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10 days into 2025...
And these are the results we've ALREADY had for clients this year.
Thoughtleadr is dominating X.
If you want to build your brand here while:
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NO ONE is doing it better.
RevenueFlow retweeted
2 days ago, I hosted my first dinner in London, powered by @stanforcreators
We brought together creators, operators, and founders with a combined audience of 900k+ and worked with household names like Microsoft, Meta, and LEGO.
My takeaways:
> London has an incredible talent pool, but bringing the right people together takes intention and proactivity
> The more our feeds fill with AI-generated content, the more the pendulum swings harder towards IRL communities
> You really can just shoot a DM to a stranger to invite them to a dinner and have a great time. Highly recommend
Thanks, for coming! @czamaru @aryanagab @sashacayward @alstras @_danreynolds_ Julius Foo, Melanie Fan, Will Holdsworth, Teresa May Koh, Nat Cortazar, Joana Rocha, and Aditi Mishra
Feels good to be home.
P.s shoutout to @leo1yu for helping make this happen 🙏
RevenueFlow retweeted
The best senders get a reply every 38 contacts. You are probably closer to 135.
That gap comes out of 850 million emails sent on @smartlead_ai in the first half of 2026, which is a large enough sample that the spread inside it is not noise. The top ten percent of senders need 38 contacts for one reply, the average sender needs 135, and the bottom of the distribution runs past 625.
Sit with what sixteen times means across an ordinary week. Two teams push the same volume into lists of roughly the same quality, with the same headcount and the same hours, and one of them finishes the week with sixteen times the conversations to work.
The reason a number like that lands harder than another thread of best practice is that hardly anyone knows their own band. You know your reply rate well enough to quote it, and you have no reference point for whether it is any good, so you cannot tell whether the next hire, the next list or the next rewrite is the thing actually worth paying for.
Work yours out before you read anything else about outbound this month. Take the contacts you touched last month, divide by the replies that came back, and the number you get puts you somewhere on that curve. Landing near the average makes you ordinary, which is a far more useful place to stand than confused.
The full report covers send timing, message length and bounce thresholds at the same scale, and it costs nothing.
Comment BENCHMARK and I will send it over.
Which of those three numbers surprised you most?
🤝 Paid partnership
RevenueFlow retweeted
Poor lead management is an expensive mistake.
What it costs you is replies from people who are close to buying, and nothing anywhere turns red when one goes missing. Somebody forwards your email to whoever actually holds the budget and that person answers from their own address, or a prospect decides they want to talk, starts a fresh message, types your address in by hand and hits send. The intent is real either way, and because neither one threads back to the campaign that earned it, your reporting behaves as though it never arrived.
@smartlead_ai has a view built for precisely this inside the Master Inbox, called Untracked Replies, where anything that came back without a matching thread collects in one place rather than scattering across mailboxes nobody has a reason to open.
Recovering the money is the next part. You pick the conversation and associate the lead with the appropriate campaign, either choosing it yourself or taking one off the recommended list, and once it is attached you can reply and follow up from that same inbox with the lead sitting inside the campaign it should have belonged to from the first email you ever sent them.
The rest is housekeeping, which counts for more than it sounds when mail is arriving from addresses you have never seen. You can mark leads as unread, delete replies individually or in bulk, and block a sending address or a whole domain when something is clearly going nowhere. A settings panel holds the blocked addresses, domains, subject lines and keywords, and it can be scoped to a single client rather than applied across everything, which is what makes this usable if you run outbound on behalf of other people.
Set it up today, then look at how far back your own untracked replies go.
🤝 Paid partnership
Outbound scale is usually an infrastructure problem before it is a copy problem. More clean domains, diversified providers, and warmed inboxes create the capacity that better messaging can actually use.
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You're not sending enough emails. Here's how to fix that.
Most teams unhappy with their outbound numbers are hitting a capacity ceiling long before anything else has gone wrong, because a handful of inboxes each sending a sensibly conservative amount will never add up to the pipeline target, and everybody can see it without anybody volunteering to be the one who fixes it. Fixing it used to mean a week of infrastructure work that no salesperson wants and no founder should be doing.
