Openers That Don't Read as Mail Merge

What it is for

Automated icebreakers default to restating a job title or praising a homepage, which is precisely the texture of bulk mail. This sets the input rule (a decision they made, not a role they hold), a one-line reject test, and the boundaries that keep a researched opener from reading as surveillance. Use it before any personalized cold campaign goes out.

The skill Copy

Give it the richest single source you have on this person: something they
wrote, shipped, said on a podcast, or a review their customers left. A job
title and a company name can only produce a compliment, and compliments are
what spam is made of.

Then judge every generated line with one test:

  Could I send this exact sentence to their closest competitor, changing only
  the name? If yes, delete it.

That kills the three lines you will be handed most often:
- the restated title: "As Head of Growth at Acme you must be busy scaling."
- the empty praise: "Impressive work over at Acme!"
- the homepage, summarised back to them in their own marketing words.

Keep a line only if it points at a decision they made — a position they argued
for, a product they launched, a change they announced, a complaint their
reviewers keep repeating. People will talk about their decisions; they will not
talk about your admiration.

Rules for the line itself:
- One sentence. Two is a paragraph about them, and they did not ask for one.
- Say where you saw it. "Your November post on onboarding" is checkable, and
  therefore believable.
- Never imply you read something you did not open. Nothing gets exposed faster
  in a reply.
- Nothing from their personal life, family, health, appearance or a photo.
  Accurate, creepy and reported all begin the same way.

Where the source material was thin, do not ship a weaker line — drop the
prospect from the send. A generic opener burns that address permanently; not
sending costs you nothing.

How to install it Copy

1. Open the tool and start a new conversation, project or template.
2. Paste the text below wherever the tool keeps standing instructions
   — usually called system prompt, instructions, or persona.
3. Save it so it applies to every run rather than a single message.

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