Straight answers
Is cold email legal? Yes, and 11 more straight answers
Cold email is legal under CAN-SPAM (US) and GDPR (EU) when you target relevant business contacts, identify yourself honestly, include a working unsubscribe and honor opt-outs. Coldoutreach enforces all four automatically on every send.
Everything people ask before signing up: legality, spam folders, purchased lists, pricing and how this differs from the tools you already know.
Is cold email legal?
Yes. Cold email is legal in the United States under CAN-SPAM and in Europe under GDPR when you follow the rules: send to relevant business contacts with a legitimate interest, identify yourself honestly, include a working unsubscribe, and honor opt-outs immediately. Coldoutreach enforces all four on every send, so a compliant campaign is the default, not a setting you have to remember.
Will my emails land in spam?
Not if the fundamentals are right, and Coldoutreach handles those for you: automatic inbox warmup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks on your sending domain, per-inbox sending throttles, and spam-placement monitoring that alerts you before a problem burns the domain. Research-grade personalization also means every email is genuinely different, which is what mailbox providers reward.
Do you sell contact lists?
No, and we never will. Purchased lists are the fastest way to destroy deliverability and violate GDPR. You bring your own permission-based prospects, via CSV or your CRM, and Coldoutreach enriches and researches them. Uploads that look like purchased lists are blocked.
How is Coldoutreach different from Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist?
Those tools personalize with mail-merge tokens or image gimmicks. Coldoutreach researches each prospect first: the AI reads their website, LinkedIn profile, recent news and tech stack, then writes a first line and angle specific to that person. Deliverability guardrails are built in rather than left to you. The honest comparisons are on our Apollo, Instantly and Lemlist alternative pages.
What does the AI actually write?
A complete multichannel sequence: a personalized day-1 email, a LinkedIn connection note, a follow-up that adds a new angle, and a polite breakup email. Every draft cites the research it used, and you approve or tweak each step before anything sends. You can try it right now in the sequence composer on the homepage.
How long does warmup take?
A brand-new domain needs 2 to 3 weeks of automatic warmup before full sending volume. An already-warm inbox can start sequences on day one. Warmup runs continuously in the background either way, keeping reputation steady as volume grows.
What does Coldoutreach cost?
Starter is $39 a month for solo founders, Growth $79 for small teams, and Scale $199 for sales teams, all billed yearly (monthly billing is $49, $99 and $249). Enterprise is by agreement with SSO, an SLA and a dedicated deliverability engineer. There is no free plan; the sequence composer demo is the free taste.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, in one click from billing. No annual lock-in on monthly plans, no retention calls, and your data, prospects and sequences export cleanly when you leave.
Is my prospect data safe?
Data is encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3) and at rest (AES-256), never sold, and never used to train AI models. Suppression lists and opt-outs are enforced globally across your workspace. Enterprise plans add a DPA, security review, SSO and an audit log.
Do LinkedIn steps send automatically?
Connection notes and InMail drafts are prepared by the AI and queued as tasks you fire from your own LinkedIn account. That keeps you inside LinkedIn's terms while still making the touch personal and fast, about 15 seconds per prospect.
How many meetings should I expect?
Teams sending 50 researched prospects a week typically see 4 to 8 percent reply rates and 6 to 10 booked meetings a month per rep, once warmup completes. The response-rate benchmarks post on our blog breaks the numbers down by industry and persona.
What is Coldoutreach, in one sentence?
Coldoutreach is an AI cold outreach platform for permission-based B2B sales that researches every prospect, writes personalized email and LinkedIn sequences, and protects your sending domain with built-in warmup and deliverability guardrails.
Deeper reading: our GDPR cold email compliance page covers the legal side in detail, the cold email deliverability guide covers the technical side, and cold email pricing is public, no sales call required.
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