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Automated Outbound

Learn how to build fully automated, 1:1 outbound campaigns using AI in Clay

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Intro to Personalized Outreach at Scale
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Intro to Personalized Outreach at Scale
Enrich Companies (Waterfalls)
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Enrich Companies (Waterfalls)
Enrich People (Waterfalls)
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Enrich People (Waterfalls)
AI Formulas + Conditional Runs
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AI Formulas + Conditional Runs
Data Cleaning + Normalization
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Data Cleaning + Normalization
Claygent: AI Web Scraper
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Claygent: AI Web Scraper
11 AI Prompts to Automate Prospect Research with Claygent
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11 AI Prompts to Automate Prospect Research with Claygent
Intro to AI Snippets (Copywriting)
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Intro to AI Snippets (Copywriting)
We Made 24 Prompts So You Don’t Have To
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We Made 24 Prompts So You Don’t Have To
Push Data To Your Email Sequencer
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Push Data To Your Email Sequencer
Personalized Direct Email Campaigns Step-By-Step Walkthrough with SmartLead
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Personalized Direct Email Campaigns Step-By-Step Walkthrough with SmartLead
Automated Omnichannel with La Growth Machine
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Automated Omnichannel with La Growth Machine
Deep Dive: SendSpark AI Video Generation
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Deep Dive: SendSpark AI Video Generation
Deep Dive: Tavus AI Video Generation
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Deep Dive: Tavus AI Video Generation
Deep Dive: HeyReach Integration
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Deep Dive: HeyReach Integration
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Deep Dive: Clay Sequencer

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🧠 Unlocking the Power of AI in Clay: A Treasure Trove of Prompts

At Clay, we're always striving to empower our users with the most effective tools for data manipulation and analysis. Today, we're excited to unveil a game-changing resource: our comprehensive collection of AI prompts designed to supercharge your Clay experience. These carefully crafted prompts are the result of extensive testing and real-world application, aimed at accelerating your AI-driven workflows within our platform.

🗂️ Three Pillars of AI Prompting

Our prompts are thoughtfully organized into three main categories, each addressing a crucial aspect of data processing and content creation:

  1. Information Summarization: Distilling complex data into digestible insights
  2. Information Extraction: Categorizing and pulling specific data points from larger datasets
  3. Copywriting and Content Generation: Creating compelling, tailored content at scale

Let's dive deeper into each category and explore the myriad ways these prompts can transform your workflow.

The three main categories of basic AI prompting in Clay

📊 Mastering Information Summarization

In today's data-rich environment, the ability to quickly synthesize information is invaluable. Our summarization prompts are designed to tackle a wide array of use cases. Imagine connecting your Gong or Fathom call recordings to Clay, then using AI to distill key points from lengthy transcripts. Or consider enriching social media data to surface unique insights about your prospects or customers.

These prompts excel at condensing recent news articles, job listings, and company information into actionable intelligence for your sales team. They can even summarize third-party content like blog posts, interviews, or panel discussions, ensuring you stay on top of industry trends without drowning in information.

Sample prompts for Summarization

🔍 The Art of Information Extraction

Moving beyond summarization, our extraction prompts are designed to pull specific, high-value data points from your datasets. Whether you need to determine which job titles a company sells to, extract coordinates from addresses, or identify a company's customer base from scraped data, we've got you covered.

These prompts can uncover company missions, target markets, pricing structures, and even analyze job titles to understand role focuses. They can categorize companies as B2B or B2C, identify SaaS providers, assess Glassdoor reviews, and pinpoint the problems a company solves. From normalizing location data to determining time zones and seniority levels, these prompts offer a powerful toolkit for data refinement.

Sample prompts for Extracting Information

✍️ Elevating Your Copywriting Game

Last but certainly not least, our creative copywriting prompts are designed to add a spark of creativity to your content generation efforts. From the whimsical task of writing bios for animal shelter cats to the practical challenge of crafting compelling subject lines and outreach messages, these prompts cover a broad spectrum of copywriting needs.

Need to find the perfect meme to illustrate a customer's pain point? We've got a prompt for that. Looking to generate personalized plant recommendations? We've thought of that too. Our copywriting prompts are designed to inject creativity and personalization into your communications at scale.

Sample prompts for AI copywriting

🚀 Your Launchpad for AI-Driven Success

While we've provided a rich array of prompts to get you started, we encourage you to view these as a foundation rather than a limitation. Feel free to use them as-is, or better yet, adapt and modify them to suit your specific needs. The beauty of these prompts lies in their flexibility - they're designed to be tweaked and tailored to your unique use cases.

For instance, if you're looking to summarize a specific type of content that isn't covered in our existing prompts, use one of our summarization prompts as a starting point. Modify it to fit your needs, and you'll be off to the races in no time.

At Clay, we believe in the power of AI to transform business processes, and these prompts are our way of putting that power directly into your hands. We're excited to see how you'll use these prompts to drive innovation, streamline your workflows, and uncover new insights within your data.

Remember, the world of AI is ever-evolving, and so too will our collection of prompts. We encourage you to experiment, iterate, and share your successes with the Clay community. Together, we're pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI-driven data analysis and content creation.

Happy prompting, and here's to your AI-powered success!

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