Build an AI-Powered Email Campaign with Django and Ollama (End-to-End Guide)

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to build a fully automated, AI-powered email campaign system using Django and Ollama's locally hosted language models.

This is a practical, real-world project ideal for:

• Developers learning Django and AI integration

• Startups wanting a scalable email automation system

• Freelancers delivering client-ready marketing tools

Let’s get started! 🚀

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What We’re Building

We’ll take a basic Excel file that contains:

• Name

• Description

• Designation

• Email Address

Using the description field, we’ll prompt an LLM (Large Language Model) from Ollama, running locally on our system, to generate a personalized email message.

Then, using Django’s email system, we’ll send that message to the respective recipient. This is a complete end-to-end email campaign workflow, powered by local AI, without needing any third-party APIs like OpenAI or cloud LLMs.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Here’s what powers this project:

• Django – for the backend logic and email handling

• Python Pandas – for reading data from Excel

• Ollama – to run large language models (LLMs) locally

• SMTP (Gmail or custom) – to send emails automatically

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📂 Project Flow

1. Read Excel File
   Use pandas.read_excel() to extract Name, Description, Designation, and Email from the file.

2. Prompt Ollama AI Model
   For each row, we’ll use the description and pass it to an LLM like mistral, llama2, or any other model you’ve downloaded with Ollama.

3. Generate the Email
   The model will return a personalized email body based on the prompt we construct using Name + Description + Designation.

4. Send Email with Django
   Using Django's built-in EmailMessage class or a simple SMTP setup, the generated message is sent directly to the user’s email address.

5. Logging or Status Updates
   Optionally, you can store logs, delivery status, or errors in a database or an Excel file for tracking.

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✅ Why Use Ollama?

Most people use OpenAI or other cloud-based LLMs for AI tasks, but:

• Ollama runs LLMs locally

• It’s free and privacy-focused

• No API keys or cloud costs

• It supports models like Mistral, LLaMA 2, Gemma, and more

Perfect for developers building AI apps on a budget 💡

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🎯 Use Cases

This setup can be customized for:

• Cold email outreach

• Lead nurturing campaigns

• Event invites

• Startup product promotions

• Internship/program email automation

You can even go further and add scheduling, analytics, or custom templates!

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🎥 Watch the Full Video Tutorial

👉 Watch the YouTube tutorial here 
I walk you through the entire code step-by-step, from setting up Django to generating emails with Ollama.

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🧩 Final Thoughts

This is just the beginning. By combining Django’s robust backend with locally hosted AI, you can build high-performance, cost-effective automation tools.

✅ No need for paid APIs
✅ Full control over AI output
✅ Scalable and customizable

If you're interested in building AI-powered tools and real-world projects, stay tuned — more tutorials are on the way!

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🔗 Resources

• Ollama Documentation

• Django Email Sending Docs

• Pandas Read Excel

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