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Find outreach contacts and draft messages
Find outreach contacts and draft messages. Find the right outreach contacts and draft a personalized first message for each, with every message reviewed before it's sent.
What you can get
Reaches your accounts Creates or changes things in accounts you connect, with your approval.
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It does
- Searches for public contact information for the people you name
- Drafts personalized messages for your review
- Sends no message without your approval
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It stops and asks
- Before searching: confirm who you're trying to reach and why.
- Before anything is sent: review each drafted message for accuracy, not just tone.
- After sending: track who replied, so the next round isn't guesswork.
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You approve
- Your review and approval of each message before sending
- No authority to invent or assume facts about a contact for personalization
Derived from this task's own brief and steps, not from the source.
- List the targets
Names, roles or companies, and context for personalizing.
- Find contacts
Email or profile per target, flagged where unconfirmed.
- Draft messages
A personalized draft per contact, not one template reused.
- Review and sendStops for your approval
Every message checked for accuracy before it goes out.
Editorial, not from the source
Works when
- You have a specific, short list of people or roles to reach, not a mass campaign.
- You want contact info found and a first draft written, with you giving the final wording a look.
- You're comfortable with a small sample and want to see what response rate looks like.
Does not work when
- You want outreach sent without reviewing the message first.
- The personalization would need to guess at facts it can't actually confirm.
- You're sending at a volume where unsolicited-contact rules might apply and haven't checked those separately.
Find outreach contacts and draft messages: review template
| Contact | Found details | Message status |
|---|---|---|
| [Name/role] | [Email/profile, verified or flagged] | [Draft reviewed] |
| [Name/role] | [Email/profile, verified or flagged] | [Sent / pending approval] |
| [Reply tracking] | [Who responded] | [Updated after sending] |
The source case
On X, @purvaasays reports: "Instinct found me the email addresses and LinkedIn profiles. & this time I framed the messages personally." They add: "Still playing on a very small sample size, so really can't comment on results. But it is a good start :)" A second user, @srcasm, describes a different, single-recipient version: "Last week I heard @noahrshinn might be the founder of Instinct, so I had Instinct write him a note asking for a chat." They add: "Founder to power user, delivered by the product itself." Neither post shows the found contact details, the drafted messages, or a reply. @purvaasays says explicitly that the sample size is too small to judge results. Both are first-person reports, checked on 2026-10-09.
A public report by someone outside this library. Not independently reproduced here.
From the source
Source excerpt
Instinct found me the email addresses and LinkedIn profiles. & this time I framed the messages personally.
Source excerpt
Still playing on a very small sample size, so really can't comment on results. But it is a good start :)
Source excerpt
Last week I heard @noahrshinn might be the founder of Instinct, so I had Instinct write him a note asking for a chat.
Quoted from the original posts. Not written by this guide, and not a result produced here.
Suggested prompt
Bring Names, roles or companies to reach, Context for personalizing each message, Any detail you want it to never mention or guess at. Acts Searches for public contact information for the people you name. Drafts personalized messages for your review. Sends no message without your approval. Source community report, checked 2026-10-09.
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Other ways to ask
Editorial rewrites of the brief above, for a different emphasis. Copy them separately.
What you need
Editorial, not from the source
You supply
- Names, roles or companies to reach
- Context for personalizing each message
- Any detail you want it to never mention or guess at
Connected
- Whatever search or lookup access it needs for contact details
- An email or messaging account to send from, once approved
How to try it
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- Give it the names, roles or companies you want to reach, and any context that should shape the message.
- Ask it to find the relevant email address or LinkedIn profile for each, and to say when it can't confirm one.
- Have it draft a short, personalized message per contact rather than one template copied across all of them.
- Review every message before anything is sent, and track replies so you know which contacts actually responded.
Two small, honest reports
@purvaasays describes a morning outreach routine: Instinct found email addresses and LinkedIn profiles, and the author framed the messages personally that time, adding directly that the sample size is too small to say anything about results. @srcasm describes a narrower case: hearing that a specific person might be a founder of Instinct, and having it write that one person a note asking for a chat. Neither report shows what was found, what was drafted, or what came back, and neither author claims a reply or an outcome beyond sending the message. Read together, they describe the same basic shape of task, finding contact details and turning them into a first message, at very different scales and with no results shown either way.
Verify before you rely on it
A found email address or LinkedIn profile can be wrong in ways that aren't obvious: an outdated address, a general company inbox, or a different person with a similar name and title. Before sending anything, especially a message meant to land with a specific individual, check the contact against something independent, like the company's own site, a mutual connection, or a recent public post confirming the role. This matters more as volume increases, since a handful of wrong guesses in a small batch is a minor annoyance, while the same error rate at scale is a pattern worth catching early, before it shapes how your outreach is received more broadly.
Personalize with what's actually true
A personalized message is valuable because it shows you did the work of knowing who you're writing to, which also means it's worse than a generic template if it gets something wrong. Give it real context to draw from, and review each draft for accuracy, not just tone, before anything goes out, especially any line that claims a shared background or a specific detail about the recipient's work. Track who actually replies once messages are sent, since one of the two reports explicitly flags its own sample as too small to judge, and a real response rate only shows up once you've sent, and reviewed the outcome of, more than a handful.
Open Instinct to try it. That is the product's own site; this guide is not part of it.
Limits and confirmation points
- Neither report shows the found contacts or the drafted messages; one explicitly says the sample size is too small to say anything about results.
- A found email or profile may be out of date, belong to the wrong person with a similar name, or be a general inbox rather than the individual's own. Verify before relying on it for anything important.
- A 'personalized' message is only as good as the context it's given; check that it doesn't invent a shared connection or detail you haven't confirmed.
- Outreach volume and unsolicited contact can have its own rules depending on platform and jurisdiction (for example around unsolicited commercial email); that's outside what this task covers.
Editorial, not from the source
- Before searching: confirm who you're trying to reach and why.
- Before anything is sent: review each drafted message for accuracy, not just tone.
- After sending: track who replied, so the next round isn't guesswork.
Editorial, not from the source
- A found contact seems to be the wrong person or an outdated address
- Verify independently (a company site, a mutual contact) before sending anything to it.
- A draft message states something about the contact you haven't confirmed
- Remove or rewrite that line before sending; don't let a plausible-sounding detail stand in for a checked one.
- You're not getting a sense of whether outreach is working
- Track replies explicitly across a larger batch before concluding anything; a handful of messages, as one report notes, is too small a sample to judge.
Common questions
Can an agent find contact details for outreach?
Two users report it: one had it find emails and LinkedIn profiles for a small morning outreach batch, the other had it find and message a single specific person. Neither post shows the results.
How accurate are the found contacts?
Not established here. Verify any contact independently before relying on it, especially for a message meant for one specific person.
Will it send messages without me seeing them first?
It shouldn't. Review each personalized message before it's sent, checking the facts it uses, not just the tone.
Does a small outreach batch tell me if this works?
One of the two reports says directly that its own sample size is too small to comment on results. Track a larger batch before drawing conclusions.
Can it personalize a message with details it isn't sure about?
It shouldn't invent them. Give it confirmed context, and remove or correct any detail in the draft you haven't verified yourself.
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