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Connect Apollo.io to Claude Cowork

Give Claude Cowork governed access to Apollo.io’s 99 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.

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Set up

Add Apollo.io to Claude Cowork in four steps

Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude Cowork then gets it through the same governed connection.

  1. 1

    Add Apollo.io to Runlayer

    Apollo.io isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.

    Adding a connector manually
  2. 2

    Connect Claude Cowork to Runlayer

    Claude Cowork gets connector tools through the Runlayer Plugin. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, Apollo.io’s 99 tools show up in Claude Cowork’s own tool list.

    Claude Cowork setup guide
  3. 3

    Sign in to Apollo.io

    Sign in the way Apollo.io requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.

  4. 4

    Use Apollo.io from Claude Cowork

    Apollo.io’s approved tools appear in Claude Cowork. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.

Tools

99 Apollo.io tools in Claude Cowork

Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude Cowork users can call.

  • Create accounts bulk

    Create many accounts (companies) in one call.

  • Create accounts

    Use the Create an Account endpoint to add a new account to your team's Apollo account.

  • Update accounts

    Use the Update an Account endpoint to update existing accounts in your team's Apollo account.

  • Agent analyze performance

    "How is my team performing on outbound?" (synthesized narrative report)

  • Agent build lead scores

    "Build an account score for India-based EV / clean-energy companies."

  • Agent connect mailbox

    "Connect my Gmail / Outlook." | "Apply best-practice send settings."

  • Agent draft sequence copy

    "Draft a 6-step multichannel sequence (3 emails, 2 calls, 1 LinkedIn) for healthcare

  • Agent explain howto

    "How do I connect Apollo to Salesforce / reset my password?"

See all 99 Apollo.io tools

Control

What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude Cowork

Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude Cowork exposes to Runlayer.

  • Gateway policy (available)

    Every Apollo.io call from Claude Cowork passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.

  • Audit trail (available)

    Each call is recorded with the user, Claude Cowork as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.

  • Anthropic inference hooks (available)

    Anthropic Inference hooks let Runlayer check Claude Cowork prompts before inference.

  • OTLP telemetry (available)

    Claude Cowork can send supported OpenTelemetry events to Runlayer for observe-only session visibility.

  • Stop a call before it runs (available)

    Runlayer can reject a Claude Cowork prompt before Anthropic runs it, which stops the whole request rather than one tool call.

  • Block output after it runs (available)

    Because Runlayer checks the full prompt, tool results in it can be blocked before the model sees them.

  • Redact output in place (not available)

    Runlayer cannot mask content in Claude Cowork. The gateway still applies policy to the call.

In Claude Cowork

  • Cowork session data sent over OpenTelemetry is for monitoring only and cannot stop anything.

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