Clay Is Live in Cogny: Your Tables, Clay's Database and Enrichments for Your Agent
If your team builds lead and account lists in Clay, your agent can now work with them. Clay is a live MCP integration in Cogny: read your Clay tables, search Clay's people and company database, and run Clay's enrichment functions on a list of leads.
Connecting takes one API key from Clay. No app to install and no OAuth screen.
TL;DR
- Live now, included from Cogny Solo ($9/mo).
- 8 tools: 7 reads and 1 write.
- Your tables: pick columns, filter, sort, group, count and join up to five tables. Table reads are a Clay Enterprise feature.
- Clay's database: find people or companies with a Clay search query, such as current VPs of Sales at companies over 500 employees.
- Enrichment, ask-first: run a Clay-managed or custom function (work email, company data, tech stack and so on) on up to 100 items per run, then read the results. Runs spend your Clay credits, so each one waits for your approval.
- Rows can't be written: Clay's API has no way to add or change table rows, and no list of tables. You give the agent a table's URL.
What you can do with it
| Area | Reads | Writes (ask-first) |
|---|---|---|
| Account | The Clay user and workspace the key belongs to; credits left in the workspace and the key owner's monthly limit | — |
| Tables | Rows from a table you name by its URL, with columns, filters (equals, contains, in, empty and more), sorting, grouping, counts and sums, and joins across up to five tables | — |
| People & companies | Search Clay's database with a Clay search query and page through the results; the query reference the agent reads first | — |
| Enrichment | Progress and per-item results of a run | Run a Clay function on 1–100 items |
Questions this answers in one prompt:
- "In our Target Accounts table, how many accounts per industry have an email found, and which owners have the most?"
- "Find Heads of Growth at software companies with more than 200 employees."
- "Find work emails for these 40 people from last week's webinar list. Check my Clay credits first."
With your other connections in the same workspace, it can line up a Clay account list with what those accounts did in GA4, LinkedIn Ads or your CRM.
Enrichment runs ask first, and say what they cost
An enrichment run is the one write here, and it spends Clay credits from your Clay workspace. The tool says so, and it waits for your approval until you choose to allow it in Settings. Ask the agent to check your Clay credit balance before a large run; it can read the balance without spending anything.
Database searches don't spend credits, but Clay counts their results against your workspace's search quota. Every response shows how much of it is left.
How to connect it
- In Clay, open API and CLI → API keys and create a key. Copy it: Clay shows it once.
- In Cogny, open Settings → Integrations, click Connect on Clay and paste it.
The key is stored encrypted and only ever sent to Clay. It acts as the Clay user who created it, so connect it as someone who can see the tables and functions you want Cogny to use. Disconnect any time, or delete the key in Clay.
What it doesn't do
Clay's API can't add, update or delete table rows, and it can't list your tables or workbooks, so the agent asks you for a table's URL. Reading tables needs a Clay Enterprise plan. Columns, enrichments and workbooks can't be created or edited, and runs over more than 100 items have to be split. The full list of tools and gaps is on the Clay tools page.
Connect it from your Cogny dashboard and ask your first question about a Clay table.