Every vendor cold pitch you get becomes a lead for you

Your inbox gets a steady stream of unsolicited sales pitches. Most people delete them. But every one of those senders runs outbound sales or marketing, and if your product helps with outreach, sales, marketing or productivity, they are a warm-ish prospect who just told you exactly how they work today.

Flip the Script turns that noise into pipeline. Twice a day, at {RUN_TIMES}, your clone:

• scans the last ~12 hours of the inbox for vendor cold outreach,
• skips anyone on the skip list (your vendors, customers, partners, investors, existing CRM contacts and more),
• flags likely throwaway / burner addresses and doesn't spend effort on them,
• adds each real sender as a lead in your CRM (after checking for duplicates) with lead source "Inbound Vendor Outreach",
• writes a tailored reply: acknowledges their pitch, gives a short constructive (and a little witty) critique of their outreach, shows how {PRODUCT_NAME} does it better, and invites them to sign up at {SIGNUP_URL},
• saves the reply as a draft for you to review (draft mode is the default),
• sends you a summary email, including a hot list of vendors who replied.

What you get:

Area	What works
CRM	Salesforce (Salesforce Lead Operator, Salesforce Contact Operator, Salesforce Account Operator, Salesforce Activity Operator) or HubSpot (HubSpot Contact Operator, HubSpot Company Operator, HubSpot Engagement Operator). HubSpot has no separate Lead object in this stack: the clone uses a contact with lifecycle stage "Lead" and a lead source property
Email	Gmail (Google Gmail Operator) or Outlook (Outlook email operator)
Hot list delivery (optional)	Slack or Microsoft Teams (delivery only)
Research	Light web research by the clone (burner checks, reply tailoring)
Scheduling	Platform scheduled task

• Founders and sales leaders whose product helps other companies sell, market, or run outreach (so the people pitching you are your target buyers).
• SDR / BDR managers who want a steady trickle of inbound-style leads with zero prospecting effort.
• Marketing teams who like turning everyday moments into product demos.
• Anyone who gets a lot of vendor pitches and is tired of ignoring them.

It works best when the senders are plausible buyers of {PRODUCT_NAME}. If your product has nothing to do with how vendors sell, this use case will mostly create noise: skip it or narrow it with {TARGET_FIT}.

 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │  Vendors cold-email the inbox you connect ({MONITORED_INBOX})     │
 └───────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                                 │
           Twice a day at {RUN_TIMES} (scheduled task)
                                 │
                                 ▼
 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │  "Flip the Script" skill                                          │
 │                                                                   │
 │  1. Read the last ~12 hours of mail                               │
 │  2. Classify          ──►  vendor cold outreach vs everything else│
 │  3. Skip list check   ──►  vendors you pay, customers, partners,  │
 │                            investors, CRM contacts, recruiters,   │
 │                            personal, internal, newsletters,       │
 │                            no-reply, {SKIP_LIST}                  │
 │  4. Burner check      ──►  flag throwaway addresses, no reply     │
 │  5. CRM dedupe + add  ──►  new lead, source                       │
 │                            "Inbound Vendor Outreach"              │
 │  6. Write tailored reply (critique + {PRODUCT_NAME} + signup)     │
 │  7. {SEND_MODE}: draft (default) ──► save as draft                │
 │                  send            ──► send, up to {DAILY_CAP}/day  │
 │  8. Check for vendor replies ──►  hot list                        │
 │  9. Send ONE summary email ──►  {SUMMARY_RECIPIENTS}              │
 └───────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────┘
                                 │
                                 ▼
 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 │  You: review drafts → edit or send → work the hot list            │
 └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

#How it decides what is "vendor cold outreach"

An email counts as vendor cold outreach only when all of these are true:

1. It's unsolicited: there's no earlier thread where you or your team wrote to this sender first, and you didn't request it (form, demo request, RFP).
2. It's a sales pitch: the sender is offering a product, service, agency, tool, data list, or "quick call" to sell something to you.
3. It's one-to-one style: written to you personally (even if automated), not a mass newsletter or marketing blast with an unsubscribe footer from a list you joined.
4. The sender is not on the skip list.

Your clone matches these to the exact skill names in your workspace. Names can differ slightly by workspace, and your clone will report what it finds.

Skill names can differ slightly between orgs. Confirm the exact names in your skill catalog before saving the skill.

• Sending volume can hurt your email reputation. Replying to lots of cold emails from your own domain, especially if some bounce or get marked as spam, can damage deliverability for all your email. Stay in draft mode at first, start send mode with a low {DAILY_CAP} (5–10), and raise it slowly over weeks. Consider replying from a secondary mailbox if your volume is high.
• Burner addresses may never be read. Many cold-outreach tools send from throwaway lookalike domains that nobody monitors, or that bounce. The clone flags these and doesn't reply or add them as leads by default, but some will slip through. Don't judge results by those.
• Never pitch your own vendors. If you pay them, they belong on the skip list. A cheeky critique to a supplier you rely on is a bad look. Give the clone your vendor list (or a CRM / finance view it can read) and keep it current.
• Review drafts before turning on auto-send. Spend at least a week in draft mode. Read every reply. Only switch to send when you'd happily send most drafts unedited.
• Tone matters. Witty, warm and constructive works. Snarky, sarcastic or "gotcha" replies get screenshotted and shared. The skill tells the clone to critique the outreach, never the person, and to keep humor light.
• Follow email and privacy rules. Every reply includes a clear opt-out line and your real identity, and the clone stops emailing anyone who opts out. In the EU/UK (GDPR) and similar regimes, adding someone to your CRM and emailing them needs a lawful basis (often "legitimate interest", since they contacted you first) and you must honor deletion requests. Under US CAN-SPAM, commercial replies need accurate headers, no misleading subjects, a working opt-out honored promptly, and your business postal address if the message is mainly commercial. Check with your own legal or compliance team: this is not legal advice.
• Honor unsubscribes everywhere. If a vendor says "no thanks" or "remove me", the clone adds them to an opt-out list, notes it in the CRM, and never writes again. Make sure the same person isn't also in other sequences you run.
• Lead pollution in your CRM. Vendor leads are lower intent than real inbound. Keep them on their own lead source so they don't distort your inbound conversion numbers, and periodically clean out ones that never respond.
• One vendor, many emails. Automated sequences send several follow-ups. The skill creates one lead and one reply per sender and treats later follow-ups as the same conversation.
• The clone only sees what it's connected to. It scans the inbox you connected ({MONITORED_INBOX}). Pitches sent to other people or mailboxes are invisible to it unless you forward them or connect that inbox.
• Use exact skill/operator names as they appear in your skill catalog. Names can differ slightly between workspaces; the clone checks them during discovery.
• Read every instruction before saving it into a skill. You're responsible for what your clone sends. Make sure the guardrails match your company's policies.