Turn a Drive Prospect Brief into a Lead Search
Save a prospect brief in Drive and have Notis start a Bettercontact search using the criteria in the document.
Trigger
New File Matching Query
Triggers when a new Google Drive file matches a provided query. This is the legacy query-centric trigger: it preserves Drive API query config such as ``corpora`` / ``driveId`` aliases and emits the historical ``file_matching_query`` event type. ``FileCreatedTrigger`` covers the broader "new file" case and emits ``file_created``.
Action
Create Lead Finder Search
Tool to create a new Lead Finder search to discover leads based on company and people criteria. Use when you need to find prospects matching specific job titles, departments, seniority, company size, industry, or technology stack.
Why this helps
Prospecting briefs often sit in folders while someone manually recreates their criteria in a lead search.
- Move from a written research brief to a submitted lead search.
- Use company and people criteria from the brief.
- Reduce the friction between planning prospecting and starting it.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Google Drive and Bettercontact once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or tell Notis from any channel to start a Lead Finder search from a matching prospect brief.
- 3Describe which company and people criteria Notis should extract and what to do when a criterion is missing.
- 4Pick the Google Drive New File Matching Query trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real brief that matches the query and review the resulting search request.
Questions about this workflow
What criteria can Lead Finder use?
The action supports company and people criteria such as job titles, departments, seniority, company size, industry, and technology stack.
Does the trigger search file contents?
The listed event detects a new file matching a provided Drive query. The event's query configuration is set as part of the trigger, not through a Notis field-mapping screen.
Can the automation guarantee a search will have every criterion?
No. Tell Notis how to handle missing criteria, or supply them in the brief before the automation runs.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
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Google Drive triggers
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Recurring trigger
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Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Create Lead Finder Search
Tool to create a new Lead Finder search to discover leads based on company and people criteria. Use when you need to find prospects matching specific job titles, departments, seniority, company size, industry, or technology stack.
Comment Added (Docs/Sheets/Slides)
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File Created
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File Deleted or Trashed
Triggers when a file is moved to trash or permanently deleted in Drive.
Get Lead Finder Results
Tool to retrieve results from a submitted Lead Finder search. Returns comprehensive lead and company data including contact information, LinkedIn profiles, job titles, company details, and enrichment data.
File Shared (Permissions Added)
Triggers when new sharing permissions are granted to a file or folder. Uses Drive's `changes.list` endpoint with inline `permissions` in the `fields` mask so each change carries the file's current permission set provider-atomically. We diff that against `seen_permission_keys` to identify newly added grants. Drive page tokens are the primary cursor; if Drive rejects a stored token, the trigger raises `PollingTriggerError` without clearing state rather than silently re-baselining and dropping events. Limitation: truly ephemeral permissions (added and revoked between two polls without any other file modification in between) are not detected. Drive Activity API would catch those but requires an additional OAuth scope and a different payload contract.
File Updated
Triggers when a file's metadata or content changes in Google Drive.
Google Drive Changes
Triggers when changes are detected in a Google Drive.
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