The Cold Email Tech Stack We Use at Leadamax (Full Breakdown)

Cold email isn’t just about writing a message and hitting “send.” If you want high open rates, consistent positive replies, minimal bounces, and zero spam issues, you need a bulletproof tech stack.

Moiz Khurram

1. Sending Platform: Smartlead.ai

Your cold email software is your engine. After testing everything from Instantly to Lemlist, Smartlead is our go-to. Why?

  • Handles large-scale sending with ease

  • Powerful automation

  • Great API and advanced workflows

  • Built-in warm-up and smart rotation

If you want to scale fast and have flexibility, go Smartlead. If you prefer a simple UI, Instantly works too.

2. Email Verification: MillionVerifier

Never skip this.

Clean data = higher deliverability and fewer bounces. We use MillionVerifier to categorize emails as:

  • Valid → Safe to send

  • Catch-All / Invalid → We send catch-alls to Scrubby.io for extra processing or save them for later

This ensures our bounce rate stays below 3% — critical for long-term inbox placement.

3. Personalized Video at Scale: Sendspark

Need to stand out? Sendspark is our favorite for personalized videos means automated and super personalzied looms at scale for cold outreach.

  • Record once

  • Upload a CSV

  • Insert name tags as variables

  • Generate 100s of custom videos in minutes

Great for warm follow-ups or initial reachouts in a high-ticket B2B sequence.

P.S. Use our code “FRIEND” for a sweet discount.

4. Automated Appointment Handling: Hot Hawk

Tired of replying to leads manually?

Hot Hawk fetches reply super fast and can connect unlimited mailboxes to it and even automate reply management.

Perfect for agencies or solo founders doing high-volume outreach..

5. Data Extraction: Apollo.io

The core of your outreach is the lead list.

We plug in company domains from scrapeamax and from which we can scrape unlimited lead lists for less than coffee budget then into Apollo, then filter by:

  • Role (e.g. Founder, Head of Growth)

  • Headcount

  • Revenue

  • Tech stack

  • Geography

We often layer intent signals as well for better timing.

6. Automation Platform: Make.com

If Smartlead is the engine, Make.com is the gearbox.

Use it to connect:

  • Smartlead

  • Google Sheets

  • Airtable

  • Apollo

  • Clay

  • Slack

  • Anything else

You’ll save hours per week and remove manual bottlenecks. Bonus: it’s more affordable than Zapier.

7. Email Infrastructure: Premium Inboxes

Here’s what we avoid: private SMTPs or sketchy resellers.

We stick to vendors of Google Workspace and Outlook mailboxes — clean, trusted, and respected by spam filters.

  • If you're on a budget or even if you have tons of cash still use Premium Inboxes and they are super affordable and deliverability is just PERFECT.

  • Real-time dashboards

  • Complete technical set up

  • Upload to your sending platform

  • Free replacement inboxes

  • < 12h delivery

  • US IP Address

Don't cheap out on your foundation — your inbox reputation depends on it.

P.S. (use LEADAMAX for 20% discount)
https://premiuminboxes.com?fpr=moiz

Final Words

This tech stack is how we:

✅ Land 15–40 booked calls/month
✅ Scale cold email systems for SaaS, AI, and B2B service clients
✅ Keep bounce rates <3% and replies flowing in

If you’re a B2B Company and you want guaranteed qualified demos/booked meetings each month, I’d love to chat.

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Let’s map your offer, fix your cold outreach, and build a growth machine that works.

Until then — keep testing, keep iterating.
Peace ✌️

P.S. You can download the entire Leadamax tech stack as a PDF below.
Download the PDF Tech Stack

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