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Add a Drip subscriber, tag and workflow in one step
For email marketers who want new people added to Drip with the right tag and workflow, by asking their AI assistant.
On this page
Connector
Connect Drip, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Adding a subscriber by hand is three jobs that go wrong
Adding someone to Drip means creating the subscriber, tagging them and starting a workflow. It is easy to re-add someone who opted out, pick the wrong workflow or start a paused one.
Without PopdockAI
- Search Drip for an existing subscriber
- Add or update them and apply the tag
- Pick a workflow from similar names
- Start a workflow that turns out to be paused
With PopdockAI
- Existing subscribers are found and past opt outs refused
- The workflow is matched by name and its state checked
- You see the full plan and confirm
- The record is read back after the change
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Add `{email}` to Drip as a subscriber, apply tag `{tag}` if given, and start the workflow named `{workflow-name}` if given.
**Step 1: Check whether they already exist**
Call `drip-get-subscriber` with `email` = `{email}`. If they exist, show their name, status and tags, and warn that `drip-add-subscriber` will update the existing record. If their status is unsubscribed, stop and tell the user: re-subscribing someone who opted out needs their explicit consent.
**Step 2: Resolve the workflow**
If `{workflow-name}` is given, call `drip-get-workflow` with `name` = `{workflow-name}`; if nothing matches, retry with `name.contains`. If more than one matches, list them and stop. If the match is not active, say so: starting a paused or draft workflow does nothing.
**Step 3: Confirm**
Show the plan: the subscriber to add or update, the tag, the workflow and its workflow-id. Wait for the user to say yes.
**Step 4: Write, in this order**
1. `drip-add-subscriber` with `email` = `{email}` and `tags` = `{tag}` if given. Pass first and last name only if the user supplied them.
2. `drip-get-subscriber` with `email` = `{email}` to read back the person-id. `drip-start-subscriber-workflow` needs the Drip subscriber ID, not the email.
3. If a workflow was resolved, `drip-start-subscriber-workflow` with `workflow_id` = the workflow-id and `id` = the person-id.
**Step 5: Verify and report**
Re-read the subscriber with `drip-get-subscriber` and report status, tags and what was done. Workflow membership cannot be read back; say the start call succeeded rather than claiming they are in it.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* Call each write tool at most once, and only after the confirmation in Step 3.
* Do not call `drip-unsubscribe-subscriber`, any remove tool, or `drip-activate-workflow`. If the workflow is paused, report it and let the user decide.
**Validation:**
* If `{email}` is not a valid email address, ask for one before doing anything.
* If any write fails, stop, report the error, and do not run the later steps.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Email marketers
Start new people on the right journey
Add a subscriber, tag them and start the right workflow in one message.
Add jo@contoso.com to Drip, tag them webinar and start the Webinar Follow Up workflow.
Sales reps
Enroll a prospect after a call
Put a new contact into a nurture workflow without logging into Drip, with warnings if anything is off.
Start lee@fabrikam.com on the Drip Demo Nurture workflow with the demo tag.
Customer success managers
Onboard new customers consistently
Every new customer gets the same tag and onboarding workflow, and nobody who opted out is re-added.
Onboard ana@northwindtraders.com in Drip with the customer tag and the Customer Onboarding workflow.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You give an email and optionally a tag and workflow, and your AI assistant checks Drip first. Nothing is written until you have seen the plan and said yes.
01
Ask
You give an email, and optionally a tag and a workflow name.
02
Check
It checks for an existing subscriber, refuses opt-outs and matches the workflow.
03
Confirm
You see the full plan.
04
Add
It adds the subscriber, starts the workflow and reads the record back.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for Drip and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
drip-get-subscriber
drip-add-subscriber
drip-get-workflow
drip-start-subscriber-workflow
Starts a Drip workflow for one subscriber, given the workflow id and the Drip subscriber id.
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
The right tag and workflow, and no re-added opt outs
Related use cases
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