SDRs and BDRs
Improving high-intent one-to-one prospecting emails before sending them.
Independent tool overview
Lavender at a glance
Lavender is an AI sales email coach that works inside Gmail, Outlook, and common sales platforms. It scores drafts, recommends changes, brings prospect research into the writing flow, generates starting copy, checks mobile readability, and gives managers team-level coaching data.
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- Core product
- AI sales email coach
- Starting price
- Free; paid from $27/month annually
- Primary inboxes
- Gmail and Outlook 365
- Separate agent
- Ora at $500/agent/month at launch
Overview
What Lavender is
Lavender's core Email Coach helps sellers improve individual outreach before they send it. The score and real-time recommendations cover factors such as length, readability, tone, personalization, subject lines, greetings, and mobile presentation, while the Personalization Assistant surfaces prospect and company context.
For managers, the Coaching Dashboard aggregates email activity and patterns so a team can identify what is working and where a seller needs help. Lavender integrates with Gmail and Outlook and, on eligible plans, sales tools such as Outreach, Salesloft, HubSpot, Apollo, Groove, and Gong.
Lavender also sells Ora, a separate AI sales agent that researches, writes, and sends outreach. Buyers should not confuse Ora's automation and $500-per-agent launch price with the Email Coach plans. Whichever product is used, teams remain responsible for prospect-data rights, truthful claims, opt-outs, sending-law compliance, deliverability, and human oversight.
Use cases
Who Lavender is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Account executives
Drafting and personalizing follow-ups, introductions, re-engagement, and meeting requests.
Sales managers
Using team-level patterns and email analytics to coach specific behaviors rather than review a small sample manually.
Recruiters and jobseekers
Applying concise, recipient-focused email coaching outside a traditional SaaS sales team.
Capabilities
Core Lavender features
Email score
Scores a draft as it is written and recommends changes intended to improve readability and reply likelihood; Lavender encourages aiming for 90 or above.
Real-time coaching
Flags specific issues with tone, length, structure, subject line, greeting, and other email elements inside the writing workflow.
Personalization Assistant
Surfaces prospect, company, news, and personality context and proposes ways to personalize the message.
AI Email Writer
Turns simple bullet points into a starting email that the seller can fact-check, personalize, and refine.
Mobile Editor
Shows how the message reads on a smaller screen and helps reduce formatting and length problems.
Multi-inbox support
Paid individual plans support work across multiple mailboxes in Gmail and Outlook 365.
Sales-platform integrations
Individual Pro and team offerings add integrations with common sales engagement and CRM workflows.
Coaching Dashboard
Team plans provide aggregated analytics, performance patterns, and manager visibility for targeted coaching.
Process
How the Lavender workflow works
Step 1
Confirm lawful targeting
Define the audience, source of contact data, legitimate purpose, suppression lists, jurisdiction, and required consent or notice before drafting.
Step 2
Research the recipient
Use accurate first-party and public evidence to identify a specific, relevant reason for contacting this person now.
Step 3
Draft a short message
Start from direct bullet points or a manual draft with one clear point, truthful proof, and a low-friction call to action.
Step 4
Use coaching selectively
Review Lavender's score and suggestions, but keep changes that improve clarity and relevance rather than optimizing mechanically for a number.
Step 5
Verify before sending
Check the recipient, personalization, claims, links, dates, attachments, sender identity, opt-out, and any regulated language.
Step 6
Measure meaningful outcomes
Track positive replies, meetings, complaints, unsubscribes, bounces, conversion, and sender reputation—not only opens or the Lavender score.
Cost
Lavender pricing and free plan
Lavender offers a seven-day Email Coach trial with all integrations and no credit card required. Annual billing lowers the individual and team prices shown below. Ora is a separate product: agents can be built for free and cost $500 per agent per month when launched at the currently stated allowance.
Basic
$0/month
A limited free Email Coach plan.
- Analyze five emails per month
- Personalize five emails per month
- Gmail and Outlook 365
- AI writer and recommendations
Starter
$27/month billed annually
For individuals who need unlimited core coaching.
- $29 on monthly billing
- Unlimited emails and personalization
- Multi-inbox support
- Lavender Anywhere and chat support
Individual Pro
$45/month billed annually
Adds sales-workflow integrations and higher-touch support.
- $49 on monthly billing
- Everything in Starter
- Integrations
- Priority support and dedicated CSM
Team Plan
$89/seat/month billed annually
For managed sales teams that need integrations and coaching analytics.
- $99/seat on monthly billing
- Coaching Dashboard
- Aggregated email analytics
- Additional team packages available
Ora AI Sales Agent
$500/agent/month at launch
A separate automated outreach product, not an Email Coach tier.
- Build agents for free
- 1,000 emails per month at stated launch allowance
- More than 4,000 contacts per year
- Volume and price scale by launched agent
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Assessment
Lavender strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- Coaching appears inside the inbox and sales tools where reps already write
- Combines writing feedback with prospect-personalization context
- Free tier and no-card trial make the core workflow easy to evaluate
- Team analytics can turn email patterns into targeted manager coaching
- Separates assistive coaching from the more automated Ora product
What to consider
- A high Lavender score does not guarantee a positive reply, meeting, revenue, or legal compliance.
- Prospect research and AI-generated personalization can be wrong, invasive, irrelevant, or based on stale data.
- Connecting an inbox and sales systems requires security, privacy, permission, retention, and vendor review.
- Teams can damage deliverability and brand trust if they use coaching to scale poor targeting or deceptive outreach.
- Lavender's outcome claims and customer examples should be validated through a controlled trial using the buyer's own segments and baselines.
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Claude
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Lavender FAQs
What is Lavender?
Lavender's core product is an AI Email Coach that scores, personalizes, and improves sales emails inside Gmail, Outlook, and supported sales platforms.
How much does Lavender cost?
The Basic plan is free. Annual prices are $27 per month for Starter, $45 for Individual Pro, and $89 per seat for Team; monthly billing is higher.
Does Lavender send emails automatically?
The Email Coach improves messages inside a seller's workflow. Lavender's separate Ora product can research, write, and send automated outreach and has separate pricing and controls.
What does the Lavender email score mean?
It is Lavender's assessment of the draft based on its email data and coaching rules. Lavender recommends a score of 90 or higher, but the number cannot guarantee recipient response or business results.
Which tools does Lavender integrate with?
Lavender lists Gmail and Outlook 365 for the core plans and integrations including Outreach, Salesloft, HubSpot, Apollo, Groove, and Gong in eligible offerings.
Bottom line
Our Lavender verdict
Lavender is a strong fit for sales teams that want in-workflow coaching and manager visibility without replacing the seller. Its value should be judged by positive replies, meetings, message quality, complaints, and sender reputation—not by score improvement alone. Teams considering Ora should evaluate it as a separate automation product with stricter governance and deliverability requirements.
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