Can I connect my own mailboxes instead?

Not today. Sending runs on mailboxes we operate and warm ourselves, which is what lets a campaign start immediately and keeps the daily cap enforceable.

Do I need my own domains or mailboxes?

No. Sending runs from mailboxes we already own and have warmed up before you arrive, which is why a campaign can start the same day instead of after a warm-up period. There is no DNS to configure and no inbox to connect.

How many emails go out per day?

Twenty-five per mailbox per day, as a hard cap enforced in the backend rather than a setting you can raise. Cold volume above that is what gets domains flagged, so the limit is deliberate. More capacity means more mailboxes, not a faster mailbox.

Can I see it before paying?

Yes. Type your web address and the run happens in front of you: the market it read, the segments it proposes, the companies it found, named decision-makers, and a real drafted email. Free to look, no card. Sending starts from $49 a month.

Is this compliant for cold outreach?

Every message carries an opt-out link, unsubscribes are suppressed immediately and permanently across all campaigns, and we send business-to-business to named roles rather than scraping personal inboxes. We do not send to consumers.

Sending infrastructure

Nordvind vs Smartlead

Deliverability infrastructure and outbound research are two different products that both get called cold email. One decides whether a message arrives; the other decides whether it deserved to.

Smartlead focuses on deliverability at scale: mailbox rotation, warm-up, unlimited connected accounts and inbox placement management.

What is left to you

Buying and configuring domains and mailboxes
Sourcing, verifying and refreshing the list
Writing every message
Reading results and deciding what to change

What Nordvind does instead

The deliverability work sits underneath Nordvind rather than in front of you: sending runs from mailboxes that are already warm, on a human cadence, with a hard daily cap so no account is pushed past what it can carry. You never configure DNS.

Side by side

	Smartlead	Nordvind
Domains and DNS	You set them up	Already running, nothing to configure
Warm-up	Managed by you inside the tool	Done before you arrive
Volume	As high as your infrastructure allows	Capped per plan, deliberately
Research and writing	Not included	The core of the product

Infrastructure you never see

Owning your sending stack means buying domains, configuring records, warming accounts for weeks, then watching placement and rotating away from anything that starts to wobble. Done well it is a durable advantage. Done in the margins of another job it is where most first campaigns die.

In Nordvind that layer sits underneath rather than in front of you: mailboxes are already warm and already sending, the cadence is human rather than burst, and the daily cap is enforced in the backend at twenty-five per mailbox. You never touch DNS, and you cannot accidentally raise the volume past what an account can carry.

Capacity is physical, so we say so

A plan is a number of mailboxes, not a slider. Adding capacity means provisioning and warming real accounts, which takes about twenty-four hours — we show that instead of pretending it is instant.

That honesty is the point of the cap. Infrastructure tools can go as high as your setup allows, which is a feature for an agency running many clients and a hazard for a small team with three domains and a deadline.

Everything before the send

Research, segmentation, contact discovery, verification and writing are not add-ons here; they are the product. The agent reads your site, proposes who buys from you, finds named decision-makers at named companies, verifies the addresses, and writes one email per person.

If you already have that half solved and only need better placement, an infrastructure tool is the cheaper and more focused purchase, and we are not trying to displace it.

If you move across

Keep your own infrastructure for existing campaigns — ours is separate and does not touch your domains.
Send over suppression and do-not-contact lists before launch.
Expect capacity changes to take about a day, because the mailboxes are real.

Questions

Can I connect my own mailboxes instead?: Not today. Sending runs on mailboxes we operate and warm ourselves, which is what lets a campaign start immediately and keeps the daily cap enforceable.
Do I need my own domains or mailboxes?: No. Sending runs from mailboxes we already own and have warmed up before you arrive, which is why a campaign can start the same day instead of after a warm-up period. There is no DNS to configure and no inbox to connect.
How many emails go out per day?: Twenty-five per mailbox per day, as a hard cap enforced in the backend rather than a setting you can raise. Cold volume above that is what gets domains flagged, so the limit is deliberate. More capacity means more mailboxes, not a faster mailbox.
Can I see it before paying?: Yes. Type your web address and the run happens in front of you: the market it read, the segments it proposes, the companies it found, named decision-makers, and a real drafted email. Free to look, no card. Sending starts from $49 a month.
Is this compliant for cold outreach?: Every message carries an opt-out link, unsubscribes are suppressed immediately and permanently across all campaigns, and we send business-to-business to named roles rather than scraping personal inboxes. We do not send to consumers.

When Smartlead is the better choice

If you are running high volume across many clients and want to own the infrastructure, that is a real advantage and we do not compete with it.

The quickest way to judge us is to watch a run

Type your web address and see the companies, the people and the emails we would actually write. Free to look, no card.

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