That is the part that has changed. SmartSenders is a marketplace built into @smartlead_ai, and buying mailboxes through it feels closer to adding seats than to running a project. You choose Google, Outlook, or SMTP infrastructure, pick your domains, and the DNS and authentication work that used to eat somebody's afternoon is handled for you as part of the order.
The smart move is not to put your entire outbound operation behind one provider or one domain. Running Google and Outlook side by side spreads the risk, so one provider's filtering change or one bad week cannot throttle everything at once.
Standard mailboxes arrive within twenty-four to forty-eight hours. You then warm them before they touch a real campaign. If you need to move faster, pre-warmed options are available, but the principle is the same: protect the infrastructure before you ask it to produce.
Once healthy, scale by adding clean domains and mailboxes instead of forcing a handful of addresses past sensible limits. More safe capacity comes from distribution, not from making every inbox work harder.
So the honest path is simple: diversify providers, spread the risk, warm the infrastructure, then scale. If volume is what has been holding your quarter back, set it up today.
RevenueFlow retweeted
I can't believe this is free.
Most cold email content covers exactly one piece of the job. There is a copywriting thread, a deliverability thread, a sequencing thread, and every one of them quietly assumes you already have the rest working, which is how people read outbound content for a year and still do not have a system that runs.
Smartlead 101 is the exception. @smartlead_ai put the whole curriculum on YouTube, thirty nine videos and roughly three hours, taking you from sourcing leads and setting up mailboxes through warmup, campaign building, reply management and the client side of running outbound for other people, in the order you would actually do them.
That order is the part that matters, because most of the expensive mistakes in outbound live in the joins between the pieces rather than inside any one of them.
Two examples of what that looks like. Your sending volume is decided by whichever of four limits is lowest, the per mailbox daily cap, the minimum gap between sends, the campaign trigger count and the maximum new leads per day, so a two hour window with a twenty minute gap leaves six slots and a mailbox rated for fifteen sends six. Almost every complaint about low volume traces back to one of those four sitting tighter than anyone remembers setting it.
Or this one. Pull a sender out of a campaign that is already live and the people it emailed are stranded, because follow-ups continue in the same thread from the same mailbox, so swapping inboxes halfway through leaves leads mid sequence and nothing flags it.
Neither of those is a copywriting problem, and neither of them shows up if you only ever learn one layer.
Worth an afternoon at 1.5x. Try it out today:
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RevenueFlow retweeted
Running cold email campaigns just became a whole lot easier
@smartlead_ai now runs an MCP server, which in plain terms means Claude can read and act on your live campaign data directly instead of working off a spreadsheet that went stale the moment you exported it.
The workflow is worth walking through properly, because it is shorter than people expect. You generate an API key inside your account, point Claude at the server once, and from then on you ask for what you want in a sentence.
Here is a prompt worth stealing in full:
"Fetch all Smartlead clients, then get today's performance for each: emails sent, replied, positive replies, unique lead count. Compute reply rate per client, run a top and bottom performer analysis, format it as a daily client performance report, and post it to Slack."
One paste, and it pulls live figures for every account, does the arithmetic, ranks the strongest and the weakest, and delivers the finished thing into the channel your team already sits in, before anyone has logged on for the day.
Be clear about the division of labour, because it is what makes this useful rather than a novelty. Smartlead is the engine holding the campaigns, the mailboxes, the warmup and the reply data, and Claude is simply the interface you operate all of it through, so nothing about your sending changes and everything about how you interrogate it does.
The effect people underestimate is on the questions you start asking. Once a report costs you a sentence rather than an afternoon, you stop rationing the ones that used to feel like too much trouble, and problems that used to surface on a Friday start surfacing on a Tuesday.
Connect it with Claude through MCP and run one prompt against your own account today.
🤝 Paid partnership
RevenueFlow retweeted
Every deliverability tool hands you a chart and expects you to become an analyst. This one from @smartlead_ai doesn't
What Insights actually hands you is a single page that watches your entire sending setup, then shows what has already been handled, what that work saved you, and what is left as a one tap approval, which is a very different morning from interpreting graphs.
Reply rate is the clearest example. Rather than a campaign average that only moves once a sender has been sick for weeks, Smartlead reads every mailbox on its own rolling fourteen day window, so a drop is flagged the moment it happens and the correction is already queued when you get there.
