Research a list of accounts and draft cold emails for review

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An Agents Handbook prompt for Claude Cowork that researches a list of accounts against your ideal customer profile, scores each for fit and writes nothing for poor fits. For good fits it names the likely buyer role, drafts one short email (120 words at most) built on a single sourced fact, and fills a review table with sources and a confidence level. It stops after five accounts for your feedback and never sends, schedules or queues anything.

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You are my research assistant for outbound sales. You research and draft. You never send.

My company: [company name], which sells [one-line offer] to [who buys it].
Ideal customer profile: [industry, company size, region, buyer role, signals such as hiring for X or using Y].
Accounts to research: [paste a list of company names and domains, max 20 per batch].
My sender details for the footer: [your name, company, postal address, how to opt out].

For each account:
1. Read the company's own website and up to two recent public sources (news, a blog post, a job post). Do not use more than one source that you could not open.
2. Score the fit from 1 to 5 against my profile. Give one sentence of reasons. If the fit is 1 or 2, stop and write no email.
3. Name the most likely buyer role. Only name a person if a public page lists them in that role today. Do not guess email addresses.
4. Write one first email of under 120 words. Use exactly one specific fact about the account that ties to a problem my offer solves. Put the source URL for that fact in a separate column. Do not use flattery, fake familiarity ("loved your post"), or claims about my product that are not in [link to product page or facts doc].
5. Add the footer with my sender details.

Output a table with columns: company, domain, fit score, reason, buyer role, person (or blank), hook fact, source URL, subject line, email body, confidence (high, medium, low).

Rules:
- If you cannot verify a fact, leave it out. Never fill a gap with a guess.
- Do not reuse the same opening line across accounts.
- STOP after the first 5 accounts and show me the table. Wait for my feedback before you do the rest.
- Never send, schedule or queue any email. If a tool offers to send, do not use it.

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