{"id":"exec-intro-request-email-to-investor","audience":"executives","category":"leadership-work","track":"leadership","level":"intermediate","technique":"constraints","title":"Ask an investor for introductions without inflating your numbers","free":false,"task":"Write an email to an existing investor asking for two specific introductions. Plain text, under 120 words, subject first. Include exactly two figures from the notes (use the corrected ones), name the two target companies, say what you want from each meeting in one phrase, and end with a line offering a 2-sentence blurb they can forward. Do not use the words rocket, hypergrowth or crushing it, and make no claims beyond the notes.","materialLabel":"Notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Investor: Ravi Menon at Alder Ventures. We're Pillar HR Tools (fictional), 11 months since seed.\n\nFacts\n- ARR: $1.3M. In the board deck draft it said $1.5M, but that included $0.2M of signed-not-live contracts; $1.3M is live ARR.\n- Customers: 46. Net revenue retention: 108%.\n- Target introductions: (1) Brightcare Group (a 2,000-person employer): want a pilot conversation with their VP People. (2) Tessera Payroll: want a partnership conversation about an integration.\n- Do not promise Brightcare anything. No contract talk.\n- We are not raising now; this is only about intros. Don't hint at fundraising.\n- Our founder-friendly tone: warm, short, no hype.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Using the inflated ARR","why":"The AI uses $1.5M.","fix":"Say: \"ARR is $1.3M (live).\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Hinting at a raise","why":"The AI says 'as we plan our next round'.","fix":"Say: \"We are not raising; don't hint at it.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Too many metrics","why":"The AI lists everything.","fix":"Say: \"Use exactly two figures.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"No blurb offer","why":"The AI ends with 'Thanks'.","fix":"Say: \"End with an offer of a 2-sentence blurb.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Markdown","why":"The AI uses bold and bullets.","fix":"Say: \"Plain text.\"","checks":["plainText"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each sentence: \"each sentence under 22 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total word limit and it often lands over it.","fix":"Cap each part instead, for example: \"each line under 12 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Subject","patterns":["subject"]},{"label":"Two figures","patterns":["two figures","exactly two"]},{"label":"Names targets","patterns":["brightcare","tessera"]},{"label":"Blurb","patterns":["blurb","forward"]},{"label":"Bans","patterns":["hype","rocket","raising"]}],"hint":"Say how many figures, name the two companies, how it ends, and what to avoid hinting.","rubricLabels":["Starts with a Subject line and uses exactly two figures from the notes, with ARR as $1.3M (not $1.5M)","Names Brightcare Group (pilot conversation with their VP People) and Tessera Payroll (integration partnership conversation) and ends with a line offering a two-sentence blurb to forward","Does not hint at fundraising, does not use rocket, hypergrowth or crushing it, and makes no claims beyond the notes"]}