Apollo MCP: prospecting and sequences from your AI app

Add Apollo to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Apollo free and sign in with your Apollo account.
2. 2Searching and enriching are reads. Adding contacts to a sequence starts outreach, and creating contacts, deals or tasks writes to your CRM, so switch off whichever your AI app shouldn't touch.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app for heads of marketing at fintech companies in Apollo's database, then open Activity to see the search.

Prospect and run sequences by asking

• Search Apollo's contact database for people who match your filters.
• Enrich up to 10 organizations by domain at once, or several person profiles together.
• Add contacts to an email sequence, or update their status in one.
• Create contacts, accounts, deals and tasks, and move accounts or contacts to a new stage.
• Check an organization's job postings before you reach out.

Outreach with a check

• Switch off the tool that adds contacts to sequences, so no AI app starts emailing people on its own.
• Set a policy to warn or block before a contact, deal or task is created, since Apollo doesn't remove duplicates.
• Activity records every search, enrichment and change your team's AI apps made in Apollo.

What you get with Apollo and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ApolloClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Apollo through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Apollo tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Apollo tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Apollo. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Add Contacts to SequenceAdds contacts to a specified apollo email sequence by initiating an asynchronous background job and returning its details.
• Bulk organization enrichmentEnriches data for up to 10 organizations simultaneously by providing a list of their base company domains (e.g., 'apollo.io', not 'www.apollo.io').
• Bulk people enrichmentUse to enrich multiple person profiles simultaneously with comprehensive data from apollo's database.
• Bulk update account stageBulk updates the stage for specified existing apollo.io accounts, moving them to a valid new account stage.
• Get LabelsRetrieves all labels from apollo.io, used for organizing contacts and accounts.
• Get opportunity stagesRetrieves all configured opportunity (deal) stages from the apollo.io account.
• Get Organization Job PostingsRetrieves paginated job postings for a specified organization by its id, optionally filtering by domain; ensure `organization id` is a valid identifier.
• Get typed custom fieldsRetrieves all typed custom field definitions available in the apollo.io instance, detailing their types and configurations.
• List email accountsRetrieves all email accounts and their details for the authenticated user; takes no parameters.
• Apollo people searchSearches apollo's contact database for people using various filters; results are limited to 50,000 records and this action does not enrich contact data.
• Search sequencesSearches for sequences (e.g., automated email campaigns) in apollo.io.
• Search tasksSearches for tasks in apollo.io using filters like keywords, date ranges (due, created, updated), priorities, types, assigned users, associated contacts/accounts, supporting sorting and pagination.
• Update contact ownershipUpdates the ownership of specified apollo contacts to a given apollo user, who must be part of the same team.
• Update contact stageUpdates the stage for one or more existing contacts in apollo.io to a new valid contact stage, useful for managing sales funnel progression.
• Update contact status in sequenceUpdates a contact's status within a designated apollo sequence, but cannot set the status to 'active'.
• Create an Apollo accountCreates a new account in apollo.io; a new record is created even if a similar account exists, and provided `owner id` or `account stage id` must be valid existing ids.
• Create Apollo contactCreates a new contact in apollo.io; use `account id` to link to an organization and `contact stage id` for sales stage, noting that apollo does not perform automatic deduplication.
• Create Apollo dealCreates a new sales opportunity (deal) in apollo.io; all provided ids (`owner id`, `account id`, `opportunity stage id`) must be valid existing apollo identifiers.
• Create Apollo TaskCreates a distinct apollo.io task for each contact id in contact ids, assigning them to user id; this action is not for free plan users and repeated calls create duplicate tasks.
• List Apollo account stagesRetrieves all available apollo.io account stages, each including its unique id and name.