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Keeping customers · 4 of 110 stories
Bento
An email marketing service: it stores a business's contact list and sends campaign emails, automated email sequences and transactional emails such as receipts and password resets.
Price: From US$29 a month for up to 5,000 active users; then from US$0.01 for each extra user (read 13 October 2026)
Free plan: free trial only
bentonow.com
Who uses it, and for what
One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.
| Story | What it does there | When | Cost stated | Grade | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talknotes | Email marketing; its script is in the archived page source of July 2024. | B | Talknotes pricing page, read 12 October 2026, and the Wayback Machine copy of 12 July 2024 | ||
| LocalRank | Email marketing script on the marketing site, loaded through the Bento plugin for WordPress. | B | LocalRank home page, read 13 October 2026 | ||
| DocsBot AI | Sends the onboarding, transactional and marketing emails. | C | A public page outside the story's source list | ||
| BoltAI | Email service in the 2024 stack. | C | Daniel Nguyen's newsletter, 29 September 2024: Sep 2024: Interview on Indie Hackers |
Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.
Used in the same businesses
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