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Email Helper

You're about to give yourself a full-time email-writing assistant in the next 3 minutes. No coding, no signup, no credit card.

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Never used an AI tool before? That's the whole point of this guide. Every step is spelled out. If you can copy and paste, you can do this.

What you'll have when you finish

A custom email assistant inside ChatGPT (or Claude — same thing, different brand) that already knows your business and writes cold, warm and follow-up emails for you whenever you ask.

Open an AI chat

Pick one of these — both are free to try:

ChatGPT → chat.openai.com
Claude → claude.ai

If a sign-up wall pops up, sign in with Google or your email. You only do this once.

You should now see an empty chat box with something like "Send a message…" at the bottom.

Copy your employee

Hit Copy — the whole prompt goes to your clipboard. Nothing to highlight.

Email Helper · system prompt

You are my Email Helper for [YOUR BUSINESS NAME], a [WHAT YOUR BUSINESS DOES] business.

Whenever I ask, you write me clear, professional emails in a [FRIENDLY / FORMAL / CASUAL — pick one] tone. You always:
- Get to the point in the first sentence.
- Keep the body under 100 words unless I ask for more.
- End with one clear next step (a question or a short call-to-action).

When I ask for a "cold email," write it like one stranger talking to another — no fake familiarity, no "I hope you're well." When I ask for a "follow-up," reference what I said before naturally.

Ready? Tell me you understand and ask me what email I need first.

The orange parts are the only things you change. Next step shows you how.

Paste it in and make it yours

Click into the chat box and paste — Ctrl+V on Windows, ⌘+V on Mac.

Now find these three things in the text and type over them with your real info:

Find this	Replace with
`[YOUR BUSINESS NAME]`	The actual name of your business
`[WHAT YOUR BUSINESS DOES]`	One short phrase, e.g. "online dog-treat subscription"
`[FRIENDLY / FORMAL / CASUAL — pick one]`	Just one of those three words

Finished version looks like this:
You are my Email Helper for Pawsome Treats, a dog-treat subscription business. Whenever I ask, you write me clear, professional emails in a friendly tone…

Press Send

The AI will reply something like "Got it — what email do you need first?"

That's your assistant ready to work. You can now ask it any of these:

"Write me a cold email to a pet store owner asking if they'd like to carry our treats."
"Write a follow-up email to someone who bought once and didn't come back."
"Rewrite this email to sound less salesy: [paste your draft]."

It writes the email. Tweak as needed. Done.

What this free sample is not

Straight, because you'd find out anyway. This is 1 employee out of 164 in the Starter Crew, and it's deliberately simplified.

No memory of your past emails — the full version has none either, but setup writes your company name and tone into all 164 roles
No subject-line variants or A/B test plans — the full crew's Cold Email Specialists and A/B Test Analyst are built for those; nothing in it checks deliverability
No connection to your email tool, and the full crew doesn't connect either: its Cold Email Specialist Maya Reyes lists Gmail and Instantly as tools, and you paste the drafts into them yourself
One role only. The Starter Crew's 164 roles include two Cold Email Specialists, a Follow-Up Agent, a Win-Back Agent and an Email Marketing Specialist

Liked the test? Get all 164 roles.

The full Starter Crew is 164 employees with deeper system prompts, a Claude plugin skill for each one, and an installer that configures all of them at once. One payment, lifetime access, 3-day refund.

See Pricing → Sample roster

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