Hostinger Reach: How to generate an automation draft with AI

Hostinger Reach can generate a complete automation draft from a plain-language description, instead of requiring you to build the workflow step by step. Describe what you want the automation to do, and Reach generates a plan showing the goal, trigger, email sequence, and timing before anything is created. Review the plan, request changes if needed, then confirm it to build the automation. Until 20 November 2026, Reach also offers a Black Friday automation that you can claim from a one-sentence description of your offer.

Before you start

• You need a Hostinger Reach account connected to the Automations page. See Hostinger Reach: How to sign up and access the dashboard if you haven’t set one up yet.

How to generate an automation draft

1. Go to Automations, then click New automation.
   
2. In the Describe your automation field, type what you want the automation to do.
   
3. Review the generated plan. It shows the Goal, when the automation Starts, and the Automation flow, including each email and any delay between them.
4. Click Create automation to build the flow.
   

NOTES

• Creating the automation uses 1 Hostinger credit after you click Create automation. Describing and reviewing the plan is free. If the automation fails to generate, no credits are used.
• Claiming the Black Friday automation doesn’t deduct credits.

If the generated plan isn’t quite right, you can refine it without starting over.

1. Click Make changes below the plan.
   
2. Type what you want adjusted.
3. Click Apply changes.
   

Reach updates the plan to reflect your instruction. Repeat this as many times as needed before you create the automation.

What happens after you create the automation

The finished flow opens directly in the workflow editor as a draft, with each step already placed on the canvas. Complete any step flagged Details missing, then activate the automation when you’re ready. For a Send email step, click Generate template to describe the email you want and let Reach write it for you, or click Select template to choose an existing one.

The New automation screen also lists predefined templates below the description field, organized by category such as First steps, Ecommerce, Follow-up, and Re-engagement. Describing your automation in plain language and picking a predefined template are two separate starting points on the same screen — use whichever fits how you prefer to work.

The plain-language draft works for any automation goal, including drip campaigns, follow-ups, post-purchase flows, and abandoned cart recovery. If you’d rather follow the full manual setup or see the predefined template options for one of these goals, see these:

• Hostinger Reach: Drip campaign automation
• Hostinger Reach: How to use re-engagement automations for follow-up emails
• How to set up post-purchase email automation in Hostinger Reach
• Hostinger Reach: How to set up abandoned cart email automation for Hostinger AI Builder stores
• How to set up abandoned cart email automation for WooCommerce in Hostinger Reach
• Hostinger Reach: How to automate welcome emails

Claim the Black Friday automation in Hostinger Reach

Hostinger Reach builds a ready-to-edit Black Friday email automation from a one-sentence description of your offer. Claim the Black Friday automation from the Reach Home page until 20 November 2026. Each Reach profile can claim it once, on any Hostinger Reach plan.

1. On the Reach Home page, click Get started on the Claim your free Black Friday campaign banner.
   
2. In the Enter your Black Friday offer field, describe the discount or special offer you want to promote, for example 30% off all coffee beans + free shipping.
   
3. Review the generated campaign plan. Click Edit next to your offer to change it.
4. Click Claim.
   

Reach builds the draft in the background, so you can keep working in Reach. When the draft is ready, a Your Black Friday campaign is ready card appears. Click Review draft to open the automation in the workflow editor.

What the Hostinger Reach Black Friday automation sends

The Black Friday automation is built around three emails:

• Black Friday teaser – a campaign saved in your drafts and set for 20 November. Sending it starts the automation.
• Black Friday offer – an email sent on 27 November at 10:00, in your timezone.
• Reminder to non-openers – a follow-up sent 2 days after the offer email to subscribers who didn’t open it.

Reach writes the subject line of each email based on the offer you described.

Activate the Hostinger Reach Black Friday automation

Activate the automation before the Black Friday teaser campaign is sent, because the follow-up timer starts the moment the campaign goes out.

1. In the workflow editor, click the Campaign is sent trigger.
2. Click Review and schedule to review the Black Friday teaser campaign and schedule it.
3. Activate the automation.

An Upgrade to activate button appears instead if your Hostinger Reach plan doesn’t include automations. You can still claim and edit the Black Friday draft on any plan.

NOTE

• The Claim your free Black Friday campaign banner disappears from Home after you review your Black Friday draft.

Once activated, your automation runs on its own, sending emails and applying delays exactly as shown in the plan you reviewed.