Cold email, done like an SDR

Cold email that actually knows who it's talking to.

Penra researches every prospect — their website, their industry, what's changing in it, what likely hurts — then writes a one-of-a-kind email, sends it, and when they reply, drafts the response for you. Like hiring an SDR, minus the $60K salary.

10 prospects free · 14 days · No credit card
3% avg reply rate (ind. 1–2%) 6-step research/prospect Replies drafted the moment they land
DOSSIER · Redwood Labs6-step chain ✓
Industry · Dietary Supplement Contract Mfg
Recently relocated to a new 100,000+ sq ft facility
FACT · trigger event
4 certifications
signal
cGMP + FDA reg.
signal
To: Laura · Redwood Labs
Audit-Ready Ingredients for Your New Facility
Your move into 100,000+ square feet signals serious throughput ambition — suppliers without audit-ready docs become an intake liability fast

P.S. — If a cold email brought you here, Penra wrote it. It found the company, did the research, wrote the email, and drafted the reply you got afterward. You just experienced the product. That's the demo.

Cold email tools made it easy to send more. So everyone did.

Reply rates collapsed, not because cold email stopped working — because lazy cold email stopped working.

01

Templates wearing a disguise

"Hi {‌{first_name}‌}, I saw you're the {‌{job_title}‌} at {‌{company}‌}…" Your prospects have deleted a thousand of these. Mail-merge personalization isn't personalization — it's a template with name tags.

02

Research doesn't scale — for humans

A genuinely good cold email takes 20 minutes of research: what the company does, what's shifting in their industry, what they're likely struggling with. Nobody does that 100 times a week. So nobody sends genuinely good cold email at scale.

03

You win the reply, then lose it

The hardest part isn't sending — it's answering. A warm reply lands while you're heads-down, sits for two days, and the deal goes cold. The most expensive email in your pipeline is the one you never answered.

One pipeline: research → write → send → reply.

01

Feed it prospects.

Import a CSV, or connect Soraz and pull in verified local-B2B leads directly. A 3-minute onboarding teaches Penra your offer and your voice.

02

Penra researches each one.

Website, industry classification, recent industry news, buying signals, likely pain points — a 6-step AI research chain per company. Research compounds within an industry, so your 40th manufacturer is faster than your first.

03

It writes and sends a real email.

Not a template with variables — an email written from the research, in your voice, with a point. Scheduled and sent from your own inbox.

04

When they reply, Penra answers.

It reads the thread against the original research, drafts the response, and asks for your one-click confirmation. (Full autopilot exists — it's opt-in, not default.)

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Don't take our word for it. Watch it work — on you.

Watch a real research chain unfold.
Nutritional-supplement contract manufacturing · April 2026 campaign
ready
Every step you just watched runs automatically, for every prospect on your list.
Now run it for real — on yourself.

Enter your website and your work email. Penra will research your company — live, right now — and send you the exact cold email it would write to pitch you. It arrives in your inbox, because inbox placement is part of the demo.

One run per company · work email required · arrives within minutes.
Replay of a real campaign run. Company names, people, and identifying figures have been altered.
Research

20 minutes of SDR homework, done in seconds. Per prospect.

For every company on your list, Penra reads their website, classifies their industry, scans recent industry news, and extracts signals — then reasons about what they're likely trying to fix right now. The email gets written from that dossier, not from a template.

Same-industry knowledge cache: research compounds across your list instead of starting from zero each time.
RESEARCH REPORT · Redwood Labs
Website read · 5 pages
Industry classified · high confidence
3 news sources · capacity race underway
Recently relocated to a new 100,000+ sq ft facility
TIER-1 SIGNAL · trigger event
Angle: lead with the facility move → offer audit-ready ingredient documentation.
Auto-reply · the one nobody else has

The only tool at this price that handles the replies.

When a prospect writes back, Penra reads the whole thread — original research included — and drafts the reply. You confirm with one click. Deals stop dying in your inbox, and you stop context-switching into "sales mode" ten times a day.

