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How Inbox Penny works, and what to do when it doesn’t

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What Penny can do

Five places the AI helps, all included at no extra charge.

Penny is the AI built into Inbox Penny. She’s included on every account at no extra charge — there’s no premium tier to unlock and no separate add-on to buy.

Where she helps

  • Drafting an email — describe it in a sentence and get a full design back, subject line included.
  • Subject lines — six alternatives, each with the angle it’s taking and why, so you’re choosing rather than guessing.
  • Rewriting what you wrote — shorter, punchier, more formal, or whatever you ask for, on a selection or a whole block.
  • The pre-send review — a check before it goes, mixing exact tests with her reading of the copy.
  • Reading your results — a plain-English summary of a campaign report, on request.

She also rebuilds newsletters from other platforms and reviews the automations you build.

Give her something to work with

The single biggest difference between generic output and useful output is the brand profile. Without it she knows your account name and nothing else, which is exactly why unconfigured AI writing reads like anybody’s.

Five minutes filling it in changes every draft after it.

What she never sees

Your contacts are never sent to the AI

Not their addresses, not their names, not what’s stored in your custom fields. Personalization happens after the AI is out of the loop — she writes {{firstName}}, and the real name is substituted at send time. Exactly what does get sent.

Fair use

There’s a generous daily allowance on AI requests, which rises as your account establishes itself. It exists to stop scripted abuse rather than to ration normal work — ordinary drafting and editing won’t come near it.

If you do hit it, we say so plainly and it resets. Unlike the checks on the send path, this one explains itself: it’s fair use, not a security decision.

FAQs

Does using Penny cost extra?+

No. She’s included on every account. You pay for email sent — nothing else.

Can I use Inbox Penny without the AI?+

Entirely. Every AI feature is something you choose to press. Nothing drafts, rewrites or sends on its own.

What if the AI is unavailable?+

Everything else keeps working, and the pre-send review still runs its exact checks — the ones that catch missing alt text or a placeholder link don’t need a model at all.

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