In cold outreach, getting seen is the first advantage · Customers · Metix AI

What this case shows

In cold outreach, deliverability is the advantage.

Deliverability is infrastructure: warmed sending pools, per-account rate limits, health monitoring. Building that yourself usually takes months.

Solve getting seen first. Personalization only matters after that. A 62.5 percent open rate is what makes a 9.2 percent reply rate possible.

The full funnel

Production data. Absolute counts.

Contacted is the denominator for every percentage, and a person who appears under several roles is counted once.

Contacted 1,299 100%
Opened (pixel) 812 62.5% · step 62.5%
Replied 119 9.2% · step 14.7%
Interested 98 7.5% · step 82.4%
Resume 45 3.5% · step 45.9%
Width uses a square-root scale so a 2 percent stage is still a slice, not a hairline. The count is the fact. Opened is hatched because it is a tracking pixel.

Per 100 people contacted

One cell is one person out of 100 contacted. Cells are exclusive: a resume is not counted again as interest.

Exact counts

Stage Count Of contacted Step
Contacted 1,299 100% -
Opened 812 62.5% 62.5%
Replied 119 9.2% 14.7%
Interested 98 7.5% 82.4%
Resume 45 3.5% 45.9%

Interview booking was not used by this account inside the window. The funnel stops at resume. All 28 confirmed interviews on the customers page belong to the largest account.

62.5% open

812 of 1,299. Pixel-tracked; treat it as a ceiling, not a fact about reading.

1,299 contacted

Engineering candidates whose inboxes vary wildly in reachability.

9.2% reply

119 people replied.

98 interested engineers

45.9 percent of interested people sent a resume.

How fast it happened

Raw timestamps, from the first wave.

These are real intervals in this account, measured from the first outreach wave. They are not a 24-hour delivery claim, and they are not a fill-time claim.

  1. Day 0, 17:00
    First outreach wave sent.

  2. +7 min
    First interested reply.

  3. +21 min
    First resume received.

How much the AI wrote

3,791 personalized emails.

First touch plus automatic follow-ups, each written for that person, with no template blast. The hour count below is the only estimate on this page: it assumes 3 minutes to research and write one email by hand.

3,791
emails written and sent by Mira

190
hours at 3 minutes each

24
working days at 8 hours

9.2%
reply rate on 1,299 contacted

3,791 × 3 min = 190 hours ≈ 24 working days. Substitute your own minutes-per-email and recompute.

FAQ

How to read this account.

Should I treat 62.5 percent open as proof the mail was read?

No. Open rate uses a tracking pixel. Prefetch can fire it without a human reading the mail. Use reply, interest, and resume to decide. Those are 9.2 percent, 7.5 percent, and 45 resumes on this account.

Is this the same as the 55-role account?

No. That account ran many functions for seven months. This one hired engineers over two months. Both are anonymized company accounts. Neither is a named logo.

Against the other four

Reply rate in this extract.

Same scale as the hub chart, with this account marked. The 55-role account is the largest by volume and the lowest by reply rate, and nothing in the set is dropped.

0612
percent

  1. Many roles at once
    7.3%
  2. Hard-to-reach PMs
    11.4%
  3. No recruiter on staff
    9.5%
  4. Engineering outreach
    9.2%
  5. A role they ran twice
    8.2%

A dot, not a bar. Axis goes to 12 percent. This account is the filled mark.

The other four

Same extract. Different constraint.

Case 01 · 7 months
Many roles at once
One hiring owner running dozens of cross-functional roles, capped by manual outreach.
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Case 02 · 6 weeks
Hard-to-reach PMs
Hiring product managers, the hardest group to reach. Strong PMs rarely look.
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Case 03 · 6 weeks
No recruiter on staff
No recruiter on staff. Hiring managers had no time to source, reach out, or chase resumes.
Read the funnel →

Case 05 · two rounds
A role they ran twice
A scarce hybrid role with almost no inbound, needing a play they could run again.
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If this constraint is yours, bring the role.

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