Marketing automation
Claude Email Engine — Goodbye Mailchimp
Mailchimp hikes the bill every year and cut its free tier to 250 contacts. You can skip it. 12 prompts run segmentation, subject lines, campaign copy, welcome flows, automations, A/B tests, deliverability pre-flight, and reporting on your own list, for the price of a Claude seat instead of a $350/month plan or a $4K/month agency retainer.
Mailchimp hikes the bill every year and cut its free tier to 250 contacts.
Mailchimp raises the price annually and cut the free tier to 250 contacts. You can skip it: 12 prompts run segmentation, subject lines, campaign copy, welcome flows, A/B tests, deliverability pre-flight, and reporting on your own list — for the price of a Claude seat instead of a $350/month plan or a $4K/month retainer.
Path A
Set it up yourself
You'll create an Email Project and run the prompts yourself. The 12 prompts are below — free. The cost is your time, plus the risk that lands you in the spam folder: sending a broadcast before the prompt-09 deliverability pre-flight, or drafting before you've confirmed your consent basis.
Jump to the prompts ↓Path B
We wire it into your business
We deliver a private email workspace: the 12 prompts loaded into your Claude tenant, a low-cost sending layer wired in, SPF/DKIM/DMARC authenticated, consent and suppression records persisted, and a safe migration off Mailchimp with a 30-day reversible window — then handed over. You drop the annual hike without a failed send torching your deliverability.
Book a build call →Step 1
Paste this setup prompt — Claude installs it for you
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Claude installs it for you, step by step.
Never used Claude before? It is free to start. Open it in a new tab, copy the prompt, paste it in. It asks one question, then walks you through everything.
- Step 1Open claude.ai ↗
Sign up free. No card. Takes 30 seconds.
- Step 2
One click. Lands on your clipboard.
- Step 3Paste + send
Claude asks what you need + guides you the rest of the way.
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▸Preview the prompt (you do not need to read it)
Install Claude Email Engine — Goodbye Mailchimp on my computer. Walk me through it. Repo: https://consultance.ai/library/mailchimp-email-engine What it does: Mailchimp hikes the bill every year and cut its free tier to 250 contacts. You can skip it. 12 prompts run segmentation, subject lines, campaign copy, welcome flows, automations, A/B tests, deliverability pre-flight, and reporting on your own list, for the price of a Claude seat instead of a $350/month plan or a $4K/month agency retainer. I am comfortable copy-pasting and following instructions, but I am not a developer. Rules: - Plain English. Define jargon the first time it appears (repo, env var, port, dependency). - One step at a time. Exact command in a code block. Tell me which app to paste it into (Terminal on Mac, PowerShell on Windows). - One sentence per command explaining what it does and what success looks like. - After each command, wait. I will tell you the output before you move on. - If a tool is missing (git, node, docker, python), give me the one-line install for my OS first. - If something errors, diagnose before the next step. Do not skip. First message: ask only "What is your operating system — macOS, Windows, or Linux?" Then start step 1. Reference steps from the public guide (adapt to my OS, do not just paste them at me): 1. Open Claude and create a private Project called Email. No code, no Terminal. Your list and subscriber data stay in your own tenant and never leave it. 2. Run prompt 01, the onboarding router. Pick the campaign type (broadcast, welcome flow, lifecycle, re-engagement, launch) and choose where your data lives: upload your list export, paste raw data, use the Claude add-in, or pull from your ESP or CRM. Confirm your consent basis before anything drafts. 3. Run prompts 02 to 04 to segment and write the first campaign, then 05 and 06 to build the welcome flow and automations. 4. Run prompt 09, the deliverability pre-flight, before any broadcast. If SPF, DKIM, or DMARC fails, the send is blocked until fixed. Every broadcast needs a named human approver. Stop when the app opens and I confirm it works.
Step 2
Step 1 installed it. Now run these 12 prompts on your own data.
the vault
The 12 prompts
Tap a prompt to jump to it. Hit copy. Replace the tokens. Paste into Claude Opus 4.7.
where it breaks
Before you connect live data
- • Run dummy data first. Real client data is not a test bed.
- • API keys never go in a public repo. Use env vars and a secrets manager.
- • Add logging, access control, monitoring, and a rollback path before launch.
- • Read the license. Forking a repo without checking is how lawsuits start.
license note
Credit the original author
Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. Mailchimp, Intuit, and Klaviyo are referenced as the incumbent being replaced, no affiliation implied. Your subscriber list stays in your own Claude project; we never see it. CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL, and CCPA exposure is covered in the compliance overlay; read it before sending.
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