Clay personalization without writing the promptyourself. Paste a client brief — ICP, value prop, pain points, offer, CTA — andthis prompt outputs a ready-to-paste Clay AI column that generates apersonalized Email 1 for every contact in your table. The hook references aspecific signal from the contact's data. The CTA matches the offer. Outputstays under 100 words and skips em dashes.
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Prompt
Write a Clay AI prompt column for personalized email generation
Generate a Clay AI prompt column that outputs a personalized Email 1 per row, using contact and company data as variables.
Cold Emailing
Explanation
What this prompt does
How to use
Getting the most out of it
Before you start
- A complete client brief (ICP, value prop, pain points, offer, CTA)
- A Clay table with these fields populated: company name, website, contact name, title, LinkedIn, company size, location
Steps
- Copy the prompt into your AI tool.
- Replace [paste client brief] with the full brief.
- Run it. You'll get a Clay-ready prompt as output.
- Paste that output into a new AI column in your Clay table.
Test on 5-10 rows first. If the hooks feel generic, enrich more datafields and re-run.
The prompt
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Prompt
Write a Clay AI prompt column that generates a personalized cold email
using the following data fields available per contact: company name, website,
contact name, title, LinkedIn profile, company size, and location.
The prompt should reference this client brief as its only variable input:
[paste client brief -- ICP, value prop, pain points, offer, CTA]
Output should be a complete Email 1 under 100 words. No em dashes.
Hook should reference a specific signal from the contact or company data.
CTA should match the offer in the brief.
