Cold Email Automation — AI-Written, Signal-Triggered
Strides cold email automation writes genuinely personalized emails for every prospect using real-time AI research. Not templates. Not spin-tags. Real personalization at scale.
Strides doesn't send templates with personalization tags. It researches each prospect in real time and writes a genuinely unique email grounded in their specific company situation — producing cold emails that read like they were written by a top SDR, for every single prospect.
By the Numbers
- 8.7% — Average reply rate (vs. 1.2% industry avg)
- 100% — Unique emails — zero templates
- 0 — Manual email writing required
- 24/7 — Cold email running continuously
Cold Email Automation That Actually Converts.
AI research + AI writing + signal triggering = cold email that gets replies, not spam filters.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Cold Email Automation Works When It's Not Spam — Strides Draws the Distinction
Cold email has a reputation problem caused by the dominant approach: buy a list, blast a template, hope for 1–2% reply rates. This approach is effectively spam at low volume. Strides approaches cold email differently: research each prospect with AI, write a unique message for each one grounded in their specific company situation, and only send when a trigger signal suggests the timing is right.
The result is cold email that averages 8.7% reply rates — versus the 1.2% industry average for template-based cold email. The difference is that Strides' messages are genuinely relevant to each recipient. They reference something real about the company, the person, or the timing. They are not spam. They are timely, relevant outreach that happens to be written by AI rather than a human.
Cold email automation with Strides also includes the follow-up automation that template tools leave to manual effort. Strides sends multi-touch sequences, handles replies, routes interested prospects to meeting booking, and deprioritizes clear opt-outs — completing the entire cold email cycle autonomously.
What Customers Say
We were spending 3 hours a day on list building. Strides does it overnight while we sleep. We wake up to 200 verified, signal-qualified leads every morning.
Daniel Frey, Head of Sales at Paigo — 200 signal-qualified leads delivered every morning
Our previous tool sent the same email with the name swapped. Strides writes something different for every single person. Prospects actually respond saying they were impressed.
Jordan Lee, Director of Sales at Resend — Reply rate up 3.7× in the first 30 days
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Strides write cold emails that don't look like AI?
Strides uses real research (news, job postings, funding data, web content) about each prospect to write messages that reference specific, real, current facts about their company or situation. The specificity is what makes them read as human — generic AI content is immediately recognizable; specific, researched content is not.
Does Strides cold email comply with CAN-SPAM and GDPR?
Yes. All outreach includes compliant unsubscribe mechanisms, sender identification, and GDPR-appropriate lawful basis. Strides maintains suppression lists and respects opt-outs permanently.
How does Strides handle cold email deliverability?
Strides uses warmed sending infrastructure, sends from properly configured domains, monitors sender reputation, and throttles sending volume to maintain deliverability rates above 95%.
Can I see examples of cold emails Strides would write for my ICP?
Yes. In your demo, Strides generates live example emails for 3–5 companies matching your ICP so you can see the personalization quality before committing.
How many cold emails can Strides send per day?
Strides manages sending volume per domain to maintain deliverability. Most customers operate between 200–500 emails per day per domain, with multiple domains available for higher volumes.