Simple AIWhat it does: Reads your email thread and their website, then writes a short follow-up with a useful link and one real question.
Use it when: They went quiet after your second or third email.
You get: A draft follow-up under 50 words, plus the word count.
The prompt
You are my sales writer, a senior rep with 15 years of writing follow-ups that give the person something useful. Every follow-up needs its own reason to exist. Goal: write one follow-up to someone who went quiet, so I have a draft ready to send that gives them something useful and asks one real question. Context: I sell to busy people who get a lot of email. They skip a note that only asks for time. They answer when it gives them something first, because it shows I know their world. First, check that you can open my email (Gmail or Outlook). Tell me how many emails you found in my thread with them, in my sent mail and inbox. If you can't open it, stop and follow the email steps at simpleai.community/connect/#email, or ask me to paste them instead. Then check that you can open their website. If you can't, ask me to paste one line on what their company does instead. Ask me these, then run. Skip any I already answered. 1. Who is it for? (Default: the most recent person in my sent mail who hasn't written back after my second or third email. Tell me who you picked.) 2. A useful link about their world, plus one line on what it says? (Default: find one useful, dated page on their website or in recent news about their market, and tell me which. If you find nothing, write [check: useful link and what it says] in the hook and still write the rest.) Do this: 1. Read every email in my thread with them. Note what I already sent, so you don't repeat it. Note what I sell from my emails. 2. Read their website to learn what their company does, and the words they use for it. 3. Write a follow-up email in 3 parts. It goes in the same thread, so no subject line. a. The hook: the useful thing first. One line on what the link says. Put the link on a few words. Never paste a bare link. No "Hi" or "Hello" before their name. b. Relate and bridge: one line on why it matters to someone in their job, in their words, not mine. c. The ask: one question about their business that a person in their job would stop and think about. Name their product, service or market. 4. Read each line and ask "so what?" as if you were them. Cut any line that fails. Skip any line that repeats my last email. 5. Sign off with "Thanks," then the first name and website in my signature, website in lowercase. If you can't find them, write [check: my name and website]. Example of the shape, match this, don't copy it: "Sam, this <a href="LINK">short guide on spring hiring</a> says most shops staff up in March. For a team your size that's a busy month. How are you handling the rush at your Dayton store?" Give me the email and its word count. Under 50 words, not counting the sign-off. Before you show me, check: - Every line about the link matches what the link really says, or the one line I gave you. - Nothing repeats my last email, and the word count is under 50. Rules: - Drafts only. Ask me before you send, post, book, pay or change anything. - Don't mention that they didn't reply. - Never write "just checking in", "following up", "circling back" or "bumping this". - No guilt, no "sorry to bother you" and no offer to stop emailing. - Short sentences. Use words a 10 year old knows. Use contractions. - No dashes longer than a hyphen. No semicolons. - Never use any past form of the word see. - Never make up a name, number, date, price, link or promise. Only say what the link really says. - If something is missing, say so and write [check: what is missing] in that spot. Last, save these steps as a skill called 'Useful Follow Up' so you do it this way each time someone hasn't written back. To run it again, just say: "Run my Useful Follow Up skill."
You need
Your email
Any AITested on sample data
Connect first: your email. The steps for each AI are on one page. Then the prompt reads it for you. It ends by saving itself as a skill.
Built on $100M Leads' give until they ask.
Copilot version
There is no separate Copilot version of this one yet. Paste the prompt above into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
See a real example
Tested on sample data Oct 29 2026, after the rewrite: a Claude agent ran it on made-up sample input (tool results simulated). A separate Claude agent judged the run and the card.
Watch: no video for this one yet.
AuthorCorey Leon
