Turning Signals into Action using Plays

Last updated: August 14, 2026

Pursuit's Radar tells you who to talk to. Plays get you to sent.

A Play is a reusable workflow you build once and run anywhere a signal appears. The default play — Send Prospecting Email — is pre-built in every workspace. It pulls in the contact, company, and signal context automatically, drafts a tailored email, and pauses for your approval before anything goes out. Speed of automation, control where it counts.

Setting up your plays

Head to Settings > Admin > Plays to build and manage your plays. The Send Prospecting Email play is ready to go out of the box — you can edit the message to match your tone, structure, and pitch before you run it the first time.

How do I run a Play?

Where can I run Plays?

You can run a Play on any signal card - whether in Inbox or in Explore.

Executing a Play

Open any contact card or Radar card and hit Run Play. Pick your play, confirm the inputs, and Pursuit generates the output. Every play run is logged on the contact's Radar feed so your team has full visibility.

Plays that run without a rep

A play can also start on its own. When an admin builds a play on the When a new Radar signal appears trigger, that play runs on every new signal that reaches a rep's Radar inbox, with no one clicking Run Play.

Use an automatic play when the signal has a short shelf life and you would rather act on all of them than on the ones a rep reaches. Use a manual play when you want a person to confirm the inputs and approve the output first. See How to Build a Play in Pursuit to set the trigger.

Example: Running a play across a buying committee

Found a signal with five strong contacts? Run the play once for all of them, not five times.

Hit Run Play on a Radar card, select any or all of the signal's contacts, and Pursuit fans it out — one run per contact. Review everything in a single panel: each contact gets a tab with live status, and approving one email advances you straight to the next. Go at your own pace — skip a contact, cancel one without losing the rest, or close the panel entirely and the remaining runs keep going.

The whole buying committee gets your play in a single pass: select, run, review, done.