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Pause or start a Drip campaign knowing who it affects
For email marketers who want to change one Drip campaign or workflow status safely, by asking their AI assistant.
On this page
Connector
Connect Drip, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
One wrong click stops or starts a whole email series
Pausing a Drip series stops every subscriber mid-sequence and activating a draft starts mailing them. With similar names, it is easy to change the wrong one or miss how many people it affects.
Without PopdockAI
- Search for the campaign or workflow by name
- Pick between lookalike names
- Change the status without seeing the impact
- Find out later it was the wrong one
With PopdockAI
- The exact item is resolved, or every match listed
- It stops if the item is already in that state
- You see the id, status and people affected and confirm
- One change per run, with the new status read back
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** `{action}` (pause or activate) the Drip `{kind}` (campaign or workflow) named `{name}`.
**Step 1: Resolve it**
* Campaign: call `drip-get-campaign` with `name` = `{name}`, then with `name.contains` if nothing matches.
* Workflow: call `drip-get-workflow` with `name` = `{name}`, then with `name.contains` if nothing matches.
If more than one matches, list them with ids and statuses and stop. If none, stop.
**Step 2: Check it makes sense**
* If it is already in the requested state, say so and stop.
* For a campaign, report active subscribers and emails. Pausing stops every one of those people mid-series; activating a draft starts sending to them. For a large audience (over 1,000), call `drip-get-campaign-subscriber` with `campaign-id` and `max-records` = 5 to show a sample.
* For a workflow, report its status and created date.
**Step 3: Confirm**
State the item, its id, current status, the change, and the impact. Wait for the user to say yes.
**Step 4: Act once and verify**
Call exactly one of `drip-pause-campaign`, `drip-activate-campaign`, `drip-pause-workflow` or `drip-activate-workflow` with `id` = the resolved id. Re-read with `drip-get-campaign` or `drip-get-workflow` and report the new status.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* Never change more than one item per run, even when several match.
* Do not call any subscriber, tag or remove tool.
**Validation:**
* If `{action}` is not pause or activate, or `{kind}` is not campaign or workflow, ask before reading anything.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Email marketers
Pause a series when plans change
Stop a campaign quickly when an offer ends, knowing how many people are mid-sequence.
Pause the Summer Sale campaign in Drip and tell me how many people it affects.
Marketing operations
Launch workflows safely
Activate a workflow only after seeing exactly which item it is and its current state.
Activate the New Customer Welcome workflow in Drip.
Marketing managers
Stop a send with a problem
Halt the right campaign when a mistake is spotted, without touching anything else.
We found a broken link, pause the Drip Product Tips campaign now.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You say what to pause or activate, and your AI assistant finds the exact item and shows its impact. One change is made only after you confirm.
01
Ask
You say pause or activate, campaign or workflow, and the name.
02
Resolve
It finds the exact item and stops if several match or it is already in that state.
03
Confirm
You see its id, status and how many people are affected.
04
Change
It makes one change and reads the new status 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-campaign
drip-get-workflow
drip-get-campaign-subscriber
drip-pause-campaign
drip-activate-campaign
drip-pause-workflow
drip-activate-workflow
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
Status changes made knowing exactly who is affected
Related use cases
More ways to put this data to work
One prompt template with infinite possibilities.
Your AI assistant adapts its approach, tone, and capabilities to match each unique context while you maintain a single, manageable workflow.
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