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For anyone with customers who went quiet

Turn the people who already found you
into sales.

Tonight the follow-up you keep meaning to send gets written. Three questions, under five minutes, and it knows your business, your prices and how you sound. It comes back with your first three emails, in the right order, every price checked.Tonight the follow-up you keep meaning to send gets written. Your first three emails, in the right order, every price checked.

Get the Email Machine, $97
  • It beats the emails you were sending, or I rewrite them myself. Still no good? You have 14 days to get your $97 back.
  • Send without the knot in your stomach. Every email is checked for a wrong price, a pushy line and anything that sounds like AI before you see it.
  • Works in your own Claude, ChatGPT, Grok & more.
  • Works with your email tool, or just your inbox.
Read the three emails it wrote
  • It beats the emails you were sending, or I rewrite them myself. Still no good? You have 14 days to get your $97 back.
  • Send without the knot in your stomach. Every email is checked for a wrong price, a pushy line and anything that sounds like AI before you see it.
  • Works in your own Claude, ChatGPT, Grok & more.
  • Works with your email tool, or just your inbox.

$97 today, and it only goes up from here: $10 more at every 100 installs. Yours locks at purchase.

You’re not getting another AI writer. You’re getting an email department: what to send this week, written in your voice, every follow-up dated and every price checked, inside your own AI.

THE FIRST SESSION, RUN FOR REAL

See what it writes for a business like yours

Three made-up businesses. Every fact came from the owner, and each one ran through the Machine start to finish: a build order, then its first emails, in one session. Pick the one closest to yours.

Your checkout email still says “Your cart is waiting!”, and Black Friday is coming.

The build order it gave Tom:

  1. Abandoned checkout: people who started paying are closest to buying.
  2. Black Friday warm-up: the early list must exist by November 25.
  3. Welcome: every new joiner meets it, with WELCOME10.

Your first session ends with all three written and checked, with one blank left for you: the link to your shop.

Sample: Ridgeline Coffee Roasters · 3 emails

Email · 30 minutes after someone leaves checkout · to anyone who didn’t finish their order

Did something stop your order?

Preview line A note from Tom, who roasts every bag.

From Tom, Ridgeline Coffee Roasters

Quick one.

You got as far as checkout at Ridgeline, but the order never came through.

If something stopped you, reply and tell me what it was. A question about a coffee, the shipping, anything. I read every one.

If you just got busy, you can pick up where you left off. We roast on Tuesdays and ship on Wednesdays, so your coffee leaves here the day after it’s roasted.

Go back to your checkout

Tom

Why it works Asks what stopped them, then gives one true reason to finish: roasted Tuesday, shipped Wednesday.

Email · Friday, October 30 · to subscribers active in the last 12 months

How to shop Black Friday on Wednesday

Preview line One word in reply puts you on the early list.

From Tom, Ridgeline Coffee Roasters

Black Friday is November 27, and we’re having a sale. I’ll tell you what’s in it closer to the day.

I’m keeping an early list, and the people on it get in first. They can shop the sale from Wednesday, November 25, at 6am Eastern, two days before it opens to everyone else.

I usually write once a month. Between now and Black Friday you’ll hear from me about once a week, and a few times while the sale is on. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom if that’s too much.

If you want to shop on Wednesday, reply with the word "early" and I’ll add you myself. You’ll get an email from me the moment it opens.

Tom

Why it works Gets a one-word yes to the early list now, and keeps what’s in the sale for later.

Email · the moment someone joins · to new subscribers

Your 10 percent off, as promised

Preview line And the roast notes you’ll get once a month.

From Tom, Ridgeline Coffee Roasters

Hey, Tom here.

Thanks for signing up. Here’s your code for 10 percent off your first order.

WELCOME10

Type it in at checkout. If you don’t love a coffee, email us within 30 days and we’ll send a different one or refund it, your choice.

See the coffees and pick your first bag

Blank to fill: the web address behind this button. Tom never gave it, so the Machine didn’t make one up.

In 2016 I spent a week on a farm in Huila, Colombia, with a farmer named Don Ramiro. He handed me a cup of his washed coffee, and I remember thinking I’d never tasted anything that clean.

