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How can I use AI for sales outreach?

Use AI to research prospects, personalize the first line of every email, and generate follow-up variants — but never send a full AI-written cold email untouched.

Mark Barclay
Answer curated and reviewed byMark Barclay

Key takeaways

  • Use AI to research prospects, personalize the first line of every email, and generate follow-up variants.
  • but never send a full AI-written cold email untouched.

The winning pattern for AI-assisted outreach:

  1. Feed the assistant the prospect's LinkedIn or website. Ask for three genuine reasons your product might matter to them today.
  2. Write your own template. Use AI only to rewrite the opening line for each prospect.
  3. Ask AI to generate three follow-up variants (short, value-add, breakup).

The lift comes from personalization at the top, not from AI-written bodies. Prospects can smell the latter.