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Book a meeting at a target account

You have a name on a list and a quarter to hit. Turn it into a booked meeting.

[ SALES OPERATOR ]

Book a meeting at a target account

G / Groundthe problem that started all of it
Sales Dev

You have a name on a list and a quarter to hit.

Turn it into a booked meeting.

A / Assignthe build, block by block, and who owns each one. Open a step to see it run.
HUMAN + AI, IN THE LOOP
The skills run the work. You stay in the loop on the calls that need judgment.
Claude01
Turn an ICP into a scored, prioritized target list.
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Turn the ICP into a scored, prioritized target list.
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Amplitude02
Turn a buying signal into a timely touch.
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Catch a buying signal and reach out while it is fresh.
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Outreach03
Turn one signal into a cold email that earns a reply.
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Write the first touch on one idea, no filler.
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Deepline04
Turn a LinkedIn prospect into a warm thread.
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Add a value-first second channel.
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Outreach05
Design an outbound cadence where every touch has a point.
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Sequence every touch with a point and a clean break-up.
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T / Tie backthe result it drove, and how they know
RESULT · 01

One rubric for the market

Scored and tiered the whole TAM so cold outbound worked the right accounts first, not the whole list.

OUTPUT · 01

A scored target

OUTPUT · 02

A timely reason to reach out

OUTPUT · 03

A multi-channel sequence that gets a reply

The Sales Operator
01 / WHY RUN IT
RUN THIS AND YOU CAN
A scored target
A timely reason to reach out
A multi-channel sequence that gets a reply
02 / THE RUN, STEP BY STEP

The workflow that solves it, one step at a time.

Each step is the plain question you are already asking. The skills answer them in order, one handing its receipt to the next.

1✓ TESTED
Turn an ICP into a scored, prioritized target list.

The firmographic and signal filters, the tiering, the personas per account, and the reason each account earns its spot.

YOU GETThe fit gates, the 0-100 score, the tiering, and personas per account.
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2✓ TESTED
Turn a buying signal into a timely touch.

Read the trigger (funding, hire, launch, job posting, tech change), pick the one angle it earns, and write the touch while it is still fresh.

YOU GETThe trigger read, the freshness gate, and a one-angle draft.
OPEN THE SKILL →
3✓ TESTED
Turn one signal into a cold email that earns a reply.

From a prospect and a specific angle, writes a short email or 3-touch sequence built on one idea, no filler.

YOU GETThe one-idea rule, an earned opener, a soft CTA, and a 3-touch sequence.
OPEN THE SKILL →
4✓ TESTED
Turn a LinkedIn prospect into a warm thread.

A connection note plus value-first follow-ups, matched to whether the prospect is cold, engaged, or gone quiet.

YOU GETThe connect note, the value-first follow-ups, and the quiet-thread re-open.
OPEN THE SKILL →
5✓ TESTED
Design an outbound cadence where every touch has a point.

The steps, timing, channel, and intent of each touch, tuned to the segment's value.

YOU GETThe touch plan, the timing, the channel mix, and a clean break-up.
OPEN THE SKILL →
WHERE YOU LAND

A scored target, a timely reason to reach out, and a multi-channel sequence that gets a reply.

EVERY STEP, TESTED AND PASSED
EVAL RESULTPASS4/4 dimensions
HOW WE EVAL →
Skills resolve
Structure + proof
Example chat
Quality judge
  • All 5 chained skills resolve to real, scored skills.
  • Has a problem, an outcome, 2+ steps, and proof from a real build.
  • Ships an example chat showing the play run in Claude.
  • Reads in plain operator voice, grounded in a real build.
Last eval run 2026-09-12
DEEP EVAL · PASS
THE STANDARD →

We did not just check the structure. A judge read this play against the full text of every skill it chains (composition), then ran it on a real scenario end to end (simulated). It passed both. Test scenario: Riverbend InsurTech, mid-market SaaS. New SDR Maria just inherited the healthtech vertical this quarter with zero pipeline.

03 / WHO ELSE HAS TO MOVE

This play runs across the org, not inside sales.

Every function below owns a piece of the play. Skip one and it stalls where most GTM plays stall: in the handoff.

MARKETING
The message house and persona language reps write from

Without it: Every rep improvises positioning and the market hears noise

REVOPS
List data, routing, and deliverability health

Without it: Great sequences land in spam and nobody knows

SALES LEADERSHIP
Protected prospecting time and the meeting-quality bar

Without it: Booked meetings count, bad meetings close nothing

04 / SEE IT RUN

Watch the skills answer in order.

