11.18.24 Punt Update

Weekly Update
1. Overview
This week, we continued to make strong strides on our product and onboarded 51 new design partners, bringing our user base to 96 active users, with a 113% week-over-week growth!
2. Key Metrics
- Revenue: $0
- User Growth: Grew from 45 to 96 users (113% WoW growth).
- User Retention: 96% of users remain actively engaged.
- Users Disabling Punt: 0
3. Product/Operations
- New Developments:
- Began designing email personalization AI using Tree of Thought prompting.
- Started implementation by creating a cleaned dataset of users’ sent email bodies.
- Added Prompt Engineering for OR/AND/FILL templates and branching auto-drafts.
- Advanced Outlook integration to achieve feature parity with Gmail.
- Launched Chrome extension with grammar parsing for templates.
- Introduced a rich text editor for email signatures.
4. Sales & Marketing
- New Deals/Pipeline:
- We are not selling yet, but plan to do so after rolling out team accounts.
- Marketing Initiatives:
- Continuing campaigns with MailReef + Smartlead for email outreach.
- Finalizing Loops.so updates for newsletters.
- Launching competitor and retargeting ads via Google.
5. Financials
- Expenses: Self-funded with total spending to date at $5,430.
6. Current Focus/Priorities
- Top Priorities for Next Week:
- Increase user base by 25% (reach 120 users).
- Complete the Google Security Review.
- Improve the onboarding experience for new users.
- Finalize messaging and positioning for the product.
- Create and refine a compelling pitch deck.