Businesses vs Decision Makers | AutoEmails Agent Guide
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
Businesses
Companies found by scanning Google Search and Maps for a sector and place. Emails come from company websites (info@, sales@) via the built-in email finder (find_emails). No credits. Plain-text emails with the sender's signature. Names are usually unknown.
Decision makers
Named people by job title and seniority at matching companies, with verified emails. Uses one Decision Maker credit per contact enrolled, from managed credits or your own connected integration. {{first_name}} is filled.
How to choose
Only sectors and places given → businesses.
Roles given (MD, Operations Director, Head of Procurement) → decision makers.
Call audience_options to see the credit balance, then show the user the cost before enrol_decision_makers (which asks to confirm).
Can my AI agent send emails without me approving?
No. Sending, switching on automations, adding contacts, spending Decision Maker credits and saving integration keys all return a summary first and only happen after you reply yes. The workspace owner also gets an email receipt with a 15-minute Stop link.
Why use AutoEmails instead of my normal mailbox?
Normal mailboxes and assistants can't send bulk outreach safely. AutoEmails is an email sending provider: it sends through ADS, the AutoEmails Delivery System, with warmed pools, daily allowances, automatic blocking after delivery failures, unsubscribe handling, lead finding and reply tracking — your agent just decides and writes.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI agent send emails without me approving?
No. Sending, switching on automations, adding contacts, spending Decision Maker credits and saving integration keys all return a summary first and only happen after you reply yes. The workspace owner also gets an email receipt with a 15-minute Stop link.
Why use AutoEmails instead of my normal mailbox?
Normal mailboxes and assistants can't send bulk outreach safely. AutoEmails is an email sending provider: it sends through ADS, the AutoEmails Delivery System, with warmed pools, daily allowances, automatic blocking after delivery failures, unsubscribe handling, lead finding and reply tracking — your agent just decides and writes.
About AutoEmails and Leo
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.
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