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Find broken steps and drop-offs in your Mailchimp automations

For marketing teams who want to know whether every email in a running sequence still works, by asking their AI assistant to review it.

Mailchimp automation review

Review our Welcome Series automation in Mailchimp and tell me where people drop off.

Welcome Series is running, but one step is broken. - Email 3: paused inside a running sequence, so nobody gets it - Email 4: 0 sends, people never reach it - Drop-off: open rate falls from 52 to 21 percent at email 2 First fix: resume email 3 in Welcome Series. Want the full email table?

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The problem

The prompt

Who it's for

How it works

Tools used

Connector

Mailchimp

Run it on your own Mailchimp data.

Connect Mailchimp, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.

The problem

Automations that quietly break halfway through

Classic Mailchimp automations run for months, and nobody checks whether an email in the middle was left paused or never sends. Engagement can collapse partway through a sequence without anyone seeing it.

Without PopdockAI

Open each automation and its emails in turn
Check status and delay on every step
Compare open rates step by step
Miss the paused email in the middle

With PopdockAI

Each automation is read with its emails in order
Paused, unsaved and unreached emails are flagged
Open rates that more than halve are called out
Recommendations name the email, and nothing changes

The prompt

Use this prompt

Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.

Prompt

**Objective:** Review the Mailchimp automation {automation-title} (default every running automation), email by email, and report gaps in the sequence and where engagement drops off.

**Step 1: Resolve the automations**

If a title was given, call `mailchimp-get-automation` with `title`, and if nothing matches, retry with `title.contains`. If more than one matches, review each of them. If no title was given, call `mailchimp-get-automation` with `status` set to `sending`. Note each automation's status, workflow-type, list-name, start-date, emails-sent, open-rate and click-rate.

**Step 2: Read the emails**

For each automation, call `mailchimp-get-automation-email` with `automation-id`. Order the emails by position and note each one's title, subject-line, delay, status, emails-sent, open-rate and click-rate.

**Step 3: Look for problems**

* An email with status `save` or `paused` inside an automation whose status is `sending`: the sequence has a gap, and contacts skip or stall at that step.
* An email with 0 emails sent although earlier emails have sent: contacts are not reaching it; check its delay.
* The open rate falling by more than half from one position to the next.
* An automation with status `paused` or `save`: say how long since its start-date.

**Step 4: Report**

For each automation: a header line (title, status, trigger, list-name, emails sent, open rate, click rate), then a table of its emails by position (position, title, delay, status, sent, open rate, click rate), then the problems found. Finish with recommendations, most important first, naming the automation and email each applies to.

**Rules & Guidelines:**

* Read only. Do not call `mailchimp-add-list-member`, `mailchimp-update-list-member`, `mailchimp-add-segment-member`, `mailchimp-add-customer`, `mailchimp-update-customer`, `mailchimp-update-product`, `mailchimp-update-order`, `mailchimp-replicate-campaign`, `mailchimp-start-automation` or `mailchimp-pause-automation`.
* Rates are returned as fractions (0.25 means 25%). Show them as percentages.
* This covers classic automations only. Say that customer journeys, and a store's built-in abandoned cart automation, are not included.

**Validation:**

* If nothing matches, call `mailchimp-get-automation` without filters and list the available titles.
* If an automation has no emails, report it as empty.

Who it's for

One answer, three teams that use it

Lifecycle marketers

See where a sequence loses people

Find the step where opens drop sharply, so you can rewrite or retime it.

Where do people drop off in our Onboarding automation in Mailchimp?

Marketing operations

Audit every running automation

Check all running automations at once for paused steps and emails nobody reaches.

Review every running Mailchimp automation and flag any paused or unreached emails.

Email marketers

Fix a sequence with clear steps

Recommendations name the automation and email they apply to, so the fix is quick.

Check the Win Back Series automation in Mailchimp and tell me which email to fix first.

How it works

What PopdockAI does when you ask

You name an automation or ask for every running one, and your AI assistant checks each step in order. It only reads, and says what it does not cover.

Ask

You name an automation, or review every running one.

Your AI tool

Read

It reads each automation's emails in order with delay, status, sends and rates.

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Check

It flags paused steps, unreached emails and open rates that more than halve.

No items found.

Report

You get a table per automation and recommendations, with nothing changed.

Your AI tool

What PopdockAI provides

The tools behind the answer

Ready made tools for Mailchimp and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.

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Returns classic Mailchimp automations (workflows) with status, trigger type, audience and results.

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Returns the individual emails inside classic Mailchimp automations, with their position in the sequence, delay, status and results.

Read only.Nothing in Mailchimp Changes

This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.

The outcome

Broken steps found before contacts are lost

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