Clay executive shares internal AI writing policy with four core principles

Clay University logo # AI in Clay A comprehensive guide to how Clay uses AI across its features. A comprehensive guide to how Clay uses AI across its features, with a focus on data privacy, security, and responsible AI practices. Your data is never used for AI model training. Clay has contractual agreements with all AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others) that strictly prohibit using customer data to train their models. ## Core AI principles Clay is committed to transparent and responsible AI use. Here's what you need to know: ## AI features in Clay ### Email sequencer What it does: Email Sequencer is Clay's built-in email outreach tool that lets you run email campaigns directly from your tables, using AI to create personalized messaging at scale. [...] | Provider | Models | --- | | Clay | Helium Neon Argon Clay Navigator | | OpenAI | GPT 5.5 GPT 5.4, 5.4 Mini, 5.4 Nano GPT 5 Mini, 5 Nano o3, o4 Mini GPT 4.1, 4.1 Mini, 4.1 Nano GPT 4o, 4o Mini GPT Imag

### Using the Generate tab (recommended) 1. While in a Clay table, click `Add column` and click `Use AI`. 2. In the `Generate` tab, describe what you want to accomplish in plain English. For example: "Find the CEO's email address" or "Summarize this company's product offering from their website." 3. Click `Generate` and Clay will automatically: Create an optimized prompt Recommend the best AI model for your task Set up appropriate output fields 4. Review the generated setup in the Configure tab. 5. Make any adjustments if needed, then run your enrichment. ### Using the Configure tab (advanced)

It's important to keep these sentences succinct while still including valuable insights. We provide examples to the AI to ensure we get the desired output. One critical step we never skip is feeding the AI the lines we've already crafted. This prevents repetition and ensures each new sentence adds unique value to our message. Crafting the Email First line after Subject line ### Adding Personal Touches 🎨 To make our emails stand out, we often include creative elements like quotes from podcasts or blog posts. We might also add a personalized postscript (PS) that references something specific about the recipient, such as their alma mater or a tradition from their university days. ### The Result: Personalized, Engaging Copy 🎯 [...] We follow email best practices by keeping our subject lines under eight words, focusing on the second person, and referencing relevant research about the individual. To guide the AI, we provide a few examples of what we're looking for, often starting with

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We just instituted an official AI Writing Policy at Clay. Massive thanks to Sophie Alpert on our engineering team who wrote this. Originally this was just for eng, but other teams found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide. Here are the four guiding principles: 1. You must stand behind every idea and sentence It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it. 2. Writing is thinking Spending time on the writing process teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter. 3. More time should be spent writing a document than consuming it [...] We just instituted an official AI Writing Policy at Clay. Massive thanks to Sophie Alpert on our engineering team who wrote this. Originally this was just for eng, but other teams found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide. Here are the four guiding principles: 1. You must stand behind

to make it happen a little light a little general but obviously taken from their company description I noticed that your company Siemens AG is a global technology Powerhouse that has stood for any engineering Excellence Innovation I was wondering if it would be helpful if someone were to managed to further drive out your goals solving world hunger wow okay love it wow okay great um the latest book somewhere they're making an impact so obviously we could do some more prompting here to make it even better and obviously we could put in ways I would improve this is give it more data prompt it even better give it a better template the template I gave was was not that great but you could obviously see that we are you know on the cusp of you know replacing this copywriting and just being able to [...] you know replacing this copywriting and just being able to say hey here's the template here's all of the data that you should ingest you know go for it and so that is how we would write personal