Contacts vs Leads

A form submission is a lead, not a user — and leads are deliberately excluded from All Users.

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Behavly identifies people two ways, and keeps the results apart.

The Leads tab. These people arrived through a form and have never signed in.
The Leads tab. These people arrived through a form and have never signed in.
ContactLead
Identified by
Signing in on your siteSubmitting one of your forms, clicking a link in one of your emails, or added by you
Has used the product
YesNot necessarily
In the All users group
YesNo — their own group, Form leads

The distinction matters because the two want opposite emails. A lead needs a reason to start; a user needs a reason to come back. Folding them together makes both campaigns worse, so All users excludes leads and a Pattern Campaign offers Form leads as its own group.

How Behavly Writes To Leads

Emails to the Form leads audience are never written from activity. They start from your Brand info (what you saved on Brand, plus what Behavly reads from your website), and what else goes in depends on whether the lead is a business or a private person:

LeadWhat the email does
Business: their address is at a company, you sell to businesses, and the company's website can be read
Behavly reads their company's website (anna@northwind.com → northwind.com) and writes one concrete thing your product would do for what their company does, and one next step.
Private: a personal address such as Gmail, a product for private people, or a company website that can't be read
Behavly introduces your product person to person: what it is and the one or two features that matter most to someone like them. It never guesses an employer.

Behavly reads only the public homepage, plus the About page when the homepage says too little. The email never says how Behavly knows about their company and never states anything their website doesn't. Each company is read once, stored for your workspace and reused by every later email, including every email on a path and every lead at the same company. It is read again after six months.

Emails sent as designed, or written by you, go out exactly as they are.

Password Fields Are Never Read

The snippet never identifies anyone from a password form. A form that contains a password field is skipped entirely rather than having its other fields harvested.

Still stuck? Ask Behavly Agent from inside the app — it can explain any part of Behavly, though it cannot see your data. Or email hello@behavly.io.