Research and draft cold outreach with Claude Code
Claude Code handles research and drafting for cold outreach while a separate platform sends at scale.
Done with Claude Code
What they did
The poster connected Claude Code to their Gmail inbox and Google Sheets, then let it research businesses and log each lead in a spreadsheet with the email address, location, and business-specific notes. Claude also drafted a personalized cold email for each business; the person reviewed the drafts at the end and sent them manually, and later said they had also started building a Google Maps API-based lead system.
How it went
It appears to be working as a time-saver for research and draft writing, but the post gives no reply-rate or revenue numbers. The stated gaps were using a personal Gmail inbox and not having enough email validation capacity on ZeroBounce’s free tier.
Worth knowing
The clearest catch is setup around sending: they were still on a personal Gmail account and said domain setup and email validation were still pending.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I'm doing cold outreach for [my product/service] to [target audience]. For each lead in [path/to/leads file], research the company and draft a short first-touch email under [100] words in this tone: [tone]. Save the drafts to a file with a source link for each claim you used, and do not send anything. I'll upload the approved drafts to my sending platform myself.
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