[RESOURCES FROM THE VIDEO ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] For years cold email ran on two sequencers, Instantly and Smartlead. A new kind just showed up, and it works like GoHighLevel does for CRMs. Quick disclaimer: I'm not here to trash Instantly. I use it. I have almost a thousand mailboxes in there and campaigns doing 3-4% reply rates. But if you've done cold email for a while, you've hit these: 1. You pay by contacts. The $47 plan covers 1,000. One of my workspaces holds 125,000 contacts and costs almost $1,000 a month. 2. To keep that bill down, I delete leads when a campaign ends. How many times we emailed them, the conversation, all of it gone. We export first, but it's an ugly extra step. 3. Client accounts are a nightmare. New workspace, new email, new password, a temporary credit card, and a new bill for every single client. GoHighLevel fixed this for CRMs. I pay $500 a month for the agency account and have 247 sub-accounts on it. That model just reached cold email. 📌 Email Bison. My high-ticket clients have run on it for the last 6 to 12 months. $600 a month for 500,000 emails, with unlimited sub-accounts, leads and team members. The warmup pool is strict. You book a demo to get in, and they will kick you off if you send junk. Good for deliverability, bad if you can't vouch for your clients. 📌 PlusVibe. The agency plan is $415 a month with about the same limits as Bison, plus more bells and whistles, like automation rules that pull inboxes and domains out of campaigns. I can build a whole client sub-account with API calls. I think it could become the next GoHighLevel. We're moving Consulti clients onto it now. My take: brand new to cold email? Use Instantly and stop there. Running an agency, or want a sequencer inside your own offer? These two are worth a serious look. Full breakdown in the new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6rzEjXQdmo&list=PL0Yyhj9Mcbg8zog1pSTOTVfmyHKbtRClF

[RESOURCES FROM THE VIDEO ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] I have 12,000+ cold email domains in Dynadot and I never log in. Claude Code does everything for me now. Most of what I said in my 2025 setup presentation is scratch. The basics still hold. Here's what changed: 1. I run it all from Claude Code. Finding domains, transfers, DNS records and mailbox orders all go through the APIs. The Inbox Insiders Claude skill that does the mailbox side is in the resources, on the house. 2. I don't tell you to put your domains in Cloudflare anymore. A couple months ago a wave of blacklists hit domains that share the same name servers, and every Cloudflare account gets the same set. Keep them at your registrar instead. 3. Running a lot of domains, or setting them up for clients? Use isolated name servers (we use Amazon Route 53). 4. Domain masking proxies instead of redirects. A redirect is a red flag that the domain is for cold email. A masking proxy shows your real site on the cold domain, and Google and Microsoft can't tell the difference. Redirects are still pretty much okay at small scale, under about 50 mailboxes. 5. Google legacy panels used to run almost all my cold email. Up to 300 mailboxes each, no monthly bill, and I stocked up on hundreds at about $300 one time. Now Google is a lot less tolerant of them and they cost close to $2,000, so I mostly use mine for company email and inbox placement tests. Full walkthrough in the new video Want it done for you? Use code YT-DOMAINS on your first Inbox Insiders order and we waive the domain fees: https://leadgenjay.com/inbox?utm_source=skool&utm_campaign=email-infrastructure RESOURCES -Blacklist checker, DNS checker and DNS generator (Consulti): https://consulti.ai/tools?utm_source=skool&utm_campaign=email-infrastructure

[THE THREE ZIPS ARE ATTACHED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] Here's a free Backdoor MCP for Instantly, Email Bison and PlusVibe. Grab the zip for the platform you send from. You don't need all three. Each one plugs Claude into your account through the platform's official API. Then you just ask it things like "which of my sending accounts need attention?" or "pull last week's numbers for every campaign" and it goes and gets them. What's inside each zip: -START-HERE.txt, the setup steps in order. Open this one first. -The tool itself, about 50 actions covering campaigns, leads, sending accounts and warmup, your inbox and blocklists -A Claude Code skill that shows Claude the safe way to use each action Two things to know before you hand it the keys: 1. It starts read-only. Claude can look at everything and change nothing until you delete one line from the settings. 2. After that, every change runs as a preview first and only goes through when Claude applies it on purpose. It won't launch a campaign or send a reply for you. Those stay with you. You'll need Node.js 22 or newer and an API key from your platform. START-HERE.txt shows where to find the key. Don't have an account yet? -Instantly, code LGJ10 at checkout: https://refer.instantly.ai/lgj -Email Bison, code LGJ at checkout for 10% off: https://emailbison.com -PlusVibe: https://fly.plusvibe.ai/7txq57fyhlzj Stuck on a step? Comment below with the step number and what you're seeing.

[RESOURCES FROM THE VIDEO ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] If you learned list building from any of my videos before 2026, erase it. Everything I taught you about lead databases is now wrong. Apollo is a good database. 250 million leads, great filters, pre-verified emails. But the prices are high, the export limits are low, and cold email at real volume needs a massive amount of data. Here's what I use now: 1. GetLeads for the data. There's no dashboard. You query it through their API from Claude Code or Codex, and it's unlimited for a flat fee. $249 a month on the partner plan, and that plan won't be around long. 2. Supabase to store it. I have tens of millions of records in there for about $20 a month. Cancel the data provider and the data is still yours. Try that with Apollo. 3. Reacher to verify it. Open source, 10,000 emails a day for free. Don't trust any database's emails, including mine. Want signal data too? Clay's Audiences give you people with job changes, funding and hiring signals. Everything except the email. Run those rows through GetLeads inside a Clay table and you get the email without paying Clay to waterfall it. You need their Growth plan for that part. Full walkthrough in the new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg6W1qcw6vs RESOURCES -My lead database skills for Claude Code, free (includes the Reacher email check skill): https://leadgenjay.com/getleads -GetLeads partner plan: https://getleads.io/?via=jay -Reacher, the free open-source verifier: https://reacher.email -Consulti, 50% off your first month with code YOUTUBE50: https://www.consulti.ai/pricing?promo=Bny1B8vJ Go watch it, then tell me what you're paying for leads right now.

[RESOURCES FROM THE VIDEO ARE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST] If you send email from GoHighLevel, you're probably landing in Promotions or Updates and you have no idea. It isn't spam, so a normal deliverability test says you're fine. You just sit there with low open rates wondering why nobody replies. The problem is the IP addresses. GoHighLevel's default sender puts you on shared IPs with tens of thousands of other sub accounts, and a lot of those people are terrible marketers. You can pay for a dedicated IP, but it shows up brand new with no warmup and no reputation. You burn that one too. So I stopped using their sender. Here's what I did instead: 1. Plugged Amazon SES into GoHighLevel as the sending service. Email Services, Add Service, Other. It costs 10 cents per 1,000 emails. Do NOT use it for cold email, they will ban you. 2. Added ghost ink to every marketing email, so it reads as personal and lands in Primary. 3. Rebuilt what breaks when you leave their sender. An unsubscribe form linked in every email, bounces fed back into GoHighLevel, and email re-verification every 90 days. Skip this and the spam reports get you kicked off Amazon. You need the IP fix and the ghost ink together. One without the other doesn't get it done. Full walkthrough in the new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhOrkmnS3s&list=PL0Yyhj9Mcbg8zog1pSTOTVfmyHKbtRClF RESOURCES: Ghost Ink Examples: https://leadgenjay.com/value/ghost-ink/success The video walkthroughs will be in the first comments.