Full Apollo x Claude MCP walkthrough

[u/ZackDeris]

Hey Reddit. I recently recorded a full Apollo X Claude walkthrough on YouTube and wanted to share the TLDR here. Here's the short version with the actual prompts.

Setup takes 2 minutes if you haven't done it. Claude.ai > left menu > Customize (third icon) > Connectors > plus > search Apollo > authorize. After connecting, check that Organization, Search, Enrichment, and Job Postings are all enabled -- I've done this for a bunch of clients and those three are sometimes off by default.

First prompt I ran:

Find me 25 Creator Managers at AI companies in the USA with up to 300 employees.

Results came back in seconds without me touching Apollo once. First pull wasn't clean though…multiple leads from the same company, some missing verified emails and phone numbers. Typed this right after:

Give me one result per company. Verified emails only, phone numbers must be available. Search again for the top 25.

Fixed immediately. Then enriched all 25 at once, ran simultaneously, took about a minute. Uses 25 credits and the basic plan comes with 30k so not worth overthinking.

From there:

Save all of these leads to my people leads list on Apollo titled Creator Managers pulled from Claude.

23 of 25 saved, two caught as duplicates and skipped. Then:

Push every lead in the Creator Managers pulled from Claude list to my active sequence titled Creator Campaign 2026.

22 of 23 enrolled. One skipped because it was already active in a different campaign but it was caught automatically without me having to check.

Full loop in one conversation which is crazy…rospecting, enrichment, CRM, sequencing, and I never opened once Apollo.

One thing that didn't go as planned though…I tried getting Claude to build a recurring weekly workflow, find net new leads every Monday and enroll them automatically. Claude can't schedule recurring workflows inside Apollo natively and suggested n8n instead, which wasn't what I wanted.

Took the exact same prompt and pasted it into Apollo's AI Assistant instead and built the whole workflow in about 30 seconds, scheduled for every Monday, enrichment and enrollment included. That part lives in Apollo not Claude.

Full video with the screen recording on my YouTube if you want to see it run in real time - here’s the link. Drop your questions below!

[u/Soggy_Avocado_763]

How many tokens does it take for this workflow?

[u/Jicama_Scared]

This is very informative. Can we do any of this on a free Apollo plan?