How to connect Apollo to Grok Bot

Connect Grok Bot to Apollo MCP. Bulk enrich profiles for new leads, add contacts to outreach sequence now, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Apollo is a CRM and lead generation platform that helps businesses discover contacts and manage sales pipelines. Use it to streamline customer outreach and track your deals from one place.

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Introduction

Grok is xAI's assistant, and its bot builder lets you create a personal agent that holds context, runs skills, and connects to the apps you already use through plugins.

This guide explains how to connect Apollo to a Grok bot using Composio Connect, which handles OAuth, token refresh, and reliability so you do not have to. You add Composio as a plugin, authenticate once, then ask your bot to work with Apollo in plain language.

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Why use Composio?

Composio exposes 1,000+ apps to your Grok bot through a single connection, so you get:

  • Connect to 1,000+ apps with on-demand tool loading, so you do not fill your context window with unnecessary tool definitions.
  • Use programmatic tool calling through a remote workbench, letting the model write its own code to handle complex tool chaining. This reduces back-and-forth for frequent tool calls.
  • Handle large tool responses outside the model context to keep conversations lean.

Connecting Apollo to Grok Bot

Once Grok Bot is set up, you connect Apollo entirely from its interface, and the whole flow takes under a minute.

Set up Grok Bot

1. Get access. Grok Bot is included with a paid Cursor plan (Cursor Pro, Pro+, or Ultra) or a Cursor Teams seat. You can also grant usage by linking an individual SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, or SuperGrok Heavy subscription to your Cursor account.

2. Download and sign in. Get the Grok Bot desktop app for macOS or Windows from x.ai/bot, then sign in with your Cursor account. An iPhone companion app is also available, and your bots sync across devices.

3. Create a bot. Pick a suggested role or define your own, then give it a short name, one primary job, and a short description of how it should work. Focused bots work best, because a clear role gives the bot more useful context over time.

Connect Apollo

1. Open Plugins

Open the Grok bot you want to connect to Apollo, then click Plugins in the left sidebar to open the plugin marketplace.

Grok Bot plugin marketplace with the Composio plugin

2. Search for Composio and add it

Type Composio into the Search plugins box and click Add on the Composio result. It then shows under 1 installed at the top of the marketplace.

Grok Bot plugin marketplace showing Composio under 1 installed

3. Open the installed plugin

Go to the Installed section and click the Composio entry. You'll see its connector and skills listed (for example, 1 connector, 2 skills).

Installed Composio plugin showing the Authenticate button

4. Authenticate

Click Authenticate. You'll be taken to the Composio consent screen. Review the access it requests and click Authorize. Composio handles the OAuth handshake for you, so you never touch API keys or tokens.

Composio authorization screen with Authorize and Deny

5. Connect your Apollo account

Back in the chat, ask your bot to connect to Apollo or give it any Apollo task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Bulk enrich profiles for new leads"
  • "Add contacts to outreach sequence now"
  • "Create a new sales deal for Acme"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in your Grok bot, and your Apollo account is ready to use.

What is Grok Bot?

Grok is xAI's assistant, available as a chat interface and a bot builder for creating personal agents that run skills and connect to external apps.

With Composio Connect, your Grok bot can securely access apps like Apollo through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Apollo MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Apollo MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Apollo account. It provides structured and secure access to your CRM and lead generation data, so your agent can create contacts, enrich organizations, manage deals, update account stages, and automate tasks for your sales pipeline—all on your behalf.

  • Contact and account creation: Instantly add new contacts or accounts to Apollo, linking them to organizations and stages to keep your CRM up to date with zero manual entry.
  • Bulk data enrichment: Rapidly enrich multiple people or organizations at once, leveraging Apollo's database to fill gaps and update your records with the latest information.
  • Sales opportunity and pipeline management: Let your agent create new deals, retrieve opportunity stages, and move accounts through your sales funnel to optimize pipeline performance.
  • Automated outreach sequencing: Add contacts to email sequences, making it easy to launch targeted campaigns and follow-ups without lifting a finger.
  • Task creation and label organization: Generate actionable Apollo tasks for your team and organize contacts or accounts with labels, so nothing slips through the cracks.

Way Forward

Now that Apollo is connected, extend your setup by connecting the other apps you already use every day, so your Grok bot can run true cross-app workflows end to end.

  • Connect Calendar to turn threads into scheduled meetings automatically.
  • Connect Slack or Teams to post summaries, approvals, and alerts where your team works.
  • Connect Notion, Linear, Jira, or Asana to convert requests into tickets, tasks, and docs.
  • Connect Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive to fetch, file, and share attachments without manual steps.

