Automated Client Acquisition for Claude

One platform for client acquisition, run from Claude. One sign-in, no API keys.

What ACA replaces

Instead of	ACA gives you
Smartlead / Instantly	Cold email sequences, mailbox rotation, warmup, and deliverability monitoring
HeyReach	LinkedIn automation across multiple sender accounts, with a unified inbox
Separate content tools	Content blueprints and autopilots for LinkedIn, X, Instagram and more
Lead-magnet tools	Comment-to-DM lead magnets on LinkedIn and Instagram
Signal tools	Buying signals (funding, hiring, engagement) feeding your lists
Mailbox infrastructure vendors	Microsoft 365 sending tenants and your own mail stack
Glue code	CRM, webhooks, GoHighLevel and Notion integrations, native n8n nodes, a CLI, and this MCP connector

What Claude does, and what happens in ACA

From Claude: check your workspace and what to do next, define your offer and ICP, search your contacts, build lead lists, draft LinkedIn campaigns and lead magnets, read campaign results, triage replies, write sequences and copy, and plan and generate content.

In the ACA app (Claude gives you the exact link): connect LinkedIn accounts and mailboxes, find new prospects in ACA's lead database or import them, build and enroll email sequences, activate campaigns, and run autopilots. Nothing goes live or spends credits without your approval.

Get started in 2 minutes

1. Install the plugin from the Claude directory.
2. When Claude asks, click Connect and sign in to ACA (a free account works). No API key, no config file.
3. Run /aca for the overview and every command, or /aca-kickoff to set up your workspace step by step.

Every command is documented at automatedclientacquisition.com/mcp/commands.

Try these prompts

• "What should I do next in ACA?"
• "Draft an ICP for UK recruitment agencies and the search criteria to find them."
• "Write a 4-step cold email sequence for this offer."
• "Show today's replies and draft answers that book a call."
• "Turn this case study into 5 LinkedIn posts."

What it does with your data

The plugin connects to ACA's MCP server (mcp.automatedclientacquisition.com) using OAuth. It reads and writes contacts, lead lists, campaigns, sequences, content and replies in the ACA workspace you sign in to. See the privacy policy.

What Is Automated Client Acquisition?

Automated Client Acquisition is the repeatable operating system for turning a clear offer and ICP into qualified sales conversations.

ACA coordinates the full acquisition loop:

1. Define the offer, ICP, proof, disqualifiers, and campaign angle.
2. Build or import the right audience.
3. Score, segment, and clean the list before outreach.
4. Launch personalized LinkedIn, email, and multi-channel campaigns.
5. Monitor sender health, deliverability, replies, and campaign progress.
6. Create content and lead magnets that support outbound and nurture.
7. Learn from replies, run experiments, and improve the next campaign.

In practical terms, ACA is a CRM, lead-list engine, outreach campaign builder, email sequence system, content generator, reply workflow, and weekly operating cadence in one workspace. These skills let an AI agent operate that system through one native MCP connection.

What You Can Do With These Skills

• Launch outbound campaigns from a plain-English brief.
• Build lead lists from ACA's native lead pool, LinkedIn imports, and account constraints.
• Grade and segment lists before sending.
• Create LinkedIn, email, and multi-channel ACA campaigns.
• Audit sender health and deliverability before launch.
• Generate weekly content through ACA blueprints.
• Score replies, design experiments, and run a weekly operating rhythm.

Why This Exists

Most outbound agent stacks are a pile of brittle credentials and vendor-specific playbooks. ACA already centralizes the operational layer: CRM contacts, lead lists, campaigns, email sequences, sender accounts, content blueprints, autopilots, and publishing.

These skills give agents the procedural layer on top of that ACA operating system:

User request -> Agent skill -> ACA MCP -> ACA workspace

No direct SQL. No separate vendor secrets in the skill bundle. No hardcoded workspace IDs.

Skill Library

27 skills organized in 6 tracks.

These skills are chained. Each skill includes upstream/downstream rules and a handoff block so an agent can continue into the next ACA workflow while preserving org context, IDs, approvals, and constraints. See CHAINING.md for the chain maps.

Strategy

• aca-kickoff - guided setup and routing: product, ICP, brand voice, channels, first plan
• aca-icp-onboarding - turn a rough buyer description into product, ICP, fit notes, and disqualifiers
• aca-lead-magnet-brainstorm - plan lead magnets and keyword-monitoring campaigns
• aca-campaign-strategy - design campaign angles, channel mix, list plan, and success metrics
• aca-campaign-copywriting - draft campaign prompts, emails, LinkedIn messages, and follow-ups

Audience Building

• aca-find-leads - search the ACA lead pool first, then optionally import from LinkedIn
• aca-lead-quality - grade a lead list, segment it, and create campaign-ready sublists
• aca-local-business-leads - build geo/vertical local business lists from ACA-native lead sources
• aca-lookalike-leads - clone the shape of a winning list or customer segment
• aca-domain-list-builder - build account/contact lists from company keywords, domains, and account constraints
• aca-competitor-engagers - source people around competitors, alternatives, and category keywords

Outreach Execution

• aca-launch-outreach - create and optionally activate LinkedIn, email, or multi-channel campaigns
• aca-email-sequence-manager - create, update, enroll, pause, and inspect email sequences
• aca-personalization-pattern - apply ACA campaign prompt-mode personalization with QA samples
• aca-copy-variants - create controlled copy variations for campaign experiments
• aca-copy-spam-checker - review email and DM copy for spammy language, weak claims, and formatting risks

