AI Writing
AI writing helps create drafts, not final sends. This guide explains where AI appears, how to brief it, how to preview generated content, when replacement confirmations appear, and how to repair provider failures.
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Where AI Writing Appears
AI writing helps you draft content inside Mailrith. It does not send messages by itself. You remain responsible for reviewing, editing, testing, and deciding when to send or publish.
AI drafting appears in these places:
- Broadcasts: draft a one-off campaign email from a brief.
- Sequences: draft a single sequence email or a full sequence ladder.
- Automations: create a draft automation structure and repair missing setup details before saving.
Before Generating a Draft
AI drafting works best when the workspace has an active AI connection and a default model selected. If no connection is configured, Mailrith shows setup guidance instead of trying to generate a draft.
Write a clear brief. Include the audience, goal, offer, tone, important details, and anything the draft must avoid. For example: "Write a friendly launch announcement for existing subscribers who joined the early-access waitlist. Mention that registration closes Friday. Use one primary button to register."
Do not rely on AI to know private business details unless you provide them. If pricing, dates, links, product names, or promises matter, include them in the brief and verify them before sending.
- Confirm the workspace has an active AI Connection and default model.
- For a broadcast, open the draft from Broadcasts and click Write with AI in the Compose step to open Generate Broadcast With AI.
- For one sequence email, open the sequence from Sequences, select the email step, and click Write Email with AI to open Generate Sequence Email With AI.
- For a full sequence, open the sequence and click Write Sequence with AI to open Generate Sequence With AI.
- For a new automation, open Automations and click Create With AI to open Create Automation With AI.
- Choose AI Connection and Model if Mailrith did not already choose the workspace defaults.
- Write a brief in Prompt. Include audience, goal, offer, tone, deadline, links, and anything to avoid.
- For a generated sequence, choose Number of Emails.
- Click Generate for broadcasts and sequence drafts, or Create for automation drafts.
- Read the preview before applying it to your content.
- Edit the applied content just like any other draft before testing or sending.
Preview and Apply Generated Drafts
Mailrith previews AI-generated drafts before replacing your current content. Review the subject line, preview text, body, structure, and any suggested steps before applying.
- Read the generated subject line, preview text, and body.
- Check facts, dates, prices, names, links, and claims before applying.
- For a single email draft, click Apply To Editor only if it is a useful starting point.
- For a full sequence draft, click Append Emails to add generated emails after existing steps, or Replace Draft Emails to replace draft steps.
- Use the Email Editor to adjust structure, links, personalization, and images.
- Send a test email before using AI-written content in a real Broadcast or Sequence.
- For Automations, inspect every trigger, condition, action, and unresolved reference before activating.
- For broadcasts: applying the draft updates the broadcast draft content. Send a test email before sending to subscribers.
- For draft-only sequences: you can replace draft steps with the generated sequence ladder.
- For published sequences: Mailrith asks for confirmation before replacing published or active content because it can affect subscribers who have not yet reached those steps.
- For automations: Mailrith opens AI-created automations in the builder so you can review triggers, steps, and unresolved references before activating anything.
Review Checklist Before Using AI Content
- Check that the message matches your brand voice and does not sound generic.
- Verify dates, prices, links, product names, event names, and legal claims.
- Confirm the audience promise is accurate. Do not let AI overpromise results or availability.
- Remove anything that sounds like confidential internal notes or placeholder text.
- Send a test email to yourself and read it like a subscriber would.
- For automations, inspect every trigger, wait, action, and condition before setting the automation to Active.
Failure and Repair States
AI drafting can fail when a provider key is invalid, an OAuth connection needs repair, the provider account is out of credits, the provider is rate limiting requests, or the provider is temporarily unavailable.
When Mailrith knows which connection caused the failure, it can link you to the AI Connections page to repair that connection. After repairing, return to the draft and generate again.
- Read the error message shown in the AI drafting area.
- If Mailrith identifies the connection, click Open AI Connections in new tab or open the linked AI Connections page.
- Repair the API key, OAuth connection, workspace assignment, or model default.
- Return to the original draft.
- Generate again with the same brief or a clearer one.
- If the provider is rate limited or unavailable, wait or switch the workspace default to another active connection.
If the provider is unavailable or rate limited, wait and try again later or switch the workspace default to another active connection.
Need Help?
Reach the Mailrith team if you need help planning a workflow or troubleshooting a setup.
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