You approve every reply until you explicitly turn on full-auto. Your brand, your call.
REPLY DRAFT · thread #2
THEY WROTE
"Interesting — can you send the compliance overview?"
PENRA DRAFTED
Happy to — attaching our audit-ready set now. Given your new facility ramp, want me to include the intake checklist too?
✓ Confirm & send Edit
Deliverability

Built to protect the domain you send from.

Unsubscribe links and a permanent suppression list on every campaign. SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks before you send. Sensible sending schedules by default. Cold email only works if your domain stays clean — Penra treats that as its job, not yours.

DOMAIN HEALTH · send-domain.com
SPFPASS ✓
DKIMPASS ✓
DMARCPASS ✓
Suppression liston · every send
Daily send cappaced

The gap in the market is exactly where Penra sits.

Volume senders
Smartlead, Saleshandy, Snov
Penra AI SDRs
Jason AI, Agent Frank
Price $36–$99/mo $99–$649/mo $500–$800+/mo
Per-prospect research ✗ merge tags ✓ 6-step research chain
AI replies handled ✗ none at this tier ✓ draft + confirm, or full-auto
Who it's for Pure volume plays Founders who sell Teams with SDR budgets

AI SDR-level research and reply handling, at a price that doesn't need a sales team to justify it.

Measured on live campaigns, not a lab test.

3%
reply rate — versus a 1–2% industry average, across live outbound campaigns.
An actual Penra email — names and identifying details altered
From: Alex · Meridian Ingredients  →  To: Laura · Redwood Labs
Audit-Ready Ingredients for Your New 100,000 sq ft Facility
Hi Laura,

Your move into 100,000+ square feet signals serious throughput ambition — and in a multi-certification environment, ingredient suppliers without audit-ready documentation become an intake liability fast…

Pay for researched prospects. Not seats.

Every plan includes the full research chain, writing, and sending from your own inbox. No per-seat pricing. No annual lock-in.

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350 researched prospects/mo
Auto-reply starts here.
Everything in Starter + AI auto-reply · 3 inboxes · list export · industry-cache priority.
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$649/mo
1,200 researched prospects/mo
Everything in Pro + white-label · multi-workspace · API · full-auto reply (opt-in).
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Annual billing −25% · 14-day money-back guarantee · overage billed per prospect · cancel anytime.

Penra + Soraz

Emails are only as good as the list.

Soraz finds local and regional B2B businesses the big databases can't see — manufacturers, contractors, clinics, distributors — and verifies every email before it's ever billed. Connect it to Penra and your campaigns start from leads that are pre-verified before the first send: fewer bounces, cleaner domain, better inbox placement.

VERIFIED LEAD LIST · midwest mfg
ARedwood Labsvalid ✓
BSummit Nutravalid ✓
CApex Formulationscatch-all

Questions, answered plainly.

What counts as a "researched prospect"?+

Each new company Penra researches and emails counts once against your quota. Industry-cache hits make research faster and cheaper, but a prospect is only counted when Penra actually works it.

Can I bring my own list?+

Yes — CSV import works out of the box. Results are best with verified emails; if your list is unverified, that's exactly the problem Soraz solves.

Will AI really reply to my prospects without me?+

Not unless you tell it to. The default is draft-and-confirm: Penra writes, you approve with one click. Fully automatic replies are an explicit opt-in on Scale.

Which email accounts can I connect?+

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 via OAuth, or any provider via SMTP/IMAP.

Is this CAN-SPAM compliant?+

The mechanics are built in: unsubscribe link, your physical mailing address, and a permanent suppression list on every send. You bring a truthful offer and a real identity.

Will cold email hurt my domain?+

Done carelessly, yes — that's why Penra ships deliverability checks (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), sane sending schedules, and suppression by default, and why we recommend a separate sending domain. See also the verified-leads route via Soraz.

How is Penra different from Instantly or Smartlead?+

Those tools optimize sending volume. Penra optimizes each email — real per-prospect research — and then handles the replies. At this price point, nothing else does both.

What if it's not for me?+

14-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans, and the free trial runs the full pipeline first.

Your next 100 prospects, researched by tonight.

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