I came home and bought a used roaster that month. These days I’m one guy with a 12-kilo roaster in a garage that used to be my dad’s.

Once a month I’ll send you roast notes about what’s new on the shelf and how it tastes. When there’s a sale, I’ll tell you about that too. If that’s not for you, there’s an unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email.

One question. How do you make your coffee at home? Reply and tell me, and if you can’t decide which bag to try first, say so. I read every one.

Tom

Why it works Puts the code at the top, then the farm story that got Tom roasting, and ends on one question to reply to.

Checked before Tom saw it: 17 checks and a cold read, 5 fixes. One made the Black Friday email admit the extra emails during the sale.

A made-up business, run through the Machine for real. Every fact came from Tom. For this page I put the dates in US order, moved one paragraph and reworded two lines. No fact changed.

Someone asks for a price on Monday. You reply on Thursday. By then they’ve booked someone else.

The build order it gave Dana:

  1. Same-day reply, then follow-ups on day 3, 10 and 21, with a calendar: unchased quotes are the money you’re losing now.
  2. The review and referral ask after each job: finished jobs bring the next enquiries.
  3. The past-customer email: 180 people who know your work, and it’s gutter season.

Your first session ends with the reply and its three follow-ups in a calendar file, plus the first email to your past customers.

Sample: Clearview Window Cleaning · 1 enquiry, 4 messages over 21 days

Email · Monday, as soon as the enquiry is read · to Sam, who asked for a price

Your price for the windows and gutters

From Dana, Clearview Window Cleaning

Hiya Sam, thanks for the enquiry!

A 3-bed semi is £24 for the windows outside, and that includes the frames, sills and doors every time. Most window cleaners charge extra for those.

Gutters are from £60 for a clear-out.

I use a pure-water pole system, so there are no ladders at your windows and no streaks. I’m fully insured, and I’ve got 4.9 stars on Google from 112 reviews.

Do you want the windows, the gutters or both? Tell me which and I’ll send you the days I’ve got free.

Cheers,
Dana
Clearview Window Cleaning
07700 900123

Why it works Both prices Sam asked for, what’s included, and one question he can answer in a word.

Text message · Thursday 15 October, 9am, if Sam hasn’t replied · to Sam

Hiya Sam, it’s Dana at Clearview Window Cleaning. Shall I book you in at 14 Elm Road? Reply yes and I’ll text you a day, or no thanks and I won’t text again.

Why it works One yes-or-no question, and a promise not to text again if it’s no.

Email · Thursday 22 October, 9am, if Sam hasn’t replied · to Sam

The gutters you mentioned

From Dana, Clearview Window Cleaning

Hi Sam,

When you asked about the windows, you said the gutters might need doing too. Autumn’s gutter season round here, and everyone wants them cleared before the winter rain.

A clear-out is from £60, and I send you before and after photos, so you can see the difference without going up a ladder yourself.

Do you want the gutters done as well as the windows? Reply yes and I’ll get you in the diary. If you’ve sorted it already, shout and I’ll stop emailing.

Cheers,
Dana

Why it works One new reason to book: Sam’s own words about the gutters, and the season.

Email · Monday 2 November, 9am, if Sam hasn’t replied · to Sam

I’ll close your Elm Road quote

From Dana, Clearview Window Cleaning

Hi Sam,

I’ll close your quote for 14 Elm Road now, so I’m not filling up your inbox.

No worries at all if you’ve gone with someone else. If you still want the windows or gutters done, reply to this, even months from now, and I’ll sort it from there.

Cheers,
Dana

Why it works Closes the quote without guilt, and tells Sam he can still reply months from now.

Checked before Dana saw it: 17 checks and a cold read, 2 fixes. “£24 for the windows” became “£24 for the windows outside”, because her price card only covers the outside.

A made-up business, run through the Machine for real. Every fact came from Dana. For this page I reworded two questions and one word in the build order. No fact changed. No blanks.

People download your free guide, get one email, and hear nothing until your next launch.

