TexAu Platform Help
Step 1 — Gather context
If references/learnings.md exists, read it first for accumulated platform knowledge.
Ask only what's needed to route (skip if the prompt already says):
- Which TexAu are you on?
- A) Cloud / Desktop automations (the classic recipe + automation-hours product — LinkedIn, Sales Nav, Twitter, web scraping)
- B) The V3 GTM data platform (table interface, waterfall enrichment, AI Column)
- C) The REST API / MCP server (programmatic, credit-based) - What's the goal? Build a list · enrich/find emails · scrape a site or directory · wire into a CRM/n8n · pick a plan · debug an account-safety/ban issue.
- Hitting an error? Account restricted · automation stuck · empty enrichment result · async job returns nothing · webhook not firing.
Skip-ahead rule: if the user's prompt already contains enough context, go straight to Step 2.
Step 2 — Route or answer directly
| If the user wants… | Route to |
|---|---|
| Cross-tool prospect-list strategy (which tool, ICP filters) | /sales-prospect-list {question} |
| Enrichment-provider strategy / waterfall design across tools | /sales-enrich {question} |
| Interpreting job-change / hiring signals across tools | /sales-intent {question} |
| Designing the outbound sequence after the list is built | /sales-cadence {question} |
| Connecting TexAu to a CRM / Zapier / Make generically | /sales-integration {question} |
When routing, give the exact command, e.g. "This is a cross-tool enrichment question — run: /sales-enrich {original question}". Otherwise answer here using Step 3.
Step 3 — TexAu platform reference
Read references/platform-guide.md for the full reference — capabilities and automation surface, pricing/credits, data model, the async email-job flow, and integration recipes. For raw endpoints, methods, and field-level request shapes, read references/texau-api-reference.md.
Answer using only the relevant section. Don't dump the whole guide.
Step 4 — Actionable guidance
You no longer need the guide — focus on the user's situation.
- Account safety first. TexAu drives LinkedIn with your own session cookie. No safety feature makes a ban impossible — keep daily action volumes human-like, use the cloud's dedicated IP/proxy, and never run two tools on one LinkedIn account at once.
- Match the product to the job. One-off LinkedIn/Sales Nav scrapes → Cloud/Desktop automations. Enrich-and-score-a-list at scale → V3 table or the API. Agent/Claude-driven runs → the MCP server.
- Budget on outcomes, not attempts. Pay-on-match means failed lookups return
billed: false(no charge); bulk/per_resulttools bill per row returned. Cache is on by default — turn it off when you need fresh data. - Email finding is async. Submit the job with a
webhookURL (or poll the inquiry endpoint); never expect inline results.
If you discover a gotcha, workaround, or tip not in references/learnings.md, append it there with today's date.
Gotchas
Best-effort from research (2026-06) — review these, especially plan-gated features and pricing that may be outdated.
- LinkedIn ban risk is real regardless of safety settings. The #1 complaint. Use cloud dedicated IP/proxy, ramp limits slowly, and don't stack TexAu with another automation tool on the same account.
- Two pricing models coexist. Classic Cloud bills monthly automation hours/minutes that do NOT roll over; the V3/API product bills pay-on-match credits that roll over up to 2× the monthly balance (Starter+). Don't assume one applies to the other.
- API + webhooks are plan-gated. On the V3 platform the API and webhooks come in on Starter and above — the entry (Solo) tier is UI + one-way daily CRM sync only (best-effort; verify on the pricing page).
- Two endpoint brands. The official API/MCP runs at
texau.com(v3-api.texau.com,mcp.texau.com/mcp); the same team also publishes arichapi.aiMCP/skills variant. Use whichever host your dashboard issues your key for. - Cache defaults to on. Most enrichment/scrape endpoints accept
useCache/cache(defaulttrue) — stale data is a config issue, not a data-quality bug.
Related skills
/sales-prospect-list— Build the prospect list across tools (TexAu is one option among Apollo, Clay, PhantomBuster, Snov)/sales-enrich— Cross-tool enrichment strategy and waterfall design/sales-intent— Act on job-change / hiring signals fromlead_search/sales-cadence— Design the outbound sequence once the list is built/sales-integration— Wire TexAu into a CRM, Zapier, Make, or n8n/sales-phantombuster— Closest competitor (Phantoms/Flows, agent→container→result API) for comparison/sales-clay— Competitor on the data-platform side (waterfall enrichment, Claygent)/sales-do— Not sure which skill to use? The router matches any sales objective to the right skill. Install:npx skills add sales-skills/sales --skill sales-do -a claude-code
Examples
Example 1: Account got restricted after a LinkedIn automation
User says: "I ran a TexAu connection-request automation and now LinkedIn restricted my account."
Skill does: Explains bans are possible regardless of safety features; advises pausing all automations, lowering daily limits, running on the cloud's dedicated IP, and never stacking two tools on one account; covers safe ramp-up.
Example 2 (developer/automation): Find emails in bulk via the API and collect results
User says: "How do I use the TexAu API to find emails for a list of people and get the results back in my app?"
Skill does: Points to POST /email_finding with x-api-key, a webhook URL, and a data array; explains it's async — results arrive at the webhook or via GET /email_finding_inquiry/{id}; notes pay-on-match billing (2 credits per person found) and shows the cURL.
Example 3: Which TexAu plan/product to buy
User says: "Should I get TexAu Cloud, the Desktop one-time license, or the API?"
Skill does: Maps each to a use case (recurring team automations → Cloud; heavy solo runs with no monthly fee → Desktop $1,499 one-time; programmatic/agent enrichment → credit-based API/MCP), and flags that automation hours don't roll over while API credits do.
Troubleshooting
LinkedIn account restricted or banned after running an automation
Cause: Automated actions at non-human volume, shared IP, or two tools on one account.
Solution: Pause everything, let the account rest, then resume at low daily limits on the cloud's dedicated IP/proxy. Treat ban risk as inherent to LinkedIn automation — no setting removes it.
Enrichment returns no data or a low fill rate
Cause: Waterfall exhausted all providers, or you're reading cached/empty results.
Solution: Confirm the input (LinkedIn URL/domain) is valid; failed lookups return billed: false so you weren't charged. Set useCache: false for fresh data and check /usage for remaining credits.
Email-finding job returns nothing inline
Cause: Email finding/verification are async jobs, not synchronous responses.
Solution: The POST /email_finding call returns a job id; results are delivered to your webhook URL or fetched later via GET /email_finding_inquiry/{id}. Don't parse the initial response as the result.
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