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Controlled autonomy

Autopilot. With guardrails that stay on.

Choose what agents can do on their own. Set hard limits that apply to every mode.

Approval mode

Mode: First 10, then auto. First 10 approved by a person, then automatic. Hard limits unchanged.

Outbound controls

Demo data
Mode
First 10, then auto
Approval
First 10 approved by a person, then automatic3 of 10 approved so far
Daily mailbox cap
40 per mailbox (example, you set it)Hard limit
New mailbox ramp-up
Four weeks to the full capHard limit
Country restrictions
Configured. Unknown countries blockedHard limit
Unsubscribe protection
OnHard limit
Suppression list
Active, checked before each sendHard limit
Bounce and complaint pause
Enabled at 3% and 0.1%Hard limit
AI budget
£50 / month (example, you set it)Hard limit
Banned claims
ActiveHard limit

Approval mode may change. Hard limits never switch off.

Example values are not advice. The right caps and budgets depend on your domain, your audience and the rules where you sell.

Hard limits

Rules in code, not settings.

These checks run before every outside action, in every mode. The code refuses. It does not just warn. Every decision is written to an audit log.

  • Suppression before every send

    Unsubscribes, hard bounces and complaints go on your suppression list straight away. The list is checked again right before each send.

  • Unsubscribe on every email

    A working unsubscribe link, one-click unsubscribe headers (RFC 8058), a line saying where the data came from and, for US recipients, your postal address.

  • Daily caps and a ramp-up

    Each mailbox has a daily cap you set. New mailboxes start at a third of it and reach the full cap over four weeks.

  • Auto-pause on bounces and complaints

    A mailbox pauses itself when bounces pass 3% or complaints pass 0.1%.

  • AI budgets per workspace

    Daily and monthly AI budgets that you set. Work stops at the limit. Admins see the cost of each run.

  • Country rules that fail closed

    Each country has a rule for cold email. A country with no rule is blocked. Workspaces can make the rules stricter.

  • No cold email through newsletter services

    Keys for Resend, SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun and Amazon SES are for opted-in mail only. A cold sequence on them is refused.

  • LinkedIn company page posts only

    No scraping, no connection requests and no automated messages. Only posts to your own company page through LinkedIn's official API.

  • Community members are never leads

    People found on GitHub, Reddit, Hacker News, Slack or Discord are never stored as contacts and never emailed.

  • Banned claims and sources

    Sentences in emails need a source you can inspect. Sentences without one, or that use a banned claim, are dropped before anything is sent.

Safeguards and the law

Technical safeguards are not legal advice.

The limits on this page are enforced by the product. They lower the risk of a bad send, a damaged domain or a runaway bill.

They do not make a campaign lawful on their own. You are the sender of every email and the publisher of every post. You need a lawful basis to contact each person, and the rules differ by country. Take your own legal advice.

Read the acceptable use policy, the terms and the data processing agreement.

Build the GTM team you don’t have to hire.

Start with your website. Review your plan. Choose your limits. Let your AI team get to work.

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