Why we built our monday.com community — email screenshot from Monday
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Why we built our monday.com community

monday.com
July 8, 2025

About this email

This email from monday.com introduces new users to the community aspect of the platform alongside the product itself. It features a clear call-to-action directing recipients to start a 7-day free trial, supplemented by visually engaging images and links to podcasts sharing the company's transparency-driven community-building story. The tone is inviting and community-focused, emphasizing support and shared knowledge with multiple link options for further engagement, app downloads, and email preference management.

Monday journey

Emails in library 25
Journey span About 2 months
Avg. send gap ~3 days
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Why this works

**Why this works.** The subject line leads with the company's reasoning ("Why we built") rather than a feature or benefit, which transforms the email from a sales pitch into an origin story that appeals to values-aligned users who want to understand the thinking behind the product. The pattern here is "philosophy before pitch"; you can lift it for any educate-and-engage email where dormant or new users respond better to transparency and founder intent than to activation mechanics.