Scout, the finder inside ScoutKite, looks for small businesses and creators who list their email on their own website, reads their site, and writes a short, personal first email. It says how you can help with one real thing about their business. You approve each one and send it from your own inbox.
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Six weeks on the wheel, from centring to your first glazed bowl. Ten students, all tools and clay included.
Fully booked until May.
New dates go up here when we have them.
Hi Priya,
Your Saturday wheel class is booked out until May, so new students have nowhere to wait for a spot.
I build a booking tool for small studios with a built-in waitlist, so when a seat opens, the next student gets it without you lifting a finger. Would that help with Saturdays?
Sam
They have a website and a contact page they wrote themselves. No list has them, so finding them has meant one browser tab at a time.
| Tab | Email? | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Hill Street Bakery | in the footer, maybe | 11 min |
| Dough & Co | contact form only | 7 min |
| The Crumb | Instagram DMs | 9 min |
You could do all of this yourself with a browser and a free Saturday. Scout does the Saturday. You do the approving.
Paste the website of a customer you already have, and Scout looks for more like them. No example to hand? Pick from the kinds of customers it suggests.
It keeps only emails people put on their own website and only when their mail server confirms the inbox exists, then picks one real fact about their business to open with.
Can't confirm the inbox, or nothing real to say? It skips them, and you don't pay for them.Every email Scout writes lines up on your Today list, about 25 a day. One click opens each in Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or your mail app, ready to send, and Send the next one brings up the next. Scout drafts the follow-up a few days later. Prefer hands off? Connect a mailbox, queue the ones you like, and it sends them for you.
Your inbox, your pace, your name on it.The first email names one real thing about their business, says in a sentence how you can help with it, and asks one easy question. No freebies, no feature list, no calendar link.
Hi Marco,
1Your site says you're taking wholesale orders now, 2so cafés near you could start stocking your sourdough.
3I help small bakeries win café accounts, 4and I can get your loaves into a few of the independent cafés near your shops.
5Would that be useful?
Dana
Yes, it is cold email. Done the way it should be. Each line on the left is how ScoutKite works. Each line on the right is what the usual tool does.
Their address came off their own website, and the page it came from is linked next to the draft.
Bought from a list of ten million, or guessed from a name.
One fact about them, one sentence on how you help. Then a question.
The pitch is the first line.
It opens with one true fact from their site.
“I came across your profile and was really impressed.”
Nothing real to say? They're skipped, and you aren't charged.
Everyone on the list gets the template.
A person read it before it went.
A sequence fired it at 9:00.
One follow-up, then silence. A reply stops everything.
Seven “just bumping this” follow-ups.
A no is forever, across everything you send.
Unsubscribed from one sequence, added to the next.
Only inboxes their mail server confirmed. If it won't say, Scout skips them.
Bounces are a cost of doing business.
If your bounces climb, your account is paused before it hurts anyone.
Volume is the feature.
The whole standard is public, on our good practices page. We send our own emails by it too.
We use ScoutKite to find ScoutKite's customers, and we post what happens here.
people found so far, each with an email they published themselves
The first email now says in one sentence how you help with one real thing about them, and nothing more. The reply rate for that version goes here once there's one worth showing. The first 100 accounts get the founding price because they're the ones we'll learn from.
ScoutKite is slow on purpose: a few dozen careful emails a day, each one read by you before it goes.
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It is cold email, done the way it should be: people who chose to publish their address, a first line that proves you read their work, one plain sentence on how you help, a human pace from your own inbox, and a permanent opt-out.
It's built not to. Scout throws out no-reply, ticket and disposable addresses, checks the domain has a mail server, then asks that server whether the inbox exists, without sending anything. Only a clear yes counts: when the server won't say, or accepts any address at all, Scout skips that person and they don't count against your plan. It asks again before the first email goes out if the last answer is over two weeks old. An inbox that doesn't exist is never sent to. If an email bounces anyway, that person's follow-ups stop, the address goes on your never-email list, and you get the credit back. Sending stays at about 25 a day from your own inbox, and ScoutKite pauses an account whose bounce rate climbs above 8%, so one bad batch can't burn your domain.
From people's own websites: their About, Contact, media-kit or newsletter pages. Scout keeps an address only if it's actually on the page it came from, and checks it actually receives mail. No databases, no guessed patterns, no social profiles.
Yours, from your own mail. Each email opens in Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo or your mail app with everything filled in, and you press Send. ScoutKite never needs your password. When someone writes back, press They replied (or They said no) so their follow-up stops. Rather not click? Connect a mailbox (Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho or anything that sends mail) queue the emails you like, and ScoutKite sends them at a human pace and spots replies for you. Settings also checks your domain's email setup so you land in the inbox, not spam.
Founders, freelancers and small agencies selling to small businesses, creators and independent publishers. If your buyers are enterprise VPs, a lead database will serve you better.
Someone Scout found, checked and wrote a first email to. People it skips, because their inbox couldn't be confirmed or it found nothing real to say, don't count. Follow-ups and replies are free.
Yes. Export a campaign as a CSV in the columns those tools import: email, first and last name, company, website, plus each person's subject and email as custom fields, and the fact it's built on. People who unsubscribed are left out. Scout finds and writes; your sending tool sends.
No. Scout reads the open web, the way you would with a browser and a free afternoon.
Scout only uses addresses people published themselves, every email has an easy opt-out, opt-outs are honoured permanently, and you approve each first email. You can add your postal address to the email footer in Settings. You're responsible for following the rules where you and your recipients are, and the defaults are built to make that easy.
Cold outreach that doesn't feel cold. ScoutKite finds the people and drafts the emails. You read every one before it goes.