The guide

Your first campaign, start to finish

Setup takes about five minutes. After that, your only job is reviewing drafts and hitting send.

01

Install the extension & sign in

Install ocuro from the Chrome Web Store link in your invite, then pin it to your toolbar. Click the winged-foot icon to open the ocuro side panel and hit Sign in with Google.

Google will ask you to approve access. This is how ocuro gets permission to read your lead sheet and create drafts in your Gmail. Google issues secure tokens; ocuro never sees your password.

Seeing "Google hasn't verified this app"? That's expected while our Google verification is in progress. Click Continue. It's the same permission screen either way.
02

Introduce yourself

Tell ocuro your full name, your position or job title (optional), your company name, and your company website. The AI uses this to write as you. Every email is signed by you and grounded in what your company actually does. You can change any of it later from the account menu.

03

Connect your lead sheet

Create a brand-new, blank Google Sheet just for your ocuro leads and paste its link. ocuro writes the column headers for you and connects the campaign. A sheet that already has content in it is refused, so nothing of yours ever gets overwritten.

Have leads in a CSV instead? Import it from the panel. ocuro maps the columns automatically and appends the leads to your sheet.

Tip: your sheet is always the source of truth. Add rows any time; ocuro picks them up on its own.
04

ocuro researches & drafts

For each lead, ocuro's AI researches the person and company on the live web, then writes a personalized first-touch email. Drafts appear in your Gmail Drafts folder, each with a recommended send time.

Drafts arrive steadily, a throttled batch at a time, respecting your daily limit. You're never buried.

05

Review & hit send

Open each draft in Gmail, give it a read, and send it. Or use Gmail's "Schedule send". Because every email leaves from your own account, in your own voice, on your say-so, deliverability and trust stay yours.

Prefer not to press send at all? Set the row's Status to Automatic and ocuro sends each email for you at its recommended send time. Semi-Automatic keeps the five new-thread emails for your review and sends only the follow-ups. More on both below.

Don't like a draft? Just delete it in Gmail. ocuro notices and automatically writes you a fresh version, usually within about 10 minutes.
06

Follow-ups run themselves

The moment you send, ocuro notices and schedules the next step of a 13-step follow-up sequence. Each follow-up is written fresh and drafted into your Gmail on the right day.

When a prospect replies or an email bounces, ocuro detects it and pauses that lead's sequence automatically. Every status is written back to your sheet.

Tips & tricks

Get the most out of ocuro

Redo a draft by deleting it

The fastest feedback there is: delete a draft in Gmail and ocuro writes that lead a brand-new email. No button needed.

Set a daily draft limit

New first-emails per day, capped at whatever matches your sending capacity. Follow-ups are never limited.

Pick your sending days

Drafts are only generated on the weekdays you choose. Replies and sends are still tracked every day.

Send-time notes, optional

Each draft can include a recommended send time. Turn the note off in the panel to get drafts fully ready to send as-is. Automatic rows are sent at that time either way.

Automatic sending

Set a row's Status to Automatic and ocuro sends every email of that sequence from your Gmail at the recommended send time, on weekdays, in the lead's time zone. Semi-Automatic drafts the five new-thread emails for you to review and send, and sends the follow-ups itself. The cell stays put for the whole sequence; change it back to Running and ocuro stops sending, leaving the draft in your Drafts. A draft you have edited is never sent for you while the send-time note is still in it.

Import leads from CSV

Drag a CSV into the panel. Columns map automatically, duplicates are skipped, and rows land in your sheet.

Claim your leaderboard name

Set a display name in the panel and watch your replies climb the board. Filter it by today, week, month, quarter, year, or all time.

tYpos, optional

Real people make typos. Flip the toggle and each email gets one or two small, natural slips. Names, companies, links, numbers, the greeting, the sign-off, and the subject line are never touched.

P.S. opt-out, optional

Ends every email with a short P.S. letting them reply “no” to never hear from you again, worded fresh each time and never repeated in a thread. Recommended if you send 5 or more emails a day.

Add documents

Upload a one-pager, case study, pricing sheet, or about-us. ocuro reads each file once, keeps a short fact sheet (never the file itself), and works a fact in only when it makes an email stronger. Up to 5 files.

Find leads prompt

A ready-made prompt for ChatGPT or Claude, filled in with your name and company. It finds the right companies and people to reach out to and hands back a CSV in ocuro's column order. Copy it from the panel, paste it into your AI, then drop the CSV into Import leads from CSV.

Lead Finder

Already know who you want to email? Open the Lead Finder card and paste them, one per line: a LinkedIn profile link, an email, or First Last, Company. ocuro finds the work email, job title, company, website, city and LinkedIn profile and adds each person as a row in your sheet. Free when you give the email, 25¢ when ocuro finds it, 50¢ per phone number found with the Phones switch on; nothing for a person it cannot find or who is already in your sheet. Up to 50 per run (12 with Phones on); free accounts pay nothing. ocuro checks each address against the person's LinkedIn history: if the only address it can find belongs to a past employer, the person is not added and the line says so. Fill in Regarding? on the new rows and their emails start.

Dark mode

Setup runs in light mode; once your sheet is connected the panel switches to dark. The moon button in the header flips it any time and remembers your choice.

