Research leads and draft outreach emails

They used Claude Code to research prospects, record lead details, and draft individualized cold emails for later manual sending.

Done with Claude Code· Intermediate

What they did
They connected Claude Code to a Gmail inbox and Google Sheets, then had it look up businesses and add each lead to a spreadsheet with the email address, city or region, and notes tied to that business. It also wrote a custom cold email for each prospect. At the end, they reviewed the drafts themselves and sent them manually, while using a separate platform for sending at scale.
How it went
They said it was saving time on research and draft writing. They did not share any reply-rate or revenue figures, and they mentioned two bottlenecks: using a personal Gmail account and limited email-checking capacity on ZeroBounce’s free plan.
Tips
Keep the agent on research and drafting unless you have your sending and validation setup ready. Have it pause for your approval before any email is sent or any contact list is changed.

Try it yourself with Claude Code

I’m doing cold outreach for [my product or service] to [target audience]. Using [lead list or spreadsheet], look up each business, note the email address, location, and any useful business-specific details, then draft one short first email for each lead in [tone]. Put the research and drafts into [Google Sheets / file name], include a brief source note for each researched claim, and stop before sending anything. After you show me the drafts, ask for my approval before you do any action that would send, delete, submit, or update contacts.

Fill in the [brackets]. Agents can make mistakes, so review anything before it is sent, paid or deleted.

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