Cold Outreach Agent (Smartlead)

What it is

A repo that is the workspace for a scheduled Claude Code session operating Black Lily's cold email. It sources and validates leads, writes and lints copy, syncs campaigns to Smartlead, reads replies and stats, and writes a dated journal of what it did and why. The brief sets objectives and guardrails instead of a script, and a pricing A/B test is staged but not yet sending.

The problem

Cold outbound needs daily list hygiene, copy testing and deliverability care that a solo founder cannot keep up with.

How it works

1. CLAUDE.md operating brief with hard limits: protect sending domains, never invent results, keep the offer a flat-fee back-office service
2. Leads sourced from the FMCSA carrier census, then tiered validation: a cheap homepage regex first, an evidence bundle for the agent to judge only when needed
3. Pre-send linter blocks text that mail clients auto-link and unverified statistics; preflight checks run before any send
4. Experiment registry with statistical gates on shrunk reply rates; event log, notification outbox and per-day journal act as the agent's memory
5. Smartlead API client for campaigns, sequences, mailbox warmup stats and replies

Stack

Disciplines

For your business

A managed AI cold-outbound operator: lead sourcing, validation, copy testing and deliverability monitoring run by an agent with guardrails.