You may only want to run an enrichment if a certain condition is true. For example:
Only run an email enrichment column, if their title contains "VP"
Only run a headcount growth enrichment if the company size is over 100 people
Only run an AI column if a news article was found
Conditional formulas are a powerful way you can do any of these (and more!) within Clay.
The best part? You don't need to know any coding language to create these formulas! Our AI formula generator turns your every request into a formula:)
2️⃣ How can you use them?
Luckily it's quite easy:)
Just scroll down to "Run Settings" on any enrichment column:
Type out what you'd like to do inside the prompt box. Type "/" to enter a column you'd like the condition to run off. For example - If you only want the enrichment to run if the headcount is greater than 40, type out "Only run if /headcount is greater than 40".
Click "Generate Formula" - we'll use AI to turn your request into a formula.
Check the sample output, and save the formula!
3️⃣ Why you should use them?
Conditional formulas are what allow you to truly build the workflows of your dreams.
You can automatically ensure actions are only taken when you want them to happen. This will help you:
Conserve credits
Ensure your data stays clean
4️⃣ Still feeling unsure? Watch this full tutorial below!
Supported Code and Argument Examples
Clean urls if they include unwanted characters like https:// or unwanted paths like /index.html, i.e. Strip https://www.loom.com/about-us down to just loom.com
Run actions based on specific conditions, e.g. run only if another action has run, run only if a prior action has returned a specific output, run only if box is checked
The formula is applied via the action input and reads **if( {{condition}} , {{input}} )**
In this example we want to run Clearbit only if BuiltWith has returned a match for Hubspot. We will apply **if( {{ "Uses Hubspot" }} , {{Domain}} )**
Automatic checkbox
Write a formula to show a checkbox in your table, checked or unchecked based on conditions of your choice, i.e. If A is true, show checkbox in this row
if({{ "Email" }}.includes("gmail"))
Set your column type to checkbox, this will allow it to automatically check and uncheck depending on your true/false formula
Tier or filter your leads by grouping
Create buckets that records fall into using ternary operators that can help tiering or filtering, i.e. If A is between B and C, label D
Automate your lead scoring and use a checkbox to identify qualified leads based on certain properties in your table ⚡️ Here are a few examples to get you started:
Checkbox for work emails only:if(["hotmail","gmail", "yahoo", "icloud", "outlook", "comcast", "proton"].some((domain)=>{{{ "Email Address" }}.includes(domain)}), false, true)
Checkbox for specific industries:if({{ "Industry" }} && ["software", "internet", "information technology"].some((i)=>{{{ Industry }}.toLowerCase().includes(i)}), true, false)
Checkbox if company has a certain amount of employees:if({{ "Employee Count" }} && {{ "Employee Count" }} > 50 && {{ "Employee Count" }} < 200, true, false)
And now, get creative and combine! Once you've set up all of your individual checkbox columns, add a Final Scoring using a chain of operators to flow through the qualification logic.
i.e.!{{ "Only work emails" }} ? false : {{ "In ideal industry" }} ? true : {{ "At least 20 employees"}} ? true : false
Add some code
Clay formulas can support:
Lodash → _ will refer to lodash, so _.chunk( [ 10, 20, 30, 40 ], 2 ) will result in [ [ 10, 20 ], [ 30, 40 ] ]
Lambda functions → the syntax for lambda function is: (arg1, arg2, ...) => { expression }. The extra {} are necessary. The above is equal to Javascript's (arg1, arg2, ...)=> expression and (arg1, arg2, ...)=> { return expression }.
Javascript Object functions → Eg. strings do have .length property, and methods like .split() or .substring(). Arrays have .length, .concat, .indexOf, .map, .filter etc.
