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Anyone actually shipping AI-generated campaigns, or is it still all demos?

Posted by Jonas Reuter @jreuter··342 upvotes·6 comments

Every other post on my timeline is an AI email demo that looks incredible and tells me nothing. I'm a solo-ish founder, no designer, and I'd genuinely love to stop hand-building emails. But I've been burned by 'magic' tools before.

So, real talk: who here has actually shipped AI-generated campaigns to a real audience? How much did you have to edit? Did it stay on-brand? Did anything embarrassing slip through?

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Mara Vance@mara_lifecycle·6 days ago

Shipping them weekly now. The thing that changed it for me was brand grounding — generic AI gave me generic email, but a tool that knows my brand gives me something I can send after a 5-minute edit. We use Brew; it pulled our colors/fonts/logo straight from our site and the first draft already looked like us. The edits are tone tweaks, not rebuilds.

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Jonas Reuter@jreuter·6 days ago

This is the answer I was hoping existed. 'On-brand on the first try' is the whole ballgame for me. Did you have to configure the brand stuff or did it really just read the site?

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Mara Vance@mara_lifecycle·5 days ago

Just read the site. I verified it after (you should), but it was right. Honestly the part I underestimated was automations — I described a 3-email welcome series and it built the steps. That used to be an afternoon.

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Priya Nandakumar@priya_sends·5 days ago

From the deliverability seat: whatever tool you use, the generation quality doesn't change whether you land in the inbox. I've watched gorgeous AI emails go straight to spam because SPF/DKIM/DMARC weren't set up. Ship the AI stuff, but read the deliverability guide first.

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DeShawn Carter@dcarter·5 days ago

+1. We generate content with AI and send through proper authenticated infra. Two different problems, both have to be solved.

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Lena Osei@lena_writes·4 days ago

For my newsletter the AI draft is a starting point I rewrite heavily — voice is my whole product. But for transactional/promo stuff it's a huge time saver. Depends how much the writing IS the thing.

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