Warm Intro, the highest-leverage outbound channel

Warm intros convert at 5 to 10x the rate of cold outreach. The single highest-leverage move in early-stage outbound is asking a mutual connection for an intro, and giving that connection a forwardable blurb so they have zero work to do.

This skill turns the founder's existing LinkedIn network into an intro pipeline.

Why this exists

Cold email and DM are mass channels. Warm intros are surgical. A founder typically has 200 to 2000 LinkedIn 1st-degree connections, and any of them might bridge to a target prospect. The bottleneck is knowing who to ask, how to ask, and giving them a paragraph they can paste straight into a forward.

Most founders skip warm intros because the manual work is painful: matching prospects to connections, drafting a request that respects the bridge's time, writing a forwardable blurb. This skill does all of that.

Prerequisites

test -f sales-pack.md || echo "MISSING sales-pack.md"
ls prospects/*.csv 2>/dev/null | head -1 || echo "MISSING prospects CSV (run /gtm-find-prospects first)"
test -f ${CURSOR_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.gtm-state/linkedin-connections.csv || echo "MISSING LinkedIn connections export"