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AI LinkedIn outreach is an Agent Skill: a written method your AI applies on demand, in Zealos or in any client that reads SKILL.md.
AI LinkedIn outreach is an Agent Skill: a written method your AI applies on demand, in Zealos or in any client that reads SKILL.md.
A connection note has about three hundred characters and one job: prove you know who they are, without the sentence that reveals you found them in a filtered list.
| name | our-writing-voice |
|---|---|
| description | The house style for anything we write: emails, proposals, posts, docs. Use whenever drafting or editing prose that a customer, prospect or teammate will read. |
| allowed-tools | none — this skill adds judgement, not reach |
| compatibility | Zealos, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and any client that reads SKILL.md |
| license | Free to use and edit |
--- name: our-writing-voice description: The house style for anything we write: emails, proposals, posts, docs. Use whenever drafting or editing prose that a customer, prospect or teammate will read. --- # Our writing voice Default to how a competent colleague writes when they respect the reader's time. ## Rules 1. **Lead with the point.** The first sentence says the thing. Context comes after, and only if the reader needs it to act. 2. **Short sentences beat clever ones.** If a sentence needs a second read, split it. 3. **Concrete over abstract.** "Cut onboarding from 9 days to 2" beats "dramatically accelerates time-to-value". 4. **Name the actor.** "We missed the deadline", not "the deadline was missed". 5. **One idea per paragraph.** Three sentences is usually plenty. 6. **No throat-clearing.** Cut "I hope this finds you well", "I wanted to reach out", "As you may know", "Per my last email". 7. **Ask for one thing.** If a message has two asks, it gets neither. ## Banned Leverage (as a verb) · utilize · synergy · seamless · robust · best-in-class · cutting-edge · game-changer · revolutionize · unlock · empower · elevate · supercharge · "in today's fast-paced world" · "it's not just X, it's Y". ## Calibration Read the draft aloud. If you would not say it to the person across a table, rewrite it.
Accept rates move because the notes stop being three interchangeable templates with a first-name token.
You can run founder-led outreach at a volume that would otherwise require either an SDR or an obvious template.
Candidate outreach references the work rather than the job title, which is the whole difference in a market where everyone is contacted weekly.
Under the limit and well under it. Two sentences that prove you know who they are beat three hundred characters of context.
No. The connection is the ask. Pitching before the accept converts worse and burns the account for a second attempt.
Zealos can queue LinkedIn actions with rate limits and a circuit breaker, but the safe default is drafts you approve.
An AI SDR agent is only as good as the definition of a good customer it is working from, which is why the fit criteria belong in a written skill rather than buried in a prompt nobody can find.
/our-icpAccount research earns its time only when it changes the first sentence you write, which means looking for what recently changed rather than assembling a profile anyone could have found.
/our-icpQualification is a claim about evidence, not a score: a deal is qualified when every criterion has a source you can quote, and unevidenced criteria are named rather than filled in optimistically.
/meddiccA follow-up gets a reply when it opens with the specific commitment made on the call, stays under 120 words, and asks for exactly one thing the recipient can answer in a sentence.
/email-rulesA writing-voice skill is the highest-leverage thing you can give an AI, because it changes every sentence the product produces and it needs no tools, no integrations and no data.
/our-writing-voiceAI writing gives itself away structurally before it does lexically: paragraphs of identical length, lists that always contain three items, and a closing summary that restates a body the reader just finished.
/no-slop