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Tutorials, integration guides, and product updates from the Twain team.

September 11, 20265 min readVideo tutorialUse AI for better cold callingSee a real Ultra-generated cold call opener and voicemail, the prospect research behind them, and how to add calling alongside LinkedIn and email in Twain.
  • Cold calling
  • Prospect research
  • Message writing
September 9, 202611 min readWhat to Ask Your AI Assistant Once Twain Is ConnectedTen moments in an outbound day, the prompt that handles each in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Claude Code, what Twain does behind it, and what it costs. Then the flows that chain them, from a new segment to reviewed copy in one conversation. A playbook for the Twain MCP server.
  • API & MCP
  • Workflow automation
September 1, 20268 min readWrite better LinkedIn connection requests with these 3 examplesWrite a LinkedIn connection request message around the real reason you are reaching out. These three frameworks cover inbound interest, event invitations, and cold outbound, with a complete example for each.
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • Message writing
September 1, 20266 min read3 LinkedIn follow-up messages to send after no responseThree better follow-up angles for an accepted LinkedIn connection that gets no reply: a real deadline, a credible customer reference, or a useful answer to an active question.
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • Follow-up & re-engagement
  • Message writing
September 1, 20268 min readHow to Re-engage a Prospect Who Went Silent on LinkedInRe-engagement is not another reminder. These three LinkedIn frameworks help you restart a conversation by checking ownership, removing the work that blocked the next step, or making a meeting easy to reconfirm.
  • Follow-up & re-engagement
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • Message writing
August 27, 20268 min readImport Attio Lists Into Twain And Write The Sequences BackPoint Twain at an Attio list and it researches every person, writes the multi-step sequence, and upserts the result back onto the same Attio record. Two directions, no CSV in the middle, no duplicate people.
  • Imports & exports
  • Workflow automation
August 24, 20264 min readVideo tutorialBase, High, Ultra: Choose How Much Effort to Spend on Your OutreachSo far, you had one mode: 1 credit equals 1 lead. But not all leads are the same, and not all campaigns require the same effort. Base, High, and Ultra let you choose — from high-volume email campaigns to lists that deserve an unreasonable amount of research, strategy, and copy.
  • Prospect research
  • Campaign planning
August 19, 20267 min readSet Up The Twain HubSpot IntegrationInstall the Twain app in HubSpot, approve the scopes it asks for, map your fields, and run it — plus how to disconnect or uninstall, and exactly what happens to your data when you do.
  • Imports & exports
July 8, 20266 min readAutomate LinkedIn Re-engagement With Twain, n8n, and HeyReachCold leads are pipeline you already paid for — but re-engaging them well means re-reading every prior thread, so reps blast a generic 'just following up' or never do it. This Twain + n8n + HeyReach workflow reads each lead's actual conversation and drafts a re-engagement that continues the thread — in seconds, with you still the sender.
  • Workflow automation
  • Follow-up & re-engagement
  • LinkedIn outreach
July 3, 20267 min readAutomate Personalized LinkedIn Outreach With Twain and n8nGood LinkedIn outreach takes ~15–20 minutes of research per prospect, so reps send generic notes or never get to it. This Twain + n8n workflow turns a signal into a researched, personalized LinkedIn intro and follow-ups in ~20 seconds — drafted and queued, with you still the sender.
  • Workflow automation
  • LinkedIn outreach
  • API & MCP
July 2, 20267 min readAutomate Demo Research and Prep With Twain and n8nReps lose the first ten minutes of every demo to generic discovery. The moment a meeting is booked — from any tool — Twain researches the prospect in ~20 seconds and hands the AE a ready brief plus a drafted pre-demo touch.
  • Workflow automation
  • Prospect research
  • API & MCP
July 1, 20268 min readGive Every Signup a Researched Welcome in SecondsA personalized, researched welcome that would take a human 15–20 minutes is drafted in about 20 seconds — waiting for one click of approval. A great first touch at scale that lifts activation, without hand-research or off-brand AI.
  • Workflow automation
  • Message writing
  • API & MCP
June 30, 20268 min readQualify Every Signup in Seconds With Twain and n8nStop hand-triaging signups. Twain researches each new signup in ~20 seconds, scores it Tier 1 / Tier 2 / No Fit against your ICP, and routes only real fits to Slack and HubSpot with full context.
  • Workflow automation
  • Lead qualification
  • API & MCP
May 29, 20265 min readImport Salesforce Contacts Into TwainPull Salesforce Contact list views into Twain campaigns, once or continuously. Twain runs research on each contact, maps your Salesforce fields to variables, and keeps the list in sync.
  • Imports & exports
  • Workflow automation
May 18, 20265 min readBuild an Outbound Campaign Brief With TwainA short chat with Twain that turns 'we want to reach these people' into a real outbound brief — the reason, the angle, the offer, the steps, the channels. By the time you hit Create, the campaign already knows what to say.
  • Campaign planning
  • Message writing
May 18, 20264 min readImport Outreach Prospects Into TwainBring prospects from Outreach into a Twain campaign using the tags you already maintain. Map fields once and the research, custom variables, and sequences are built around the lead lists your team curates in Outreach.
  • Imports & exports
  • Workflow automation
May 18, 20265 min readRun Outreach Tags Through a Twain AutomationTurn Outreach tags into a continuous lead feed. New prospects on a tag flow through research, sequence generation, and export into the tools your reps already use — without anyone touching Twain in between.
  • Workflow automation
  • Imports & exports
May 18, 20264 min readImport Amplemarket Lists Into TwainBring an Amplemarket lead list into a Twain campaign. Connect once with your API key, pick the list, map the fields — and the research and sequence start running on the leads your team already curates in Amplemarket.
  • Imports & exports
May 6, 20266 min readHow Twain Deep Research WorksEvery Twain campaign runs a research pass on each lead before a single email is drafted. The result is a structured profile (about, insights, why now, why us, talking points, call opener) that the assistant reasons over instead of inventing.
  • Prospect research
  • Lead qualification
May 6, 20264 min readConnect the Twain MCP Server to Your AI AssistantConnect Twain to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client and run campaigns, generate sequences, and add leads from a single chat window. No Twain UI required.
  • API & MCP
  • Workflow automation
May 5, 20265 min readVideo tutorialImport HubSpot Contacts Into TwainPull HubSpot contacts straight into a Twain campaign so the research, custom variables, and sequences are built from the lists your team already keeps in the CRM.
  • Imports & exports
  • Workflow automation
May 4, 20265 min readVideo tutorialExport Twain Leads Back To HubSpotSend the message Twain wrote, the research it ran, and any custom variables straight back to the HubSpot contact, so SDRs and AEs work from the same context without bouncing between tools.
  • Imports & exports
May 3, 20265 min readVideo tutorialUse HubSpot Conversation History In TwainYour team has been talking to these prospects for months. Twain can read what HubSpot already has on them (emails, calls, notes, meetings) and use it to write the next message, so follow-ups pick up where the thread left off instead of starting cold.
  • Imports & exports
  • Message writing