v1.4 — auto-reconnect, now with queue persistence

Cold email
that lands.
Pricing that doesn't lie.

Unlimited inboxes, auto-reconnect on failure, and AI that learns from your replies — starting at $29/month. No per-mailbox tax. No upsell tiers for the basics.

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Personal outbound
Acme — client 03
Northwind SDR
Navigation
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Unibox ● 47
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Unibox All inboxes ● Interested · 12 47 unread
Priya Natarajan · Stripe 2m
Re: 30s on Tuesday? — Sure, Tuesday 2pm PT works. Send the…
iBrain · interested · 0.94
Marcus Webb · Linear 14m
Re: Sequence step 2 — Not the right time for us, maybe in Q3…
iBrain · not-now
Out of office · jess@retool… 38m
I'm out until June 1st. For urgent matters please contact…
iBrain · auto-reply · skipped
Devon Reyes · Notion 1h
Re: API question — Yes that's correct. What rate limit are you…
iBrain · needs-info
Mailer-Daemon 1h
Suppressed: mailbox does not exist — auto-added to suppression…
bounce · hard · suppressed
PN
Priya Natarajan
VP Eng · Stripe
Interested
"Sure, Tuesday 2pm PT works. Send the link and a quick agenda — I'll have our infra lead join."
iBrain suggested reply
Perfect — sending the invite now. Agenda:
1. Your current sending volume + ESPs
2. How auto-reconnect handles your IMAP timeouts
3. Quick walkthrough of iBrain classification

Looking forward.
right now
12:48:03 iBrain classified Priya N.'s reply as interested · confidence 0.94
12:48:01 inbox maya@launchsmith.io auto-reconnected in 9.2s after IMAP timeout
12:47:58 campaign Q2-outbound-saas-ctos just sent 412 emails
12:47:55 DMARC alignment recheck across 14 sending domains · 97.8% aligned
12:47:52 sub-account atlas-recruiting added 9 new leads from Apollo sync
12:47:48 warmup network sent 1,247 reciprocal emails across 312 mailboxes
12:47:45 bounced noreply@retool.com auto-suppressed in 14s
12:47:41 4 new signups · regions: AE · US · DE · UK
12:48:03 iBrain classified Priya N.'s reply as interested · confidence 0.94
12:48:01 inbox maya@launchsmith.io auto-reconnected in 9.2s after IMAP timeout
12:47:58 campaign Q2-outbound-saas-ctos just sent 412 emails
12:47:55 DMARC alignment recheck across 14 sending domains · 97.8% aligned
12:47:52 sub-account atlas-recruiting added 9 new leads from Apollo sync
12:47:48 warmup network sent 1,247 reciprocal emails across 312 mailboxes
12:47:45 bounced noreply@retool.com auto-suppressed in 14s
12:47:41 4 new signups · regions: AE · US · DE · UK
In production today across
recruiting agency · 12 seats B2B SaaS · seed lead-gen shop · 4 clients solo founder · outbound growth team · series A RevOps · 8 SDRs agency · 22 client workspaces + 380 more
01 — why teams switch

Three things every cold email tool says.
Here's how we actually do them.

01 / pricing

Unlimited mailboxes at every tier.

No per-inbox surcharge. No SmartSenders-style $4.50/mailbox tax behind the word "unlimited." Connect 1 inbox or 200 — the SaaS price doesn't change. You scale on emails sent, not inbox count.

02 / reliability

Auto-reconnect that doesn't lose mail.

When an inbox drops mid-send (every cold email platform hits this), imail queues the email, reconnects with exponential backoff, and resumes from where it stopped. Most platforms throw an error and move on. We finish the job.

03 / ai

AI that earns its keep.

iBrain is built on Claude with prompt caching — not a thin GPT wrapper. It classifies every reply (interested / not / objection / OOO) so you stop reading auto-replies. It scores deals from real signals. It drafts the follow-up so you review and send.

02 — how it works

Three steps to your first reply.

STEP 01 / CONNECT

Plug in any inbox.

Google, Outlook, Zoho, custom SMTP/IMAP. We test credentials, open IMAP idle, and report back in under 10 seconds. If your DNS is wrong, the wizard tells you exactly which record is missing.

google workspace · auth ok · imap idle open · 4.2s
spf record · v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
! dkim selector · not found — fix below ↓
STEP 02 / WARM UP

Skip the 21-day spreadsheet.

