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 don’t build this in a node editor. 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.