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A campaign is the top-level container that ties everything together in Topo. It pairs a target audience — defined by one or more lead searches — with a sequence template that determines how you reach out. Every lead that flows through a campaign follows the same playbook: discovered by AI, reviewed (or automatically approved), then enrolled into a personalized multi-channel sequence on your behalf.

What a campaign contains

Each campaign has three core ingredients:

Audience

One or more lead searches that define who you want to reach — your ICP expressed as a prompt or a set of filters.

Sequence template

The reusable outreach playbook: step types, timing, daily limits, and the sending accounts to use.

Settings

Approval mode, daily lead targets, schedule, and timezone — the controls that govern how fast and how carefully the campaign runs.

Creating a campaign

1

Open Campaigns and click New Campaign

From the left navigation, go to Campaigns and select New Campaign in the top-right corner.
2

Name your campaign

Give the campaign a descriptive name — for example, “VP Sales – Series B Fintech Q3”. A clear name makes it easy to distinguish campaigns when you’re running several in parallel.
3

Describe your target audience

Enter a targeting prompt in plain language (e.g., “VP of Sales at B2B SaaS companies with 50–200 employees in North America”) or apply structured filters such as industry, company size, job title, and location. Topo uses this description to seed your lead searches.
4

Assign a sequence template

Pick an existing sequence template from the dropdown, or create a new one. The template controls which steps are sent, in what order, and on what schedule.
5

Configure and launch

Review your campaign settings (see below), then click Launch to set the campaign to Running.

Campaign settings

Controls how many new leads Topo attempts to enroll each day. Start conservatively — 10–20 leads per day — while you validate the audience quality, then increase once you’re happy with the approval rate.
Two modes are available:
  • Autopilot — Leads that meet your criteria are enrolled automatically without requiring your review. Use this when you trust your targeting and want hands-off volume.
  • Manual review — Each lead surfaces in a review queue before being enrolled. You approve or reject leads one by one. This mode is slower but gives you full control over who enters your sequence.
Set the days of the week and time window during which Topo sends outreach on behalf of this campaign. Outreach is sent in the timezone of your sending account by default, but you can override it per campaign.
Use Manual review mode the first time you run a new audience prompt. Reviewing a sample of 20–30 leads helps you spot mismatches early — before they consume your daily quota. Once the audience looks right, switch to Autopilot.

Campaign lifecycle

A campaign moves through the following statuses:
StatusWhat it means
RunningThe campaign is active. Lead searches are running, leads are being enrolled, and sequences are sending.
PausedAll activity is suspended. Existing sequences hold at their current step; no new leads are enrolled.
CompletedThe campaign has finished. No new leads are enrolled, but any sequences already in progress continue to their natural end.
ArchivedThe campaign is hidden from default views but its data is preserved for reporting.
You can pause and resume a running campaign at any time from the campaign list or the campaign detail page. Pausing does not lose your place — sequences resume from where they left off.

Reviewing and approving leads

When approval mode is set to Manual review, surfaced leads appear in the Leads tab of the campaign under the To review sub-tab.
1

Open the Leads tab

Navigate to your campaign and click Leads, then select the To review view.
2

Inspect each lead

Click a lead row to open the lead drawer. You’ll see enriched contact and company data, any buying signals Topo detected, and the contact’s current status.
3

Approve or reject

Click Approve to enroll the lead into the campaign’s sequence, or Reject to exclude them. Rejected leads are not contacted and do not count against your daily target.
4

Bulk actions

Select multiple leads using the checkboxes to approve or reject them in one action — useful when reviewing a fresh batch.
Rejected leads are added to your exclusion list and won’t resurface in future searches for the same campaign. If you accidentally reject a lead, you can find them in the Rejected sub-tab and restore them.

Campaign analytics

The Overview tab of each campaign shows key metrics at a glance: leads found, leads contacted, messages sent, open rate, reply rate, and positive reply rate. Use these metrics to compare campaigns and iterate on your audience and messaging.