# Introduction

> Automate your prospecting with the Emelia API. Campaigns, contact lists, Email Finder, Phone Finder, Email Verifier, replies and webhooks, from your code or your AI assistant.

Source: https://docs.emelia.io/docs

Emelia is a B2B prospecting platform: multichannel campaigns (cold email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp), contact lists, an Email Finder, a Phone Finder, an Email Verifier, mailbox warmup and a unified inbox. The REST API gives your code the same power as the app.

[Get your API key](https://v3.emelia.io/settings/api)

[Open Emelia](https://v3.emelia.io)

## What you can build

- [Feed campaigns from your stack](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/lists): Push contacts from your CRM, a form or a Make or n8n flow. They enter the campaigns of their list on their own.

- [Create campaigns by API](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/campaigns): Build the sequence, the schedule and the senders, then start it. Cold email, LinkedIn automation, or both.

- [Enrich contacts](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/enrichment): Find professional emails and phone numbers, verify addresses before you send.

- [Work the replies](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/replies): Read every reply with its AI classification, answer from the right mailbox, sync your CRM.

## How Emelia is organised

Three ideas explain most of the API.

1. **Contacts live in lists, not in campaigns.** A campaign reads one or several lists. Add a contact to a list used by a campaign and the contact enters the campaign, without touching the campaign.
2. **Every campaign is multichannel.** The steps of a campaign decide what it does: emails only, LinkedIn actions only, or both, plus WhatsApp and manual tasks. There is one way to create a campaign, whatever the channels.
3. **Enrichment is asynchronous.** Finding an email or a phone number starts a job. You get a `jobId` at once and read the result when the job is done.

## The APIs

|                                   | Base URL                    | What it covers                                                                                             | Key                 |
| --------------------------------- | --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- |
| [Emelia API](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/all-endpoints.md) | `https://api.emelia.io`     | Campaigns, lists and contacts, enrichment, replies, blacklist, webhooks, email providers, LinkedIn scraper | Your Emelia API key |
| [MCP server](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/ai/mcp.md)        | `https://mcp.emelia.io/mcp` | 26 tools for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other AI assistants                                               | The same key        |

## Start here

- [Quickstart](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/quickstart): Your first request in two minutes: a key, a list, a contact.

- [Authentication](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/authentication): Create a key, send it, keep it safe.

- [Use Emelia from Claude or Cursor](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/ai/mcp): Connect the Emelia MCP server and drive your account in plain language.

- [All endpoints](https://docs.emelia.io/docs/all-endpoints): Every route on one page, and the OpenAPI specs to download.

> **Need a hand?.** Write to [contact@emelia.io](mailto:contact@emelia.io), or use the chat in the [Emelia app](https://v3.emelia.io).