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🎮 The Next Input — Issue #025
The AI That Replaces Your BDR
Aaron Bost
August 05, 2025
In partnership with
⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec
OpenAI teases a GPT-5 reveal—Thursdays are their favourite cliff-hanger. Calendars cleared, model soup’s about to boil.
Cloudflare and Perplexity scrap over alleged bot-block evasion. Pass the popcorn—crawlers vs. firewalls is the new pay-per-view.
OpenMind aims to be the “Android of humanoid robots.” The name says it all—open-source limbs, anyone?
🛠️ The Playbook — AI BDR Super-Stack (3 Tasks, 1 Bot)
Mission Deploy a Claude-powered BDR agent that (1) scrapes lead lists, (2) drafts personalised emails, and (3) auto-books meetings—all before lunch.
Difficulty Advanced | Build time 90 min
ROI Sales teams reclaim ≈ 15 h/week and double touch-points.
# | Task | Flow |
|---|---|---|
1 | Lead Harvest & Scoring | Trigger: weekly Google Sheets CSV drop. → Clay Enrich API pulls firmographics. → Claude 3.5 scores vs. ICP (A-D). → High-score rows pushed to HubSpot. |
2 | Personalised Email Drafts | New A/B lead in HubSpot triggers Make scenario. → Claude drafts 120-word opener using enrichment JSON. → Email saved as Pending; HubSpot owner gets Slack preview. |
3 | Meeting Autopilot | When owner hits ✅ reaction, Calendly API creates unique link. → Claude adds time-boxed CTA paragraph. → HubSpot sends final email & logs meeting once booked. |
Fail-safes
If Clay enrichment fails → label lead “Research Needed” and assign SDR.
Claude confidence < 0.85 → route email to “Quality-Check” queue.
API timeout → open Jira ticket with error payload.
Pro tip: Cache enrichment for 48 h—saves credits when the same domain fills multiple forms.
🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Prompts
Asset | What it does | Link |
|---|---|---|
Clay Enrich | One-click firmographic & technographic data. | |
Make.com HubSpot + Calendly bundle | Pre-built scenarios for email → booking flows. | |
TrellisGuard | Monitors GPT/Claude outputs for PII & toxic tone. | |
Prompt · 90-Char Follow-Up | One paste → concise nudge. |
Write a friendly 90-character follow-up: “Thoughts on my last note?”
💡 Free Office Hours
Need a BDR bot or crawler-shield strategy?
Book a free 15-minute Office Hours slot—no sales pitch, just workflows solved.
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🕹️ Game Over
Automate one prospecting task tonight—tomorrow’s pipeline will thank you.
Share your win; you could headline Issue #026.
— Aaron
Automating the boring. Amplifying the brilliant.
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