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title: "How AI Fields are created and used"
description: "A guide on how AI Fields are created and used"
url: https://help.crono.one/en/articles/11-how-ai-fields-are-created-and-used
collection: "Lists"
updated: 2026-09-28
language: en
---

# How AI Fields are created and used

A guide on how AI Fields are created and used

**AI Fields** automatically generate enriched information about your prospects or their companies using AI.

They can use data already stored in Crono as well as information available online. An AI Field can search the web, visit a company website, and pull out what you asked for based on your own prompt — so you can enrich prospects at scale without opening tabs and copying things by hand.

They are most useful in bulk prospecting: identifying a company's industry, summarising what it does, pulling a value proposition off its website, or generating a personalisation angle for your outreach.

## How many you can create

You can create up to **5 AI Fields per object type**, counted across your whole workspace:

-   5 for Contacts
    
-   5 for Companies
    
-   5 for Leads, if your workspace is integrated with Salesforce
    

The limit is per workspace, not per user — the fields your team creates all count towards the same allowance.

## Creating an AI Field

1.  Go to the Lists page
    

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2.  Click the Create AI field button
    

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3.  Give your field a name
    
4.  Write the prompt that tells the AI what to generate
    
5.  Insert variables to reference specific data points already in Crono
    

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Your prompt determines the output. Tell it what insight you want and which data to use.

**Example prompt:**

_Based on the company industry and role of the contact, explain how our product can create value for this prospect in one short sentence. If you can't retrieve the info, don't invent the answer and respond "Don't know"._

## Managing AI Fields

You can view and manage every AI Field in your workspace from **Settings → Fields Management**. Open a field to configure how it behaves when new contacts are created:

-   **Creation form**: shows the AI Field in the contact creation window, so you can enrich it as you add the contact rather than opening them again later.
    
-   **Auto-enrichment**: generates the value automatically whenever a new contact is created, so every new record arrives with the insight already filled in.
    

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## Enriching data

**A single record:** open a contact, click **Enrich**, and choose which AI Field to generate.

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**In bulk:** select multiple contacts, click **Enrich**, choose **AI Field**, pick the field and apply. Crono generates the value for all selected contacts at once.

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Each AI Field enrichment costs **1 AI credit**, so a bulk run on 200 contacts spends 200. See [Credits in Crono](https://help.crono.one/en/articles/98-credits-in-crono-what-they-are-and-what-uses-them.md) for how AI credits work.

## Using AI Fields

#### **1\. Generate insights**

Quickly extract context about a prospect or company — business model, potential fit, likely challenges.

#### **2\. Filter and segment your lists**

AI Fields are searchable and filterable. If your field identifies whether a company is **B2B or B2C**, you can filter to just B2B and tailor your outreach accordingly.

#### **3\. Personalise outreach**

AI Fields can be inserted into **templates** as variables. When the message is prepared, Crono replaces the variable with that contact's generated value.

**Example:** if your AI Field is "How we can bring value", your template can include {{AI Value Proposition}}, and each contact receives the line generated for them.