MailPilot: Cold Emailing Platform for Tech Students

Jayasri

Jayasri Chakraborty

MailPilot

A cold emailing platform designed to help early career professionals launch cold email campaigns using AI.

The Problem

A few months ago, I graduated from a tech program. My friends, still in their third year, were all dealing with the same thing — sending endless job applications through LinkedIn Easy Apply and hearing nothing back. Not even a rejection. Just silence.
We were told cold emailing could work. Reach out to recruiters, personalize your pitch and you might just land an opportunity. But no one told us how to actually do it.

The Goal

Help users launch personalized cold email campaigns, manage their inbox, apply for jobs, build resumes and prep for interviews using AI.

Competitive Analysis

Most cold email tools focus on sales and marketing, not students. Resume builders were designed for everyone, which meant they weren’t really designed for anyone in particular. And job boards lacked personalized support.
So I studied tools like Superhuman (for inbox design), resume.io and Zety (for CV builders), LinkedIn (for job apply flows), and a few others for AI interview prep. But none of them integrated all these tools into one cohesive platform.

The Cold Email Campaign Flow

Here’s how a user launches a campaign:
Upload an Excel file with recruiter details or enter them manually
Choose between manual or AI mode to write the email. In AI mode, users describe what they want to say and the AI tailors it
Schedule or launch the campaign
Track performance: delivered, opened, clicked, replied, bounced
I designed this to feel like a guided experience, not a dashboard full of buttons.
Left : Campaign creation step 1. Middle : Campaign creation step 2. Right: Campaign creation step 3.
Left : Campaign creation step 1. Middle : Campaign creation step 2. Right: Campaign creation step 3.

Keeping the Resume Builder Niche

Most resume builders online cater to everyone — which makes sense for standalone products. But MailPilot was designed specifically for tech students.
Creating a universal resume tool would dilute the experience. Users from non-tech backgrounds wouldn’t benefit from the platform’s other tools like cold email campaigns or tech-specific AI interview prep.
So I made the choice to keep the resume builder niched. It’s structured around what tech resumes need — clarity, simplicity, keyword optimization, and relevance.
That tradeoff made the product feel more focused, more useful, and more aligned with our actual audience.
A resume builder tailored specifically for tech students to maintain platform consistency and niche focus.
A resume builder tailored specifically for tech students to maintain platform consistency and niche focus.
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Posted Aug 31, 2025

Designed MailPilot, a cold emailing platform for tech students.

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Jun 10, 2025 - Jun 25, 2025