An alert the moment a real open lands, and silence for the rest
The problem with open alerts isn't speed, it's volume. A tracker that alerts you on every pixel load tells you when a scanner sweeps your link at 9:14am and when Apple pre-fetches your image. After a week of that you stop reading them, and the one that mattered goes past unread.
Outsolvi only alerts you on opens and clicks that count, meaning they were graded as a person. The Gmail extension and the desktop Outlook add-in show them as pop-ups within seconds. Everything the grading set aside is recorded with its reason. Once a week you get one summary email of opens, clicks and hot leads.
Who this is for
Open alerts should reach you fast enough to act on while the prospect is still thinking about you, without the tracker telling you forty times a day about opens that were never people.
What it does
When an open or click counts, the Gmail extension shows an Email Opened or Email Clicked pop-up naming the recipient and subject, and the desktop Outlook add-in shows Email Opened or Link Clicked. A hot lead gets its own pop-up in both. Machine events (scanners, Apple Mail pre-fetches, your own opens) are recorded on the email's timeline but never raise an alert. A weekly summary email covers opens, clicks and hot leads.
Why it matters in 2026
Alert volume is what kills alert usefulness. If most of what you're told is a scanner, you learn to ignore the channel, and the alert that was a real buyer gets ignored with it.
An alert you can trust is worth acting on. If Outsolvi tells you someone read your email, a follow-up soon after is a reasonable move rather than a coin flip.
One weekly summary beats an email per ping. Outsolvi used to send an email for every open and removed it deliberately, because nobody can work in an inbox that fills up with its own tracking.
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How it works
Every pixel load and link click is graded first. Only events graded as a person update your counts and trigger a pop-up, and open pop-ups are limited to one a minute per email, so a reader scrolling back doesn't set off a string of them. The pop-ups come from the Gmail extension and the desktop Outlook add-in, so Chrome or Outlook needs to be running with you signed in. The Outlook web add-in shows opens and clicks in a banner on the email while its pane is open. Filtered events are written to the email's timeline with the reason they were set aside. Separately, a weekly job emails you one summary of counted opens, clicks and emails that became hot leads. The Outsolvi web app has no pop-ups: counted opens, clicks and hot leads land in its Alerts bell, and the email lists refresh every 30 seconds.
A tracker that alerts on every pixel load will also alert on scanners and Apple pre-fetches, which is why people turn those alerts off. Outsolvi's pop-ups fire only for opens and clicks that count, so there are fewer of them and they mean something.
Use cases for Open Alerts
Frequently asked questions
Does Outsolvi send a push notification to my phone when someone opens?+
No. There's no phone push and no mobile app. Alerts are desktop pop-ups from the Gmail extension and the desktop Outlook add-in, and a weekly summary arrives by email. We'd rather say that plainly than let you find out after signing up.
Will it email me every time someone opens?+
No, and that's deliberate. Per-open emails were removed because they flooded people's inboxes. Counted opens and clicks show as pop-ups and are summarised once a week.
What happens to the opens that were machines?+
They're recorded on the email's timeline with the reason they were filtered, so you can check the working. They never raise an alert and they never move your open count.
Do I get live alerts in the Outsolvi web app?+
Not as pop-ups. Counted opens, clicks and hot leads show up in the web app's Alerts bell as they arrive, and its email lists refresh every 30 seconds. The pop-ups come from the Gmail extension and the desktop Outlook add-in.
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Other Outsolvi features
Nate built Outsolvi after watching every email-tracking tool he had ever used lie to him about opens. Outsolvi grades every open as a person or a machine, in Outlook and Gmail, so the number on the dashboard is one a rep can actually act on.
We update these pages when the underlying mechanics change. new mailbox-provider rules, new tracker behavior, new measurement gaps. The dates above are real revisions, not auto-touches.