Describe your situation in plain language. The right skill fires on its own and hands its receipt to the next.

EXAMPLE CHATJordan, an SDR, running the loop in one sitting
J
I own the mid-market fintech segment this quarter and I'm starting from a blank list. Can you build me a target list from our ICP?
S
Step 1· Outbound List Builder
Pulled accounts matching your ICP, ran fit gates, and scored each one 0-100 so the strongest land on top. Tiered them and tagged the personas to hit inside each account, with a one-line reason each earns its spot.
tier A18 accts
tier B31 accts
Receipt
64 fintech accounts scored and ranked, top 18 flagged as tier A worth working first.
J
A few of these just raised or are hiring hard. Which ones have a fresh reason to reach out right now?
S
Step 2· Trigger Outreach
Scanned the list for live signals and found funding rounds, new VP hires, and product launches inside the last 30 days. Kept only the ones still fresh and picked the single angle each trigger earns.
Receipt
9 accounts with a trigger in the last 30 days, each with one angle to lead on.
J
Take the top account, the one that just hired a VP of Rev Ops, and write me a cold email.
S
Step 3· Cold Email Writer
Built the email on one idea, the new VP inheriting a messy handoff, with an opener that shows I actually looked. Short, soft CTA, no filler. Added two follow-ups so it's a 3-touch sequence.
Receipt
3-touch email sequence, opener under 90 words, one ask at the end.
J
Same person, but for LinkedIn. What do I send there?
S
Step 4· Linkedin Outreach
Wrote a connection note that doesn't pitch, then two value-first follow-ups for after they accept. Since this prospect is cold, the thread opens with something useful to them, not a demo ask.
Receipt
Connection note plus 2 follow-ups, matched to a cold prospect.
J
Okay, now stitch all of this into one cadence so I know what to do on which day.
S
Step 5· Cadence Builder
Laid out the full sequence across email, LinkedIn, and call, with timing and the intent behind every touch so nothing is just a bump. Ended it with a clean break-up so dead threads close themselves.
touches11
days18
Receipt
18-day, 11-touch cadence ready to launch across the top 18 accounts, first meeting expected inside 2 weeks.
05 / SEE IT IN PRODUCTION

Before you run it, I ran it for real.

This workflow is genericized from a real build. Here is the number it moved, and what I actually did.

THE BUILD · TAM + PRIORITIZATION
Scoring the TAM
~4x
more revenue-bearing opps than the prior run rate
~4.5x
more new pipeline created than the prior run rate
~90%
of that pipeline came from strong-fit accounts
100%
of outbound landed on-strike-zone
WHAT I DID
01
One rubric for the whole market. ICP fit earns the base, 40 to 70. Product engagement adds up to 30, the loudest and most honest signal. Buying signals add up to 20, bounded so they can only ever help, never carry a bad-fit account.
02
Three stages, one engine. Fit, product, and intent are scored separately and stacked, so the number always shows its work and no single signal can hide behind another.
03
Every account gets a tier and a move. The output is not a score in a vacuum. It is a tier, Strike or Hot and down, and a specific first action per account, by role, so a rep never has to ask what to do next.

You cannot prioritize a market by scoring one deal at a time. Put the entire TAM through one rubric, fit for the base, product for the lift, intent capped so it can only help, and make reps work the ranked list top-down. The teams that do book more of the right pipeline and stop burning a quarter of their capacity on accounts that were never going to buy.

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06 / ROLL IT OUT AND INSPECT IT · THE OTHER HALF

A list is only as good as the rep working it

The skills hand an SDR a scored list, a live trigger, and a sequenced set of touches; the meeting gets booked in the moment a buyer decides the message is about them. Here is how a sales development leader trains that moment instead of hoping the tooling covers it.

THE FRAMEWORK BEHIND IT
The first-touch table read

Every new sequence gets read aloud to the pod before it ships: one idea per touch, no filler, a break-up with a spine. Reps clear the read-aloud bar before cadence-builder sends a single step.

  1. 01
    Train the trigger read

    Teach what each signal from trigger-outreach earns: a hiring spike gets a different opener than a champion move. Reps who can say why now write touches that land.

  2. 02
    Set the same-day send SLA

    A fresh signal gets its first touch before the day ends. Open the morning stand-up with the signals still waiting for an owner.

  3. 03
    Certify the break-up email

    The last touch is where respect shows. No rep ships a cadence until the break-up reads clean: no guilt, no fake urgency, a real door left open.

  4. 04
    Coach on replies, not activity

    Review which touches drew answers each week and reweight the cadence toward them. Sends are effort; replies are the read on whether the effort landed.

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