LeadOcean + Salesloft: Send Verified Leads into Cadences

You get a pipeline of three parts: a LeadOcean export split by email_status, a script that creates each person in Salesloft, and two cadences. Verified addresses go to your main cadence. Catch-all addresses go to a second cadence, so a risky domain cannot drag down the first. Both sides are plain REST with a key.

Split the lists because the status decides the risk. A verified address has been checked against the mailbox. A catch-all domain accepts any address, so a catch-all address may still bounce. LeadOcean marks it in email_status, and gives no refund for bounces.

Related: the LeadOcean integrations hub, the Smartlead recipe, the Reply.io recipe, the Outreach recipe and pricing.

How it works

Six steps. Salesloft adds a person to a cadence in a second call, so each lead costs two requests (source: Salesloft API reference, September 2026).

1. Get both keys. Sign up at app.leadocean.io and copy a key from the API keys page. In Salesloft, open Your Applications, then API Keys, then Create New, and pick scopes.
2. Size the list. A search with count=true and limit=1 costs nothing. meta.total is capped at 100,000.
3. Export verified. POST your filters to /v1/exports with emailStatus set to verified.
4. Export catch-all. Repeat with catch_all_valid and catch_all. Same filters, a second file.
5. Create two cadences in Salesloft. One for verified, one for catch-all. Copy both cadence ids.
6. Push each CSV. For each row, POST /v2/people, then POST /v2/cadence_memberships with the new person id.

Keep the two lists apart all the way through: two exports, two cadences, two tags. That gives you a clean bounce report per status after the first send.

Run 20 rows first. Free has no bulk CSV export. On Free, search with POST /v1/people/search, then call POST /v1/people/enrich with reveal_email set to true for each person. Save the rows as a CSV. Check one person in Salesloft before you send the rest.

Prefer to click? The LeadOcean app has an Exports page with a filter builder, a column picker, the record price before you start and a Download button. The script below then pushes the file.

Configuration

Steps 3 and 4, the exports. Several values in one filter join with OR.

curl -X POST https://api.leadocean.io/v1/exports \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"salesloft verified","filters":{"jobLevel":["VP"],"jobFunction":["Sales & Business Development"],"country":["CA"],"emailStatus":["verified"],"emailType":["work"]},"limit":10000,"columns":["profile_first_name","profile_last_name","current_job_title","current_company_name","current_company_domain","email_N_address","email_N_status"]}'

curl -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" https://api.leadocean.io/v1/exports/EXPORT_ID
curl -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" -o verified.csv https://api.leadocean.io/v1/exports/EXPORT_ID/download

For the second file, set emailStatus to ["catch_all_valid","catch_all"] and save as catchall.csv. Contact columns need a key with the enrich scope.

Step 6, the push. Salesloft API keys go in a bearer header (source: Salesloft API key authentication, September 2026). The key needs people:write to create people and cadences:write to add cadence memberships (source: Salesloft API reference, October 2026).

import csv, os, sys, time, requests

BASE = "https://api.salesloft.com/v2"
HEAD = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SALESLOFT_API_KEY']}"}
path, cadence_id, tag = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]

for r in csv.DictReader(open(path)):
    if not r["email_1_address"]:
        continue
    person = requests.post(f"{BASE}/people", headers=HEAD, json={
        "email_address": r["email_1_address"],
        "first_name": r["profile_first_name"],
        "last_name": r["profile_last_name"],
        "title": r["current_job_title"],
        "person_company_name": r["current_company_name"],
        "person_company_website": r["current_company_domain"],
        "tags": ["leadocean", tag],
    })
    if person.status_code != 200:
        print(person.status_code, r["email_1_address"], person.text[:200])
        continue
    pid = person.json()["data"]["id"]
    requests.post(f"{BASE}/cadence_memberships", headers=HEAD,
                  params={"person_id": pid, "cadence_id": cadence_id})
    time.sleep(0.2)

Run it twice: python push.py verified.csv VERIFIED_CADENCE_ID verified and python push.py catchall.csv CATCHALL_CADENCE_ID catch-all. The tag carries the status into Salesloft, where you can filter on it.

Field mapping

Salesloft's person object has no email status field. Use a tag, or a custom field your team defines first (custom_fields holds team-defined fields only, source: Salesloft People create, September 2026).

Column ids come from GET /v1/exports/columns, which needs no key. Salesloft says to update the linked account rather than rely on person_company_*, so link an account with account_id if you use account views.

Cost at 10,000 rows

A 10,000-row run needs LeadOcean Solo at $97 a month, because bulk CSV export is not on Free. Salesloft has no public price. Its pricing page sends you to a sales call (source: Salesloft pricing, September 2026).

Salesloft's API limit is 600 cost per minute for the whole team, and each endpoint costs 1 by default (source: Salesloft rate limits, September 2026). Two calls per lead means 20,000 cost for 10,000 rows, or about 34 minutes at the limit. That sum is ours. Other integrations on the team share the same budget.

Troubleshooting

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