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Two-way sync
Changes in Autopilot or SendGrid instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Autopilot to SendGrid integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Autopilot and SendGrid in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Autopilot and SendGrid
Feed SendGrid's records into Autopilot for indexing, classification, and generation, then land the model's output back on those same records, in real time and in both directions.
Autopilot works on data it does not own. The records, conversations, tickets, messages, and events it needs to embed, classify, summarize, or answer questions about actually live in SendGrid, the tool the team uses every day. So the value of Autopilot depends on two flows that most teams stitch together with a custom script or a one-time export: getting SendGrid's data in, and getting the model's results back out to where people can act on them. When either flow runs on a batch or a stale snapshot, the model reasons over yesterday's data and its output never reaches the record it belongs to.
Stacksync syncs Categories, Senders, Single Sends, Unsubscribe Groups from SendGrid into Autopilot continuously, so the model always works from current records instead of a snapshot, and writes Activities, Contacts, Lists, Custom Fields, the scores, labels, summaries, drafts, and embedding metadata Autopilot produces, back onto the matching record in SendGrid. The sync is field-level and keyed on a stable identifier, so every output attaches to the exact record it came from and each system keeps its own extra fields untouched.
You decide the direction and the trigger conditions per field: pull records one way to build and keep a retrieval corpus current, push results the other way onto the operational record, or both.
Common use cases
- 01 Add contacts to a Journey from a database event or CRM stage change to start automated onboarding or nurture sequences.
- 02 Mirror List and Smart Segment membership into a warehouse to power attribution and audience analytics alongside other sources.
- 03 Sync CRM contacts and their custom fields into SendGrid lists so campaign targeting reflects live sales data
- 04 Write bounces, spam reports, and unsubscribes back to the CRM to keep email opt-in status accurate everywhere
Common sync patterns
Build a retrieval corpus from SendGrid's records
Records, tickets, messages, or events from SendGrid sync into Autopilot so they can be indexed, embedded, or retrieved as context, without a hand-built extraction job.
Keep the model's knowledge current
As records change in SendGrid, the synced copy in Autopilot updates within seconds, so retrieval and generation reason over live data rather than a stale export.
Where Autopilot classifies or scores: results land on the record
Categories, sentiment, priority, or scores produced by Autopilot write back onto the matching record in SendGrid, so the team acts on them in the tool they already use.
What you can sync between Autopilot and SendGrid
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Autopilot objects | SendGrid objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Contacts Core people records (email, name, custom fields, list and segment membership); upserted two-way as the primary sync object. | Contacts Marketing recipients upserted from CRM or database records, including custom field values. | Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. Custom fields on either side are included in the mapping. | |
| Lists Static contact lists; membership is readable per list and writable by adding or removing contacts. | List Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. | |
| Activities Per-contact activity and event history (opens, clicks, journey steps); read-only feed used for engagement reporting. | Senders Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Activities is specific to Autopilot and Senders to SendGrid — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Custom Fields User-defined contact properties (string, number, date, boolean); discovered so field keys map cleanly to destination columns. | Single Sends One-off marketing campaigns whose stats are read back for reporting. | Custom Fields is specific to Autopilot and Single Sends to SendGrid — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Smart Segments Rule-based dynamic audiences; membership is computed by Autopilot, so it is read-only over the API. | Unsubscribe Groups Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Smart Segments is specific to Autopilot and Unsubscribe Groups to SendGrid — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Journeys (Triggers) Automation journeys; a contact can be added to a journey via its trigger endpoint to start automated email or SMS sequences. | Email Activity Synced with incremental and full sync per the Stacksync docs. | Journeys (Triggers) is specific to Autopilot and Email Activity to SendGrid — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Autopilot and SendGrid
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Autopilot SendGrid Interval-based propagation
DetectionStacksync polls Autopilot for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No CDC.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to SendGrid through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
SendGrid Autopilot Sub-second propagation
DetectionSendGrid notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Event Webhook posts delivery and engagement events (processed, delivered, open, click, bounce, spam report) to an HTTP endpoint.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Autopilot through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Autopilot: The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
- SendGrid: Subject to the platform's API rate limits; contact upserts are batched, asynchronous jobs rather than per-row writes.
What ships with Autopilot ⇄ SendGrid
Connect Autopilot and SendGrid for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Autopilot–SendGrid connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Autopilot or SendGrid data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Autopilot or SendGrid record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Autopilot ⇄ SendGrid sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Autopilot and SendGrid.
How the Autopilot and SendGrid connectors work
Autopilot
- Integration surface
- REST API (Autopilot v1); Autopilot rebranded to Ortto in 2021 and the newer Ortto API co-exists with the legacy Autopilot endpoints
- Authentication
- Per-account API key sent in the autopilotapikey request header (generated in account settings); requests use Content-Type application/json against https://api2.autopilothq.com/v1/
- Change detection
- No CDC; incremental sync polls the /contacts endpoint with bookmark cursor pagination and updated timestamps. Journey webhook actions can push specific contact events, but there is no general change-subscription webhook, so polling is the reliable path.
- Capabilities
- read · write
- Rate limits
- The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
SendGrid
- Integration surface
- REST API (v3)
- Authentication
- API key (create in SendGrid Settings > API Keys with Custom Access / Full Access for the objects to sync; key begins with "SG")
- Change detection
- Event Webhook posts delivery and engagement events (processed, delivered, open, click, bounce, spam report) to an HTTP endpoint; contact and list changes are detected by polling
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Subject to the platform's API rate limits; contact upserts are batched, asynchronous jobs rather than per-row writes
How it works
How to connect Autopilot to SendGrid — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Autopilot and SendGrid with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Autopilot
connected
SendGrid
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Choose tables
Pick the Autopilot and SendGrid objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Autopilot ⇄ SendGridCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Autopilot SendGridCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Autopilot and SendGrid integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Autopilot and SendGrid: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Autopilot's Contacts and Lists), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Autopilot and SendGrid. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Autopilot: No CDC; incremental sync polls the /contacts endpoint with bookmark cursor pagination and updated timestamps. Journey webhook actions can push specific contact events, but there is no general change-subscription webhook, so polling is the reliable path. On SendGrid: Event Webhook posts delivery and engagement events (processed, delivered, open, click, bounce, spam report) to an HTTP endpoint; contact and list changes are detected by polling. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the Autopilot side: Activities, Contacts, Lists, Custom Fields, plus custom fields where Autopilot exposes them. On the SendGrid side: Categories, Senders, Single Sends, Unsubscribe Groups. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Common patterns for Autopilot and SendGrid: Build a retrieval corpus from SendGrid's records; Keep the model's knowledge current; Where Autopilot classifies or scores: results land on the record. Records, tickets, messages, or events from SendGrid sync into Autopilot so they can be indexed, embedded, or retrieved as context, without a hand-built extraction job.
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