The $2K Cold Email Workflow That Runs Itself

🚨 Breaking: I just shipped an n8n workflow that replaces a $2,000/month cold email team.

Most entrepreneurs still spend hours every day researching prospects and writing personalized outreach. Meanwhile, their competitors are using AI to do the same work in seconds.

The Bottleneck

Cold email outreach used to mean:

• Manually scraping LinkedIn or Apollo
• Spending hours researching each lead
• Writing icebreakers one by one
• Paying a team just to keep the pipeline alive

The process worked, but it was expensive, slow, and impossible to scale.

The System

I built an n8n automation that removes the grunt work entirely:

• Scrapes and enriches 50,000+ leads automatically
• Uses Perplexity AI (Sonar model) to research each prospect deeply
• Writes hyper-personalized emails that actually convert
• Pushes everything directly into SmartLead or Instantly for distribution

The workflow costs just a few cents per lead. And because Sonar can go as deep as you want, it turns surface-level outreach into context-rich messages that feel human.

The Outcome

One client told me this saved them 20 hours per week—that’s $2,000+ in reclaimed time alone.

The result isn’t just higher efficiency. It’s better outcomes:

• Response rates jump when every email feels researched
• Campaigns scale to thousands of leads without extra headcount
• Outreach becomes predictable instead of guesswork

The truth is, generic cold email is dead. But AI-powered personalization at scale is just getting started.

If you want the full workflow plus Matthew Lucero’s cold email playbook, it’s all documented inside CAL Pro.

Want the Exact Workflow?

We’ve documented everything inside the Corporate Automation Library Pro — our private vault of tested automations.

Inside, you’ll find:

• The full Cold Email Workflow (scraping → enrichment → outreach)
• 30+ plug-and-play n8n systems
• 2–3 new automations added weekly (content, sales, lead gen, retention)
• Step-by-step deployment guides (under 30 minutes each)

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