Outreach & the inbox.

/outreach is inbox-first, stacked most-urgent on top: a needs-you band for money, clearance, and unclassified replies (always human-gated), the conversation list with intent chips, a deals strip for the license pipeline, and your campaigns. Outreach rides the outreach:sequences addon on the Publicist plan.

First beat: claim <your-prefix>@pitch.cue.re right on the outreach page — zero DNS, armed instantly, display-named as you, and every reply or forward to it lands back in this inbox. Prefixes are never re-issued, so the address is yours for good. Heavy senders can bring their own domain instead under Settings → Sending: Cue provisions it and walks you through the exact DNS records to publish.

/contacts/ingest takes any blob — a press list, a signature pile, an old Rolodex export — and parses it into a reviewable table. It never rejects the batch over one bad row, and it marks who you already know, who you've emailed, who's written back. On import Cue writes a research dossier per contact: who they are, your history with them, their latest work, how their role likes to be pitched. Contacts pass a verification gate before they can join a campaign.

/outreach → new campaign, four steps: pick the people (up to 200), pick the published pitch + armed sending identity + your note, optionally personalize per-writer angles in editable batches, create. Creating returns a draft — nothing has been sent.

The draft shows a per-recipient preflight — blockers, warnings, stale-research flags — and an explicit launch button. The editor's pass gates the launch and lists its findings verbatim. Launched campaigns can be paused, resumed, or cancelled any time.

• ·Verification before sending; suppressions and unsubscribes are permanent.
• ·New identities warm up on a ramp before reaching full daily volume.
• ·Sends go out Tue–Thu, 9–11am in the recipient's timezone.
• ·Daily caps per identity, and three touches per contact, maximum.
• ·Stop-on-reply is absolute — one reply and the campaign never touches them again.

Replies come back classified by intent. When the latest message is a human inbound, Cue drafts a reply and shows it as a card — approve, edit, or discard. Nothing auto-sends, and money or clearance questions are always yours to answer.

Interest becomes a license lead on /leads, carrying the production, the usage, and a pre-filled cue sheet. Granting a journalist the full record mints a listening room link, and physical-copy requests arrive with the mailing address prefilled and written back to the contact.