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#2295 Ryan Carson: How AI does my marketing for me

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Andrew Warner

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4.5591 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When a new user signs up, most companies add them to a standard drip campaign. Ryan Carson found a better alternative: his AI agent sends customized drip messages to every new registrant. It helps his company close more business. It’s just one way he uses AI to act as his VP of marketing. In this interview, he breaks down how he automated his marketing.

Ryan Carson is a three-time founder and longtime SaaS entrepreneur. He’s currently the founder of Untangle, an AI-powered platform designed to help people navigate divorce with clarity and less conflict. With over 25 years of startup experience, Ryan now focuses on building highly specialized AI agents that combine software, automation, and real-world business workflows.

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0:00.0

Why isn't every email customized for the customer so it's completely personal?

0:05.0

So I'm going to share my screen and just kind of walk you through visually how this thing works.

0:09.0

Ryan Carson is a three-time founder and he's building Untangle, which is AI for divorce.

0:19.0

Presented by Zapier, the AI Automation Company.

0:21.6

Ryan, before you started building your own email service provider, did you even consider

0:27.2

that you can use other people's software?

0:31.7

You know, I've been running startups for like 25 years, right?

0:35.7

And email drips have been just a constant part of the business and

0:39.8

everybody uses them and i you know setting up an email drip for untangle um my new startup and

0:46.6

then i thought what am i doing why don't i have a i write the email drips uh and ended up building

0:53.0

the series of emails.

1:02.5

Yeah. Yeah. And why isn't every email absolutely customized for the customer that so it's completely personal? Like we can do this now. And so I build a workflow and I'm very happy with

1:07.4

that. I see. So theoretically, somebody who is going through a rough divorce

1:12.5

might get a different message on your platform, and someone who's going through an easier one

1:17.2

might get one that's softer. Someone who's been married for 10, 20 years might get one that's

1:22.7

different from someone who's just kind of got married quickly and is trying to untangle their marriage.

1:26.7

Got it. And you're saying, I don't want to have to write 50 different drip campaigns, but all

1:30.6

of these different people are completely different. I think I could, I could do this in AI.

1:36.6

Exactly. Did it work? And have every, it did.

1:41.4

Give me an example. So I want to, I want to kind of walk your audience.

1:45.0

Before you show me what you're doing, give me an example of what it has been able to do for your business.

1:51.0

Okay. So every day I have a cron job that basically looks at key marketing stats, and then it passes those stats to Opus 4 or 5 and then it generates

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