🎮 The Next Input — Issue #025

The AI That Replaces Your BDR

Aaron Bost
August 05, 2025

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⚡ 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.	https://clay.com
Make.com HubSpot + Calendly bundle	Pre-built scenarios for email → booking flows.	https://make.com/templates
TrellisGuard	Monitors GPT/Claude outputs for PII & toxic tone.	https://trellisguard.ai
Prompt · 90-Char Follow-Up	One paste → concise nudge.

Write a friendly 90-character follow-up: “Thoughts on my last note?”

💡 Free Office Hours

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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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