{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Next New Thing","title":"Ryan Carson uses AI to customize email drip","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5e3f515c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2095,"description":"Presented by Zapier\nhttps://zapier.com/\nEpisode Highlights / Timestamps\n00:00 Why every email should be personalized\n00:18 Ryan’s background and what Untangle does\n00:45 Rethinking traditional email drips\n01:12 Customizing emails based on user situations\n01:39 A real example that led to a signup\n02:06 Daily automated marketing insights via email\n03:00 Doing things that don’t scale with AI\n04:03 Walking through the AI email system\n05:06 Using lead magnets and contextual data\n06:09 Enriching leads and storing user context\n06:45 Hourly cron jobs and email scheduling\n07:39 Feeding context into the LLM correctly\n08:15 Preventing hallucinated features\n08:24 Sending emails with Resend\n09:18 Measuring clicks instead of opens\n10:12 Layering engagement-based follow-ups\n10:39 Long-term personalized nurture loops\n12:00 Turning marketing emails into real value\n13:03 Building vertical-specific AI agents\n14:15 Using Zapier and modern automations\n16:12 Building systems with AI coding agents\n18:27 Running multiple AI agents at once\n21:27 Deciding what to build in a world of “free code”\n24:09 Daily AI-generated growth recommendations\n27:45 Using AI to generate and validate ideas\n31:03 Increasing insight frequency, not brilliance\n34:21 Why personalized email is a massive opportunity\n34:48 Final takeaways\nWhy isn’t every email completely customized for the person receiving it — especially now that AI can do it for us?\nIn this episode of The Next New Thing, Andrew Warner sits down with Ryan Carson, a three-time founder currently building Untangle, to walk through a very practical, very real AI system he uses every day to grow his business.\nRyan has spent over 25 years building startups, but while setting up a “standard” email drip for Untangle, he stopped and asked a simple question: why are we still sending the same emails to completely different people? Instead of writing dozens of templates, he built an AI-powered workflow that generates fully personalized emails — based on each...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/NyHHieTlmHDUHZCr0-GqsmgcxwwW_QdWcFQKUIrpKnI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZGY1/YWFlNGYzMTA0ZWY1/ZmRlNGY0NDIxMjA0/ZDQyYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}