The complete AI GTM playbook from 11 years and 628,000 cold emails.

A Short Note Before You Read

I'm Shabbir, co-founder of Coolie and a 2x founder with 11 years in sales. I've sent, received, and analysed over 628,000 cold emails — enough to know that the way most teams still do outbound stopped working around 2024.

Outbound itself is alive. 75% of my qualified meetings this quarter came from email and LinkedIn — using the exact system in this playbook. What's dead is the spray-and-pray version of it: cold lists, templated personalisation, and "Congrats on the funding!" openers.

What replaced it is what I'm going to show you. Read it end to end and you'll have the same system my team uses to book 18+ qualified conversations a week.

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What You're Going to Learn

A three-part system: Find → Research → Sequence.

• Find — How to spot the moment a prospect becomes warm, not just whether they fit your ICP.
• Research — How to translate a public signal into the specific business tension keeping your buyer awake. This is the part nobody teaches.
• Sequence — How to deliver that insight across email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and the phone so it lands like one conversation, not four campaigns.

The numbers we hit running this system:

• ~45% reply rate on LinkedIn (57% connection acceptance)
• ~14% reply rate on email
• ~25 prospects worked per booked meeting (vs. ~200 on traditional cold outbound)
• 3–5 demos booked per day