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I Let an AI Agent Find Leads and Send My Cold Emails: Setup, Fixes, What Broke

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TL;DR: I connected Grok Bot (a desktop AI agent) to Gmail and asked for a daily cold email campaign of 10 emails. It wanted a paid lead tool, so I pointed it at a free Google Maps method I'd built before. The first emails came out messy, then over-designed, and only the third try was a plain email…

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  1. 2026-10-20 07:47 · DEV Community — AI
    I Let an AI Agent Find Leads and Send My Cold Emails: Setup, Fixes, What Broke

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