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# Send email to candidate

> Send an email to a candidate from a template or your own text, now or at a set time. Inputs, cURL, Python and Node.js examples and an example response.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/ashby/send_email

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Send an email to a candidate from a template or your own text, now or at a set time.

Ashby API: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/ashby.md

`POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/ashby/candidates/{candidate_id}/emails`

Access: write. Confirm: waits for the user's OK before it runs.

Sends an email to the candidate from the Ashby profile, so it appears in the candidate's email history. Give either a template name or a subject and body; substitution tokens in a template are filled by Ashby. Scheduled emails can be viewed and rescheduled only by the person who drafted them, which is your connected account. By default you confirm each call; you can switch that off for this tool.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `candidate_id` | string | yes | Candidate ID from search_candidates. |
| `template` | string | no | Template name from list_email_templates. Or set subject and body. |
| `subject` | string | no | Subject, when no template is used. |
| `body` | string | no | Email body, when no template is used. |
| `send` | string | no | 'immediately' or 'scheduled'. Default: immediately. With 'scheduled', set send_at. |
| `send_at` | string | no | ISO 8601 date and time with offset, only with send set to scheduled. |

## Request

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/ashby/candidates/candidate_8c41d2/emails \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY"
```

**Python**

```python
result = client.call("ashby", "send_email", {"candidate_id":"candidate_8c41d2"})
```

**Node.js**

```js
const result = await cotlet.call('ashby', 'send_email', {"candidate_id":"candidate_8c41d2"});
```

**CLI**

```bash
cotlet call ashby send_email --data '{"candidate_id":"candidate_8c41d2"}'
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "email_id": "a09d3e72-5b16-4c84-97f0-e2c48b1d6a35",
  "candidate_id": "e1f7a309-4c52-4d8b-a063-9b25d7c1e840",
  "subject": "Still interested?",
  "status": "sent",
  "sent_at": "2026-10-16T09:00:00+02:00"
}
```

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## For AI agents: sign your user up

Is your user asking you to sign them up for Cotlet? You can do it for them, no account or key needed.

1. Read the fields and their allowed values: GET https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests
2. Ask the user for each value: email, apps, what you will do with them. If they leave the password to you, generate a strong one and show it to them.
3. Show the user what you will send, then POST it as JSON to https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests.

One call creates the account and sends the access request; we email the user when access is granted.