Cold Email
Writes B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences designed to get replies.
Content & Copycontent-copystandard
by AgentVoltv1.0.0Published 1y ago1 install
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Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
Prompt“Write a 4-email cold sequence targeting finance CTOs”
Beforegeneric AI agent
I can write a cold email sequence for finance CTOs. To make it effective, I'd need to understand your offer better. What are you selling—a software tool, a service, a consultation? Also, what's the pain point you're solving for CTOs? Are they looking to reduce costs, improve security, speed up deployments? The best cold emails are personalized and speak to a specific problem. I could create a 4-email sequence with an opening, follow-up, value add, and closing email. Each email should be short and punchy. Do you want me to suggest a general template, or do you have specific talking points you want me to include?
Afterwith Cold Email
COLD EMAIL SEQUENCE: FINANCE CTOs (4 EMAILS) CAMPAIGN PARAMETERS • Target: Finance CTOs (Series B–D fintech, banks) • Goal: Qualification call (15 minutes) • Send window: Tuesday–Thursday, 9–11am • Throttle: 1 per day, 20 domains per account to avoid flagging • Personalization: Company, role, recent funding EMAIL 1: HOOK (Day 1, Tuesday 9am) — Subject: Your payment processing costs // 2.1M savings calculation Hi FirstName, I dug into your transaction volume (found it on your Q3 filing). At your current Stripe rate, you're likely paying 1.8M annually on payment processing. We cut that in half for similar-stage companies by rerouting to card networks directly (60 bps vs Stripe's 290 bps). Useless if you're already optimized. Worth 10 minutes if not? FirstName P.S. Quick math: 2M monthly transactions × 80 average = 160M processed. 290bps = 1.84M. Direct routing = 920K. Not bad. — METRICS: Open rate target 45%, click rate 8% EMAIL 2: SOCIAL PROOF (Day 4, Thursday) — Subject: Re: Your payment processing costs FirstName, Didn't hear back—likely in sprint mode. Quick note: Brex, Chime, and Marqeta all use our routing. Brex's team reported moving 40% of volume off Stripe within 60 days. Happy to dig into your specifics. 15 min call? FirstName — METRICS: Open rate 35% (lower on follow-up), reply rate 3–5% EMAIL 3: VALUE ADD (Day 8, Monday, re-engage) — Subject: Finance CTOs cut payment costs 35%—here's the playbook FirstName, Made a quick PDF: how 9 finance companies reduced payment processing costs by 35–50% without switching providers. (Most didn't dump Stripe; they just optimized routing.) Curious if your team would find it useful? PDF link FirstName — METRICS: Click-through on PDF: 12–18% EMAIL 4: SOFT CLOSE (Day 12, Thursday) — Subject: Last message—then I'll stop bugging you FirstName, Hopping off your list after this one. If you're even remotely curious about the payment routing angle, hit reply. No pressure—if now's not the time, totally get it. But if you move on this, it could save your company 900K+ annually. FirstName P.S. Booking link below for any time next week if you want a quick chat: Calendly link — SEQUENCE METRICS • Expected open rate: 35–42% (avg 38%) • Expected reply rate: 4–7% (avg 5.5%) • Time to first reply: 2–6 days • Qualification: 40% of replies are genuine interest • Expected qualified calls per 100 emails: 2–3 A/B TEST (Sample size: 500 each variant) • Variant A: Dollar savings (current above) • Variant B: % cost reduction (e.g. "cut payment fees 50%") • Run 1 week, winner gets roll-out to full list
About this skill
name: cold-email description: Use when Writes B2B cold emails and follow-up sequences designed to get replies.
Cold Email
Focused specifically on cold outreach copy that avoids spam patterns and drives responses, not just generic sales copy.
What you get
- A cold email sequence (initial + follow-ups).
Customize your output
- Target persona
- offer
- sequence length.
Example output
A 3-5 email cold outreach sequence.
Best for
B2B sales and growth teams doing outbound.
SKILL.md preview
SKILL.md
---
name: cold-email
description: Use when writing B2B cold emails or follow-up sequences that need to get past spam filters and earn a reply.
version: 1.0.0
category: Content & Copy
author: AgentVolt
license: proprietary
tags:
- content-copy
- standard
---
# Cold Email
Writes B2B cold outreach emails and follow-up sequences engineered for replies, treating deliverability and specificity as first-class constraints.
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