Woodpecker

What is Woodpecker?

Woodpecker is a cold email automation platform built for B2B sales teams, agencies, and recruiters, with deliverability as its core focus since launching in 2015. It builds multi-step email sequences with conditional logic and automated follow-ups, while mimicking human sending patterns — randomized intervals, personalized send times, and automatic throttling when bounce rates spike — to keep emails landing in the inbox rather than spam. Built-in features include email warmup, a spam-word checker, free email verification, and Bounce Shield to protect sender reputation across multiple connected inboxes. Woodpecker integrates natively with Calendly, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, and other sales tools, plus a REST API and MCP Server for custom setups. It uses per-contacted-prospect pricing rather than per-seat, with unlimited team members and email accounts on every plan, and includes a dedicated Agency Panel for managing outreach across multiple clients. It's best suited for teams that prioritize inbox placement above multichannel breadth — pure email focus rather than a broader outreach suite.

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