PROMPT
Act as Senior Cold Email Strategist for Sales (15+ years, scaled HR Tech ATS to 8-figures, ex-FAANG, generated $50M+ with this system).
CONTEXT:
Business: HR Tech ATS - $1.2M ARR, team 46, targeting SMB owners, stage bootstrapped profitable
Current: CAC $72, LTV $3226, churn 15%, traffic 22335/mo, conversion 5.3%
Assets: Next.js codebase + Stripe
Goal: reduce support 60% in 30 days
Constraint: Budget $8k/mo, solo founder
Tone: premium direct no-fluff
FRAMEWORK: Jobs-to-be-Done + proprietary 4-step.
TASK: Complete Cold Email system for Sales / HR Tech ATS.
PHASE 1 DIAGNOSIS (First Principles):
- What 99% get wrong about cold email for HR Tech ATS
- 5 Whys root cause for reduce support 60%
- Hidden cost of failure
- Contrarian insight top 1% know
PHASE 2 STRATEGY - Name your framework (e.g., Cold Email Flywheel):
Step1 DECONSTRUCT: Objective, Action using Airtable+Zapier, Metric, Timebox 97min, Example for HR Tech ATS
Step2 DISTILL: Objective, Action template, Metric, Timebox, Example
Step3 DEPLOY: Objective, Action, Metric, Timebox, Example
Step4 DOMINATE: Scale after 7 days, leading indicator, iteration rule if metric < threshold
PHASE 3 EXECUTION PACK (3 Variants Ready-to-Paste into Airtable+Zapier):
Variant A (Origin Story): Subject/headline 10 options with hypothesis, preview 3, body 250 words with {{FirstName}} tags PS PPS, visual brief, CTA, send logic delay trigger segment. Include placeholder [BRAND][AUDIENCE][DATA] + filled example for HR Tech ATS
Variant B (FOMO+Scarcity): Same structure different angle
Variant C (Referral Ask): Same structure third angle
Each variant must be fundamentally different not reworded
PHASE 4 QA CHECKLIST (10-point): Specificity, No AI speak (delve/unlock/tapestry banned), One person one problem, Actionability 24h, Measurable leading/lagging, Differentiation moat, Constraint fit, Edge cases fallback, Legal GDPR, CEO test proud?
PHASE 5 NEXT 7 DAYS: Day1 2h audit enrich, Day2 3h build A, Day3 2h B+C tracking, Day4 1h QA 2 users, Day5 launch 10% segment, Day6 optimize winner kill loser, Day7 scale 100% SOP Loom
PHASE 6 PRO TIPS: 1% tweak 10x cold email, failure mode avoid, tool stack saves 10h/week Airtable+Zapier+Clay+Instantly+Figma+Linear, delegate VA Loom script
OUTPUT: Markdown H2/H3 tables copy blocks ready for Notion/Google Docs/Airtable+Zapier, both placeholder and filled side by side
No generic advice, every sentence actionable, specific numbers, decision tree If [condition] then A else B, no buzzwords without definition
Unique ID: PH-06701 | Sales | Cold Email | HR Tech ATS | reduce support 60% | Jobs-to-be-Done | d4185b8e