AI brand-voice recovery emails, smart retry timing, and a hosted update-card page — built for indie SaaS founders at $1-50k MRR. $29/mo flat.
Stripe Connect OAuth · No credit card to try · Setup in 5 minutes
🔥 Founding 50 · $19/mo lifetime
43/50 leftFirst 50 customers lock $19/mo for life. No expiry, never goes up.
The quiet bleed
Bank fraud checks. Expired cards. Recent address changes. Stripe's built-in Smart Retries recovers ~20% of those — the rest just churn quietly.
$5k MRR
$450/mo
fails monthly
−$360/mo
lost without recovery
$15k MRR
$1,350/mo
fails monthly
−$1,080/mo
lost without recovery
$50k MRR
$4,500/mo
fails monthly
−$3,600/mo
lost without recovery
Math: 9% MRR failure rate (Stripe published benchmark). Smart Retries recovers ~20% of failures; the remaining 80% becomes silent churn unless you do something about it.
How it works
OAuth flow — no setup files, no manual webhook config. We listen for invoice.payment_failed and queue the recovery sequence instantly.
Day 0, Day 3, Day 7, Day 14. Each email opens with the specific amount and last 4 of the card. Empathy first, urgency last.
Upload 3-10 of your existing emails. Claude analyzes your voice, then rewrites every recovery email so it sounds like YOU wrote it. Customers reply to you, not a bot.
Customer clicks one link, lands on a signed-token page, and updates their card via Stripe Customer Portal. No login required. Friction = zero.
The founder
25y email · getdgi.com
Why I built this
25 years of Postfix, bulk SMTP, KumoMTA, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, deliverability tuning, custom MTAs at GroupMail and 1st Bulk Email Sender. Linux email infrastructure since the late 90s.
For 25 years I built for clients — ~150 production projects shipped through getdgi.com. But existing dunning tools (Stunning $199-499, ChurnBuster $50-300) target $20k+ MRR teams. Indie founders below that just eat the loss.
So I built the $29 option. Recovery sequences are, technically, the easiest problem I've ever solved in email. Your customers deserve emails that sound like you— not generic SaaS-speak from a vendor they've never heard of.
Pricing
First 50 customers lock $19/mo for life. No expiry, never goes up.
Money-back guarantee · Cancel anytime · No annual lock-in
Honest comparison
| Feature | Recovery Pilot | Stripe native | Stunning | Churn Buster |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $29/mo | Free | $199/mo | $50/mo |
| Email recovery sequence | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI brand voice | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Hosted update-card page | ✓ | Portal only | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built for indie SaaS ($1-50k MRR) | ✓ | Generic | — | — |
| Setup time | 5 min | 5 min | 30 min | 30 min |
| Typical recovery rate | 40-60% | ~20% | 40-50% | 35-45% |
FAQ
Recovery Pilot connects to your Stripe account via OAuth (read+write Connect). When a payment fails (invoice.payment_failed webhook), we queue a 4-email recovery sequence: Day 0 (immediate), Day 3, Day 7, and Day 14. Each email opens with the specific failure amount and the last 4 of the card, includes a one-click update-card link, and is rewritten in your brand voice by Claude after you train it with 3-10 sample emails.
Stripe Smart Retries recovers ~20% of failed payments by retrying the card automatically at the right time. Recovery Pilot layers on top of that — it doesn't replace Smart Retries — by emailing the customer when the card actually needs updating. Combined recovery rate typically reaches 40-60%, roughly 2-3x Stripe Smart Retries alone.
Stunning and Churn Buster target SaaS at $20k+ MRR with full-time finance teams. Recovery Pilot is built specifically for solo founders and small teams at $1-50k MRR. Lower price reflects the simpler scope (no white-label, no team seats, no enterprise SSO) and the founder-led support model. The Founding 50 tier locks the first 50 customers at $19/mo forever.
After connecting Stripe, you upload 3-10 of your existing emails (transactional or marketing — whatever sounds like you). Claude analyzes the tone, sentence rhythm, sign-off, and signature phrases, then caches a system prompt. Every subsequent recovery email is rewritten to match that voice. The result: customers replying directly to you because they recognize the tone, not a generic recovery bot.
Recovery Pilot v1 focuses on subscription products (recurring invoices). One-time charge recovery is on the roadmap for v2. If you're 100% subscriptions, you're the perfect fit.
Yes. We use Stripe Connect OAuth (no card numbers ever touch our database), Supabase Postgres with row-level security policies, Vercel Edge Network with HTTPS, and Anthropic API for AI generation. No customer payment data is stored on our side — only invoice metadata needed to send recovery emails.
Any country and currency Stripe supports. Recovery Pilot is currency-agnostic — emails display the amount in whatever currency your invoice was billed in. The hosted update-card page redirects to your customer's Stripe Customer Portal, which is fully localized.
5 minutes to set up. Stripe Connect OAuth, no credit card to try, no demo call required.
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