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Pitch an agency by email without naming your NDA client

  • For Freelancers and creators
  • You practice Keeping the AI to your sources
  • Time about 5 minutes
  • Level Beginner

About this exercise

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.

Common mistakes when you ask AI for this

  • Name-dropping the NDA client. The AI uses every result in your notes, including the one under NDA. Try: Add: "Don't name Verdant or share its numbers; it's under NDA."
  • Listing everything. The AI lists all three projects and your rate instead of the one result that matters to Ezra. Try: Add: "Use only the Tidepool onboarding result."
  • Several asks. AI emails often ask two or three questions, which makes replying harder. Try: Add: "End with exactly one question, and ask nothing else."
  • Trusting the AI to count words. AI is bad at counting and runs long when you only give a total like 90 words. Try: Cap each part instead, like "3 short paragraphs, each under 25 words," so the total lands well under 90.

What a strong prompt includes

  • Names the result to use
  • Protects the NDA client
  • Sets one question
  • Sets a size

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