# Audienceful

> Audienceful is an email marketing platform for newsletters, ecommerce and SaaS, with a built-in AI agent, a hosted MCP server (https://api.audienceful.com/v2/mcp) that lets Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Cursor and other assistants build audiences, write emails, set up automations, send with the user's approval and report on results, and a REST API (https://api.audienceful.com/v2/) for contacts, events, transactional email and webhooks.

## AI agent and MCP server

- [Email Marketing MCP Server](https://www.audienceful.com/features/email-marketing-mcp): Audienceful's email marketing MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Cursor find contacts, build audiences, write emails, set up automations, read reports and send, with your approval.
- [Agentic Email Marketing Platform](https://www.audienceful.com/agentic-email-marketing): Audienceful is an agentic email marketing platform. Use the built-in AI agent or connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through MCP to build audiences, write emails, run automations and report back, with your approval on every send.
- [MCP Server](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/mcp): Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor and other AI assistants to your Audienceful workspace with the Model Context Protocol.

## Guides

- [What Is an Email Marketing MCP Server?](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/what-is-an-email-marketing-mcp): An email marketing MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT work directly in your email platform, so they can build audiences, write and send emails, and report on results instead of only giving advice. Here's how it works, what it can do, and what to look for.
- [The Best Email Marketing MCP Servers in 2026, Compared](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/best-email-marketing-mcp-servers): We compared the MCP servers from ten email platforms on what matters: hosted or local, OAuth or API key, whether they can actually send, which assistants they support, and what they cost. Here's the table, the picks by use case, and the trade-offs.
- [Agentic Email Marketing: The Practical Guide for 2026](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/agentic-email-marketing): Agentic email marketing means AI that does the work in your email platform, building audiences, writing emails, setting up automations and sending with your approval, instead of only suggesting copy. Here's what it is, how it differs from automation, real examples for small teams, and how to start.
- [How to Do Email Marketing With Claude (Step by Step)](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/email-marketing-with-claude): Claude can do more than write your newsletter. Connected to Audienceful, it builds the audience, drafts the email in your editor, sends you a test, schedules the send once you approve and reports on the results. Here's the whole workflow, from connecting Claude to your first scheduled send.
- [How to Use ChatGPT for Email Marketing (and Actually Send From It)](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/chatgpt-for-email-marketing): Most ChatGPT email marketing advice is a list of prompts for copy you paste somewhere else. Connected to your email platform, ChatGPT can build the audience, draft the campaign in your editor, schedule it once you approve and report on results. Here's how to set it up and run a full campaign from one chat.
- [Gemini for Email Marketing: App and CLI Guide](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/gemini-for-email-marketing): Gemini can now connect to outside tools, which means it can do more for your email marketing than write copy. Here's how to connect the Gemini app or the command line to Audienceful, then build an audience, draft a newsletter from a doc, schedule it with your approval and get the results back.
- [Ship SaaS Lifecycle Emails From Claude Code or Cursor](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/lifecycle-emails-with-claude-code): Your coding agent already knows your signup flow. Connect it to Audienceful and it can create the fields, fire the events and build the onboarding sequence in the same session, then wire the event call into your app. Here's the step-by-step for Claude Code and Cursor.
- [Claude vs ChatGPT for Email Marketing](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/claude-vs-chatgpt-for-email-marketing): Claude and ChatGPT can both write your newsletter, and both can now connect to your email platform to build audiences, set up automations and schedule sends. Here's how they compare on setup, writing, images, recurring work and guardrails, and which one fits how you work.
- [Build a Claude Skill for Your Weekly Newsletter](https://www.audienceful.com/blog/claude-skill-for-newsletters): A Claude Skill packages your newsletter's voice, structure and send routine into one instruction you call by name. Connected to Audienceful, "run the weekly newsletter" drafts the issue in your editor, sends you a test and lines up the send for your approval. Here's a skill you can copy, and how to upload and schedule it.

## Agent recipes

- [Email marketing prompts that do the work](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes): Copy-paste prompts for AI assistants connected to Audienceful, each with the tools it calls and what it produces.
- [Build an abandoned cart flow with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/abandoned-cart-flow): One prompt gets Claude or ChatGPT to build a three-email abandoned checkout flow for your Shopify store in Audienceful, with the left-behind products in each email. It arrives paused for you to review.
- [Create a welcome sequence with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/welcome-sequence): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to write and build a three-email welcome series in Audienceful, in your own voice, with the waits set and every email ready to review. It starts paused.
- [Run a win-back campaign with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/win-back-campaign): One prompt has Claude or ChatGPT find lapsed customers, write a win-back email with an offer, send you a test and schedule it in Audienceful, after you approve the recipients.
- [Set up post-purchase emails with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/post-purchase-flow): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to build a Shopify post-purchase flow in Audienceful: a thank-you when the order ships and a review request a week later, created paused for you to check.
- [Clean your email list with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/clean-email-list): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to clean your Audienceful list: it counts hard bounces and long-inactive subscribers, shows you the number, and suppresses them only after you approve.
- [Find your top customers with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/top-customers): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to find your best customers by spend in Audienceful, save them as a VIP audience and draft a thank-you with early access, using your Shopify or Stripe data.
- [Segment inactive subscribers with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/segment-inactive-subscribers): Turn plain-language descriptions into engagement segments in Audienceful: Claude or ChatGPT builds audiences of inactive and recently engaged subscribers and tells you how many are in each.
- [Import contacts from a spreadsheet with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/import-contacts): Paste or attach a CSV and Claude or ChatGPT imports it into Audienceful: it maps the columns, creates any missing fields, tags everyone and tells you when the import is done.
- [Turn blog posts into a newsletter with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/blog-to-newsletter): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to turn your latest blog posts into this week's newsletter in Audienceful: it starts from last issue's layout, writes a section per post and sends you a test.
- [Analyze email campaign performance with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/analyze-campaign-performance): Ask Claude or ChatGPT how your emails are doing and get answers from your real Audienceful data: recent sends against your average, top links, deliverability and email revenue.
- [Write a re-engagement campaign with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/re-engagement-campaign): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to find inactive subscribers in Audienceful, write a "still want to hear from us?" email, send you a test and schedule it after you approve the recipients.
- [Write a product launch email with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/product-launch-email): Paste your announcement and Claude or ChatGPT builds an on-brand launch email in Audienceful: a hero, feature highlights and a button, in your theme, with a test sent to your team.
- [Build a trial-to-paid sequence with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/trial-to-paid-sequence): Ask Claude or ChatGPT to build your SaaS trial emails in Audienceful from Stripe events: onboarding when a trial starts and a reminder before it ends, created paused for review.
- [Plan a Black Friday email campaign with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/black-friday-campaign): One prompt has Claude or ChatGPT plan your Black Friday emails in Audienceful: VIP early access, the main sale and a last-chance email, each scheduled only after you approve it.
- [Restyle your email theme with AI](https://www.audienceful.com/agent-recipes/restyle-email-theme): Describe your brand and Claude or ChatGPT updates your Audienceful email theme: colors, fonts, buttons and spacing, applied to every email that uses it, with a test so you can check it.