Start with one workflow you do repeatedly, then keep adding apps as you find new handoffs. With everything behind a single connection, your bot can coordinate multiple tools safely and reliably in one conversation.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Apollo action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Add Contacts to Sequence

Adds contacts to a specified Apollo email sequence and returns the contact details.

Bulk organization enrichment

Enriches data for up to 10 organizations simultaneously by providing a list of their base company domains (e.

Bulk people enrichment

Use to enrich multiple person profiles simultaneously with comprehensive data from Apollo's database.

Bulk update account stage

Bulk updates the stage for specified existing Apollo.

Create an Apollo account

Creates a new account in Apollo.

Bulk create Apollo accounts

Creates multiple accounts in Apollo.

Bulk create Apollo contacts

Tool to bulk create multiple contacts in Apollo with a single API call.

Create call record in Apollo

Tool to log call records in Apollo from external systems.

Create Apollo contact

Creates a new contact in Apollo.

Create custom field

Creates a new custom field in Apollo.

Create Apollo deal

Creates a new sales opportunity (deal) in Apollo.

Create Apollo Task

Tool to create a single task in Apollo.

Get Account by ID

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a specific account by its Apollo ID.

Check Apollo API key status

Tool to check whether the provided Apollo API key is valid and accepted by Apollo (health/auth check).

Get Apollo Contact

Retrieves detailed information about a specific contact by its ID.

Get Apollo deal

Retrieves information about a specific deal by its ID.

Get Labels

Retrieves all labels from Apollo.

Get opportunity stages

Retrieves all configured opportunity (deal) stages from the Apollo.

Get Organization by ID

Retrieves complete information about a specific organization by its Apollo ID.

Get Organization Job Postings

Retrieves paginated job postings for a specified organization by its ID, optionally filtering by domain; ensure `organization_id` is a valid identifier.

Get typed custom fields

Retrieves all typed custom field definitions available in the Apollo.

List Apollo account stages

Retrieves the IDs for all available account stages in your team's Apollo account.

List apollo contact stages

Retrieves all available contact stages from an Apollo account, including their unique IDs and names.

List Apollo deals

Retrieves a list of deals from Apollo, using Apollo's default sort order if 'sort_by_field' is omitted.

List email accounts

Retrieves all email accounts and their details for the authenticated user; takes no parameters.

List Fields

Retrieves all field definitions from Apollo.

List Apollo Users

Retrieves a list of all users (teammates) associated with the Apollo account, supporting pagination via `page` and `per_page` parameters.

Enrich organization data

Fetches comprehensive organization enrichment data from Apollo.

Search organizations in Apollo

Searches Apollo's database for organizations using various filters; consumes credits on every call (unavailable on free plans) — avoid re-running identical queries and surface quota errors rather than retrying.

Enrich person with Apollo

Enriches and retrieves information for a person from Apollo.

Apollo people search

Searches Apollo's contact database for people using various filters; results capped at 50,000 records and does not enrich contact data.

Search Apollo Accounts

Searches for accounts within your existing Apollo.

Search for Calls

Searches for call records in Apollo.

Search Apollo contacts

Searches Apollo contacts using keywords, stage IDs (from 'List Contact Stages' action), or sorting (max 50,000 records; `sort_ascending` requires `sort_by_field`).

Search news articles

Tool to search for news articles about companies in Apollo's database.

Search outreach emails

Tool to search for outreach emails sent through Apollo sequences.

Search sequences

Searches for sequences (e.

Search tasks

Searches for tasks in Apollo.

Update an Apollo account

Updates specified attributes of an existing account in Apollo.

Update account ownership

Updates the ownership of multiple Apollo accounts to a specified user.

Update Apollo call record

Tool to update an existing call record in Apollo.

Update Apollo contact details

Tool to update an existing contact's information in Apollo.

Update contact ownership

Updates the ownership of specified Apollo contacts to a given Apollo user, who must be part of the same team.

Bulk update Apollo contacts

Tool to bulk update multiple Apollo contacts with a single API call.

Update contact stage

Updates the stage for one or more existing contacts in Apollo.

Update contact status in sequence

Updates a contact's status within a designated Apollo sequence, but cannot set the status to 'active'.

Update Apollo deal

Updates specified fields of an existing Apollo.

View API Usage Stats

Fetches Apollo API usage statistics and rate limits for the connected team.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Apollo MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Apollo tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Apollo and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Grok Bot fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Apollo tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Apollo scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Apollo data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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