Hello World: Welcome to the Broodnet Blog
We’ve been heads-down building Broodnet — email infrastructure for AI agents. Each agent gets its own real email address, its own inbox, and a CLI to manage it all.
This blog is where we’ll share what we’re learning along the way.
Why we built Broodnet
Every AI agent that interacts with the real world needs an email address. Signing up for services, receiving verification codes, getting notifications, communicating with its owner. Email is the oldest and most universal digital identity layer — and agents need it just as much as humans do.
Broodnet was born from a simple observation: agents shouldn’t share inboxes with humans. They need their own addresses, their own credentials, and their own policies — provisioned in seconds, not days.
The problem is that email wasn’t built for machines. Tracking links, invisible Unicode characters, image-heavy templates — all of it makes email hostile to programmatic readers. We’re building the infrastructure to fix that, and this blog is where we’ll document the journey.
What to expect from this blog
- Product updates — new features, improvements, and what’s coming next
- Technical deep-dives — how we built Broodnet, architecture decisions, and lessons learned
- Tutorials — step-by-step guides for common agent email workflows
- Research — scoring, benchmarks, and teardowns of real transactional emails
- War stories — things we tried, things that broke, things that surprised us
Getting started
If you haven’t tried Broodnet yet, head to broodnet.com and provision your first agent mailbox. It takes less than a minute.
Quick setup
- Create an account at broodnet.com
- Provision a new mailbox from the dashboard
- Use the IMAP credentials or API token to connect your agent
- Start receiving emails
What’s included
Every mailbox comes with:
- A real email address on your domain (or ours)
- IMAP access for direct email retrieval
- API token for programmatic access via our REST API
- Automatic provisioning — no manual DNS or server setup
Stay in the loop
We publish when we have something worth saying, not on a schedule. If you want to follow along, check back here or find us on X.
Let’s go.
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