cold-outreach

name	cold-outreach
description	Use when creating or improving B2B outbound, prospecting, cold email, LinkedIn outreach, account research, sales sequences, or founder-led direct outreach.

Cold Outreach

Build outbound around a verifiable reason to contact a specific person now, with claim risk and reply friction made explicit.

Research The Reason

For each segment or account, find:

• Business event or pressure.
• Role-level responsibility.
• Current tool, workflow, or public initiative.
• Likely pain or missed opportunity.
• Mutual context or credible source.
• Offer or next step that fits the moment.

If no account-specific signal is available, use segment-level relevance and keep the claim modest.

Check Relevance

Score each prospect or segment:

• Reason-to-reach: how specific and timely the reason is.
• Timing evidence: public event, hiring, tool change, funding, launch, regulation, role change, review, complaint.
• Source confidence: first-party, third-party, inferred, stale, unknown.
• Claim risk: how likely the message overstates what is known.
• Reply friction: how hard it is for the recipient to answer or take the next step.
• Fit: whether the problem, role, and offer plausibly match.

Do not write personalized claims that cannot be verified from the research.

Write The Sequence

Use a clear arc:

• Message 1: specific reason, problem, credible offer.
• Follow-up 1: useful proof or example.
• Follow-up 2: different angle or objection.
• Breakup: polite close or permission to stop.

Keep each message short. One idea, one ask. Avoid fake familiarity, exaggerated flattery, and generic "quick question" openings.

Output

Outbound angle:
Target:
Trigger:
Problem:
Offer:
Proof:

Qualification filters:
- Include:
- Exclude:

Relevance score:
| Prospect/segment | Reason-to-reach | Timing evidence | Source confidence | Claim risk | Reply friction |

Sequence:
Email 1
Subject:
Body:

Follow-up 1
Subject:
Body:

Follow-up 2
Subject:
Body:

Personalization fields:
| Field | Source | Example |

Risk checks:
- [claim to verify]