10 AI Field Prompts to Maximize Outreach and Research
Learn how to get more out of every contact in Seamless using AI Fields. This article walks you through 10 ready-to-use prompts built around pricing, competitors, products, and common prospect challenges so you can generate personalized research and outreach without starting from scratch. Whether you are prepping for a call, building a cold email, or crafting a LinkedIn message, these prompts give you a faster way to say the right thing to the right person.
Overview
AI Fields in My Contacts let you generate personalized messaging and research for every contact on your list using prompts you write. The quality of what the AI produces depends heavily on the prompt you give it, the more specific and purposeful the prompt, the more useful the output.
This article gives you 10 ready-to-use prompts organized by category that you can copy and paste directly into an AI Field to help you research contacts, understand their world, and write outreach that actually resonates.
How to Use These Prompts
- Go to My Contacts
- Click the Actions button in the top right
- Select Create AI Field
- Name your field, choose your channel, and paste the prompt into the prompt field
- Click Save & Run and choose how many contacts you want to generate results for
For best results, test each prompt using Run on first contact before applying it to your full list.
Pricing
Use these prompts to uncover pricing objections and build ROI-focused messaging before you reach out.
1. Pricing Pain Points
Best for: Email and call prep
What pricing challenges or objections would someone in this contact's role most likely face when evaluating a tool or product? Give me 2 to 3 specific pain points I can reference in outreach.
This prompt helps you get ahead of budget conversations by surfacing the objections a contact is likely to raise before you even pick up the phone or hit send.
2. ROI Framing by Company Size
Best for: Email
Based on this contact's company size and industry, what would the likely cost of not solving their top challenges that my product would help solve? Frame it in terms of lost revenue or wasted time without inventing specific figures.
Use this to build a cost-of-inaction angle into your outreach without making up numbers. It keeps your messaging grounded and relevant to the specific company you are reaching out to.
Competitors
Use these prompts to understand the competitive environment your contacts are operating in and build messaging that acknowledges the pressure they are facing.
3. Competitive Landscape
Best for: Call prep and research
What are the top 3 competitors this contact's company is likely up against in their market right now and what does that competitive pressure mean for their team's priorities?
Knowing who your contact is competing against helps you understand what is keeping them up at night and gives you a sharper angle for your outreach.
4. Competitive Differentiation Angle
Best for: Email opening lines
Write a cold email opening line that references the competitive environment this contact's company operates in and positions our conversation as a way to help them stay ahead. Keep it to 2 sentences.
Use the output from this prompt as the opening of a cold email to immediately show the contact you understand their market without spending three paragraphs building up to it.
Products They Sell
Use these prompts to quickly understand what a contact's company does, who they sell to, and why that context matters for your outreach.
5. Product and Audience Summary
Best for: Research and call prep
Based on this contact's company and role, summarize in 2 to 3 sentences what they likely sell, who their ideal customer is, and what outcome their product helps that customer achieve.
This is a great research prompt to run before a call or before writing outreach. It gives you a fast snapshot of the contact's world without having to dig through their website yourself.
6. Outreach Angle Based on What They Sell
Best for: Email and LinkedIn
Given what this contact's company sells and who they sell to, what would be the most relevant reason for their team to care about adding tools or services like ours right now?
Use this to move beyond generic messaging and build outreach that is tied directly to what the contact's business is trying to accomplish.
Top Problems Related to What They Sell
Use these prompts to surface the real challenges your contacts are dealing with so your outreach speaks to something they actually care about.
7. Top Industry Problems
Best for: Email and research
What are the 3 biggest problems companies in this contact's industry are trying to solve right now that are directly related to what they sell? Keep it specific to their company size and market.
Industry-specific pain points make for much stronger outreach than generic messaging. Use this prompt to build a list of relevant challenges you can weave into your emails and calls.
8. Day in the Life Problem
Best for: Call prep and email
Describe the top 2 daily frustrations someone in this contact's role likely deals with when trying to hit their number. Focus on challenges related to finding the right contacts, managing outreach, or keeping their pipeline full.
This prompt helps you write outreach that feels personal and observational rather than like a pitch. When a contact reads something that describes their actual day, it gets their attention.
Outreach Prompts
Use these prompts to generate ready-to-send or nearly ready-to-send outreach directly inside My Contacts.
9. Personalized Cold Email Around Their Core Problem
Best for: Email
Write a cold email to this contact that opens with the most pressing problem someone in their role typically faces related to our product or service. Connect that problem to the outcome we help deliver. Keep it under 150 words and do not invent specific figures.
This prompt generates a full cold email draft built around the contact's most likely challenge. Review and personalize the output before sending to make sure it fits your voice and specific situation.
10. LinkedIn Message Using Competitor and Problem Context
Best for: LinkedIn
Write a LinkedIn message to this contact that references the competitive pressure their industry is facing right now and connects it to why our product can assist them reach their goals. Keep it under 100 words and make it feel conversational not salesy.
Use this for LinkedIn outreach where brevity and a natural tone matter most. The output gives you a starting point that you can quickly refine before sending.
Tips for Getting the Best Results
- Test before you scale: Always use Run on first contact to review the output before applying a prompt to your full list.
- Refine your prompt if the output misses: Click the refresh icon to generate a new version after updating your prompt. Small changes to wording can make a big difference in the output.
- Use the right channel setting: When creating an AI Field, make sure the channel you select matches the type of outreach the prompt is built for.
- Treat outputs as a starting point: AI Field outputs are drafts. Review and personalize them before using in live outreach to make sure they match your voice and the specific contact you are reaching out to.
- Name your fields clearly: Use descriptive names like "Pricing Objections" or "LinkedIn Competitor Angle" so you can easily find and reference the right field when building campaigns.
