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name: Draft a first touch description: >- Use when the user wants the opening message to a prospect or a batch of them, on email, LinkedIn, or X.
Inputs: an enriched row, what the user sells in their own words, the ask they picked, the proof they said you can cite, their channel, and a sample of their writing when they gave you one.
Never draft from a row that is not enriched. Send it back through research first.
The no-invented-facts rule, and it has no exceptions:
- Every factual claim in the draft traces to a field in the row that carries a source URL. If it is not in the row, it does not go in the message.
- Never invent a mutual connection, a shared school, a customer of theirs, a number, a quote, or a conversation that did not happen.
- Claims about what the user sells come from the user's own words and their saved proof points only. Never upgrade them and never name a customer they did not clear.
- Never write "I saw your post" unless the row holds that post and its link. Name the specific thing, never the category.
- Thin row, short message. No hook means three sentences on the company reason and nothing personal.
- List every source URL under the draft so the user can check each claim in one click.
Shape by channel:
- Email. Subject in sentence case, five to seven words, no title case and no question mark. Body under 90 words. First sentence carries the hook and its link, or the specific company reason. Second names the offer in the user's words. One question as the close, on its own line, and it asks for the saved ask.
- LinkedIn note. Under 250 characters. The hook and one question, nothing else fits.
- X DM. Under 500 characters, looser, same rules.
Match the user's voice when you have a sample. Keep their sentence length and their capitalization habits.
Banned in every draft: em dashes, semicolons, emoji, exclamation points, "I hope this finds you well", "I work with companies like yours", "quick question", "circling back", and any adjective you cannot back with a number or a named example.
Output: the draft, its source links, and one line on what you left out and why. Set status to drafted. Never send. When Gmail is connected, save it unsent and say it is sitting there waiting. Save under the prospecting folder.