OutReach Pilot: Gmail mail merge with honest tracking

Most tools count every image load as an open. Apple's Mail Privacy Protection and corporate scanners pre-fetch tracking pixels, so the dashboard looks great and means nothing. OutReach Pilot classifies each event as human, proxy prefetch or bot scan, and only the first one counts. Mail merge, follow-up sequences that stop on reply, CSV export and signed webhooks, all inside Gmail, sending through your own mailbox with an app password.

Maker here. I built this after a friend celebrated a 61% open rate that turned out to be Apple's proxy prefetching every pixel. So the rule is: an open only counts when a real mail client loads the pixel. Proxy prefetches show up separately as "possible opens", bot scans never count, and everything keeps its raw IP and user agent so you can audit it. Two honest limits: it sends through your own Gmail account (500/day on @gmail.com, 2,000 on Workspace), and reply detection reads your inbox over IMAP scoped to campaign recipients, last 7 days, marking nothing as read. $49 first year for the first 100 with FOUNDING30, then $79. Happy to answer anything about tracking, deliverability or the architecture.