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Research Target Account Before First Outreach

Generate a one-page account brief with company basics, stakeholders, tech stack, and top outreach angles.

About this prompt

This prompt helps SDRs, BDRs, and AEs compile structured pre-outreach research on a target account into a single usable reference document. Use it before writing your first email or making a cold call to a new account. It surfaces company basics, recent trigger events, key stakeholders, and the top three angles to use in your first touch.Walking into an outreach blind — no context on growth stage, no trigger events, no sense of who to reach — produces generic messaging that gets ignored. This prompt takes a target company and relevant context about your product and ICP and produces a formatted one-pager covering company basics, recent news signals, key stakeholders in the target department, likely tech stack, probable pain points, competitors they may already use, and trigger events you can reference. Customize it with [COMPANY] as the target account name, [DEPARTMENT] for the function you're entering, [WHAT YOU SELL] for a brief product description, and [IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE] to anchor the pain point and angle analysis to your actual buyer. Use this prompt for account research before first outreach, not for pre-call prep when a deal is already in flight — a meeting briefing prompt with more discovery context is better for that. One practical tip: include any signals you've already noticed in your ICP field so the output can build on your existing observations rather than starting from scratch.

The prompt

Help me research [COMPANY] before I reach out to them. What I need to find: Company basics (size, funding, growth stage) Recent news/signals (funding, hiring, product launches) Key stakeholders in [DE
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Variables to replace

COMPANY|DEPARTMENT|WHAT YOU SELL|IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE

How to run it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Copilot — it's tuned to run in any of them.
  2. Replace the variables — swap each bracketed token for your deal's specifics. The variables list above explains every field.
  3. Make it yours — run it, keep what's strong, and tighten your inputs on the next pass. The prompt improves with your context.

What good output looks like

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StageProspecting
SeatSDR, BDR, AE
DifficultyIntermediate
Time to valueQuick Win (under 10 min)
Works withAI-Agnostic
CategoryAccount Research & Buyer Intelligence
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