Why did all my leads enter the sequence at once?
Last updated: April 27, 2026
Context
You have monitoring enabled on a list, set to import a fixed number of leads per day. You also have a daily send cap configured on your sequence. After linking the list to the sequence, all leads entered the sequence immediately rather than at the pace you expected. This article explains how list monitoring and sequence enrollment interact.
Answer
List monitoring and sequence send caps are two separate controls. Understanding what each one does will clarify the behaviour.
List monitoring controls how many new leads are imported into the list per day. For example, if you set it to 30 leads/day, the agent will attempt to add 30 new matching leads to your list each day.
Sequence send cap controls how many leads receive messages per day. For example, if you set it to 10/day, only 10 leads will be contacted each day, regardless of how many are enrolled.
What happens when you link a list to a sequence
When you link a list to a sequence, all leads currently in the list are enrolled in the sequence immediately. This is by design. Going forward, any new leads added by monitoring will also enrol as they are imported.
However, being enrolled in the sequence is not the same as being messaged. The sequence send cap controls the outreach pace:
All 30 leads enter the sequence at once when you link the list.
The sequence sends messages to 10 leads on day one, 10 on day two, and so on.
Each day, monitoring adds up to 30 new leads to the list, which enroll in the sequence and join the outreach queue.
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