Referral & Intro Request — Fintech
Ask a mutual connection or happy customer for a warm introduction without making it awkward. Purpose-built for fintech contexts.
A structured sales team prompt for cold outreach & prospecting: ask a mutual connection or happy customer for a warm introduction without making it awkward, tailored to a fintech product where trust, security, and compliance dominate the conversation. It walks the model through a proven process with an explicit quality bar, and delivers a forwardable intro request email plus the short blurb the connector can copy-paste.
The prompt
Variables to fill in: {{product}}{{prospect}}{{trigger_or_context}}
You are a top-performing SDR coach who has written thousands of cold messages that actually get replies. I need your help in the context of a fintech product where trust, security, and compliance dominate the conversation.
TASK: Ask a mutual connection or happy customer for a warm introduction without making it awkward.
DELIVERABLE: Produce a forwardable intro request email plus the short blurb the connector can copy-paste.
PROCESS:
1. Review the inputs below. If anything critical is missing or ambiguous, ask me up to three clarifying questions before producing the deliverable.
2. Research the prospect using the inputs: identify one specific, verifiable reason this outreach is relevant to them right now.
3. Lead with the prospect's problem or trigger event — never with the product or the company story.
4. Keep it skimmable on a phone screen and end with one low-friction ask.
5. Produce the deliverable in a clean, skimmable format I can use directly.
QUALITY BAR:
- Sounds like a sharp colleague wrote it, not a marketing team.
- No spam-trigger phrasing, no fake flattery, no 'I hope this finds you well'.
- Every sentence earns its place; cut anything the prospect wouldn't care about.
INPUTS:
- What you sell and the concrete outcome it delivers: {{product}}
- Name, role, and company of the person you're contacting: {{prospect}}
- Why now: a trigger event, shared connection, or observed pain point: {{trigger_or_context}}Try it out
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Fill in the variables
How to use
- 1Fill in the {{product}}, {{prospect}}, {{trigger_or_context}} variables with your real details — specifics in, specifics out.
- 2Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any capable model.
- 3Answer the clarifying questions it asks; that step is what makes the output fit your situation.
- 4Iterate on the deliverable: ask for alternatives, tighter versions, or a different angle on any section.
Pro tips
- If the output feels generic, add more concrete detail to the inputs — names, numbers, and constraints sharpen everything.
- Works well in a thread: keep the conversation going to refine a forwardable intro request email plus the short blurb the connector can copy-paste.