How to send cold emails with AI — email screenshot from Hunter.io
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How to send cold emails with AI

Team Hunter
May 23, 2025

About this email

This email announces the winner of a $1,000 prize from a cold outreach email competition called Messaging Madness 2025, highlighting the real-life presentation of the check and the winner's achievement. It also promotes Hunter's AI-powered email tools and upcoming features, encouraging readers to join a waitlist and explore insights on using AI for cold outreach. The structure combines storytelling with educational content and clear, actionable links, maintaining an enthusiastic and informative tone throughout.

Hunter.io journey

Emails in library 26
Journey span About 1 year and 2½ months
Avg. send gap ~18 days
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Why this works

**Why this works.** The email leads with a real winner and a physical prize check (not just a testimonial or stat), which proves that cold email success is achievable and tangible, making readers believe they could be next. The pattern here is "proof through narrative before pitch"; you can lift it for any educate-and-engage email where you want users to explore new features by first showing them someone like them already won.