ColdDMs

ColdDMs automates Instagram prospecting with lead lists, message sequences and scheduled follow ups. Personalization inserts a prospect's first name, full name or username into customer written copy, and each sequence step can test up to 15 message variants. A reply ends that prospect's sequence automatically. The workflow runs on preset rules rather than a conversational model, so no software writes or answers messages on the sender's behalf. Replies land in a unified inbox, where the team answers by hand or with saved responses.

Sending begins from a chosen prospect list and prepared message variations in the connected Instagram account. Sequences run to as many as ten steps, and follow ups continue automatically until a prospect replies. The Chrome extension needs an active browser session, so closing Chrome or putting the computer to sleep stops sending, and the dashboard marks a disconnected profile as offline. Email alerts report replies and paused accounts once the account address is confirmed. Inbox responses use typed text or a saved reply, so each message after the sequence ends is sent by a person.

Message generation centers on templates, variables and experiments rather than an identified language model. A sequence can rotate up to 15 variants per step, with first name, name and username available as personalization fields. ColdDMs names no model provider and adds no recipient label to automated messages. The customer writes every line of campaign text, and the inbox stores reusable responses for the replies that follow. Variant testing shows which wording draws responses, which is the main lever the product gives over message quality.

TwoMarkup founder Ayyub Bhoraniya reports booking seven meetings in his first week after replacing a virtual assistant's manual outreach, a result that gives a period and a count but no campaign volume or definition of a qualified meeting. Agency owner Daniel Magazu reports signing a client on the $99 plan, and a marketer identified by first name attributes growth from $3,000 to $13,000 in monthly revenue to the tool, again without send counts behind either claim. Elevate Growth's founder describes a working pace of 70 messages a day. Campaign replies collect in the response CRM, where conversations continue after the automated sequence stops.

The service terms make customers responsible for lawful use and for following Instagram's own terms. They prohibit spam, deception, impersonation, sharing other people's personal or confidential information and targeting minors, and ColdDMs can suspend or block accounts that break those rules. The product keeps no consent register or suppression list beyond the sequence itself: a response stops further follow ups, which keeps an active conversation out of automation. Prospects come from an imported list, Instagram audience extraction or a list ColdDMs builds for the customer on request.

The privacy policy covers registration details (name, company, address, email and phone), cookies, server logs and advertising partner cookies on the website. Requests for access, correction, erasure, restriction, objection or portability get a response within one month, and an access request may carry a small fee. California residents receive CCPA disclosure and deletion rights. Prospect lists and Instagram conversations held in an account fall outside the policy, which also gives no international transfer mechanism. Privacy requests go to the company's contact address.

Lead discovery draws on identifiable Instagram activity: an account's followers and following, post likes and comments, hashtags, keywords and mentions. Filters narrow results by follower count, following count and number of posts, and customers can import their own lists instead. A customer without a list can have the tool scrape one or ask ColdDMs to build it.

The terms require respect for third party rights and bar posting other people's personal information, but they grant no license to extracted audiences. A completed discovery job can feed a campaign list or download as CSV.

A Chrome extension performs Instagram actions through the customer's own logged in account, which ColdDMs calls safe and responsible emulation. It acknowledges that Instagram can block or restrict a profile and places that risk entirely on the user. The Scale and Enterprise plans sell thousands to tens of thousands of messages a day across many accounts, and the FAQ suggests buying an aged account with existing followers to anyone worried about their own. ColdDMs disclaims any affiliation with, authorization from or endorsement by Meta or Instagram.

ColdDMs stores campaign material, prospect lists and conversations for its prospecting workflow. Its privacy policy counts developing new products and features among the uses of collected information and sets no boundary on model training. The visible automation runs on customer supplied templates and account activity rather than an advertised AI conversation engine, so little customer content reaches a model in the first place. Subscribers can request erasure under the privacy policy. Discovery jobs keep collected leads when a later filtering step fails, so the original results stay recoverable.

Messages go out under the connected Instagram profile and can insert names or usernames into customer written text. The terms forbid impersonation, misrepresenting an affiliation and deceptive content. No automatic label tells recipients that a sequence is software controlled, and ColdDMs takes no position on AI disclosure. A response stops further automated follow ups and moves the conversation into the response CRM, where the sender answers directly or with saved text.

The unified inbox gathers replies from every connected Instagram account into one workspace and works without a Facebook business account. Teams filter conversations by campaign, sending account or unread status and answer with saved messages. Prospect lists arrive by import and leave as CSV downloads from lead discovery. There is no connector for an outside CRM. Within the app, a completed discovery job attaches to a campaign through a newly created list.

The application pairs a hosted dashboard with a Chrome extension that runs on the sender's own computer, an arrangement ColdDMs presents as the safest way to automate. The extension needs the Instagram session to stay connected and the computer to stay awake, and ColdDMs quotes setup at five minutes or less. Prospect searches pass through queued collection and filtering jobs. No hosting region or tenant isolation is described, and the terms allow use from anywhere. The dashboard shows a profile as offline when its browser connection drops, and sending stops when Chrome closes.

ColdDMs holds account details, prospect lists and campaign conversations, and it relies on an authenticated Instagram browser session on the customer's machine. It names no security certification, audit report, encryption practice or trust center. Email confirmation turns on account alerts, and extension setup pairs the browser profile with the dashboard. The terms exclude liability for any loss of data. The customer's own computer and Instagram login carry the sending session.

Pro costs $99 per month for one Instagram account and up to 100 messages a day, with a three day trial. Scale starts at $174 per month and is priced by the number of accounts, with no per account schedule shown. Enterprise costs $999 per month for unlimited accounts, round the clock expert consulting and hands on support. The first month Pro refund promise requires at least 1,000 messages within 30 days without signing a new client. Billing is monthly only, ColdDMs gives notice before any price change, and fees are neither prorated nor refunded on cancellation.

Lead discovery results download as CSV files, so collected audiences can leave the product. Billing settings let subscribers change plans, download invoices and cancel at any time. Monthly renewal continues until cancellation, and fees already paid are neither refunded nor prorated. ColdDMs offers no export of the complete conversation and campaign archive, and its terms exclude liability for lost data. Portability and deletion requests go to the contact address under the privacy policy, with a one month response period.

Pro allows up to 100 messages per day from one Instagram account, a ceiling ColdDMs ties to Instagram's own limits, and an Elevate Growth testimonial describes running 70 a day. Follow ups stop on response, and up to 15 message variants per step rotate the copy across a campaign. Confirmed account emails receive paused account alerts. ColdDMs gives no account recovery or reputation monitoring procedure. Sending depends on a connected Chrome session and halts when the browser closes or the computer sleeps.

Agency owners and founders use ColdDMs to source prospects and open client acquisition conversations on Instagram, and named users include TwoMarkup, Elevate Growth, a newsletter owner and several agency owners. Plans step from a single sender to account based scaling and an unlimited account tier with consulting attached. There is no formal statement of supported countries or interface languages. Support runs by email, Telegram and WhatsApp, and prospect discovery can target industry terms in profiles, posts and captions.