Lead generation software for agencies, one workspace per client

What to look for in outbound agency tools

Outbound for clients is different from outbound for yourself. Emails go out from a client's domain, replies belong to the client's pipeline, and sooner or later the client asks where a claim came from.

When you compare outbound agency tools and other lead gen agency software, check three things:

• Separation. Can you change or pause one client's sending without touching another's?
• Brakes. Does a person approve what goes out, and are risky moves slowed down?
• Trail. Can you show a client where each claim came from?

FoxKnock is built around those three. It is designed for researched, small-batch outbound, not for blasting thousands of contacts a week.

One workspace per client

On the Agency plan one person can own up to 25 workspaces, and the one that holds the subscription counts toward the 25. Each is a separate tenant with its own data, mailboxes, suppression list, approvals, country rules and kill switch.

• An unsubscribe at one client stays on that client's suppression list.
• Pausing one client's sending leaves the rest running.

Each workspace also gets its own playbook. FoxKnock reads the client's website and drafts the offer, segments and a set of "never claim" rules. Those rules are hard constraints for both the email writer and the claim checker.

How to manage cold email for clients

Start every client sequence on review each, the default: a person approves each email before it sends. A quality gate runs first. It blocks drafts with unsupported claims or unresolved variables and flags spam words and AI-sounding phrases, so your team's time goes on judgement calls.

You can loosen this later, one sequence at a time:

• Batch approve lets you approve in bulk the drafts that passed the gate.
• Auto within limits has to be earned per sequence, as approval-first outreach explains.
• The one send that needs no per-message approval is an opt-in auto-reply that sends your own booking link to a meeting request. It is off by default.

Under all of that, each mailbox is capped and ramped, and pauses itself on high bounces or complaints. These guardrails are meant to lower the risk to a client's domain. They cannot promise inbox placement.

For EU clients, FoxKnock includes built-in GDPR tools, but compliance stays with the sender and the rule packs are not legal advice.

Connecting client mailboxes

FoxKnock connects mailboxes only with a password over SMTP and IMAP. That means Google Workspace or any SMTP and IMAP mail server, connected with an app password. There is no Google or Microsoft sign-in.

• Google Workspace: an app password needs 2-Step Verification and may not be offered on some work accounts, so someone with access to the client's mailbox has to create it.
• Microsoft 365: limited. Microsoft says it has disabled Basic authentication for IMAP in all tenants and is retiring it for SMTP AUTH. A password is Basic authentication, so a Microsoft 365 mailbox may not connect or may not sync replies, and reply sync needs IMAP. Test a client's Microsoft 365 mailbox before you plan around it, or use a mailbox on another SMTP and IMAP provider.

What lead gen agency software costs per client

Credits and plans are per workspace

Read this before you plan a budget. Plan, credits and the monthly spend cap are set per workspace today, and credits are not pooled.

• The Agency subscription's 60,000 monthly credits go to the workspace that holds it.
• A new client workspace starts on the Free plan with its own billing page and no credits. You fund each one on its own, with a plan or with top-up packs.
• A workspace on the Agency plan has unlimited seats and mailboxes. Every other workspace has the seats and mailboxes of its own plan (a Free workspace has 1 seat and 1 mailbox).
• There is no client portal and no per-client invoicing, so you bill your clients yourself.

An example month (hypothetical)

For example, a 3-person agency runs outbound for three clients. In each client workspace it adds 80 companies, researches the 20 best fits and contacts one person at each company. The figures use default credit prices (they may change, see pricing), where 1 credit = $0.01 at list price.

That is about $74 at list price per client, or about 22,100 credits across the three workspaces, each funded separately. Three things to know about the table:

• It assumes every lookup succeeds (failed lookups are free).
• It leaves out signal monitors, regenerated drafts and the 1-credit re-check before sending, which applies when an address was last verified more than 14 days ago.
• The other 60 accounts get a template email, which costs nothing but is not claim-checked, so keep specific claims out of it.

When a client asks where a detail came from, open the research report: each one shows its sources.

Which plan fits

• One client: you do not need 25 workspaces. Growth ($149/month, 20,000 credits, 5 seats, 15 mailboxes, one workspace) covers the example month with room to spare, and unused credits roll over.
• Two or more clients: Agency ($399/month, 60,000 credits) is the plan that lets you own more than one workspace, up to 25 (Enterprise is custom). Put the subscription on the workspace that will use the most credits, and budget the others separately, as above.

What FoxKnock will not do for agencies

• No white-label reports. There is no report builder and no client branding. You get an analytics page per workspace, CSV exports of companies and contacts, the REST API and webhooks, and the work of building the report you want.
• No pooled credits, client portal or client invoicing.
• No open or click tracking. Reporting rests on replies and on meetings your team marks as booked.
• LinkedIn stays manual. FoxKnock does not scrape LinkedIn. LinkedIn steps become tasks with a drafted note your team sends by hand.
• No one-click mailbox connect, and Microsoft 365 is limited. Mailboxes connect with a password over SMTP and IMAP, not with Google or Microsoft sign-in (details are under connecting client mailboxes).
• No promises on inbox placement or reply rates.

Try it first

Try FoxKnock on your own market with the free credits: 500 one-time credits, given once per person to the first workspace you create (after you verify your email), with no card needed. Writing a playbook costs no credits, and 500 credits cover two standard research reports at default prices.