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Building an AI email composer because copy-paste rental inquiries have a 12% response rate

DEV Community·Caspar Bannink·17 days ago
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The Dublin rental market has a response rate problem. The average renter sends a generic inquiry to 20+ properties and hears back from maybe 2 or 3. I measured this through user interviews and it tracks with what academic research on UK/Irish rental markets has found: response rates for cold rental inquiries sit somewhere between 12% and 20% depending on the area and season. This is a signal quality problem wrapped in a UX problem. And it's exactly the kind of thing you can build against. What the data actually looks like When a listing goes live on Daft.ie (the dominant Irish rental portal), it typically receives 50-150 inquiries in the first 48 hours. There's no landlord-side inbox tooling beyond email forwarding. No status tags, no filtering, no templates for responses. The landlord opens it, skims a subset, replies to whoever seems credible and convenient, and moves on. The inquiry that lands in position #78 in their inbox could be from a perfect tenant. They'll never see it.…

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