Bounce is handled the same way. Smartlead treats 4% as the danger threshold and weights the figure by volume per mailbox, so you are warned about the sender heading toward it rather than finding out later from a fleet number that quietly absorbed the damage.
When replies go quiet altogether you are given the cause instead of four things to rule out, because the page separates an IMAP sync failure from an expired authorisation, a wrong permission scope and a disabled mail service, and queues the reconnect behind whichever one it was.
Capacity stops being guesswork too. Usage is tracked continuously on each mailbox, the under-used and the over-used are both named, and you are handed a safe cap to send at instead of a number somebody once picked.
Two quieter things hold all of it together. Bulk Reconnect walks up to fifty mailboxes back through a guided sign-in at once, and nothing is counted as fixed until the result has been verified, so the page is describing your fleet rather than flattering it.
And when you would rather read a conclusion than a chart, Summarise turns whatever is happening into plain English and tells you what to do next.
🤝 Paid partnership
The list is not an input you buy once. It is infrastructure. When data and sending share feedback, every campaign improves the next one.
🤖 Made with AI
A good cold email campaign needs about 100 sends per positive reply. A bad one needs 2,000. Most of that gap is locked in before the first email even goes out.
Two simple things decide it, the offer and the list. The offer is your problem to fix. The list is an economics problem, and the default economics are honestly kinda dumb:
- pay a database per lead to pull contacts
- pay a second tool to find the email
- pay a third tool to verify it
- some of it bounces anyway and torches the sender reputation you spent weeks building
Three payments per contact, and you still carry all the risk.
Our fix was to rebuild the plumbing, AI filters out bad-fit companies before we spend a cent on enrichment. We cache every contact we've ever processed, so we never pay twice for the same person. Free pattern checks run before any paid lookup, and every address gets verified for under a penny before it goes anywhere near a campaign.
Smartlead went further and just stopped charging for the leads. SmartProspect is a 300M profile database living inside the sending platform. Contacts get checked against 3 sources before you ever see them, your allowance scales with your plan instead of running a per-lead meter, and lists drop straight into campaigns. Data and sending in one system also means every new list inherits the bounce and reply history of campaigns that already ran.
The list sits upstream of every number you report. Fix the economics there first, then worry about the copy.
Pretty cool tbh
This is the GTM workforce shift in one list. Agents handle the repetitive operating loop, while humans keep judgment, strategy, and approvals.
🤖 Made with AI
This is insane.
An AI agent can run every boring job in outbound.
We spent the last 6 months building ours.
Here are my 8 favorite agents to build:
Replies get sorted before we open the inbox.
Campaigns go live from one command.
Weak inboxes pull themselves out before they hurt a domain.
Here are the agents behind it:
1. Reply Agent
Reads every reply and drafts the response. A human reviews, edits, and sends.
2. Mailbox Health Agent
Watches inbox and domain health. It predicts when you need new mailboxes, then buys and warms them.
3. Campaign Optimizer Agent
Checks every live campaign every 6 hours.
If 500+ leads were emailed and replies are under 4%, it tests new copy, replaces inboxes replying under 1%, and shifts sending to better hours.
4. Lead Qualification Agent
Scores each lead by company size, industry, and tech stack.
It enriches the record, updates your CRM, and only loads qualified leads into campaigns.
High-priority prospect? You get a Slack ping.
5. Meeting Booking Agent
Finds meeting requests inside replies.
It books the slot, writes prep notes using the lead's background, sends reminders, and logs the outcome.
6. Pipeline Progression Agent
Tracks opens, clicks, and website visits.
It moves the CRM stage, triggers the next sequence, and creates a task when a lead shows real intent.
7. Copywriting Agent
Writes cold emails and follow-ups in the campaign's voice.
8. Analytics Agent
Watches campaign metrics in real time and explains what to fix in plain language.
We built ours with custom code.
Smartlead's SmartAgents let you build agents like these from a plain-English prompt, inside the platform where your campaigns already run.
If you repeat an outbound task more than twice a week, that is an agent you have not built yet.
Which one would you build first?
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Thanks for reading! A bit about us:
2 years ago, we (@thefernandocz & @timthoughtleadr) created Thoughtleadr - a premium media agency building personal and company brands.
We work with founders, executives, and investors to dominate socials.
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