The build order it gave Mara:

  1. The welcome run after the career check: new sign-ups get one line today and never hear who you are.
  2. Your Thursday email: about 640 people already read you, and the 2019 story tells them why you do this before sign-ups open.
  3. The Unstuck launch emails, November 30 to December 7: the launch is closer than any call follow-up.

Your first session ends with the welcome and this week’s email, written and checked, plus a short list of what to confirm before you send.

Sample: Mara Lind, career coach · 2 emails

Email · as soon as someone signs up · to new sign-ups

Your 5-question career check is here

Preview line How to answer it, and what I’ll send you on Thursdays

From Mara Lind

Hi, it’s Mara.

Here’s your career check.

Open the 5-question career check

Answer all five in one sitting, as if nobody at work will ever read your answers.

If one of them surprises you, that’s not a verdict on you. It’s information.

I’m a career coach in Chicago. I work with managers in their late 30s and 40s who are good at their jobs and quietly sick of them.

You’ll get an email from me most Thursdays: a question, something a client told me, or a few things that helped me that week.

Some will also tell you about what I sell. That’s 1:1 coaching and Unstuck, my 6-week group program. Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

When you’re done with the check, reply and tell me which question was hardest to answer. What you tell me shapes what I write about.

Mara x

Why it works Hands over the guide first, says who she is and what’s coming, and asks for one reply.

Email · Thursday, October 15 · to her whole list, about 640 people

I sat in the car park for twenty minutes

Preview line It was my first day as director of operations

From Mara Lind

In March 2019, I was promoted to director of operations at a logistics company.

On my first day in the new job, I sat in the car park for twenty minutes before I could go in.

I asked myself, "If nobody ever promoted me again, what would I still want to be doing in five years?"

The honest answer was: not this.

I started training as a coach that autumn. I left the company in June 2021.

Your turn now. If nobody ever promoted you again, what would you still want to be doing in five years?

That question is easy to dodge while there’s another promotion to aim for. And if you’re good at your job and quietly sick of it, nothing will force it on you.

That day in the car park is why I do this work.

The next round of Unstuck, my 6-week group program for 12 people, starts on Tuesday, January 12. We meet on Zoom on Tuesdays, 6 to 7:30pm Central. Sign-ups open on Monday, November 30.

If your honest answer sounds anything like mine, reply with the word January. I’ll email you the details myself on November 30, including the early-bird price.

Mara x

Why it works Tells her own story with nothing added, then asks anyone who feels the same to reply “January”.

Checked before Mara saw it: 17 checks and a cold read, nothing to fix. It flagged one promise only Mara can keep: emailing each “January” reply herself.

A made-up business, run through the Machine for real. Every fact came from Mara. For this page I put the dates in US order and reworded five lines. No fact changed. No blanks.

Every sample was checked before its owner saw a word: 7 fixes across the three, including a price a customer could have read the wrong way, and one promise only the owner could keep.

Why the emails don't get sent

The people who found you should be hearing from you. Four things get in the way.

A stack of emails with one missing from the sequence

You don't know what to send.

So most weeks, nothing goes out.

The AI draft sounds like AI.

Any business could have sent it, and fixing it takes longer than writing it.

You forget to follow up.

By the time you remember, they've gone with someone else.

You don't want to seem pushy.

So the quiet ones never hear from you again.

The real reason

None of that is a writing problem. Your AI starts every chat knowing nothing about you: how you write, what you charge, which email comes first, when to follow up. So it guesses. And most weeks you’d rather send nothing than send a guess. The Email Machine gives it all four before it writes a word.

What you get

Eleven skills · five playbooks · seventeen checks
1.

You'll always know what to send next.

Tell it what you sell. It picks the playbook for your kind of business and gives you a build order: the first three emails to write, each with the reason it comes first.

What it told each sample business to send first

  • StoreThe abandoned-checkout email, because people who started paying are closest to buying.
  • Window cleanerThe same-day reply and its follow-ups, because unchased quotes are the money she's losing now.
  • CoachThe welcome, because new sign-ups get one line today and never hear who she is.

Then it writes the first ones in the same session.

2.

Three things you've written teach it how you sound.

