About Death to Cold Emails

We help B2B sales teams stop wasting time on spray-and-pray outreach and start using signals, timing, and personalization to book meetings that actually convert.

Our Mission

Cold email is broken. Response rates dropped from 8% to 1-5% over five years. Sales teams send thousands of emails to get a handful of responses. Domains get burned. Prospects get annoyed. Everyone loses.

We built this directory because we believe there's a better way. Signal-based outreach— reaching the right person at the right time with the right message—delivers 15-25% response rates. That's not marketing hype; that's what happens when you stop interrupting strangers and start helping people who actually need you.

Our goal is simple: curate the tools that enable quality outreach and help sales teams make better decisions about their tech stack. No feature bloat. No spam enablers. Just tools that help you be more human at scale.

Why We Built This

Frustration. We've been on both sides of the cold email problem. As senders, we watched our response rates crater despite following "best practices." As recipients, we deleted dozens of templated pitches daily.

When we discovered signal-based approaches—intent data, LinkedIn warm-up, trigger-based outreach—everything changed. Our response rates tripled. Conversations became more productive. We stopped feeling like spammers.

But finding the right tools was painful. Every review site listed features without context. Pricing was hidden behind "contact sales." It was impossible to know which tools actually enabled better outreach versus which just sent emails faster.

So we built the directory we wished existed: tools rated on signal quality, honest pricing displayed upfront, pros AND cons for each tool, and a scoring system that prioritizes quality over quantity.

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Affiliate Disclosure

How We Make Money

This site contains affiliate links. When you click through our links and purchase a tool, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is how we fund the time spent researching, testing, and maintaining this directory.

Important: Affiliate relationships do NOT influence our Signal Scores or recommendations.

Our Affiliate Policy:

  • Independence first: We include tools without affiliate programs because their quality merits inclusion. A tool with no affiliate program can rank higher than one that pays us commissions.
  • Transparent scoring: Our Signal Score methodology is public. You can see exactly why tools receive their ratings. Affiliate status doesn't change the math.
  • Honest reviews: Every tool listing includes cons, not just marketing highlights. If a tool has problems, we say so—even if they're an affiliate partner.
  • No pay-to-play: We don't accept payments to list tools, feature them prominently, or boost their scores. If a tool is on our site, it's because it meets our quality standards.

Current Affiliate Partners:

We have or are pursuing affiliate relationships with the following tools. This list is updated as we add new partnerships:

  • Clay
  • Apollo.io
  • Instantly
  • Lemlist
  • Smartlead
  • Expandi
  • Waalaxy
  • Taplio
  • Lavender
  • Smartwriter

Tools not on this list may still have affiliate links (through networks like Impact or ShareASale) or may have no affiliate program at all. The presence or absence of affiliate relationship doesn't change our scoring.

Privacy & Data

We respect your privacy. Here's what we collect and why:

  • Email addresses: Only if you subscribe to our newsletter. Used solely for sending our weekly updates. You can unsubscribe anytime.
  • Analytics: We use privacy-friendly analytics (no cookies) to understand which content helps people. We see page views and traffic sources, not personal data.
  • Affiliate clicks: When you click affiliate links, the destination tool may track that you came from our site. This is standard affiliate tracking.

We don't sell your data. We don't use invasive tracking. We don't require accounts or logins to use the directory.

Contact Us

Have feedback, corrections, or suggestions? We want to hear from you:

  • Tool corrections: If we have incorrect pricing, features, or other information about a tool, let us know.
  • Missing tools: Know a signal-based outreach tool that should be in our directory? Submit it for review.
  • General feedback: Ideas to improve the site, content requests, or other suggestions.
  • Business inquiries: Partnership opportunities or press inquiries.

Email: hello@deathtocoldemails.com