Sequences
Enroll contacts in a multi-touch email and LinkedIn cadence. Lightfield writes each message, sends on a schedule, and stops when they reply.
A sequence is a per-contact outreach cadence. You enroll a contact, Lightfield sends a series of emails and LinkedIn messages over days or weeks, and that contact is removed as soon as they reply.
You describe the cadence in chat and the agent programs it for you: the audience, the value proposition, the steps, and who sends.
Sequences vs automations
Section titled “Sequences vs automations”Use a sequence when you want a timed outreach cadence for a person. Use an automation when you want a process to run on a schedule or a CRM event.
| Sequence | Automation | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts when | You enroll a contact | A trigger fires (schedule, record change, webhook) |
| Unit of work | One enrollment per contact | One run per event |
| Sends, or parks in For review | Drafts only; cannot auto-send | |
| In-flight changes | Edits apply to enrolled contacts at their next step | Running runs stay on the version they started |
A sequence has no event trigger. Cadence over time comes from waits between steps and the send window, not from re-firing when a record changes.
How a sequence runs
Section titled “How a sequence runs”- Draft with the agent in chat.
- Test run against one contact. Messages are composed as drafts; nothing is sent.
- Publish, then Activate. The first publish leaves the sequence paused.
- Enroll contacts. Each contact moves through the steps on their own.
- A reply stops outreach. An inbound email or LinkedIn message, including an out-of-office auto-reply, removes that contact from every live sequence.
You can enroll contacts while a sequence is paused. Sending starts when you activate or resume it.
A step is a touch: an email, a LinkedIn invite, or a LinkedIn DM. Waits sit between steps and are not counted as steps.
Each send step is either Review manually (the default: compose, then park in For review) or Send automatically.
For how to create, test, and enroll, see Building sequences.
Using the REST API
Section titled “Using the REST API”Everything the agent does to a sequence can be done over the API: create it, edit and publish its draft, activate it, enroll contacts, and read enrollments, messages and performance. Using sequences with the API walks through it with one sequence; the Sequence API reference has every endpoint.