Lemlist

Lemlist is an outbound sequencing platform for founders who want more than email. This is outbound prospecting, not inbound capture: you source contacts from its built-in lead database or import your own, enrich emails and phone numbers with credits, then run sequences that mix email steps with LinkedIn visits, connection requests and messages, calls and, on the multichannel tier, SMS and WhatsApp. Personalisation is a strength — variables, images and AI-assisted copy help a one-person sender avoid obviously templated outreach — and its warm-up tool, lemwarm, is included to protect deliverability. Replies are gathered for you to work personally; lemlist helps you write and send, but it does not autonomously negotiate, handle objections end-to-end or book the meeting for you. That human-in-the-loop reality suits a founder who is also the salesperson and wants quality conversations rather than maximum blast volume. The pricing trap is the split between the headline plan and the data layer: the Email plan is priced per team by send volume with no credits included, LinkedIn requires the per-user Multichannel plan, and finding and enriching contacts runs on a separate credit meter. Model those three numbers together, plus extra senders, before comparing it with flat-fee email-only tools that look cheaper at first glance.

Email plan priced per team by monthly send volume; Multichannel priced per user. Lead data and signals are separate credit add-ons.