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Research and draft cold outreach with Claude Code
Claude Code handles research and drafting for cold outreach while a separate platform sends at scale.
- What They Did
- The poster connected Claude Code to their Gmail inbox and Google Sheets, then let it research businesses and log each lead in a spreadsheet with the email address, location, and business-specific notes. Claude also drafted a personalized cold email for each business; the person reviewed the drafts at the end and sent them manually, and later said they had also started building a Google Maps API-based lead system.
- How It Went
- It appears to be working as a time-saver for research and draft writing, but the post gives no reply-rate or revenue numbers. The stated gaps were using a personal Gmail inbox and not having enough email validation capacity on ZeroBounce’s free tier.
- Worth Knowing
- The clearest catch is setup around sending: they were still on a personal Gmail account and said domain setup and email validation were still pending.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I'm doing cold outreach for [my product/service] to [target audience]. For each lead in [path/to/leads file], research the company and draft a short first-touch email under [100] words in this tone: [tone]. Save the drafts to a file with a source link for each claim you used, and do not send anything. I'll upload the approved drafts to my sending platform myself.