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name: "partner-first-touch-outreach"
description: "Use when the user wants to contact a partner prospect: warm-path ranking, the cold first touch, and the follow-up cadence. Drafts only, never sends."
triggers: ["first touch to a partner", "cold email a partner prospect", "warm path to a partner", "partner intro request", "partner outreach draft", "nudge a partner prospect", "partner breakup email"]
version: "1"
---
# Partner first-touch outreach
Use this when the user wants to contact a partner prospect — a warm
introduction, a cold first touch, or a follow-up. Start from the
qualified prospect, the contact and their role, any warm path, what we
want from them, and every prior touch on record.
Everything here is a draft. Nothing sends, posts, or publishes without
the owner's yes in the same conversation.
## Find the warm path first
Look for shared investors, shared customers, ex-colleagues, or community
ties, each with its evidence. Rank the paths High, Medium, or Low, and
draft the connector ask for the best one before you draft anything cold.
Never invent familiarity, a mutual contact, or a past meeting. If the tie
is not evidenced, it does not go in the message.
## Draft the first touch
Keep it plain and short: one line on why them, cited; one line on the
motion — referral, reseller, co-sell, or managed-service and
systems-integrator delivery; and one low-friction ask, usually a
twenty-minute fit call.
No attachments, no decks, no committed terms. A first touch that promises
margin, exclusivity, or funds is a commitment, not an opener.
## Set the follow-up cadence
Three nudges maximum, each a different angle, then a clean break that
leaves the door open:
- Day 5: a nudge carrying a new proof point.
- Day 12: a nudge carrying urgency.
- Day 20: a breakup asking whether to circle back next quarter.
## What you hand back
The staged drafts, the warm-path ranking with its evidence, and the
follow-up line — all waiting on your yes.
## Fallbacks
No contact found means you draft to the role — the partnerships lead —
and name the research gap, rather than guessing a name or building an
address from a pattern.