## Developers

- [Introduction](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/introduction): Manage your audience programmatically: contacts, custom fields, automations, transactional email, send reports and webhooks.
- [Quickstart](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/quickstart): Make your first authenticated request to the Audienceful API in a couple of minutes.
- [Authentication](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/authentication): Authenticate your requests to Audienceful via API key
- [Rate Limits](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/throttling): Understand the rate limits your requests are subject to
- [Errors](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/errors): The single error envelope used by every v2 endpoint
- [Idempotency](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/idempotency): Safely retry POST requests without performing the operation twice
- [Pagination](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/pagination): How list endpoints are paginated
- [Create a Contact](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/create-person): Creates a new contact in your audience.
- [Trigger Event](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/trigger-event): Fires a custom automation event for a contact.
- [Send a Transactional Email](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/send-transactional-email): Sends an existing draft to a single recipient as a one-off transactional email.
- [Webhooks Overview](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/webhooks-overview): Get notified on your own server when things happen in a workspace.

## Optional

- [List Contacts](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-people): Returns a cursor-paginated list of the contacts in your audience.
- [Retrieve a Contact](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-person): Retrieves a single contact by their id.
- [Update a Contact](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/update-person): Partially updates an existing contact.
- [Delete a Contact](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/delete-person): Deletes a contact from your audience.
- [Confirm Double Opt-in](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/opt-in-person): Marks a contact's double opt-in as complete.
- [Bulk Create / Update Contacts](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/bulk-people): Upsert up to 1,000 contacts in a single call, processed asynchronously.
- [Retrieve a Contact's Publications](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-person-publications): Lists every publication in the workspace with this contact's consent state.
- [Update a Contact's Publications](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/update-person-publications): Subscribes or unsubscribes a contact per publication.
- [List Audiences](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-audiences): Returns your workspace's audiences and the number of contacts in each.
- [List Audience Members](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/audience-members): Iterate through the contacts in an audience, with lightweight details for each.
- [List Fields](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-fields): Returns a cursor-paginated list of your custom fields.
- [Retrieve a Field](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-field): Retrieves a single custom field by its id.
- [Create a Field](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/create-field): Creates a new custom field for your contact data.
- [Update a Field](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/update-field): Partially updates an existing custom field.
- [Delete a Field](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/delete-field): Deletes a custom field from your contact data.
- [List Automation Events](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-automation-events): Lists the custom automation events your workspace has defined.
- [List Send Reports](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-send-reports): Returns a cursor-paginated list of completed email sends (send reports).
- [List Archive Entries](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-archive): Returns a cursor-paginated list of the broadcasts a workspace has published to its archive.
- [Retrieve an Archive Entry](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-archive-entry): Retrieves a single archive entry by its id, including its rendered HTML.
- [Retrieve an Operation](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-operation): Polls the status of an asynchronous operation.
- [Verifying Signatures](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/verify-webhook-signatures): Confirm that a webhook delivery genuinely came from Audienceful.
- [List Available Events](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-webhook-events): Lists the events a webhook endpoint can subscribe to.
- [List Webhook Endpoints](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-webhooks): Returns a cursor-paginated list of your webhook endpoints.
- [Create a Webhook Endpoint](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/create-webhook): Creates a webhook endpoint subscribed to one or more events.
- [Retrieve a Webhook Endpoint](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/get-webhook): Retrieves a single webhook endpoint by its id.
- [Update a Webhook Endpoint](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/update-webhook): Updates a webhook endpoint's URL, events, or active state.
- [Delete a Webhook Endpoint](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/delete-webhook): Deletes a webhook endpoint.
- [Test a Webhook Endpoint](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/ping-webhook): Sends a test ping event to a webhook endpoint.
- [List Deliveries](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-webhook-deliveries): Returns a cursor-paginated log of an endpoint's recent deliveries.
- [List Request Logs](https://www.audienceful.com/help/api/list-request-logs): Returns a cursor-paginated audit trail of your workspace's recent API activity.