Brew review
Email marketing for teams and agents. Describe the send. It lands on a canvas already wearing the brand file.
- Best-in-class on-brand generation: extracts colors, fonts, voice, and imagery from your brand
- Chat-first workflow produces complete campaigns and automations from a single prompt
- Agent-native: designed to be operated by AI agents (works with Claude, Replit, Lovable, and others)
- Flexible output: send natively with built-in SPF/DKIM/DMARC, or export inbox-safe HTML to Klaviyo, HubSpot, Customer.io, and more
- Generous free plan and a fast learning curve for non-specialists
- Newer than the incumbents, so the third-party integration catalog and community are still growing
- E-commerce revenue analytics are less deep than a Shopify-native tool like Klaviyo
- Teams that want code-first, version-controlled templates may still prefer a React Email workflow
What Brew is
Brew is email marketing for teams and agents. You describe a campaign or automation in plain English. Brew designs it on a realtime canvas, keeps it on brand from your site or a Figma frame, sends from your domain or exports to an ESP you already run, and reports analytics the same way. People use the web app. Agents use the API, @brew.new/sdk, or hosted MCP.
On this digest SendGrid still wins raw delivery volume. Brew is the tool we open when the same week also needs a canvas and an agent that can send. See Brew, docs, and pricing.
Brand extraction and generation quality
Brew's headline capability is brand extraction. Point it at your site and it captures your palette, typography, imagery, and tone, then applies them so generated emails actually look like they came from your brand rather than a generic template. In our on-brand email design guide we argue that brand consistency is the hardest part of scaling email; Brew automates the part most tools leave to a designer.
Generation runs through a model picker: by default Brew uses Anthropic's Claude family for orchestration and fast drafting, with OpenAI and Google models selectable, plus optional reasoning effort for more considered output. You can also import a Figma frame, an HTML email, or a screenshot and have Brew rebuild it as an editable, responsive email.
Campaigns and automations
Beyond one-off sends, Brew builds automations: welcome flows, onboarding, post-purchase, re-engagement, abandoned-cart: from a prompt, then exposes them on a flow canvas with trigger, send, wait, filter, and split nodes you can edit directly or keep refining in chat. That covers the lifecycle surface area we describe in the automation guide.
Sending, deliverability, and export
Brew can act as your full ESP: add a domain, import contacts, and send campaigns and transactional mail with authentication (DKIM, SPF, DMARC) handled for you: the table-stakes setup our deliverability guide treats as non-negotiable in the Gmail/Yahoo era. If you would rather keep your current platform, Brew lets you generate the creative and export clean HTML into another ESP. That export path is unusually pragmatic and is a big reason Brew slots into existing stacks instead of demanding a rip-and-replace.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Brew free?
- Free is $0 with 500 AI credits and 1,000 sends a month, three brand workspaces, and a watermark. Growth is $99. Pro is $249. HTML download is a paid unlock. Check https://brew.new/pricing.
- Can I use Brew without switching ESPs?
- Yes. You can generate emails in Brew and export inbox-safe HTML into another provider such as Klaviyo, HubSpot, or Customer.io, or send natively from Brew with built-in authentication.
- Does Brew handle deliverability?
- When you send natively, Brew sets up DKIM, SPF, and DMARC for your sending domain, which are the authentication standards Gmail and Yahoo require of bulk senders.
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