When a visitor provides their email, the AI agent immediately sends it to ZeroBounce's validate endpoint. ZeroBounce checks the address against SMTP verification, DNS records, disposable email databases, and known spam traps. The result comes back in under a second with a status like valid, invalid, catch-all, or unknown. The agent uses this to decide whether to accept or re-prompt.

AI scoring predicts how likely an email recipient is to engage with your outreach. ZeroBounce analyzes behavioral patterns, domain reputation, and historical engagement signals to generate a score. Higher scores indicate active, responsive email users. The agent can use this score to prioritize leads or route them to different sales workflows based on quality.

Both. For real-time conversation flows, the agent validates single emails instantly. For bulk operations, the agent can submit up to 200 emails at once through ZeroBounce's batch validation API, or upload entire CSV files for large-scale list cleaning. File processing status can be polled until results are ready.

Tars sends email addresses to ZeroBounce for validation during the conversation and uses the result to respond appropriately. Email addresses are not separately stored or indexed by Tars for validation purposes. Your ZeroBounce account maintains its own validation logs according to their data retention policies.

Yes. The agent can manage ZeroBounce's allow and block lists programmatically. Block known bad domains, disposable email providers, or competitor addresses. Allow trusted partner domains that might otherwise flag as catch-all. Rules can target individual emails, full domains, MX records, or top-level domains.

The dashboard requires you to manually upload lists and check results. Through Tars, validation happens automatically at the point of email collection during live conversations. No file uploads, no manual checking. The AI agent validates in real time and takes action based on the result, like asking for a different address if the email is invalid.

You configure how the agent handles ambiguous results. For catch-all domains where the server accepts all addresses, you might accept the email but flag it. For unknown results where verification timed out, the agent can retry or ask the user to confirm their address. Business rules are fully customizable.

In your Tars dashboard, navigate to Tools and select ZeroBounce. Paste your API key found in your ZeroBounce account settings. Once connected, attach the tool to your AI Agent Gambit. The agent automatically validates emails during conversations whenever a user provides an email address.