AI Can Do a Surprisingly Good Job of Researching Someone Before You Meet Them

30 August 2026

Kiss My Asana Goodbye

30 August 2026
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Cold Outreach Gets Much Better When the Research Happens First

The useful AI personalisation is not adding someone’s first name. It is understanding what might actually matter to them before you write.

The least interesting use of AI in cold outreach is writing more cold emails. The more useful bit is doing more research before one gets written.

You can now take a company, role and person and quickly understand what the business does, what markets it serves, what appears to be changing and which part of your offer might genuinely be relevant. Then the email can be short because the thinking happened before it.

That is a much better version of “personalisation” than dropping a first name into the first sentence.

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