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AI Automation Society
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13d •
How I Sent 60,000 Cold Emails in April & Made 6 Figures (All Automated)
Hey Automation community! 👋 This took me 2 hours to put together. If you're looking for a proven way to get clients AT SCALE and actually make money for your AI automation agency, then this is for you. I run an AI agency that basically made no money because I had a hard time finding new clients. I tried cold email starting in November and it quickly become one of our most profitable acquisition channels. I knew NOTHING about cold outreach when I started. I learned A LOT along the way (including plenty of expensive mistakes), so here’s everything I wish I had known from day one. If you don't know what cold email marketing is, it's when you send out thousands of emails to potential leads you haven't spoken to before. The goal is for them to book a consult with you where you'll then close on a deal. If you do it badly, it will look like spam and nobody will respond. Do it where you target relevant people ready to buy and offer a lot of VALUE, and you will generate sales. Part 1: Technical Setup Domain Strategy - Buy dedicated domains just for email campaigns — never ever use your main company domain. - Set up DNS records immediately: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. - Use Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 for better deliverability (roughly $4–6 per account per month). Email Account Setup - Create 1–4 email accounts per domain. - Start slow: 10 emails per account per day, then increase volume by ~10% each day. - Max once warmed up: ~25 emails per account per day. - Example: 4 domains × 3 accounts × 25 emails = 300 emails/day to begin with. IMPORTANT: Always warm up accounts for at least 14 days before ramping up. Extra tips that help a lot: - Add real profile photos and complete the accounts. - Older domains tend to perform better when you can get them. - Set up a custom tracking domain for accurate open/click data. Choosing Your Sending Platform You can do it manually with the technical setup above but it's way easier to buy an email account that's already configured and ready to go. I ran high-volume campaigns using Instantly.ai because it has good deliverability, analytics, and tons of guides on it since it's used by many agencies to get clients. It’s not perfect but probably one of the best for cold email right now. But honestly, your lead list and outreach message matter more.
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@Jason Bean Honestly, Jason, I've gone all-in. I'm building what I think of as an "AI operating system" in Claude Code — it runs my research, drafts my client docs, and keeps all my context in one searchable place. This week alone it's done a full competitor breakdown and built a client proposal that would've taken me days. What's struck me as an old operator: one person can now do what used to take a team of five. The discipline I'm bringing from 25 years in business is being ruthless about where AI actually belongs — agents where there's real judgement, simple reliable workflows everywhere else (cheaper, and they don't break). You're clearly deep in the build — what does your day-to-day stack look like?
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@Jason Bean Good question, Jason. Honest answer: I'm early, but here's the shape of it. On the build side, I'm putting together my own AI operating system in Claude Code, in public. That's where Claude does a lot of the heavy lifting for me too. On the paid side, I work with established owner-run businesses that are stuck on low-value clients and want to move upmarket. It's the whole engine, not one product: reposition them around the high-value work they actually do, build the proof (case studies, credibility, procurement-ready), install a modern get-found-and-convert system with smart automation where AI earns its place, then add recurring revenue. For owners whose endgame is a sale, I help drive the value up to exit. I bring the strategy and stay the single point of contact; vetted builders do the build. Audience: small and mid-size business owners, not tutorials-and-tools beginners. You're on Claude as well, what are you building with it?
1d •
Welcome Opportunity!
👋 New here — built & sold multiple companies, retired at 45, now all-in on AI I built and sold multiple businesses to multi-million-dollar success and retired at 45 — all without AI, just strategy and hard execution. Then my family and I sailed around the world (UK to New Zealand, 46 countries). The operator track record, in brief: → Scaled a specialist safety firm to multi-million-dollar revenue, 50+ staff, over 18 years — then sold it → Founded and ran an e-commerce business alongside it → Led state-level delivery for a global sporting event (national governments + organising committees) → Chaired my industry's trade association and helped write the British Standards still in use I know how to find clients, price on outcomes, build teams, run a P&L, and turn a messy idea into a system that makes money. What I'm here to master is the one tool I never had: AI. Two things I'm here for: → To share the operator playbook most builders are missing — finding clients, pricing on outcomes, systems, hiring, scaling. Ask me anything on that. → To find people to build with. I've got live commercial ventures and client projects that need serious AI work — lead-gen and sales-conversion engines, ops automation, and custom agents. I'm the operator and the principal: I bring the strategy, the clients and the budget. I'm looking for the people who can build it — full-time professionals and agencies who can own delivery end-to-end and point to real client outcomes, not tutorials. If that's you, comment below with what you've actually shipped for a client and I'll DM the ones who fit. And if you can build but stall on the business side — comment that too, that's exactly where I can help. 👇
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@Jesus Pedroza Haha, busted. But honestly, why keep a dog and bark yourself? The AI does all the heavy lifting now. It wrote the post, it's writing this reply, and at this point it knows me better than I know myself. I mostly just supply the coffee and hit send. I'm here to learn the tool, not turn into it. Cheers for keeping me honest though.
