Email Integration
Best AI Assistant for Instantly
Carly is an AI assistant that connects to Instantly so you can add leads, launch campaigns, check reply rates, and pause sequences — all by email or text. No clicking through the Instantly dashboard.
Try Carly →What Carly can do with Instantly
Add leads to a campaign by email
Send Carly a list of prospects — pasted in or pulled from a Google Sheet — and she adds them to the right Instantly campaign with the right custom variables.
Pause or resume sequences
Tell Carly to pause a campaign or specific lead inside a sequence. She updates the status without you opening the dashboard.
Pull reply rates and metrics
Ask Carly for open rates, reply rates, and bounce rates on any campaign. She queries Instantly and sends back a clean summary.
Pipe replies into your CRM
When a prospect replies in Instantly, Carly logs the reply in your CRM, creates a deal if the lead is qualified, and drafts a follow-up reply for you to review.
Why teams want an AI assistant for Instantly
Instantly is the cold email platform of choice for a lot of growth teams — fast inbox warmup, deliverability tooling, and unlimited sending accounts. The problem is that everything still happens in the dashboard. Adding leads is a CSV upload. Pausing a campaign is three clicks. Checking reply rates means logging in and clicking through analytics views.
As cold email scales, that friction adds up. Teams running multiple sequences across dozens of inboxes need a faster way to operate the system. AI tools for Instantly should let you push leads, change campaign state, and pull metrics from a single message instead of from a dashboard.
How Carly works with Instantly
Carly connects to Instantly with your API key. Once linked, you can email or text her to add leads to a campaign, launch or pause a sequence, ask for reply rates, or pull a list of who replied this week.
Need to add 50 prospects from a Google Sheet to your sequence? Tell Carly which sheet and which campaign — she pulls the rows and pushes them in. Want to know which campaigns are underperforming? Ask for reply rate by campaign and she sends a summary. Need to pause a sequence because a prospect is now in active negotiation? One message and it's done.
Because Carly also connects to your CRM, calendar, and inbox, she can chain Instantly actions with the rest of your sales workflow — when a reply comes in, create a HubSpot deal, draft a personalized response, and book a meeting on your calendar.
Who uses Carly with Instantly
Sales teams running cold outbound at scale. Founders doing their own outreach who want to operate Instantly without context-switching all day. Agencies running campaigns for multiple clients across separate workspaces. RevOps teams who need clean reply data piped into the CRM. Anyone who's tired of opening the dashboard every time a small change is needed.
See it in action
How to connect Instantly to Carly
Sign up for Carly
Create your account in under 2 minutes.
Connect Instantly
Authorize the Instantly integration from your Carly dashboard. One click, and you're connected.
Start giving instructions
Email or text Carly with what you need done in Instantly. She handles the rest.
Automate Instantly in 2 minutes
No complex setup. No code. Just tell Carly what you need.
Get Started →Frequently asked questions
What is the best AI tool for Instantly?
Carly is an AI assistant that connects to Instantly and lets you add leads, launch and pause campaigns, pull metrics, and route replies into your CRM — all by email or text. She turns Instantly into something you operate by message instead of through the dashboard.
Can AI add leads to Instantly campaigns?
Yes. Send Carly a list of prospects — pasted into an email, attached as a CSV, or pulled from a Google Sheet — and she adds them to the right Instantly campaign with custom variables filled in.
How do I connect Instantly to Carly?
Instantly uses an API key. Generate one in your Instantly account under Settings → Integrations, then paste it on Carly's integrations page at dashboard.carlyassistant.com/integrations. Once saved, Carly can read campaigns, add leads, and manage sequences.
Can Carly pause campaigns automatically?
Yes. Tell Carly to pause an entire campaign or a single lead inside a sequence. Useful when a prospect replies and moves into a sales conversation — you don't want them getting follow-up cold emails.
Can Carly route Instantly replies to my CRM?
Yes. When a prospect replies in Instantly, Carly can log the reply in HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, or whichever CRM you've connected, create a deal if the lead is qualified, and draft a personalized response for you to review.
Does Carly work across multiple Instantly workspaces?
Yes. If you manage campaigns for multiple clients with separate Instantly workspaces, you can connect each one and tell Carly which workspace to act on. Useful for agencies running outbound on behalf of multiple brands.
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