Every first message in Outreach Asia, whether email or WhatsApp, waits in a review window for 24 hours before it can send. This applies when you write the message yourself, when the AI drafts it and when autopilot is running. Here is why we chose that, and what you can do during the window.
A full day to review the first message.
- Draft saved
A new first message enters review.
- 24-hour window
Read, edit, change channel or skip. An edit restarts the clock.
- Other checks clear
Statements, country rules, opt-outs and limits still apply.
- Eligible to send
The end of review is eligibility, not a delivery guarantee.
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What you can do during the window.
New drafts appear in Review drafts, each with the time it becomes eligible to send. Open one and you can read it, change the wording, switch it between email and WhatsApp, or skip the company altogether. Skipping is one click, and a skipped draft can be restored if you change your mind.
Nothing is sent from the window. It is a place to look, not a queue that empties itself.
Changes restart the clock.
Any edit starts a fresh 24 hours. So does a change of channel, or a revision you ask the AI to make, such as a friendlier tone. If your business facts or the sender change while a draft is waiting, the draft is flagged for a recheck before it can go.
The reason is simple. The version that sends should be a version someone has had a full day to see, not one changed a minute before it left.
Approving does not shorten the wait.
This is deliberate. The review window is the one step that nobody can skip under pressure: not a client in a hurry, not a member of our team, not autopilot. If approval could shorten the wait, the wait would soon stop existing.
Why a full day.
A first message sets the tone with a company, and it cannot be unsent. A company that receives a careless first email is unlikely to read a better second one.
A day also fits how people work. It usually covers a working morning, so someone has a real chance to look. And the mistakes that matter, such as a wrong company name, a product the buyer does not handle or a price that has changed, are easier to catch on a second reading than at the moment of writing.
Autopilot waits too.
Autopilot runs research, drafting and sending on a schedule, so that outreach continues without someone pressing send each day. It does not get a faster lane. Every first message it drafts enters the same window and waits the same 24 hours.
What autopilot removes is the need to press send once the window has passed and every other check is clear. What it does not remove is your chance to read, change or skip a message first.
What else applies during review.
The window sits alongside the other checks, not instead of them. A draft that states something outside your approved statements is held until that is fixed. Country rules, the shared do-not-contact list and the mailbox’s daily limit still apply when the window ends.
The window is for first messages. Suggested answers to replies are drafted for your approval before they go, so a person still decides what is said.
Editorial description of how Outreach Asia approaches the work. Examples are illustrative. Nothing here is a guarantee of replies, meetings or inbox placement.