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@Nexo Aureon Honestly, the hardest leap I ever made. For 7 years I worked 363 days a year, 100+ hour weeks, back to back. Not to be a hero. I needed to understand every part of the business myself first: sales, marketing, installation, finance, project management, all of it. You can't lead what you don't understand. The turning point wasn't a clever tactic. It was letting go, and it nearly broke me. I'd find people I trusted, hand the work over, it wouldn't be good enough, so I'd snatch it back and do it myself again. I ran that loop more times than I'd like to admit. What finally fixed it: I'd been handing people chaos. They couldn't hit a standard that only lived in my head. So I stopped delegating tasks and started building foundations: systems, standards, a documented way the job gets done right. Once the system held the standard, good people could finally deliver to it, and I was free to be strategic instead of the bottleneck. So if you're stuck in the grind today: 1. Yes, learn the work first. No shortcut. But you don't have to do it forever. 2. Don't hand over tasks, hand over a standard. Write down what "good" looks like, step by step, before you delegate. That's the foundation everything sits on. 3. Then pull the lowest-value, most repetitive work off your plate first. And this is exactly why I'm here. Those systems used to need a team to run them. AI runs on the same thing: a clear standard and a documented process. Build the system and it handles the repetitive grind for you. Same discipline I learned the hard way, at a fraction of the cost and time. What's the one task eating most of your week? Tell me and I'll say whether I'd systemise it, hire it, or hand it to AI.
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7d •
Which tool?
What AI tool are you currently learning or experimenting with?
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193 members have voted
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Fun poll, and the spread tells its own story. Here's a thought from outside the tooling debate: a client has never once asked me which model I used. They ask whether the problem got solved. I built and sold several companies before AI, and tool loyalty was always a tax the buyer never paid for. So the most useful answer to "which tool" is "whichever one ships the result fastest for this job," and being fluent in two beats being religious about one. Learn the tool, but anchor on the outcome it produces. For everyone voting, what's the actual task you're trying to get the tool to do? 👇
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26d •
Claude automation for beginners
Been experimenting with Claude for automation lately — wanted to share what actually works for beginners. Most people overcomplicate this. Here's what I've learned: The only stack you need to start: → Claude = the brain (tells you what to do with the data) → claude code = the hands (actually does the action) First automation worth building: New form submission → Claude writes a personalised response using their answers → Auto-sent as email Takes 30 minutes to set up. Saves hours every week. What actually makes you better at this: → Give Claude more context, not less — it performs like the quality of your brief → Build one working thing before starting the next → The mistake everyone makes: automating something they don't fully understand manually first To go from beginner to expert: → Month 1: Prompting deeply + one simple workflow → Month 2–3: Chaining prompts, connecting APIs → Month 4+: Full agents, multi-step logic, real client work Took me a while to figure out the right order. Sharing so someone here skips the confusion. 📢Here's 1 to 2 points which even begginers should notice and do not do blindly?? Let's see if you can catch which points they're?? Happy to answer questions if anyone's building something specific ??
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Clean way to frame it, the brain-and-hands split is exactly how a beginner should think about it. Here's the operator's twist on your example. "Auto-reply to a form" saves time, which is nice but easy to undervalue when you're selling it. Flip the same build toward money and it becomes irresistible: a form fill is a lead, and leads go cold by the hour. So don't sell "auto-reply," sell "every enquiry gets a personal response in 60 seconds instead of next day." Same 30-minute build, but now it's recovering deals the business was quietly losing.
3d •
Thinking of taking the AIS+
Can anyone share prerequisites or tips before committing to such membership?
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Frank's point about engagement is the right one, so let me add the operator's version of it. Treat the membership like a business investment, not a course: before you pay, write down the single outcome you want it to produce in 90 days, and a number against it. "Land my first paid build" beats "learn more." Then engagement isn't a vague virtue, it's how you hit that number: every post you write, every question you answer, is reps toward it. I built and sold several companies before AI, and the people who got ROI from any room were always the ones who showed up with a goal, not a wish. What's the one outcome you'd want from your first 90 days in there? 👇
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@paul-forster-5215
Founder & CEO. Built an international safety firm—blue-chip clients, 68% overseas revenue, £1.5M EBITDA. Led 2022 FIFA World Cup delivery.
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