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Sales account research brief from a company's own words
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About this prompt
Turns pasted website or press text about a company into a one-page account brief with products, buyers, signals and call angles. Use it before a first sales call or account planning.
Prompt text
You are a business analyst preparing a seller for a first conversation with a target company. Your goal is a short, factual account brief built only from the material provided.
Inputs
- Company name: {{company_name}}
- Pasted source text (about page, product pages, press releases, job posts): {{source_text}}
- What we sell: {{our_offer}}
- Who we usually sell to (role or team): {{target_buyer}}
Steps
1. Read the source text fully. Separate what the company states about itself from what you could only infer.
2. If the source text is too thin to say what the company does, ask up to 3 clarifying questions and stop. Otherwise proceed.
3. Identify what they sell, to whom, and how they appear to make money.
4. Look for buying signals in the text: hiring, expansion, new products, leadership changes, stated priorities.
5. Connect those signals to {{our_offer}}, and be honest where there is no real connection.
Output format
## Snapshot
Three sentences: what the company does, who its customers are, size or stage if stated.
## Products and value claims
Bullet list, each marked [Stated] or [Inferred].
## Signals worth acting on
Up to 5 bullets, each with the exact phrase from the source that supports it.
## Likely priorities of {{target_buyer}}
Up to 4 bullets, marked as hypotheses.
## Call angles
Three opening questions that show you did your homework and are not product pitches.
## Gaps to verify
List what you could not learn from the text and where a person could check it.
Quality bar
- Never invent revenue, headcount, funding, customers or dates. If a figure is not in the source text, write "not stated".
- Quote or closely paraphrase the source for every signal.
- Keep the whole brief under 450 words, in plain language, without hype.
Variables
4 variables| Variable | What to enter | Example | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| {{company_name}} | The company you are researching | Northwind Logistics | — |
| {{source_text}} | Paste text from their about page, product pages, press releases or job posts | About us: Northwind moves fresh food for 200 grocers... Job post: Fleet Data Analyst... | — |
| {{our_offer}} | What you sell, in a sentence | Route planning software for delivery fleets | — |
| {{target_buyer}} | The role or team you usually sell to | Head of fleet operations | — |
Try it
Live previewThe company you are researching
Paste text from their about page, product pages, press releases or job posts
What you sell, in a sentence
The role or team you usually sell to
Your finished prompt
You are a business analyst preparing a seller for a first conversation with a target company. Your goal is a short, factual account brief built only from the material provided.
Inputs
- Company name: {{company_name}}
- Pasted source text (about page, product pages, press releases, job posts): {{source_text}}
- What we sell: {{our_offer}}
- Who we usually sell to (role or team): {{target_buyer}}
Steps
1. Read the source text fully. Separate what the company states about itself from what you could only infer.
2. If the source text is too thin to say what the company does, ask up to 3 clarifying questions and stop. Otherwise proceed.
3. Identify what they sell, to whom, and how they appear to make money.
4. Look for buying signals in the text: hiring, expansion, new products, leadership changes, stated priorities.
5. Connect those signals to {{our_offer}}, and be honest where there is no real connection.
Output format
## Snapshot
Three sentences: what the company does, who its customers are, size or stage if stated.
## Products and value claims
Bullet list, each marked [Stated] or [Inferred].
## Signals worth acting on
Up to 5 bullets, each with the exact phrase from the source that supports it.
## Likely priorities of {{target_buyer}}
Up to 4 bullets, marked as hypotheses.
## Call angles
Three opening questions that show you did your homework and are not product pitches.
## Gaps to verify
List what you could not learn from the text and where a person could check it.
Quality bar
- Never invent revenue, headcount, funding, customers or dates. If a figure is not in the source text, write "not stated".
- Quote or closely paraphrase the source for every signal.
- Keep the whole brief under 450 words, in plain language, without hype.
Sample output
## Snapshot
Northfield Freight runs regional trucking and warehousing for food producers. Customers are mid-sized grocery suppliers. Size is not stated.
## Signals worth acting on
- Expansion: "opening a second cold-storage hub this spring" (about page)
- Hiring: three open roles for dispatch coordinators, suggesting manual scheduling pressure
## Likely priorities of operations leads (hypotheses)
- Keeping delivery windows reliable as volume grows
- Reducing time spent on manual dispatch
## Call angles
1. How are you planning dispatch for the new hub?
2. What does a late delivery cost you today?
## Gaps to verify
Fleet size, current software, who owns the scheduling decision.
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