Sending marketing email to your list

Yes, you can send email to your own contact list — this is a real, working feature. Ask your co-founder to draft and send a campaign, and it will.

How it works

Your co-founder writes the email, sends it from your business's own address, and only reaches people on your list who haven't unsubscribed. Because sending costs money and can't be taken back once it's out, it always checks with you first — you'll get a chance to approve it before anything actually sends. Say yes, and it goes out; say no, and it doesn't.

I'll need your business mailing address first

By law every marketing email carries the sender's real mailing address, even for people who asked to hear from you. So I'll ask for yours before the first send and put it at the bottom of the email, next to the unsubscribe link — see "Why I need your business mailing address".

Drafting and sending are two separate OKs

Writing the email and sending it are two different steps. So if you ask for both — "draft and send my launch announcement" — your co-founder will come back to you twice: once to approve the draft it wrote, and again to actually send it. It'll say so when it starts, and approving the draft never sends anything on its own.

Drafts your co-founder writes on its own initiative work differently: it doesn't need to ask before writing one, so a draft may simply appear for you to read. That's normal, and nothing has gone out.

Either way, the send itself always asks. Nothing reaches anyone on your list until you've said yes to that specifically.

Reading the email before you approve it

You don't have to approve blind. The request waiting on you carries a "Review what this says" link: open it and you'll see the real subject line and the body of the email as your contacts would read it.

It's there to read, not to edit. If the wording isn't right, skip it and tell your co-founder what to change — it'll write you a new version to look over.

Seeing a draft before you're even asked to approve it

For your very first customer email, the subject line and body show up in chat as soon as your co-founder drafts it — before you're asked who should get it.

For any later draft, just ask — "show me the draft," "what does it say?", "read me the email" — and you'll get the real subject line and body back as plain, readable text, the same copy that would go out. If nothing's been drafted yet, your co-founder will say so rather than describing something that doesn't exist.

How the wording gets written

Your co-founder writes the email itself, using what you've told it about your business — the name, what you do, who it's for. It writes to the person receiving the email, in your business's voice, and it won't invent prices, discounts or promises you never mentioned.

That means the words you originally typed to describe your business don't get pasted into the email as-is. A note to yourself ("launch an agency that helps startups…") becomes a short introduction addressed to your reader.

You still get the final say: read it before you approve, and if it's not how you'd put it, say so and you'll get a fresh version.

Personal notes vs. campaigns

There are two different things that both sound like "emailing my list," and your co-founder handles them differently:

• A personal note to friends and family — asking people who know you to check out your new business — reads better coming from your own email address, not a business platform. For this one, your co-founder will write the note for you to send yourself.
• A campaign to your customer list — an announcement, a promotion, a newsletter — is sent by your co-founder, from your business address, to everyone on that list who's opted in.

If you're not sure which one you want, just describe what you're trying to do and your co-founder will pick the right path.

After you approve a send

A campaign to a list doesn't go out all at once the instant you say yes — it hands off to the email service, which delivers it over the next few minutes. So right after you approve, the campaign reads as still sending. Once delivery finishes, it updates to sent on its own; you don't have to do anything. Ask "did my campaign go out?" any time and you'll get the current state.

Checking your list

Ask "how many people are on my list?" or "what audiences do I have?" any time — your co-founder can look this up live. You can also ask who specifically is in an audience — "who's on my outreach list?" — and get the actual contacts back, not just a count.