not the tutorial follow-along, not the thing youre going to start on monday. the actual thing that's open in a tab right now. Drop what you're building + the part that's annoying you most. Genuinely curious what everyone's deep in.

Hey Automation community! 👋 This took me 2 hours to put together. If you're looking for a proven way to get clients AT SCALE and actually make money for your AI automation agency, then this is for you. I run an AI agency that basically made no money because I had a hard time finding new clients. I tried cold email starting in November and it quickly become one of our most profitable acquisition channels. I knew NOTHING about cold outreach when I started. I learned A LOT along the way (including plenty of expensive mistakes), so here’s everything I wish I had known from day one. If you don't know what cold email marketing is, it's when you send out thousands of emails to potential leads you haven't spoken to before. The goal is for them to book a consult with you where you'll then close on a deal. If you do it badly, it will look like spam and nobody will respond. Do it where you target relevant people ready to buy and offer a lot of VALUE, and you will generate sales. Part 1: Technical Setup Domain Strategy - Buy dedicated domains just for email campaigns — never ever use your main company domain. - Set up DNS records immediately: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. - Use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for better deliverability (roughly $4–6 per account per month). Email Account Setup - Create 1–4 email accounts per domain. - Start slow: 10 emails per account per day, then increase volume by ~10% each day. - Max once warmed up: ~25 emails per account per day. - Example: 4 domains × 3 accounts × 25 emails = 300 emails/day to begin with. IMPORTANT: Always warm up accounts for at least 14 days before ramping up. Extra tips that help a lot: - Add real profile photos and complete the accounts. - Older domains tend to perform better when you can get them. - Set up a custom tracking domain for accurate open/click data. Choosing Your Sending Platform You can do it manually with the technical setup above but it's way easier to buy an email account that's already configured and ready to go. I ran high-volume campaigns using Instantly.ai because it has good deliverability, analytics, and tons of guides on it since it's used by many agencies to get clients. It’s not perfect but probably one of the best for cold email right now. But honestly, your lead list and outreach message matter more.

I run a distillery in remote WA and we're building a formalised sales program from scratch. AI's moving fast and I'm trying to work out where it genuinely fits versus where it'll just make us look like everyone else. We've got two distinct branches, and I suspect AI plays differently in each: 1. Trade sales (bottle shops / on-premise) Small, relationship-driven retail. The dream is: AI handles top-of-funnel research and personalised outreach, flags the warm ones, and my in-person rep follows up to close. I'm wary of full AI cold calling here — it can read as off-brand fast in a trade this relationship-led. I'm more interested in AI-assisted research and email personalisation (warm-up, not replacement) than full automation. Keen to hear if anyone's drawn that line and where. 2. B2B corporate gifting (hampers) We sell gift hampers to large-ticket vendors — real estate agencies, car dealerships, etc. The buyer is usually the boss, but the day-to-day contact is the admin officer who routes the emails and, frankly, gets stuck building the hampers en masse (not their favourite task). We'd ideally have AI research all relevant contacts in our radius, scrape emails, and somehow create personalised emails to each potential lead. 3. B2C - We run Klaviyo email newsletters to our ~1300 subscribers. We're starting to use more automation. Our latest angle is to have me record an update video (5min or less), then use descript and claude analyse the transcript break the video into: YT long form, YT shorts, IG shorts and klaviyo email copy. My questions for the group: - For relationship-driven trade, what's worked beyond generic email blasts or AI callers? - For B2B gifting, has anyone used AI to win the boss and reduce friction for the gatekeeper who actually does the work? - How are you using AI within your B2C emails/marketing/lead gen? - What should we avoid?

Just shipped RealEstate OS — an end-to-end AI automation that takes a lead from "fills out a website form" to "booked consultation" with zero manual work. Here's what it does under the hood: 🔹 Captures leads via webhook from any website form 🔹 Dual-writes to Google Sheets + Airtable for redundancy 🔹 Uses AI agents to analyze lead quality and classify lead type (buyer vs seller) 🔹 Routes to specialized AI agents that generate personalized property recommendations, seller readiness assessments, and follow-up messaging 🔹 Auto-sends follow-up emails and SMS tailored to the lead 🔹 Books consultations straight into Google Calendar 🔹 Full error-logging pipeline so nothing silently fails Built entirely in n8n with chained AI agents (OpenAI), memory buffers, structured output parsing, and multi-channel delivery (Email/SMS/Calendar/Sheets/Airtable). This is what "AI agency in a box" actually looks like — not a chatbot, a full operating system for lead conversion. #n8n #AIAutomation #RealEstateTech #NoCode #LowCode #WorkflowAutomation #AIagents #PropTech #LeadGeneration #OpenAI #Automation #BuildInPublic #SaaS #AIWorkflow

Hi, I need someone who can create an email managment tool that can read and process data inside the emails and put that into a google sheet. would need to process several email addresses.