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Prospect reply drafter in chat

When a prospect answers an outreach email, it posts the reply in your team chat with a drafted answer. A person reviews the draft and sends it.

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What it does

  • Watches outreach campaigns for new prospect replies
  • Reads the full thread with that prospect
  • Drafts a short reply that answers what they asked
  • Posts the reply and the draft together in one chat thread

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Sending any reply to the prospect
  • Booking a meeting or quoting a price

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for founders and small sales teams who want more time for real conversations. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it watches outreach campaigns for new prospect replies. Next, it reads the full thread with that prospect. Then it drafts a short reply that answers what they asked. Finally, it posts the reply and the draft together in one chat thread. It works with your email, chat and CRM, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before sending any reply to the prospect and booking a meeting or quoting a price, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“Review it. Hit Enter. Done.”
Romàn @romanbuildsaas · Sep 15, 2026
Before you startEmail · Chat accessScoped permissionsClaude Desktop with MCP or Zapier Agents
Explore required tools and model recommendations

Tools and access

  • Gmail

    Handles the email part of this job. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with an OAuth app and the Gmail API turned on. The agent signs in through OAuth with only the scopes you pick.

    Sign up: Google Workspace

  • Slack

    Handles the chat part of this job. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Slack app created in your workspace. It gets a bot token with the scopes you approve.

    Sign up: Create a Slack app

  • HubSpot CRM

    Handles the crm part of this job. Grant read scopes, plus notes write.

    API required: Yes. Needs a HubSpot private app or OAuth app with the CRM scopes you choose.

    Sign up: HubSpot CRM

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Model recommendations

Best pick

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Good balance of speed and quality for briefs and drafts.

$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens.

Anthropic docs as of October 11, 2026

Cheaper backup

GPT-6 Luna

Very low cost per token for simple research summaries.

$0.10 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens.

OpenAI docs as of October 11, 2026

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Build your prompt

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1Your details

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one line offer and price rules

2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [YOUR OUTREACH TOOL AND CAMPAIGNS] [CHAT CHANNEL FOR REPLIES] [WHAT YOU SELL: one line offer and price rules] [WHO APPROVES REPLIES] You are the Prospect reply drafter in chat agent. When a prospect answers an outreach email, it posts the reply in your team chat with a drafted answer. A person reviews the draft and sends it. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Watches outreach campaigns for new prospect replies - Reads the full thread with that prospect - Drafts a short reply that answers what they asked - Posts the reply and the draft together in one chat thread What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Sending any reply to the prospect - Booking a meeting or quoting a price Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Connect Gmail with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
  2. 2Connect Slack with its own login, not yours. Grant a bot token in the channels it needs.
  3. 3Connect HubSpot CRM with its own login, not yours. Grant read scopes, plus notes write.
  4. 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  5. 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  6. 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval30 / 30

Waits for a yes on: sending any reply to the prospect, booking a meeting or quoting a price.

Undo and logs14 / 20

Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.

Scope16 / 20

Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
  • Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2

Do all of these to reach 89, up from 78.

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