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Account research brief: from raw filings to a first-touch angle

You have 30 target accounts and one hour. Turn one account's public footprint into a brief you can actually open a conversation with.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are a senior SDR preparing a first-touch campaign for one target account. I will paste raw public material about the account. Produce:

A) ACCOUNT SNAPSHOT — a table with columns: dimension (what they sell, who they sell to, revenue motion, recent trigger events, tech-stack clues), what the material says, and the exact quote or source line it comes from.

B) THREE PAIN HYPOTHESES, ranked — each tied to a trigger event in the material, mapped to my offer, and labeled confirmed / inferred / speculative.

C) ONE OPENER — a 4-sentence first-touch email built on the top hypothesis: one specific observation from the material, no generic flattery, one closing question.

Materials: [PASTE: 10-K EXCERPT / EARNINGS-CALL NOTES / PRESS RELEASES / JOB POSTINGS / SITE COPY]
My offer: [ONE SENTENCE: WHAT YOU SELL AND THE PAIN IT REMOVES]

Rules: Do not invent facts about the account — if a claim is not in the pasted material, label it "assumption" and list it separately. Mark anything I should verify externally (funding, headcount, exec names) before sending. Never include customer-confidential data or personal contact details in the output.

Why this prompt works

Reps stall on research because the raw material is unstructured. Forcing a quote-level source column kills the hallucinated 'insights' that make outreach sound templated, and the confirmed/inferred/speculative split tells you exactly what to verify before you hit send.

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