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Cold Email Grader

Most cold emails fail for the same five reasons: wrong length, a weak subject line, no real personalization, a vague or missing call-to-action, and language that reads as spammy hype. This tool scores your email against best-practice heuristics on all five dimensions, then walks through your actual sentences and tells you exactly which lines to fix and how.

Your numbers

Paste the subject line exactly as you would send it.
Paste the full body, including greeting and sign-off. The sample above is intentionally flawed — replace it with your own draft.

Method & assumptions

  • Scoring is heuristic phrase-and-pattern matching (word counts, key-phrase detection, punctuation) across five weighted dimensions — length, subject line, personalization, CTA clarity, and spam risk. It is not a live ESP or spam-filter simulation.
  • The 50–125 word 'sweet spot' for length reflects widely-cited cold-email reply-rate benchmarks. Treat it as a strong prior, not a hard rule for every industry or buyer.
  • Matching is substring-based, so occasional false positives/negatives are possible (e.g. a word appearing inside another word). Use the grade to prioritise fixes, not as a strict pass/fail gate.
  • This tool cannot see sender reputation, SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup, ESP warm-up status, or list quality — all of which affect deliverability as much as the copy itself. It grades the copy only.

How to use it

Paste your subject line into the first field and your full email body (greeting through sign-off) into the second. The grade recalculates as you type. Read the "What to fix" list first — it explains why each sub-score landed where it did — then work through the rewrite table, which quotes your actual sentences and gives a specific fix for each one. Re-check the grade after editing; aim for 80+ before sending to real prospects.

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