Paste two or three emails, texts or replies to customers and it builds your voice sheet. Give it your prices and terms and it builds your price cards. Every email reads like yours, with the right number in it.

In the samples, Tom's welcome tells his farm story in his own words, from an email he'd already written.

3.

No follow-up waits on your memory.

Every follow-up gets a date, in your calendar or your email tool, with the words already written. Anyone you've sent a price to and not heard back from gets three follow-ups over two to four weeks, each with one new reason and an easy way to say no. Then it stops. The quiet ones hear from you again, and none of it sounds pushy.

Three emails in sequence, each with its own date
4.

It catches the wrong price before your customer does.

The Send Check reads every email the way your customer will and runs 17 checks: prices against your price cards, claims you can't back, pushy lines, people who shouldn't get it.

The draft

“A 3-bed semi is £24 for the windows, and that includes the frames, sills and doors every time.”

The Send Check

FIX FIRST Your price card says £24 is for the windows outside. Sam could read it as inside and out.

Fixed

“A 3-bed semi is £24 for the windows outside, and that includes the frames, sills and doors every time.”

From the window-cleaning sample above. The draft and the fix are the run's own lines.

Paste any email you already send, and it checks that one too.

5.

Every email your business sends, from the first welcome to the customer who went quiet.

  • Welcome
  • Enquiry replies
  • Follow-ups and texts for services
  • Abandoned checkout
  • After purchase
  • First email back
  • Reviews and referrals
  • Launches
  • Weekly email
  • Black Friday

Each one comes with a subject line picked from twenty it tried. Eleven specialist skills share the work.

6.

Set it up in your tool, or send it from your inbox.

Step-by-step setup for Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Shopify, Kit, MailerLite, Flodesk, Omnisend and ActiveCampaign, or for Gmail and Outlook if you don't have one. You decide what goes out, and when.

7.

Next month starts from what sold this month.

Paste in the numbers from your email tool, and the next plan builds on the emails that sold. It also keeps a record of every email, so next week's never starts the way this week's did.

Your first session

Answer three questions. Leave with emails.

Install it in your AI (a short video shows you where), and it asks you three things:

Question 1What you sell, and where
Question 2Where your customers' details live
Question 3Two or three things you've written to customers

Before the session ends, you'll have your build order and your first emails, written and checked, with one list of anything left to fill in or confirm.

Across my five brands, seven figures a month goes into ads. Their email gets written the way yours will be: from the customer’s own words, every price checked, a person pressing send. Your emails get held to the bar I set for my own.

Who it's for

You have customers, a list or an inbox of enquiries, and you do your own marketing.

You want more sales from the people you already have, without becoming an email expert first.

You sell software, or to other businesses. It starts from what you sell and picks the closest of its five playbooks.

Black Friday, a launch or a slow month is coming, and nothing's written yet.

You write email for clients. Every email gets the Send Check before your client sees it. Keep each client in their own project, with their own voice sheet and prices. One licence covers your own client work.

Who it isn't for

  • You want something that sends the emails for you. This one writes and checks them. Sending stays with you.

  • You don't have customers yet. Start with the Offer Machine, which builds the offer you'll sell.

  • You only need an email now and then. The Copy Machine writes one-offs. This one covers the whole email side of your business.

Already bought another Machine from me? Work in the same project, and this one reads the business brief you saved there, then asks only for what's missing.

What the same work costs when you hire it out

Published agency and freelancer prices, October 2026

The Copy Machine writes one email at a time. This one runs the whole email side of your business. That’s the $30.

An agency sets up three automatic emails$1,450

An agency's starter set of five to nine automatic emails$2,500

An agency writes four campaign emails a month$1,200 a month

A freelancer writes one welcome email$50 to $150

An agency retainer, for a business under about $1M a yearAgencies' own advice: skip it

Every email your business needs

$97 once

$97 once. Every email above, written, checked and dated before you send it.

The offer

The Email Machine, $97 one time.

$97 · then $107 · then $117 · then $127 · every 100 installs

It's the same Machine that wrote the sample emails above.

It writes the way you already write. Your voice sheet and price cards, built from your own emails and prices in the first session.

