolled in this campaign.
Hand off to a teammate
Hand off to a teammate
Pauses the automation so a person can step in. Choose an urgency and optionally add a subject and context.
- Notify - sends you a heads-up task for context.
- Take over - you grab the conversation and send the next message yourself while Guhan steps aside. When you have sent (or skipped), the sequence continues down its single outgoing path.
AI reply
AI reply
Lets Guhan handle replies. Place it after a wait-for-reply step. When the prospect replies, Guhan works out what they mean and writes a response.
- Send for approval - on, the drafted reply waits in Tasks for you. Off, it sends automatically. Meeting requests always go to a person, whichever way this is set.
- Max consecutive replies - 1 to 10. Above 1, Guhan keeps the conversation going, waiting for the prospect’s next reply each time. Guhan stops at 20 replies per prospect no matter what.
- Reply timeout - how long to wait for the prospect’s next reply (1 hour to 30 days). Default 3 days.
Exit
Exit
Ends the prospect’s journey and records why: completed, replied, unsubscribed, bounced, do not contact, paused by you, or a custom reason. Several paths can end at the same Exit.
Start
Start
Where every prospect begins. It has no steps of its own. Clicking it opens the campaign settings sheet described above.
Message modes
Each message step has three modes. Pick one with the tiles at the top of the step settings.
Fixed messages can use tokens such as
{{firstName}}, {{company}}, {{title}}, {{senderFirstName}}, and {{signature}}. The Insert variable menu lists everything available. If a token has no value for a prospect, that send is skipped instead of going out with a blank, so you never send “Hi , thanks for reading”.
Use Start from template to fill in a step from your template library. A template is copied into the step, so later edits to the template do not change steps you already built.
The step settings include a preview: pick one of your prospects and see the draft Guhan would write. More on how drafts are written in Personalization.
Test the sequence
Click Test run in the editor bar, pick a prospect, and walk them through the sequence to see what would happen and in what order. Nothing is sent. The test run shows a template-level preview; it is not a full personalized draft.If something is off
A step shows a red error on its card
A step shows a red error on its card
Read the message on the card. The most common causes are a step that is not connected to the rest of the sequence, an email step with no subject, or a branch or wait-for-event step missing a required path.
The + picker has greyed-out options
The + picker has greyed-out options
The option would make an invalid sequence at that spot. Hover it for the reason, then add the missing step first (for example, a message step before a wait-for-reply).
I cannot edit the sequence
I cannot edit the sequence
Active campaigns are view-only. Pause the campaign, make your changes, then resume. See Launch and manage.
Related
Personalization
What Guhan reads before it writes.
Launch and manage
Check readiness and go live.
Templates
Starting points for message steps.

