# How AI Agents Build Email Automations In AutoEmails

Source: https://autoemails.com/mcp/automation-playbook

> How an AI agent builds, checks and switches on AutoEmails automations (welcome, cart recovery, win-back and more) with delays on every step.

1. Draft

draft_automation creates a draft from a playbook key (for example welcome, cart_recovery, winback) with a trigger_type and optional email steps (subject, body_html, delay_value, delay_unit). Nobody is enrolled yet.

2. Edit

edit_automation_step changes a step's subject, content or delay. Delays apply to every step, so a 1h / 24h / 72h sequence really waits. Automation emails never include a sign-off; the signature is added automatically. Coupons are for marketing automations only.

3. Check

automation_setup_check shows the trigger, steps and delays and lists anything missing. activate_automation refuses until it is ready.

4. Switch on

activate_automation, enrol_contacts and backfill_automation each ask the user to confirm first. pause_automation stops new and in-flight enrolments immediately.

## About AutoEmails

AutoEmails is an AI email marketing platform built around Leo, an autonomous AI email marketing agent. Leo analyses your business, finds the right audience, writes and designs emails, launches campaigns and reports on replies, meetings, orders and revenue.

The platform covers three engines in one account: Outreach, which finds new companies or decision makers and emails them with personalised plain-text messages and follow-ups; Marketing, which sends designed HTML newsletters and campaigns to your own contacts; and Automations, which run triggered email journeys such as welcome series, abandoned cart recovery and re-engagement.

Leo works autonomously within guardrails. It can suggest and launch campaigns, resend to non-openers, expand targeting when a lead scan falls short and pause sending when deliverability signals such as bounce or spam-complaint rates rise. Every action is logged with an evidence trail so you can see what Leo did and why.

AutoEmails connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress, Calendly, Google Analytics, Google Search Console and custom e-commerce stores, so campaigns can be measured on real outcomes: replies and booked meetings for lead generation, and orders and revenue for e-commerce.

Pricing is capacity-based in British pounds, starting with a free plan. You can start free at autoemails.com without a credit card, let Leo scan your business and review the first campaign before anything is sent.

## Related pages

- [AutoEmails MCP | Run Email Outreach From Your AI Agent](https://autoemails.com/mcp): Connect ChatGPT, Codex, Claude or Cursor to AutoEmails via MCP: find leads, write emails, send tests and go live with bulk sending — you approve every send.
- [Businesses vs Decision Makers | AutoEmails Agent Guide](https://autoemails.com/mcp/businesses-vs-decision-makers): How AI agents choose between free business discovery (Google Search and Maps + website email finder) and credit-based decision makers by job title in AutoEmai
- [AutoEmails Merge Tags For AI Agents | Variables Guide](https://autoemails.com/mcp/variables): Every merge tag an AI agent can use in AutoEmails — {{first_name}}, {{company_name}}, {{booking_link_1}} — plus fallbacks, workspace variables and per-lead cu
- [AutoEmails MCP For ChatGPT | Custom Plugin Setup](https://autoemails.com/mcp/chatgpt): Step-by-step: add AutoEmails as a custom MCP plugin in ChatGPT so your GPT agent can build outreach, send tests and run campaigns through AutoEmails' bulk sen
- [AutoEmails MCP Troubleshooting | Fix Agent Errors](https://autoemails.com/mcp/troubleshooting): Fixes for common AutoEmails MCP errors in ChatGPT, Codex, Claude and Cursor: OAuth setup, missing tools, permissions, test_required and unverified domains.
- [Leo Resends Marketing Campaigns to Non-Openers (Autonomous)](https://autoemails.com/leo/actions/resend-to-non-openers): Leo detects non-opener cohorts, writes a fresh AI subject line, and clones your marketing campaign as a new Mission — fully autonomous with a complete evidence trail.
- [Meet Leo, Your AI Email Marketing Agent | AutoEmails](https://autoemails.com): Create newsletters, find prospects and build automations with Leo, your AI email marketing agent. Your brand, your voice, your approval. Start free with AutoEmails.
- [How AutoEmails Works — AI Email Marketing Agent Explained](https://autoemails.com/how-it-works): See how the AutoEmails AI agent finds leads, writes personalised emails, launches campaigns and runs automations for you — outreach, marketing and automation in one platform.