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AutomationpiedinoPlaybook

The prompt I use to turn "no website found" into an email opening that doesn't sound like a mail-merge

The easiest lead is not a business with a site that might want a redesign. It is a business with no site at all — or one that is broken, or one that has clearly been abandoned. Which means the whole pitch lives or dies on how specifically you name the gap. The reusable part is the writing step, and it works whether or not you ever automate the finding. You need three plain facts: the category, the town, and what actually happened when you checked for a website. From those, the job is to write a first paragraph that reads like you looked at that one business — not a template with the name swapped in. You can type those three facts in by hand. I built a scanner that pulls them from OpenStreetMap and then checks each site for real instead of trusting what is on file — that catches both a business with an unlisted site and a domain that is registered but dead — but the prompt does not care where the facts came from.

PromptspiedinoPlaybook

How I get Claude to find one verifiable detail before writing a cold email opener

An opening line that could be pasted into any cold email to anyone is worse than no opening line at all. "I noticed you're doing great work in your space" — anyone who has ever received a cold email spots that in half a second. What fixed it was narrowing what I ask for. I do not ask Claude to write an email. I ask it to find one specific, checkable fact about how a company operates across its locations — something that is only true because they run several sites and not one — and to build two sentences around that fact. Then I verify the fact myself before anything goes out. That step is not optional. It is the entire difference between a personalised email and a personalised-sounding guess. The constraint that shaped all of this: I start from a list of company names and nothing else. No scraping LinkedIn — that is off limits where I work. Everything has to come from what the company already made public.