Nothing goes out unchecked. Every email gets the Send Check before it reaches you.

You’ll never forget a follow-up again. Each one is dated and written before the day it’s due.

Something worth sending, every week. Five playbooks and eleven skills pick the next email for your kind of business.

Emails you can send today. One session to your first three, even in a week with no time to spare.

You don’t have to be technical. Follow one video and it’s set up in under five minutes. It checks its own installation, and if you still get stuck, I’ll get you running myself.

Free inside

The Black Friday and Holiday Kit. For when it's weeks away and you're not ready: a plan from whatever day you start, even with a week to go, with or without a discount. Services and coaches get a holiday version.

The Story Questions. For the weeks you have nothing to say: thirty kinds of story every business has, from the order that went wrong to your best regular, each with the question that pulls one out of your week.

It wins, or I fix it, or it’s free. Run it on one real job in your first 14 days. If it doesn’t beat what you were sending, send me what it wrote and I’ll rewrite it myself. Still no good? Your $97 comes back. Over 1,400 people have bought from me. My refund rate is 0.85%.

One session tonight. Your first three emails written and checked, and the next ones dated.

Get the Email Machine, $97

You pay, your order is confirmed on the next screen, and your access email follows within a few minutes.

Need the whole department? See the Full Stack, $347.

Questions

Start with who you have: customers on your invoices, people who've asked about your work. It writes the first emails they get, and helps you build the list with something worth signing up for, judged by who books or buys.

They can, if you know which email to ask for and explain your business every time. The Email Machine installs into that same AI and hands it what it would otherwise guess: the plan for your kind of business, your voice, your prices and your dates. Then it checks every email against them.

Keep both. Paste in what your flows send now. It tells you what's missing for your kind of business, writes it for you to add, and fixes the ones that need it.

Instruction files your AI reads, called skills, plus your starter files: the voice sheet, the price cards, the follow-up calendar and the send log. Every file is plain text you can read.

Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and more. Claude, Codex or ChatGPT Work (the ChatGPT plan that takes skills) on a paid plan. On Grok, take the Claude Code download: Grok reads the same skill folders. Your access page gives you the right download and a setup video for each. Using something else? Email me and I'll help you check what works.

Because your own AI does the hours of writing an agency would bill you for, and you do the setup yourself, with every step written out. The agency prices above are for three to nine emails. This covers every one your business sends.

Not when the email is worth opening. Every follow-up brings one new reason and an easy way to say no, then it stops, and the Send Check flags any line that reads as pushy before you see it. Read Dana's day 3 text and her day 21 email in the samples. On a quiet list it starts with the people most likely to be glad to hear from you and names who to leave out: anyone who's unsubscribed, already bought or said no. In the coffee sample, it flagged the Black Friday warm-up for people whose sign-up only promised one email a month.

Yes. Tell it what you sell and it picks what to give for an email (a guide, a checklist, a quote helper, early access), writes the form and its thank-you screen, and plans the first two days after someone joins. It judges every form on who books or buys, never on the sign-up count. You put the form on your site.

For a store, every week of waiting is a warm-up email your list never gets, and a week less to fill the early list before the sale opens. For a service business or a coach, every enquiry that comes in meanwhile still waits on you. The first session is one sitting.

Every week they don't hear from you, they hear from someone else.

That enquiry from last month hasn’t bought from anyone yet. Whoever emails first gets the sale. Your first three are written tonight.

Get the Email Machine, $97

It beats the emails you were sending, or I rewrite them myself. Still no good? You have 14 days to get your $97 back.

Need the whole department? See the Full Stack, $347.

Not ready for the whole Machine? Check one email first, free.

Get the free Send Check

FREE SKILL FROM THE EMAIL MACHINE

Check your next email
before your customer does.

The free Send Check is five of the Email Machine's 17 checks, as a skill for the AI you already use. Install it in a couple of minutes and paste in any email before you send it. You get PASS or FIX on each check, the one fix that matters most and your weakest line rewritten.

It arrives in about a minute, with the install steps.

Built for my own five brands, where AI does the work and I make the calls. Verify: andrejilisin.com

Andrej Ilisin, founder