• Transactional emails sent manually or through processes that break when someone is sick?

  • Onboarding sequences inconsistent because they depend on a salesperson to execute them?

Email Automation Development

Manual email processes don't scale with your business. Transactional emails that require someone to send them, onboarding sequences that run inconsistently, follow-up emails that get forgotten, and reporting emails that take staff hours to assemble -- all of these are automation problems.
We build email automation systems that send the right email at the right time based on what happens in your product and your business -- without anyone having to remember to do it.

  • Transactional email infrastructure with delivery monitoring and bounce handling

  • Behavioural email sequences triggered by product events and user actions

  • Automated reporting and digest emails assembled from your data sources

  • Integration with SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, and custom email platforms

RaftLabs builds email automation systems for businesses -- transactional email infrastructure, event-triggered behavioural sequences, onboarding workflows, follow-up automation, and automated reporting emails. Email automation ensures consistent communication at every stage of the customer lifecycle without manual execution. Most email automation projects deliver in 6--12 weeks at a fixed cost with full source code ownership.

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Aldi
Nike
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Heineken
Cisco
Calorgas
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GE
Bank of America
T-Mobile
Valero
Techstars
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Every manual email process is a reliability problem waiting to happen

The order confirmation sent by a team member who is on leave. The onboarding email that depends on a sales rep to trigger it. The weekly report assembled in a spreadsheet by someone who is juggling other priorities. When the person responsible is unavailable, the email doesn't go out.

Email automation turns process reliability into a software problem. Software doesn't take sick days.

What we automate

Transactional email infrastructure

Reliable transactional email delivery for your product -- password resets, order confirmations, payment receipts, account change notifications, and system alerts. Proper SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration. Bounce handling, unsubscribe management, and delivery monitoring. The email infrastructure that ensures your product's transactional emails actually reach inboxes reliably.

Onboarding and activation sequences

Onboarding email sequences triggered by user sign-up and product actions -- welcome emails, feature introduction, activation nudges for users who haven't completed key steps, and success confirmation for users who reach activation milestones. Sequences that adapt to user behaviour: users who activate get advancement emails, users who don't get additional nudges. Consistent onboarding for every new user, regardless of whether a salesperson is following up.

Behavioural trigger emails

Emails triggered by specific actions or inactions in your product -- upgrade prompts when users hit feature limits, re-engagement emails for users who haven't logged in for N days, upsell emails when usage patterns indicate readiness, and warning emails when an account reaches a threshold. The right email, triggered by what the user actually does, not by a generic time-based schedule.

Sales follow-up automation

Automated follow-up sequences for leads and prospects -- triggered by sign-ups, demo requests, or product usage signals. Drip sequences with day-offset delays, follow-up emails when no reply is received, and automatic sequence exit when the lead replies. CRM integration to update lead status based on email engagement and log automated communications.

Subscription and renewal workflows

Renewal reminder sequences triggered by subscription end dates, dunning sequences for failed payments, and win-back sequences for churned users. Payment failure handling that sends the right email at the right interval without aggressive over-communication. Automatic sequence exit when payment is recovered or subscription is renewed.

Automated reporting and digest emails

Scheduled emails that assemble data from your systems and deliver it to the right recipients -- weekly performance digests, daily exception reports, monthly usage summaries, and alert emails when metrics cross thresholds. We build the data pipeline that pulls from your database or APIs, formats the report, and delivers it on schedule. Reports that currently require a team member to assemble run automatically.

Email automation that runs without anyone having to remember

Transactional infrastructure, behavioural sequences, and reporting emails that run on your data and your triggers. Fixed cost.

How we build it

Email infrastructure and deliverability setup

Proper DNS configuration (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), sending domain and IP setup, warm-up sequencing for new sending domains, bounce and complaint handling, and delivery monitoring with alerting. The foundation that ensures emails reach inboxes before any sequences are built on top.

Trigger and event integration

Integration with your product to receive the events that trigger emails -- user actions, payment events, subscription changes, usage thresholds, and time-based schedules. Webhook receivers, event queue processing, and idempotency controls to prevent duplicate sends when events are delivered more than once.

Sequence logic and personalisation

Sequence definition, delay logic, branching based on user actions (opens, clicks, conversions), and exit conditions. Personalisation using data from your product and CRM -- user name, plan type, feature usage, company name, and any other data relevant to the email. Emails that feel personal because they're based on real data.

Analytics and performance monitoring

Delivery rate, open rate, click rate, conversion tracking, bounce tracking, and unsubscribe monitoring -- per sequence and per email. A dashboard that shows how each sequence is performing and where users are dropping out. The measurement layer that tells you whether the automation is working.

Email infrastructure that scales with your business

From transactional emails to full lifecycle automation. We build and configure, you own the code.

Let's talk about your project

Tell us your email use case -- transactional, onboarding, behavioural, or reporting. We'll scope the system and give you a fixed cost.

Frequently asked questions

Email automation is software that sends emails automatically based on triggers -- user actions, time delays, data conditions, or external events. Types we build: (1) Transactional emails -- password resets, order confirmations, payment receipts, account changes. (2) Onboarding sequences -- welcome emails, feature introduction, activation nudges triggered by sign-up and product actions. (3) Behavioural emails -- triggered by specific user actions or inactions in your product. (4) Follow-up sequences -- sales follow-up, churned user win-back, subscription renewal reminders. (5) Reporting emails -- automated digests, performance reports, and alerts assembled from your data and sent on schedule.

We integrate with all major transactional email platforms -- SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Postmark, and Resend. For marketing email sequences, we integrate with or build alongside Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, HubSpot, Klaviyo, and Customer.io. The right platform depends on your email volume, use case mix, and existing tools. We help you choose or work with what you already have.

Deliverability is a system design consideration, not an afterthought. We configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC DNS records, implement bounce and complaint handling to maintain sender reputation, separate transactional and marketing email streams (different sending IPs and domains), implement list hygiene with automatic suppression of bounced and unsubscribed addresses, and monitor deliverability metrics. Poor deliverability typically comes from poor infrastructure setup and list management, not from content.

A transactional email system -- password reset, order confirmation, and account notification emails with delivery monitoring -- typically runs $8,000--$20,000. A complete onboarding and lifecycle email automation system with 5--10 sequences, product event integration, and analytics runs $20,000--$50,000. Multi-channel systems with email, SMS, and in-app notifications run higher. Cost depends on the number of sequences, the complexity of the trigger logic, and the data integrations required. We scope every project before pricing it.