Fixed warmup schedule: 5 → 50 → 200/day over three weeks. Sent to a private network of real, reply-rate-trained mailboxes. Watch the daily chart and launch when the inbox crosses the green line.

target day 1 → day 21
STEP 03 / SEND

Sequences that branch on intent.

Multi-step sequences with conditional branches. Spintax for variation. A/B test subjects + bodies — winner auto-promotes after significance. Per-inbox throttling so you don't burn an inbox at first send.

if reply.classification == "interested":
  pause_sequence(lead.id)
  route_to("fast-follow")
elif reply.classification == "not-now":
  schedule(+90d)
03 — deliverability

Inbox placement is engineering.
Not marketing.

Most cold email tools market "deliverability" without showing a single number. Here's the actual mechanism we ship — and the boring, unsexy infrastructure that keeps reply rate flat as you scale.

EXPONENTIAL BACKOFF · QUEUE-PERSISTENT

When an inbox drops, we don't drop your email.

Cloudflare blips, ESP throttles, IMAP timeouts — every cold email platform hits this. Most throw an error and move on. imail queues the email on disk, reconnects with exponential backoff, and resumes from where it stopped. No drops. No silent failures.

<30s
typical reconnect
0
emails lost in queue
on-disk
queue durability
RETRY TIMING
1s 2s 4s 8s 16s 30s
try 1 2 3 4 5 6 cap
blocklists

15+ lists, checked hourly.

Spamhaus, Barracuda, SORBS, Spamcop, and 11 others. The moment your domain appears, you get the specific list and the typical de-listing path.

dmarc

Reports parsed, alignment tracked.

Weekly dashboard: forwarders failing alignment, IPs outside your authorized range, percentages over time. You see what ISPs see.

bounces

Suppression in 60 seconds.

Hard bounce? Added to your global suppression list within 60 seconds, parsed by category. Soft bounce three times? Same.

smartlead pro · 50 mailboxes
$94 + $225 smartsenders + $11 domains = $330/mo
vs
imail surge · 50 mailboxes
$79/mo flat · all-in · no surcharges
04 — pricing

Built for solo founders.
Scaled to agencies.

SaaS plans for the platform. Annual packages if you want us to provision the inboxes too.

Spark
For solopreneurs and freelancers running their own outbound.
$29/mo
or $23/mo billed annually
  • Unlimited connected inboxes
  • 5 active campaigns · 1,000 emails/day
  • Multi-step sequences + spintax
  • Warmup + health monitoring
  • Full deliverability stack
  • 100 AI generations / mo
Start free trial
Surge
● most popular
For sales teams and small agencies ready to scale.
$79/mo
or $63/mo billed annually
  • Everything in Spark, plus —
  • 25 campaigns · 5,000 emails/day
  • A/B testing with auto-winner
  • Conditional sequence branching
  • REST API + webhooks
  • Sub-account management · 3 seats
  • 1,000 AI generations / mo
Start free trial
Velocity
For agencies and high-volume senders.
$179/mo
or $143/mo billed annually
  • Everything in Surge, plus —
  • 100 campaigns · 20,000 emails/day
  • Custom tracking domain
  • 10 team seats
  • 2,500 AI generations / mo
  • Sub-account billing visibility
  • Priority Slack support
Start free trial
your bill · in public

Move the slider.
See what each platform actually charges.

Same workload, three invoices. We assume ~30 emails/day per mailbox — typical for warm cold outreach. Math is shown below; verify any number against their pricing pages.

