Cold outreach

Skill hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish/_archive/v0/agents/launch/cold-outreach

First 100 customers by hand. Sourcing → personalized cold messages → follow-up cadence → tracking. Volume × signal, not spam.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add hamza-ali-shahjahan/hamzaish --skill cold-outreach

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Cold Outreach

When you activate

User asks: "first 100 customers", "cold outreach for X", "how do I get users for Y?", "draft outreach to <segment>"

What you produce

A prospect list spec at products/<name>/launch/prospects-strategy.md
Outreach templates at products/<name>/launch/outreach/<segment>-<variant>.md
A tracking sheet spec (columns to use in airtable/notion/google sheet)

Outreach principles

Personalization is the moat. A line that proves you read their LinkedIn beats any clever copy.
Short. Under 75 words for cold email. Under 50 words for LinkedIn DM.
One ask. "Got 10 minutes this week?" — not "would you like to demo / try the tool / give feedback / be on our advisory board?"
No links above the ask. Links trigger spam filters.
Plain text. No signature graphics. From a real human address (not noreply).

Templates

Saved in products/<name>/launch/outreach/:

Cold email — discovery (pre-PMF)

Subject: <pain> question

Hi <name>,

<1 sentence proving you've seen their work — specific>.

I'm researching how <role> handle <specific problem>. Not selling anything — just learning.

Got 15 minutes this week? Happy to share what I find at the end.

— <your name>

Cold DM — LinkedIn — discovery

Hi <name> — saw your post on <specific topic>. Curious how you currently handle <related pain>? Doing user research, would love to chat for 10min if you're open.

Cold email — early customer (post-prototype)

Subject: <outcome verb> for <segment>

Hi <name>,

<1-sentence relevance>.

I built <product>: <one-liner>. Few <segment> are using it now, getting <specific outcome>.

Worth 10 min? I'd love feedback even if you're not the right fit.

— <name>

Follow-up #1 (T+4 days)

Hi <name> — bumping this in case it got lost. Even a "no thanks" helps me prioritize. Thanks either way.

Follow-up #2 (T+10 days, breakup email)

Hi <name> — last one from me. If this isn't relevant, no worries. If it is, I'm easy to find.

After two follow-ups: stop. Don't add to a nurture sequence.

Sourcing strategy (per segment)

Source	Best for	Tool / how
LinkedIn Sales Nav	B2B roles	$80/mo, worth it for first 100
Apollo	B2B contact info	freemium, 50 free credits/mo
GitHub	devs / OSS users	search by topic + recent commits
Twitter/X search	indie hackers, niche communities	use lists of users by topic
Substack	newsletter writers in a vertical	comment + DM
Subreddit search	consumers + niche pros	post a question, then DM responders
IndieHackers profiles	indie founders	filter by interests + revenue

Cadence rules

25 cold messages per day, max. Quality over volume.
Track every send: date, channel, response (yes / no / no reply / negative).
Test ONE variable at a time (subject line, opener, ask).
Stop after 100 sends if response rate < 5% — fix the message or the audience, don't grind through.

Sources

knowledge-base/launch-stage/cold-outreach-templates.md
knowledge-base/launch-stage/first-100-customers.md

What you don't do

Don't send the same email to 100 people unchanged. That's spam.
Don't use "Hope this finds you well" or any other vacant opener.
Don't include calendar links in cold email #1. Get the yes first.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most sales audience skills give in 881 tokens

Counted across 401 of the 401 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07

Read product marketing context before asking questionsin 21 of 401, across 11 files
Acknowledge competitor strengths honestlyin 18 of 401, across 7 files
Start every page with a summaryin 15 of 401, across 4 files
Use a single, low-friction call to actionin 15 of 401, across 7 files
Create a single source of truth for each competitorin 14 of 401, across 3 files
Make each follow-up email add new valuein 11 of 401, across 5 files
Cut any sentence that does not drive a replyin 10 of 401, across 4 files
Tie personalization directly to the problemin 10 of 401, across 4 files
Write paragraph comparisons for each dimensionin 9 of 401, across 3 files
Link between related competitor pagesin 9 of 401, across 3 files
Keep subject lines short and lowercasein 9 of 401, across 3 files
Define ideal customer profile from top customersin 9 of 401, across 3 files

Said here and by no other author read

keep linkedin dms under 50 words
send from a real human address
send at most 25 cold messages per day
track every send with date channel and response

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