Flag warm leads in email with a sales assistant
Claude Cowork watches the poster's email, flags warm leads and replies worth acting on, and helps with prospect research. ·
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- What they did
- The poster used Claude Cowork as a lightweight sales stack on the $20/month plan. It watched their email for warm leads or replies worth action, pulled prospect lists from Google Maps from plain-English criteria, drafted personalized first-touch emails using company websites and LinkedIn, and assembled pre-call research; the human still defined the ideal customer profile and decided what to act on.
- How it went
- They say it got them surprisingly far compared with tools costing $500-$2,000 a month, and cut morning inbox triage plus meeting prep time, with call prep dropping to about 30 seconds from 15 minutes. They also say setup quality depended heavily on skills and ICP definition, and Cowork slowed their computer.
- Worth knowing
- Their main warning was to build one workflow at a time and rely on the right skills, because trying to prompt complex workflows directly was messy.
Try it yourself with Claude Cowork
Go through my inbox from the last [number] days and flag emails that look like warm sales leads or replies worth acting on, based on [signals like pricing questions or demo requests]. For each one, give me a one-line reason and a draft reply, and do a quick background check on the sender's company. Don't send anything, and finish with a ranked list of the top leads.
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Source: Reddit · Mar 1, 2026
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