Bring a friend!

Enter a friend's email in the panel. When their first email is written within 5 days of signing up, you both get $5 of credit. The card shows how many friends you've invited.

OMNI-PRESENCE

A daily email with public posts worth a comment, from the people you emailed and the profiles you watch, with the words to paste. Open the OMNI-PRESENCE card in the panel: switch alerts on, tap the platforms you want (LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Telegram, Truth Social, Twitch, Rumble, Snapchat) and pick your alert days. Up to 10 recommendations per alert, 25¢ each, billed only on days an alert is sent. Every recommendation is also written to an OMNI-PRESENCE tab in your sheet, one row per contact with the date, so you keep a permanent record. Tell ocuro what your business does in your profile so it knows which posts you have standing to comment on.

Auto-reply drafts

When a lead writes back with a real question, an objection or a yes, ocuro drafts your answer inside the same Gmail thread: their message answered first, then one clear next step. Up to 3 rounds per lead, 25¢ per reply draft. A “no” or an out-of-office never gets a draft. Turn it off for a sheet with the Auto-reply drafts toggle.

Bounce protection

When a company's mail server rejects your email by policy, ocuro stops every lead at that domain, removes their waiting drafts and marks them STOPPED, so one block never turns into many. A dead address stops only that lead. See and lift blocks under Blocked domains in the account menu; type Restart in the sheet for any lead you want back.

Pause any time

The big button up top pauses all new drafting instantly. Detection keeps running, so nothing is missed while you're away.

Billing

Simple, usage-based pricing

25¢ per email written, reply drafts included, 25¢ per OMNI-PRESENCE recommendation, and 25¢ per email the Lead Finder finds (50¢ per phone). Billed monthly, after usage, through Stripe. No seats, no minimums.

Where do I manage billing?+
The Billing card at the bottom of the side panel. Add a payment method, see this month's usage and estimated bill, or open the Stripe portal to change your card and view invoices.
I have a code. Where does it go?+
Type it into the "Have a code?" box in the Billing card and hit Apply. Codes can change your pricing or comp your account entirely; the card shows exactly what's active.
What does OMNI-PRESENCE cost?+
25¢ per recommendation, only on days an alert is actually sent, and never more than 10 per alert ($2.50 a day at most). It is off until you switch it on. The Billing card shows this cycle's count, and it lands on your invoice as its own OMNI-PRESENCE line. Free accounts pay nothing.
What does Lead Finder cost?+
You pay for what ocuro had to find, never for the row itself. Give the email and the lookup is free; let ocuro find the email and it is 25¢; switch Phones on and each number found is 50¢. A person it cannot find, or who is already in your sheet, costs nothing. It lands on your invoice as its own Lead Finder line, and the Billing card shows this cycle's count. Free accounts pay nothing.
How does the give $5, get $5 referral work?+
Enter your friend's email in the panel. When their first email is written within 5 days of signing up, you both get $5 of credit — 20 emails each. Credit is used up automatically before anything is billed, and your friend's credit works before they even add a card.
FAQ

Every question we've been asked

Does ocuro ever send emails by itself?+
Only when you ask it to. By default every email is a draft in your Gmail until you personally send it. Set a row's Status to Automatic (or Semi-Automatic for follow-ups only) and ocuro sends that row's emails from your Gmail at the recommended send time, weekdays only, at most 40 a day. Change the cell to Running and it stops.
Why does Google say "Google hasn't verified this app"?+
ocuro is invite-only and currently going through Google's formal verification process. The warning is standard for apps at this stage. Click Continue; the permissions you approve are identical either way, and you can revoke them any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Why do I have to sign in again every week?+
During the verification period, Google limits sign-ins to 7 days. When yours expires, the dot next to your email turns red and a re-authentication button appears in the panel. One click fixes it. This limit disappears once Google's verification completes.
No new drafts today. What should I check?+
In order: Is the big button green ("Going :-)")? Is today one of your sending days? Have you hit your daily draft limit? Are yesterday's drafts still sitting unsent in Gmail (a lead's next email is only written after the previous one is actually sent and its wait time passes)? Is the lead's domain listed under Blocked domains in the account menu? And does the Billing card show an active plan or code?
What can ocuro see in my Google account?+
Your basic profile, the one spreadsheet you connect, and your Gmail drafts plus the outreach threads ocuro created, including the replies and delivery reports that arrive in those threads. It cannot read the rest of your inbox. The privacy policy has the complete list.
How does ocuro know someone replied?+
It watches the conversations it created. A reply pauses that lead's sequence and marks the sheet “Replied :-)”; a real question, objection or yes also gets a reply draft in the same thread (see Auto-reply drafts above). A bounce stops that lead, and a policy block stops every lead at that domain (see Bounce protection).
Can I edit drafts before sending?+
Absolutely. They're normal Gmail drafts. Edit freely and send when ready; ocuro tracks the send either way.
How do I stop, or leave entirely?+
Pause stops new drafting instantly. "Disconnect sheet" ends the campaign. To delete your data entirely, email support@useocuro.com and we'll remove your stored leads, generated emails, and tokens.
Something else is off. Who do I ask?+
support@useocuro.com. A human reads it.

That's everything. Go send.

Bring your leads. ocuro brings the words.

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