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EMPRA

EMPRA

Outbound

RUN BY HUGO DUPONT & GEORGE LEVESON
LONDON

Empra Outbound is a done-for-you cold outbound firm in London, run by its two co-founders, whose writing model is trained on 4,000,000 cold emails the team sent over three years.

WHAT WE RUN

  • The engine
  • Deliverability
  • Method
  • EXTENSIONS
  • Signals
  • LinkedIn
  • Reply agent
  • Automations

MISSIONS

  • Find your market
  • Scale outbound
  • New markets
  • Hiring
  • Investors
  • Re-engage
  • Events

FREE TOOLS

  • Grade my email
  • Deliverability test
  • SPF checker
  • DKIM checker
  • DMARC checker
  • Subject line tester
  • Spam checker

THE PLAYBOOK

  • Playbook overview
  • Subject lines
  • The ask
  • The sequence
  • Follow-ups
  • Identify your ICP
  • Infrastructure

COMPANY

  • Cold email agency
  • Agency shortlist
  • Agency vs DIY
  • Blog
  • About
  • Start a build

Every figure on this site is a count of work we have done. Pipeline and closed revenue are our clients’ results, and results vary. Replies are shown as they arrived, with senders blurred at source.

The machine, in public

Grade my cold email.

Paste the email you are about to send. The rule-set we trained on 4,000,000 sends scores it and a full graded report lands in your inbox in minutes: what would get it deleted, what to keep, and your email rewritten in full. A few hours later a full three-step sequence, written for your ICP, follows from Hugo. Free.

Scored by the machine, read once by a person.
Never enters the corpus.

What comes back

IN MINUTES

The engine report

  • Scored 0-100 against 4,000,000 sends
  • What would get it deleted, named
  • What to keep
  • Your email, rewritten in full

A FEW HOURS LATER

The follow-up from Hugo

  • In Hugo’s voice, from his own inbox
  • The personas we would split it into
  • The first angles we would test

Questions

What it is, and what it is not.

What does the cold email checker actually check?

The same mechanical rules our own copy passes before a sequence ships: sentence count against the five-sentence ceiling, body length against the under-40-words band, subject line length and clichés, researched merge fields against the two-to-six plateau, reading grade against a 6.0 ceiling, machine-writing tells like the em dash, and the phrases that read as template, such as synergies, quick question, hope this finds you well, and their relatives.

Is my email stored or used for training?

Your sequence is scored in memory, read once by the engine to write your report, and read by one person for the human version. It is never added to any corpus and never used for training. Your address is used to send the report and so a real person can follow up.

Where do the rules come from?

From more than 4,000,000 cold emails we sent over three years and what came back. Two findings carry measured effect sizes: emails over five sentences convert about 30% worse (measured across 32 client accounts), and first touches under 40 words converted at roughly double the rate of 40-to-69-word emails (across 44 clients). The rest is mechanical hygiene, labelled as such.

Is the score a prediction of my reply rate?

No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Copy explains a small share of conversion variance; the offer, the list and the deliverability carry the rest. The score tells you what would get the email deleted before it was read. It cannot tell you your offer is good.

Does it test subject lines too?

Yes. The subject line is scored separately: word count against the three-to-five-word band, all-caps and fake-Re: detection, and the subject clichés every prospect has already deleted this week.