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Pick the tolerance window
Step 1 of the cadence sends within a 4-hour tolerance window (e.g. 9am-1pm in the recipient's time zone). Step 2 and later within a 24-hour tolerance window.
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Workflow Pattern5-step pattern
Send-Time Batching
Who this is for
A sales-ops lead wants outbound cadences to land in each recipient's working hours, without buying a send-time prediction tool or rebuilding the sequence engine.
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Send-time tools promise to pick the best hour for each recipient from their history. Outsolvi doesn't do that. The part you can do without one is simpler: make sure each step arrives during the recipient's working day, in their time zone. The structural challenge is applying that to outbound cadences (which typically send at fixed times) without breaking the cadence design.
Send-time batching is the workflow pattern that bridges the gap: cadences keep their fixed step structure, but each step goes out in a window set by the recipient's time zone, batched by hour, instead of at one fixed hour for everyone.
The problem this pattern solves
Outbound cadences send at fixed times (often 'Tuesday 10am sender time'). The fixed time is wrong for most recipients in other time zones. Per-recipient send-time tools try to answer that by picking a best hour from each person's history, but cadences can't fully change their send time without breaking pacing, and a pick is only as good as the history behind it.
The pattern
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Group recipients by time zone
Sort the list by each recipient's time zone, taken from their location in your CRM or the company's headquarters. Outsolvi has no send-time model and doesn't predict send times, so this step is a list sort, done by you or your sending tool.
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Batched sends per hour
Within the window, each time-zone group goes out as its own batch at a set local hour, for example 9:30am for step 1.
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Fallback when you don't know the time zone
When you can't tell where a prospect is, use the company's headquarters time zone, or the middle of the window, rather than guessing.
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Measure lift
Compare reply rates before and after batching, and by send hour, on your own sends. Lean on replies more than opens: Apple Mail fetches images on delivery, so raw open times say little about when people read, which is why Outsolvi doesn't count those opens. Even counted opens are a floor, because some mail apps block images. Give it enough sends to judge; a handful proves nothing either way.
How Outsolvi enables it
Outsolvi doesn't predict send times and has no API. Set the sending window yourself: the recipient's working hours, in their time zone, then compare replies by hour on your own sends. Outsolvi helps with the measuring: every open is graded as a person or a machine, so Apple Mail fetches on delivery don't pass for morning reads, and each tracked email shows its replies with a Positive, Negative, Neutral or Out of office label.
Pattern variations by stage
Cold outbound
Time-zone batching only; there's no engagement history to go on yet.
Warm outbound
Use what you've seen: if a prospect's counted opens and replies cluster around one time of day, send the next step near it.
Renewal motion
Customers' working hours are usually known, so send renewal steps early in their day and check replies by hour each quarter.
Frequently asked questions
Does this delay urgent sends?+
Only if you let it. Batching is a planning rule, not a setting, so urgent emails skip it and go out right away.
Does this interact with deliverability throttling?+
Yes, positively. Batched per-recipient sends spread the send volume across a 4-24 hour window, which reduces the receiver-side rate-limit signal. Outsolvi sequences also cap sends per mailbox each day, 50 by default.
Put this workflow to work
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Start 14-Day Free TrialNate SummersCo-Founder, Outsolvi
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.
Last reviewed October 2, 2026Editorially independent
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