outbound-strategylisted

Build your own in-house cold email / outbound infrastructure instead of renting Smartlead, Instantly or Lemlist. Use when someone wants to set up self-hosted cold outreach: connecting their own SMTP/IMAP inboxes, sourcing and segmenting B2B leads, writing multi-step sequences, sending at scale with deliverability-safe caps and warmup ramps, classifying replies, and running everything autonomously with monitoring. Triggers on: "cold email infrastructure", "self-hosted outreach", "build my own Smartlead", "outbound system", "send cold email sequences", "lead segmentation", "email deliverability", "warmup", "inbox rotation", "reply tracking".
gquthier/outbound-strategy · ★ 4 · DevOps & Infrastructure · score 75

Install: claude install-skill gquthier/outbound-strategy

# Outbound Strategy — Build Your Own Cold Email Infrastructure A complete, opinionated playbook for building a **self-hosted outbound email system** — the same stack agencies pay $300–$2,000/mo for (Smartlead, Instantly, Lemlist), owned end to end for the price of your inboxes. You drive it with an AI agent. No per-seat SaaS, no data lock-in, no sending limits but the ones you choose. > **What you get:** multi-inbox sending with rotation, multi-step A/B sequences, automatic reply classification, > deliverability-safe daily caps + warmup ramp, a monitoring dashboard, and a cron that runs it all 24/7. --- ## When to use this skill - You have (or will buy) cold-email domains + inboxes and want to **own the sending layer**. - You want an **agent-operable backend** (create campaigns, enroll leads, read replies) instead of clicking a SaaS UI. - You care about **deliverability** and want full control over volume, ramp, and rotation. - You're an agency/consultant who wants to **resell** outbound or run it for clients at near-zero marginal cost. If you just need to send 50 newsletters to opted-in subscribers, use a newsletter tool (listmonk, Keila). This is for **cold B2B outreach at scale**. --- ## The mental model ``` DOMAINS (5–10 throwaway .com/.info) └─ INBOXES (3 per domain) ── SMTP (send) + IMAP (read/replies) └─ ENGINE (outbound-tools: MCP server + CLI, IMAP = database) ├─ Campaigns (multi-step sequences, A/B variants, threaded follow-ups)