Cold outreach has a trust problem. The first message a prospect ever sees from you is usually an ask, and asks from strangers get ignored. Layer onto that the constant handoff between desktop and phone, the re-engagement follow-ups that all sound the same because nobody has time to write ten versions, and the settings changes that mean stopping what you’re doing to dig through a menu. None of it is a strategy problem. It’s friction.
August’s release chips away at exactly that. You can now warm up a prospect before you ever land in their inbox, give different cold leads genuinely different second chances, and run more of Reply from your phone than ever before. Here’s what shipped.