Cold email agency · B2B

The cold email agency that answers to one number.

Meetings held with buyers who fit. Everything else we do, the offer, the domains, the copy, the replies, exists to move that number. You show up to the calls.

9.4%Average reply rate across active clients
18 to 34Meetings a month per client, post warmup
17 daysFrom kickoff to first meeting
98%Inbox placement, monitored weekly

What a cold email agency should actually do

Most agencies sell you "campaigns". A campaign is an activity. What you need is a pipeline, and a pipeline has six jobs in a fixed order. If an agency skips one, the others fail quietly. Here is who does what when you work with us.

01 · OFFER

Sharpen the offer

We rewrite your promise until a stranger can say yes to it in one read. Weak offers kill more campaigns than spam filters do.

You: one 45 minute call
02 · DATA

Build the list

Verified contacts that match your best customers by role, size, trigger and region. Triple checked so bounces stay under 2%.

You: approve the ICP
03 · INFRASTRUCTURE

Set up sending

Secondary domains, warmed inboxes, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Your main domain never sends a cold email. You own all of it.

You: nothing
04 · COPY

Write like a person

Plain text, under 80 words, written in house for your buyer. No templates, no AI slop, nothing you would be embarrassed to sign.

You: approve the first sequence
05 · SENDING

Send and test

Human volume per inbox, A/Z tests on openers and offers, weekly cuts of whatever is not earning replies.

You: read a weekly report
06 · REPLIES

Turn replies into meetings

Our team answers every reply the same day, handles objections, and books qualified calls on your calendar.

You: show up

Agency or in-house SDR? Run your own numbers

The honest comparison is not salary against retainer. It is the full cost of a working outbound seat against the full cost of a working agency, including the months before either books a meeting. Change any number below to match your situation.

First year cost

Example numbers. Edit them.
In-house SDR
$96,000
One Zero
$16,200
$79,800less in year one with One Zero
2.4 moextra months of pipeline you get by skipping the SDR ramp

Your hours are valued at $100 an hour, and working with us takes about 15 minutes of your week. One Zero Scale is $1,250 a month with tools, data and infrastructure included. Recruiting fees and turnover are left out, which flatters the in-house number.

An SDR still makes sense when you need someone on the phone all day, or your deal needs heavy technical discovery before a meeting. For getting qualified first meetings on the calendar, an agency is usually faster and cheaper to start. You can always hire later and hand them a working playbook.

What we charge, and why

Agencies price in four ways. Each one tells you what the agency is protecting.

ModelHow it worksThe catch
Monthly retainerFixed fee for the whole serviceOnly fair if the agency reports outcomes, not activity
Setup fee plus retainerLarge upfront fee, then monthlyYou pay for infrastructure before any proof
Pay per meetingA fee for each booked meetingPushes the agency to book anyone who says yes
Revenue share onlyPaid only when deals closeRarely survives a 2 to 6 month sales cycle

We charge a flat monthly fee because it lets us turn down unqualified meetings without losing money. Our annual plan adds a small share of sales so we win only when you do.

Scale · month to month

$1,250 /mo

Offer, infrastructure, verified data, copy, campaign management, reply handling and booked meetings. Cancel or adjust anytime after the first 90 days.

Launch · limited to 5 businesses a year

$3,500 /year

Everything in Scale for 12 months, price locked, 10 to 20 qualified leads a month, plus 1 to 2% of sales from meetings we book in the first 12 months.

Why we won't work for a cut of closed deals only

People ask for it a lot, so here is the plain answer. B2B deals take 2 to 6 months to close, and what happens after the first meeting depends on your sales team, your pricing and your timing. An agency paid only on closed revenue either cuts corners to survive or walks away by month three. Neither helps you.

Score any cold email agency in 2 minutes

Use this on us or on anyone else. Tick what the agency confirmed on the call, in writing if you can.

Agency score

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Walk away, or ask much harder questions on the next call.

Your first 30 days

  1. Days 1 to 3Kickoff call. We map your offer, your best customers and what counts as a qualified meeting.
  2. Days 1 to 14We buy and authenticate domains, create inboxes and warm them. Nothing goes to prospects yet.
  3. Days 7 to 12You approve the ICP, the first list sample and the first sequence.
  4. Day 15Sending starts at a low daily volume per inbox and ramps over the next weeks.
  5. Around day 17First meetings typically land. Every reply is handled the same day.
  6. Every week afterA plain report: sent, replied, positive, booked, held. Plus what we changed and why.

What it has looked like for clients

  • More than 400 meetings booked in a year for one healthcare client, and around 280 for another.
  • 22 qualified calls in six weeks for a cybersecurity SaaS company.
  • 9.4% average reply rate across active clients.

Results depend on your offer, deal size and market, so we will tell you on the first call what we think is realistic for you, including when the answer is "not much".

Who we are not for

Anyone selling to consumers, offers under about $3,000 in contract value, and gaming or gambling. In those cases a meeting rarely pays for itself, and we would rather say so up front.

Questions people ask

How much does a cold email agency cost?

It depends on the model: monthly retainer, setup plus retainer, pay per meeting, or revenue share. We charge $1,250 a month all inclusive, or $3,500 a year plus 1 to 2% of sales from meetings we book in the first 12 months.

How long until the first meeting?

Domains warm for about 14 days. First meetings typically land inside 3 weeks of kickoff, and volume builds from there.

What if it does not work?

You stay month to month after the first 90 days. If we cannot hit the targets we agreed to, we stop billing.

Do you outsource anything?

No. Strategy, copy, deliverability and reply handling are all done in house.

Which tools do you use?

We send on Instantly, enrich with Clay and Apollo, and sync to your CRM. Here is why we chose Instantly over the alternatives.

Is cold email legal?

Yes, in the US, UK and Canada when you follow the rules. Read our plain words guide to CAN-SPAM, GDPR and CASL.

See what we would build for you.

15 minutes. We map your offer, your buyers and the pipeline we can realistically build. No deck, no pressure.

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