build-sequences

Build Sequences

Create, configure, and run Hunter email sequences from chat: create the sequence, write the introduction email, add follow-up steps and message templates, add recipients, launch, and read stats. Step authoring never needs the dashboard. Connecting a sending inbox still does — the API only attaches an account that is already connected, so check List-Email-Accounts before promising a fully in-chat launch.

Examples

• /hunter:build-sequences Set up a 3-step outreach sequence for my fintech leads
• "Create a sequence called Q2 Outreach with a follow-up after 3 days"
• "Add the leads from my SaaS list to the Q2 Outreach sequence"
• "Start the Q2 Outreach sequence"
• "Pause my running sequence"
• "How is the Product Launch sequence performing?"

Workflow

Step 1: Identify or create the sequence

• Existing sequence named or given by ID → call Get-Sequence to load its live status, sender, settings, and recipient count before acting (start/resume/archive/add-recipients should rely on this, not stale list rows). To browse, call List-Sequences.
• New sequence → call Create-Sequence with a descriptive name. Then configure it (Steps 2–3).

# Your Sequences

| ID | Name | Status | Recipients |
|----|------|--------|------------|
| 123 | Q2 Outreach | draft | 0 |
| 456 | Product Launch | running | 150 |

Step 2: Configure steps and templates

• Message templates — Create-Message-Template (requires a name and body; subject optional), reusable across sequences. List-Message-Templates to reuse an existing one (Get-Message-Template to inspect); Update-Message-Template to edit.
• Follow-up steps — Create-Sequence-Follow-Up to append each new step (delay + template). List-Sequence-Follow-Ups to review the cadence (Get-Sequence-Follow-Up for one step). Update-Sequence-Follow-Up rewrites an existing step in place — subject, body, wait_days, or message_format. Two side effects to surface, both Hunter-side and neither undoable from chat: a subject edit also rewrites every later step still holding the old subject verbatim (and regenerates their pending messages on a started sequence) — including steps appended with no subject of their own, which is the normal build order — so always re-read the step list afterwards and report which other steps moved; and switching a step from html to text makes Hunter convert the stored body (images dropped, links flattened, HTML stripped) even if you send no body, so confirm that before doing it. Delete-Sequence-Follow-Up removes a step, but only the last step can be deleted and never step 0, so prefer an update over delete + recreate. A sequence holds at most 6 steps total — the step-0 introduction plus up to 5 follow-ups — so longer drips aren't possible.