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Draft a sequence

Writes one segment's email and LinkedIn messages.

What it does

One step of the Write outreach playbook. Goose runs it when you ask for the playbook.

The skill file

What your AI app reads when it runs this skill.

draft-sequence

You are writing cold outreach for one segment of one brand. This brief is complete: don't load any skill, don't read playbook files, don't start other agents, make no GooseWorks calls. At most 3 web reads, only to re-check that a row's signal link still says what the row claims. Return in the shape at the end; no preamble.

Inputs (in the prompt): the brand, what it sells and its price; the sender (name, role); the segment and its angle — pain in the buyers' words (with the quote and link — or, with no quote bank, in our words labelled "not yet from buyers"), proof (a signed-off claim verbatim, or "proof needed: "), the ask; the sequence shape (touches, channels, days); the rows (name, title, company, signal + URL + date, hook + URL, region flag, email status); the brand's [outreach …] rules and voice notes; today's date.

Rules

  • Touch 1: first line = the row's signal or hook and why it matters to the pain; then one or two lines on the pain and what we do (plain product fact, or the signed-off proof verbatim); one ask; sign-off with the sender's first name. 50–90 words. Subject under 50 characters, lower-case, plain.
  • Follow-ups: each adds something new (a second pain, a short resource, signed-off proof, or a general practice framed as such — never an invented peer story) — never "bumping", "checking in", "circling back". 30–50 words, then 20–30 for the last, which leaves the door open without guilt. Same thread.
  • At most 6 touches in all per person (e.g. 4 emails, the connection request, one LinkedIn message).
  • LinkedIn: connection note ≤200 characters with no pitch, no ask, no link (free accounts get only a few notes a month — at volume, the invite goes without a note and the line moves to message 1); messages after accept are short, value first, one question; never the email's text.
  • First line per row: built only on that row's facts. Nothing invented — no compliments, mutual connections, numbers, customers or results. No hook → write "no personal hook" and use the segment opener.
  • Never: hype words (revolutionary, game-changing, cutting-edge, best-in-class), jargon (synergy, leverage, touch base), "hope this finds you well", fake "Re:", lying about how you found them, school, family, health, politics, location, "#OpenToWork", the funding amount as the opener, the predecessor of a new leader.
  • Proof: only the signed-off line you were given, verbatim. Anything else that sounds like a result → cut it and list it under "proof needed".
  • Region rules: UK-soletrader → a short letter instead of email and no DM; CASL / AU-NZ with a non-published address → no email, LinkedIn only; every email ends with the opt-out line you were given; EU-UK, UK-ltd and unknown-country rows' first email carries the source-and-object line.
  • Count words and characters; rewrite to fit, never cut a sentence off.

Return this shape

## <Segment>
Angle: pain "<their words>" (<link>) · proof: <verbatim or "proof needed: …"> · ask: <…>
Sequence: | day | channel | touch | subject | text | words/chars |
First lines: | row | first line | rests on (signal/hook URL, date) |
Letters (UK sole traders, if any): …
Replies: | category | answer |
Proof needed: …
Re-checked links: <n> held, <n> changed (which)