When this pays off
High outbound volume
SDRs running 100+ touches a week and personalization is collapsing into copy-paste.
Flatlining reply rates
The team is writing more emails and getting fewer replies — the messages stopped sounding different.
Top-10% personalization
Reps only hand-personalize their A-list. Everyone else gets a template they’re not happy with.
Multi-channel sequences
Email + LinkedIn + follow-up timing is breaking down because no human is orchestrating it.
The shape of this use case
An outbound Agent takes a prospect and produces a message ready to send.Inputs
Prospect name, company, role, recent activity, CRM history.
Sources
CRM, LinkedIn, web and news, your messaging playbooks, ICP and persona docs.
Output
A drafted email or LinkedIn message tuned to that prospect, in your team’s voice.
Delivery
Queued in Gmail/Outlook, posted to LinkedIn, written to the CRM, or dropped in a rep’s queue for review.
Where to start
Two ways in, depending on whether you want something running today or built to your exact spec.Clone a pre-built Agent
Open LinkedIn Outreach & Follow up — or Outbound Composer for multi-variant email. More in the Marketplace.
Build your own
Start from scratch in the builder, or by describing it in Claude Code or Cursor with Programmatic GTM.
- “Draft a LinkedIn DM to Sarah at Initech — she just got promoted to VP of Sales last month.”
- “Write a follow-up email to Acme Corp referencing our last call notes in HubSpot.”
- “Give me three subject line options for a re-engagement email to dormant trial users.”
Where to take it
Once it’s running, deepen it in three moves:Give it a playbook
Shape it with a prompt, Knowledge, and Bulk Schedule.
Let it improve
Feed reply and meeting rates back into the Agent’s evals so drafts work from what converts.
Common pitfalls
Personalization that's surface-level
Personalization that's surface-level
Mentioning the company name doesn’t count. The opening line has to reference something the prospect would only believe you noticed if you actually paid attention — a post, a launch, a role change.
Sending too fast
Sending too fast
Volume plus zero warm-up equals the spam folder. Use sending caps and a warm-up schedule on new domains.
Every message reads the same
Every message reads the same
If your reply rates flatline as volume grows, the Agent has converged on a template. Force structural variation in the prompt — different opens, different CTA placements.
No human gate on exec accounts
No human gate on exec accounts
Use Alerts to route messages for high-value accounts through human review before they send.

