{"id":"sales-freelancer-cold-email-nda-client","audience":"freelancers","category":"sales-work","technique":"grounding","track":"sales","level":"beginner","title":"Pitch an agency by email without naming your NDA client","free":false,"task":"You're a freelance email copywriter pitching Brightloom, a design agency that just posted about needing onboarding emails for a SaaS client. Write a cold email to their creative director, Ezra Kim, under 90 words. Use your Tidepool result (activation up from 22% to 31%). Your Verdant project is under NDA, so don't name Verdant or its numbers. End with exactly one question. Plain text, with line 1 as \"Subject:\" and a subject of at most 5 words.","materialLabel":"Your notes and portfolio (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Prospect: Ezra Kim, Creative Director, Brightloom Studio (design agency, 14 people)\nHis LinkedIn post, Nov 3: \"Looking for a freelance writer who gets SaaS onboarding emails. Our designs are ready, the words aren't.\"\n\nMe: Sam Rivera, freelance email copywriter, 6 years\nPortfolio:\n- Tidepool (budgeting app): rewrote 5-email onboarding series, activation went from 22% to 31% in 2 months. OK to share, they gave me a testimonial.\n- Verdant (plant delivery): welcome series, revenue per subscriber up 18%. Under NDA, can't name them or share numbers.\n- Corner Coffee newsletter: 2x open rate. Small, not SaaS.\nRate: $95/hour or $1,800 for a 5-email series.\nAvailability: can start Nov 17.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":90},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Name-dropping the NDA client","why":"The AI uses every result in your notes, including the one under NDA.","fix":"Add: \"Don't name Verdant or share its numbers; it's under NDA.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Listing everything","why":"The AI lists all three projects and your rate instead of the one result that matters to Ezra.","fix":"Add: \"Use only the Tidepool onboarding result.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Several asks","why":"AI emails often ask two or three questions, which makes replying harder.","fix":"Add: \"End with exactly one question, and ask nothing else.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting and runs long when you only give a total like 90 words.","fix":"Cap each part instead, like \"3 short paragraphs, each under 25 words,\" so the total lands well under 90.","checks":["maxWords","plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Names the result to use","patterns":["tidepool","22","31"]},{"label":"Protects the NDA client","patterns":["verdant","nda"]},{"label":"Sets one question","patterns":["one question","single question","end with a question"]},{"label":"Sets a size","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","under \\d+","short","\\d+\\s*(sentences|lines)"]}],"hint":"The AI can't know which client results you're allowed to share. Name the one to use, the one to hide and how the email should end.","rubricLabels":["Mentions the Tidepool result (activation up from 22% to 31%)","Does not name Verdant or mention its 18% figure","Ends with exactly one question, and contains no other question marks, and line 1 starts with \"Subject:\" followed by at most 5 words"]}