# sales-outreach-personalization

This skill turns prospect signals into ranked reasons to reach out. Use it to connect a dated, sourced fact with a relevant next step.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 24900 installs · ★ 3
- Author: Maya-Beth Finotti
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-14
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sales-outreach-personalization

## What it does

The skill develops 2–3 personalization angles for B2B or B2C outreach. Each angle connects a signal and its source and date to a possible prospect problem, a short hook, a justified ask, and confidence and recency labels. It does not make up signals.

Before suggesting an angle, it gathers context about the prospect, what you sell, the signals available, and where and when they were observed. It also asks about channel, account tier, timing, effort limits, and consent restrictions. Questions come one at a time, and details already established are skipped.

This skill finds a reason to contact someone; it does not draft an email, subject line, call script, or outreach cadence. If you need finished copy, this is the boundary to keep in mind.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-outreach-personalization -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-outreach-personalization -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-outreach-personalization -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mbfinotti/sales-skills sales-outreach-personalization
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-outreach-personalization -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills --path skills/sales-outreach-personalization
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mbfinotti/sales-skills --skill sales-outreach-personalization -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mbfinotti/sales-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/sales-outreach-personalization/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Find a reason to contact a prospect
- Connect a company event to a likely problem
- Compare signals by freshness and confidence
- Choose a justified next step for outreach

## Example prompts
- Find a reason to contact this prospect using the signals we have, and include their sources.
- Rank the company events that could support a relevant outreach angle.
- Suggest personalization for this segment and explain what ask the evidence supports.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sales-outreach-personalization
description: Turns prospect signals into 2-3 ranked personalization angles for outreach, each pairing a dated, sourced signal with the problem it implies, a one-line hook, the ask it justifies, and a confidence/recency label. Covers B2B and B2C signals and 1:1 vs 1:few vs 1:many effort tiers, and never invents a signal. Use whenever the user mentions personalization, a trigger event, a funding round, a new hire or job change, a product launch, review mining, or "find a reason to reach out", even without the word personalize. Do NOT use for drafting the message - subject lines (mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-email-subject-line-tester), openers (mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-call-opener), and cadence (mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outbound-sequence) live elsewhere.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Maya-Beth Finotti
  version: "1.4.9"
---

# Outreach Personalization

Turn the signals a user supplies (or can verify) about a prospect into 2-3 concrete personalization angles. An angle is a reason to reach out, not a message: the finished email, subject line, call opener, and touch cadence belong to neighboring skills (see References). The hardest rule here is negative - a fabricated signal is worse than no angle at all, because it destroys trust the moment the prospect checks.

**Scope boundaries.** Never write body copy, subject lines, call scripts, or sequences. A one-line hook is in scope; a drafted paragraph is not.

Hand the chosen angle to:

- `mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-email-subject-line-tester` for subjects
- `mbfinotti/sales-skills@cold-call-opener` for phone openers
- `mbfinotti/sales-skills@sales-outbound-sequence` for cadence

## Interview

- Ask one question per message, offering multiple-choice options.
- Skip anything context already answers.
- If your harness has persistent memory and a prior run stored this user's answers, confirm instead of re-asking.

1. Who is the prospect: a named person at a company (B2B), or a consumer/segment (B2C)?
2. What do you sell, in one plain sentence, and to whom? Refuse a feature list - one sentence.
3. Which signals do you already have? Offer the taxonomy categories as choices: funding/financial, leadership/role change, hiring, product/launch news, tooling change, their content or talks, community/review activity, mutual connection - or for consumers: purchase, browsing, lifecycle, loyalty events.
4. For each signal: where did it come from, and when? Source and date decide confidence.
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