Email Automation

Your best-performing email is one nobody scheduled

Automated flows quietly out-earn campaigns because they reach people at the moment intent is highest. We build the flows that matter, on top of authentication and deliverability that actually works, and we report revenue per recipient rather than open rates.

Replies within one business day. You keep the platform account and the list.

“We only send campaigns when someone remembers.”

Flows run without anyone remembering. That’s the entire point. See the flow map

“Our emails land in spam or promotions.”

Deliverability comes first. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and reputation before any copy. See the process

“Open rates look fine but nothing sells.”

Open rate stopped being meaningful after Apple Mail Privacy. We report revenue per recipient. See what’s reported

“We’re not sure our list is worth emailing.”

The audit says plainly whether it is, and whether it needs cleaning first. Start with the audit

Track record

18
Years building for the web
850+
Clients served
90+
Notable brands
2,000+
Projects delivered
104%
Year-over-year growth

These figures cover every Gatilab service, not this one alone. We’d rather say that plainly than imply a per-service record we haven’t published.

Brands we’ve delivered work for

  • IBM
  • Adobe
  • HubSpot
  • Canva
  • Monday.com
  • IATA
  • FreshBooks
  • Acer
  • Asus
Three ways in

Fix deliverability, build the flows, then keep improving them

Nothing else on this page matters if your mail doesn’t arrive, so deliverability is stage one every time. Platform fees are separate and paid directly by you.

Start here

You need to know if your email even arrives

For teams with a list and a platform who aren’t sure what’s working or whether deliverability is sound.

$900 one-time

One platform · 2 weeks

  • SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication audit
  • Deliverability, reputation, and placement testing
  • List health, engagement, and suppression review
  • Existing flow and campaign performance analysis
  • Prioritised flow map with revenue estimates
Book the audit

Credited against a flow build booked within 30 days.

Ongoing

Lifecycle email is a channel you want managed

For teams treating email as a revenue channel that needs continuous testing, not a one-time setup.

$1,800 per month

3-month minimum

  • Ongoing flow testing and iteration
  • New flows as the lifecycle develops
  • Campaign calendar and production
  • Deliverability and reputation monitoring
  • Monthly revenue readout by flow and segment
Talk about a retainer

If your flows plateau and your list isn’t growing, we’ll tell you to pause this.

How it runs

What gets built, in what order

The order matters more here than in any other service. Beautiful emails that land in spam earn nothing.

  1. 01

    Deliverability first

    Week 1

    SPF, DKIM, and DMARC get verified and fixed, sending domains and reputation get checked, and inbox placement gets tested across major providers. Nothing else starts until mail arrives.

    You leave with: Verified authentication records and a placement test you can re-run.

  2. 02

    List and segment audit

    Week 2

    Engagement cohorts, suppression rules, and list hygiene get reviewed. Emailing people who stopped opening two years ago is what damages the reputation you just fixed.

    You leave with: A cleaned list, suppression rules, and defined segments.

  3. 03

    Flow build

    Weeks 3 to 5

    Welcome, cart and browse abandonment, post-purchase, and win-back flows get built with real segmentation and tested across major email clients, including the ones that still don’t support modern CSS.

    You leave with: Live flows, each with its own tracked revenue attribution.

  4. 04

    Measure what pays

    Week 6 onward

    Reporting centres on revenue per recipient and per flow. Open rate is noted and largely ignored, because Apple Mail Privacy made it close to meaningless.

    You leave with: A readout you can tie to actual revenue, per flow.

Honest fit

Worth booking, or worth looking elsewhere

Email is easy to make look busy and hard to make pay. Two of these are reasons we decline.

Worth booking

  • You have a list you collected legitimately, with consent.
  • You have something to sell repeatedly, or a lifecycle worth nurturing.
  • You can give access to your email platform and DNS.
  • You want revenue reporting rather than open rates.
  • You accept that some of your list should be suppressed.

Look elsewhere

  • Your budget is under $900. The audit is the floor, and building flows on broken deliverability wastes the spend.
  • You bought or scraped the list. We won’t work on it. It damages your domain reputation permanently and it’s illegal in most of the markets you’d be sending to.
  • Your list is under about 500 engaged contacts. Flows need volume to be worth building. Grow the list first.
  • You want us to send from a shared IP with no authentication in place. That’s how domains get blocklisted, and we won’t set it up.
  • You want daily sends to your whole list. That’s how you burn a list. We’ll argue, and if you insist we’ll decline.
Before you ask

The questions that decide it

Something not covered? Ask directly and you’ll get a straight answer, not a calendar link.

Why start with deliverability instead of the emails?

Because a beautifully written flow that lands in spam earns nothing, and you’d be paying us for work no customer will ever see. Authentication and reputation are unglamorous and they’re the highest-leverage fix in email. We check placement before we write a single subject line.

You don’t report open rates?

We report them and largely discount them. Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-loads images for a large share of recipients, which inflates opens without a human reading anything. Revenue per recipient and per flow is the number that survives that, so it’s the one we lead with.

Which platform do you work in?

Whichever you’re on, in most cases. We have opinions about which suits ecommerce versus SaaS and we’ll share them if you’re choosing, but we don’t resell platforms and take no commission. You keep the account in your name, which means leaving us costs you nothing but a handover call.

Should we email people who haven’t opened in a year?

Almost never to the whole segment. Sending to long-dormant contacts is one of the fastest ways to damage the sender reputation that determines whether your engaged contacts see anything. A controlled win-back to a subset is worth trying once. Blasting the lot is not.

Can you write the emails, or do we?

Either. The build price assumes we write them. If you have a copywriter, we’ll build the flows, segmentation, and templates around their copy and the price comes down. Say which at the audit stage so the scope reflects it.

What happens to our flows if we stop working with you?

They keep running, in your account, and they keep earning. Templates, flow logic, and segments are all yours and none of it is locked to us. Automated flows are the part of marketing that keeps working after everyone stops paying attention, which is precisely why they’re worth building properly.

Next step

Tell us what your email is doing now

Send your platform, rough list size, and which flows already exist. We’ll tell you whether deliverability is the problem, the flows are, or your list needs work before either matters.

Replies within one business day. Audits start within a week.