Manifesto
Considered email is a practice, not a plugin.
Seven beliefs that shape how we build.
Considered email design, in seven positions.
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Email is your highest-ROI channel and you’re underusing it.
Most small businesses earn 30–40% of their revenue from email and send fewer than two campaigns a month. That’s not a “channel mix” problem; it’s a “the templates feel cheap so I dread the send” problem. Fix the templates and the cadence fixes itself.
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Your default template is part of the problem.
If your subscribers see the same email shell from you that they see from twenty other senders, you have a brand consistency problem you don’t know you have, and a conversion problem you can measure. The container is the message.
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AI is finally good enough to design the email, not just write it.
LLMs that can ship production-grade React components can ship production-grade, hand-editable HTML email — table layout, dark-mode variants, ESP-specific merge tags, the whole tax. The technology is here. What’s missing is taste and conversion sense — and that’s what the EmailTemple system encodes.
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Considered is a synonym for: someone gave a damn — and the open rate proves it.
Every line break, every hairline rule, every footer hierarchy — the difference between a template that earns its open and one that gets archived is a series of micro-decisions a designer would make. The studio makes those decisions for you, the right way.
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Small businesses deserve the design quality of a $50k/year design retainer.
There are operators with 5,000 subscribers selling work that rivals brands with full design teams. They can’t afford a retainer. They shouldn’t have to choose between settling for the default and overspending for a one-off.
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The chat paradigm is the right paradigm for design generation, not just text.
Drag-and-drop assumes you know what the email should look like. Chat assumes you know what the email should do — what offer, what audience, what action. The second is closer to how good email gets briefed in real life.
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Specificity is the proof — and the conversion lift.
Generic AI tools produce generic output, and generic output gets the generic open rate. The studio asks specific questions, encodes specific constraints (your brand kit, your ESP’s quirks, your subscribers’ rendering environments), and returns specific work. Specific work performs.
What this brand is not
Where we won’t go.
Restraint is also positioning.
- Generic Mailchimp template aesthetic
- Bro-marketing “let’s gooo” copywriter energy
- Cluttered, over-designed SaaS
- Cheap-feeling AI-generated content
- “AI-powered” as a sufficient feature description
- Drag-and-drop UX patterns
- “Solutions for every team size”
- Endless template galleries
- Countdown timers, fake scarcity, growth-hack energy
In the studio
These beliefs, operationalized.
EmailTemple is what these positions look like as a tool. Free tier, three generations a month, no card required.