How Followthrough works
Three steps. No CRM, no manual logging, no new habits to build.
- 1
Connect your Gmail
Sign in with Google. Followthrough asks for the same permissions Gmail add-ons normally need — nothing more. Your mailbox stays yours; we never see your password.
- 2
Send email like you always do
Compose and send from Gmail as usual. Followthrough quietly tracks link clicks and watches for replies on threads you choose to track — one click, right in the compose window.
- 3
Check two buckets, not an inbox
Every hour, Followthrough scores your tracked threads. Follow up means a prospect went quiet and it's on you to nudge them. Watching means they clicked or engaged — worth keeping an eye on.
What counts as activity
A reply from the actual prospect clears a thread automatically — auto-replies and out-of-office bounces don't count. A link click moves a thread into Watching. Nothing happens without your mailbox actually sending or receiving real mail; there's no separate tracking pixel to manage.
What Followthrough can and can't see
To spot replies, Followthrough reads your recent sent and received mail — but it doesn't keep any of it. Messages are processed automatically, in memory, and discarded; we store only identifiers and timestamps, never the subject or body. Our access is read-only, so Followthrough can never send, delete, or change your mail, and you can disconnect at any time from the popup.