13 tools
Tools
The stack I build outbound systems with. One page each: what the tool is, what I use it for, and what it taught me that the documentation does not say. No affiliation with any of them.
13 tools
The stack I build outbound systems with. One page each: what the tool is, what I use it for, and what it taught me that the documentation does not say. No affiliation with any of them.
# Tools
The stack Mihajlo Maiga builds outbound systems with. No affiliation with any of them.
## [Instantly](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/instantly)
Sending and campaign operations - Sending
A cold email platform. It holds the mailboxes, the sequence copy and the sending schedule, and it decides which lead gets which email on which day.
## [Smartlead](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/smartlead)
Sending and reply handling - Sending
A cold email platform. It manages sending mailboxes and their warmup, runs multi step sequences, and pushes replies out to other systems over webhooks.
## [n8n](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/n8n)
Event glue between systems - Automation
A workflow automation tool. You wire nodes together on a canvas - a webhook, a request, a condition, a database write - and it runs the chain whenever the trigger fires.
## [Claude Code](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/claude-code)
Building and operating the stack - Building
An AI coding agent that runs in the terminal. It reads and edits files in a repository, runs commands, and follows written instructions committed alongside the code.
## [Codex](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/codex)
Second coding agent - Building
OpenAI's coding agent. It runs in the terminal, reads and edits a repository, and runs commands under a configurable approval and sandbox policy.
## [tldraw](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/tldraw)
Thinking and explaining on a canvas - Building
An infinite drawing canvas for boxes, arrows and notes. Its files are plain JSON, so a diagram can be generated by a script and then dragged around by hand.
## [Slack](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/slack)
Delivering results where people already are - Coordination
A team chat tool. Its API lets a program post messages, upload files and read channels, which makes it a place to deliver work rather than only to talk.
## [cmux](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/cmux)
Running several agents at once - Building
A macOS terminal built for running several AI coding agents at once. Each agent gets its own pane, organised into workspaces, with notifications when one needs you.
## [Prospeo](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/prospeo)
Finding and verifying work emails - Data and enrichment
An enrichment API. Give it a person's LinkedIn profile or a name and a company domain, and it returns a work email address, a verification result, or company data.
## [Render](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/render)
Hosting dashboards and scheduled jobs - Infrastructure
A hosting platform. You point it at a repository and it builds and runs the service, with an API for deploys, environment variables and scheduled jobs.
## [EmailBison](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/emailbison)
Sending and campaign QA - Sending
A cold email platform. It holds sender accounts, sequences and leads, and exposes almost all of it over an API so campaigns can be built and audited by script.
## [ClickUp](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/clickup)
Tracking work across clients - Coordination
A project management tool. Work is organised into spaces, folders and lists of tasks, each with its own statuses and custom fields, all reachable over an API.
## [Clay](https://mihajlomaiga.com/tools/clay)
Enrichment, segmentation and routing - Data and enrichment
A spreadsheet that can call APIs. Each column runs an enrichment, an AI prompt, a formula or a push to another system, on every row.