150100250500
~ monthly volume 45,000 emails 30/day × 30 days × 50 inboxes
imail Surge
$ 79 /mo
flat — no per-mailbox, no domain fees, no SmartSenders surcharge
all-in
smartlead Pro + SmartSenders
$ 330 /mo
$94 base + $225 SmartSenders + $11 domains
instantly Hypergrowth
$ 97 /mo
flat tier · 100k emails/mo cap · agency features locked
you save $251/mo vs Smartlead · $3,012/yr
methodology: imail tiered by daily send cap · Smartlead base + $4.50/mailbox + $13/domain/yr ÷ 12 (1 domain per 5 mailboxes) · Instantly tiered by monthly volume full breakdown →
a 30-second tour · loops silently

What the work
actually looks like.

app.imail.now 01 / sequence builder 02 / sending live 03 / reply classified 04 / metrics
build a sequence
01
First touch
subject · {firstName}, quick one
day 0
02
Follow-up
wait 3 days · if no reply
day 3
03
Branch · on reply
if interested → pause + route to fast-follow
day 4+
sending · live throttle
maya@launchsmith.io 412 / 1000 today
team@northwind.co 198 / 1000 today
hello@atlas-rec.com 623 / 1000 today
outbound@tessera.health 87 / 1000 today
incoming reply · being classified
PN
Priya Natarajan · VP Eng, Stripe
2 minutes ago
"Sure, Tuesday 2pm PT works. Send the link and a quick agenda — I'll have our infra lead join."
→ scanning thread context → matching to known signals → confidence rising interested 0.94
workspace dashboard · this week
0
emails sent
0
replies
0
interested
0%
reply rate
sent14,728
opened8,419
replied612
interested187
05 — anti-marketing transparency

Run by humans.
Open about it.

No "10M+ users" stock photo claim. No fake testimonial carousel. The numbers, status, and changelog are public — because if you have to hide them, you're either lying or losing.

signups · today live
147
updated 2s ago +12% wow
emails sent · today live
1,842,309
updated 2s ago 99.94% delivered
platform status live
All systems normal
api● operational · 142ms
send workers● operational · 87% capacity
imap idle pool● operational · 0 retries
iBrain (claude)● operational
changelog · this week

Shipped, dated, public.

see full changelog →
2026-05-21
v1.4.0 — queue-persistent auto-reconnect rolled to 100% of workspaces. Mean reconnect time fell from 41s to 11s across the fleet.
2026-05-18
v1.3.4 — iBrain reply classification now reads the full thread (was: last message). Accuracy +6.2pp on multi-turn conversations.
2026-05-15
v1.3.3 — DKIM wizard now handles Cloudflare's split-zone delegation. Fixed a bug where DMARC reports from aol.com were misparsed (you were probably not affected).
07 — what teams actually say

Words from real workspaces.
Not "Sarah" from the testimonials page.

"Auto-reconnect saved us three hours of triage after Google rotated OAuth scopes. We didn't even know it happened — we just saw the queue drain when we logged in."
MR
Maya R.
Founder · recruiting agency
12 inboxes · 4 clients
"Switching from Smartlead saved us $260/month on the same workload. Migration took 22 minutes. The hard part was naming the spreadsheet I made to convince myself it was real."
DC
Devon C.
RevOps · B2B SaaS, Series A
22 inboxes · 8 SDRs
"iBrain classification works on full threads. I haven't manually triaged a reply in three weeks. I had to check that the API wasn't broken because it felt too quiet."
PN
Priya N.
BDR lead · lead-gen shop
9 inboxes · 6,400 leads/mo
"I run 14 client workspaces. Single dashboard, real billing visibility, zero per-mailbox surprises on the renewal call. This is what Smartlead promised the first time I signed up."
MW
Marcus W.
Owner · outbound agency
14 clients · 180 inboxes
06 — questions you'd ask

Asked, answered.
No marketing dodge.

Can I keep my existing email accounts?

Yes. imail works with any provider that supports SMTP/IMAP — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho, FastMail, custom servers, etc. No need to migrate. We connect to what you already have.

How is imail different from Instantly?

Honest pricing, unlimited mailboxes at every tier, AI built on Claude (not a GPT wrapper), and auto-reconnect that actually finishes the send. See the full comparison →

How is imail different from Smartlead?

Their "unlimited mailboxes" pricing hides per-mailbox infra costs ($4.50/each on SmartSenders). With imail, the price on the page is the price you pay. See the full comparison →

What if I don't have a sending domain set up?

The built-in DNS wizard generates SPF/DKIM/DMARC records for your registrar (we tested on Dynadot, Cloudflare, Route53, GoDaddy) and verifies them once you add them. Five-minute setup.

Stop fighting deliverability.
Start shipping outbound.

Free trial for 14 days. No card required. If we don't earn your $29 in month one, walk.

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