Getting started with EmailShepherd AI
This article introduces EmailShepherd’s AI features and links to the article for each one.
EmailShepherd’s AI builds emails with the components in your Email Design System, so the emails it creates follow the same rules as the ones your team builds by hand. You can teach it how your brand writes and works, connect it to the tools you already use, and choose what it’s allowed to do.
Build emails with AI
Section titled “Build emails with AI”- How to build and edit emails with AI chat: ask an agent to build or change an email in the editor, then accept or reject its changes.
- How to create an email with a background agent: have an agent build a new email from a prompt while you work on something else.
Teach agents how your team works
Section titled “Teach agents how your team works”- Build Agents: set up the agents that build your emails, and choose what they’re allowed to do.
- Skills: write down your brand voice and how you build emails, so agents follow them.
- MCP Connectors: let agents use information from tools such as Notion, Canva and Cloudinary.
- Describe a component for AI agents: help agents choose the right component for each part of an email.
Review, translate and create images
Section titled “Review, translate and create images”- How to create an AI review agent and How to request an AI review: have AI check emails against your guidelines before they’re approved.
- Translate with AI: translate an email into other locales.
- How to generate images with AI: create images for your emails from a description.
Use EmailShepherd from your own AI tool
Section titled “Use EmailShepherd from your own AI tool”- How to use EmailShepherd from your AI tool: work on your emails by chatting in an AI tool such as Claude or ChatGPT.
Manage AI for your organization
Section titled “Manage AI for your organization”- How to check your AI credit usage: see how many AI credits you have left, and what’s using them.
- How to connect your own AI provider: use your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini account instead of AI credits.