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Research accounts with an AI agent, approve every message
Sales, CRM & outreach · checked 2026-10-17
A Relevance AI agent connects to Apify’s MCP server to gather web data on target accounts and drafts outreach. You approve or rewrite every message and send it yourself.
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Approve or rewrite each message, then send it yourself
Human step
Confirmed
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Human approval
Every message is approved by a person.
Watch out for
Keep the human approval step: Every message is approved by a person.
Starter prompt
Goal: Scale account research without spamming anyone. Tools involved: Apify, Relevance AI. Your part: runs store actors that collect public web data on target accounts through its mcp server; agent connects to the apify mcp server as a custom mcp connection, compiles research and drafts outreach. Work step by step, show me each draft or proposed change, and wait for my approval before anything is sent, published, signed, filed or changed in a live system.
Assembled from this page’s goal and steps. Paste it into your AI platform and adjust it to your situation.
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Computed from the MCP and API steps only: "Confirmed" needs the tool's docs to name the platform and the platform to support the connection. Browser, upload and human steps work from any platform.
What we checked (2026-10-17)
Apify MCP (mcp.apify.com) lets an agent find and run Actors from Apify Store and read their results. The hosted server signs in with OAuth, or you can use an API token. Actors use your Apify account’s usage. Apify has a $0 plan with $5 of monthly usage, and Starter is $19 a month plus pay as you go.
Relevance AI agents can connect to remote MCP servers, either through preset connections or by entering a custom server URL. That’s how the agent reaches Apify here.
Relevance AI pricing. Relevance AI’s pricing docs say the Free plan is retired for new signups and existing accounts. The page gives no retirement date (checked October 17, 2026). Pro is $19 a month billed annually ($29 monthly).
Set it up
Pick one Apify Actor that returns the account data you need, such as company sites or public profiles. Test it on a few accounts.
Add Apify to the agent as an MCP connection and give the agent your research brief and message guidelines.
Have the agent write drafts into a table, not into an email tool.
Read every draft, fix anything the research doesn’t support, and send it yourself. Follow anti-spam and privacy rules in each country you email, and respect each site’s terms for scraping.