Deliverability and Sender Ops

• aca-sender-health - inspect connected senders, mailboxes, warmup, capacity, and obvious blockers
• aca-email-deliverability-audit - audit cold-email readiness and sequence risk before launch
• aca-deliverability-test - run a controlled preflight test plan for email sending
• aca-deliverability-incident-response - triage bounces, failed sends, reputation drops, and stalled campaigns
• aca-email-infra-readiness - checklist and readiness review for ACA-managed/BYO email infrastructure

Content

• aca-content-week - generate a batch of posts, carousels, videos, ads, or other blueprint-driven content

Operations and Iteration

• aca-pipeline-status - read-only status report across campaigns, imports, content jobs, and autopilots
• aca-weekly-rhythm - Monday/Wednesday/Friday operating cadence for experiments and cleanup
• aca-positive-reply-scoring - classify replies and surface campaign/list lessons
• aca-experiment-design - create one controlled outbound/content experiment with a clean metric
• aca-auto-research - autonomous research loop that finds gaps and routes to the next ACA workflow

Use outside Claude (Codex, Cursor, other runtimes)

In Claude, the plugin connects automatically. For other runtimes:

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/seguelaCedric/aca-native-mcp-skills.git
cd aca-native-mcp-skills

Install into your runtime:

./install.sh codex
./install.sh claude
./install.sh cursor

Or install into all three local runtimes:

./install.sh all

For another skills-compatible runtime:

./install.sh --target ~/.your-agent/skills

Then connect ACA MCP:

Connect ACA MCP

Add the ACA MCP server to your runtime. Runtimes that support OAuth will prompt you to sign in:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aca": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.automatedclientacquisition.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Authentication is OAuth only: the first tool call opens an ACA sign-in, and no API key is stored on your machine.

If you manage multiple client workspaces, the skills use list_accessible_organizations and switch_organization so the agent operates in the right ACA org.

Recommended Paths

If you are new to ACA:

1. Run aca-kickoff
2. Follow the recommended next action: aca-find-leads, aca-launch-outreach, or aca-content-week
3. Run aca-pipeline-status after launch
4. Run aca-weekly-rhythm every week to review replies, experiments, and pipeline health

If you already have lead lists:

1. Run aca-lead-quality
2. Run aca-launch-outreach
3. Run aca-pipeline-status

If you already have campaigns running:

1. Run aca-pipeline-status
2. Run aca-weekly-rhythm
3. Use aca-content-week to keep social proof and nurture content moving

Coverage Map

This project was inspired by the breadth of open cold-outbound skill bundles. In ACA, vendor-specific capabilities route through ACA MCP instead of separate API integrations.

External-vendor workflow	ACA-native equivalent
Kickoff / starter kit	aca-kickoff, aca-email-sequence-manager, aca-launch-outreach
ICP onboarding and prompt building	aca-icp-onboarding, aca-campaign-copywriting
Campaign strategy and copywriting	aca-campaign-strategy, aca-campaign-copywriting
Prospeo-style lead search	aca-find-leads, aca-local-business-leads, aca-domain-list-builder
Domain-first contact discovery	aca-domain-list-builder
Google Maps style local lists	aca-local-business-leads
Lookalike company discovery	aca-lookalike-leads
Competitor/category audiences	aca-competitor-engagers
List scoring	aca-lead-quality
Smartlead-style sequence ops	aca-email-sequence-manager, aca-launch-outreach
Spintax / copy variants	aca-copy-variants
Spam phrase checking	aca-copy-spam-checker
Inbox/sender management	aca-sender-health
Deliverability audits/tests/incidents	aca-email-deliverability-audit, aca-deliverability-test, aca-deliverability-incident-response
Domain/infrastructure setup review	aca-email-infra-readiness
Positive reply scoring	aca-positive-reply-scoring
Weekly ops and experiments	aca-weekly-rhythm, aca-experiment-design, aca-auto-research

Package Metadata

This repo includes:

• .codex-plugin/plugin.json for Codex plugin discovery
• .claude-plugin/plugin.json for Claude Code plugin discovery
• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json as Claude-style marketplace metadata
• package.json for npm-style packaging and release scripts
• CHAINING.md for the explicit chain contract and flow maps

Validate and build release artifacts:

npm run validate
npm run pack:release

Release artifacts are written to dist/:

dist/aca-native-mcp-skills-1.1.1.tar.gz
dist/aca-native-mcp-skills-1.1.1.zip

Guardrails

• Do not ask users for vendor API keys inside these skills. ACA stores provider credentials and exposes safe workflows through MCP.
• Do not use SQL, Supabase REST calls, or direct edge-function calls from a skill when an ACA MCP tool exists.
• Confirm before spending import budget, activating campaigns, publishing content, pausing live campaigns, or making bulk destructive changes.
• Keep workspace data scoped to the selected ACA organization. When switching orgs, switch back before finishing.

Directory Layout

aca-native-mcp-skills/
  README.md
  CHAINING.md
  LICENSE
  .mcp.example.json
  package.json
  .codex-plugin/
    plugin.json
  .claude-plugin/
    plugin.json
    marketplace.json
  install.sh
  scripts/
    validate.sh
    package.sh
  aca-*/
    SKILL.md

License

MIT.