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cold emailoutboundAI agents

The median AI skill ships 2 files. Mine ships 156.

I counted every file in 109 public AI marketing skills. The median ships 2 files, and 91 of the 109 ship no executable code at all. Here is the full tree of mine, with the graders' real PASS and FAIL output.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Aug 22, 2026 · 15 min read
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cold emailoutboundAI agents

My AI writes the whole cold campaign. I still approve every one.

I wanted an AI that runs cold outreach at volume without firing emails in my name that I never saw. So outbound-engine now builds you a board — it drafts every campaign, then stops at an approval gate you own. Speed of an agent, go-button of a human.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Jul 20, 2026 · 4 min read
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cold emailoutboundsales

58% of my replies come from emails I almost didn't send

Most cold outreach pours everything into the first email and treats follow-ups as a chore. The data says the opposite: 58% of positive replies land on follow-ups two through four. Here's how I rebuilt outbound-engine around the ladder.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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cold emailAI agentsdeliverability

My AI agent sent 200 cold emails perfectly. I never saw the replies.

One of my AI agents launched a cold-email campaign that sent perfectly and told me nothing — because it went out without a webhook. Here's the silent failure, the hard rule I made, and three more lessons my deployed agents taught me, all shipped in @di-atomic/smartlead v1.9.0.

Martin Shein
Martin Shein
Jul 20, 2026 · 5 min read
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