Find an existing Instantly lead from Telegram
Check whether a prospect is already in your outreach system before you create more work around the same contact.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
List Leads
Tool to list leads. Use when you need to retrieve leads with optional filters like search, status filters, and pagination.
Why this helps
A new prospect note can lead to duplicate records when existing leads are hard to find quickly.
- Check for existing prospects while their details are in view.
- Reduce duplicate lead creation and unnecessary follow-up.
- Recover a contact's outreach context with less navigation.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Instantly to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally to build it.
- 3Write one plain-language instruction describing how a Telegram lookup request supplies search terms for Instantly leads.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a known lead detail you can verify.
Questions about this workflow
What search options are available?
The action can retrieve leads with optional filters such as search terms, status filters, and pagination.
Does this change lead records?
No. This workflow searches leads so you can review existing records.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Instantly. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
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Recurring trigger
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