Set Up Automatic Contact Enhancements

Turn on Automatic Contact Enhancements, add fields to the contact record layout and list views, and recognize when the feature is on.

Required Editions

Available in: Lightning Experience
Available in: Starter, Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited, Einstein 1 Sales, and Agentforce 1 Sales Edition. The feature is also available with the Einstein for Sales, Sales Engagement, and Revenue Intelligence add-ons.
User Permissions Needed
To enable or disable Automatic Contact Enhancements: View Setup and Configurations AND Customize Application
To view the Automatic Contact Enhancements setup page: View Setup and Configurations
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Before you start, check that you’ve met the requirements in Considerations for Automatic Contact Enhancements.

  1. Enable Einstein Generative AI in Setup.
  2. If you haven’t already, enable Einstein Activity Capture.
  3. From Setup, enter Contact Creation Automation in the Quick Find box, and select it.
  4. Turn on Automatic Contact Enhancements.
    The toggle to turn on Automatic Contact Enhancements
  5. To see the Buyer Attributes, Department Group, and Seniority Level fields on the contact record, add the fields to the Contact record layout. You can also add them to list views. Buyer Attributes, Department Group, and Seniority Level fields are available with all profiles except custom and minimum-access. To provide access, use field-level security in Object Manager.
    List view of contacts for Ursa Major Solar account, with Seniority Level, Department Group, and Buyer Attributes columns highlighted

Automatic Contact Enhancements starts updating your contact records from your new email interactions and up to 4 historical email interactions. For a list of fields that are updated, see Considerations for Automatic Contact Enhancements.

An indicator on contact records shows that the feature is on.

Contact record details with Data Enhanced by Einstein text highlighted
Note
Note If your org uses custom Contact record pages, the indicator may not appear automatically. To display it, add the Sales Einstein GPT for Contacts component to the page using Lightning App Builder.