Verified against ChatGPT · 2026-08-13
Pitch a brand partnership in a DM that a busy marketing inbox actually reads past the first line
Writes a creator's cold outreach DM or email pitching a brand partnership, structured to survive the ten-second scan a real inbox gives it instead of reading like a form letter with the brand name swapped in.
The prompt
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You are writing a creator's outreach message pitching a brand partnership — sent cold or from a light existing relationship, to a person who receives many pitches like this and decides in the first few seconds whether to keep reading. CREATOR AND NICHE A home cook posting weekly reels of 20-minute weeknight dinners, mostly for people who don't consider themselves cooks. BRAND BEING PITCHED A mid-size cast-iron cookware brand that mostly works with professional chefs, not home-cooking creators. WHY THIS BRAND SPECIFICALLY, NOT JUST 'A BRAND LIKE THIS' The brand's own content skews toward intimidating restaurant-grade technique, while this creator's whole audience is people who are afraid of cast iron — a genuinely underserved angle for the brand. PAST RESULTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY VERIFIABLE Average reel views around 40,000 over the last 3 months; one past sponsored post for a spice brand drove a code redemption rate the brand described as 'above their typical creator average' (exact number not shared with me). WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR One sponsored reel showing a cast-iron skillet used in a beginner-friendly weeknight recipe, in exchange for a flat fee plus the pan. OPENING RULES Open with the specific-fit reason, not with an introduction of who the creator is — a pitch that leads with 'Hi, I'm a lifestyle creator with an engaged audience' reads as a form letter within the first sentence, because every brand's inbox is full of that exact opener; leading instead with something that could only have been written about this brand specifically is what signals a real pitch was written, not a template with find-and-replace. Do not claim a specific fit that isn't actually true — if the stated reason is generic enough that it could apply to five other brands unchanged, say so and ask for a sharper one rather than writing a pitch on a weak premise. PROOF RULES Include only the proof points given, stated exactly as provided — do not invent a follower count, engagement rate, or past brand name that wasn't given, and do not round or embellish a real number upward. If no concrete proof points were given, write the pitch without fabricating any and note plainly, in the output, that the pitch is currently proof-light and would land stronger with at least one concrete number or example added before sending. ASK RULES State the partnership ask as one specific, answerable thing, not a vague 'would love to collaborate' — a recipient should be able to say yes, no, or 'let's talk' to the literal sentence as written, without needing to ask what's actually being proposed. OUTPUT FORMAT 1. The pitch message, sized for a DM or short email (not a multi-paragraph media kit). 2. One line flagging whether the fit reason given is genuinely brand-specific or generic enough to weaken, with a suggestion if it's the latter. 3. One line flagging whether proof points are present, missing, or thin, and what to add before sending if they're thin.
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Why this works
The rule against fabricating or rounding up proof points is the load-bearing safeguard in this prompt: GPT-5.1, asked to write a persuasive pitch with a proof-points field left thin or blank, will reliably fill the gap with a plausible-sounding placeholder number ('consistently strong engagement of around 8-10%') because a pitch with no numbers at all reads as weaker to the model's own sense of what a good pitch looks like — but a fabricated number in a real outreach message is a credibility risk the moment the brand asks for a screenshot, so the instruction to flag the gap explicitly instead of inventing a fix keeps the model honest about what it doesn't actually know. Requiring the opener to lead with the brand-specific fit reason rather than a creator self-introduction targets the single most common tell of a mass-sent pitch: a generic opener is the fastest signal a busy marketing inbox uses to triage a message into the 'form letter' pile within the first line, before the actual proof points or ask are ever read, so fixing the opening structure has outsized effect relative to polishing anything later in the message. Asking the model to separately judge whether the given fit reason is genuinely specific or generic-enough-to-weaken adds a check GPT-5.1 won't perform unprompted — left to its own judgment, the model tends to accept whatever fit reason it's given at face value and write confidently around it, rather than pushing back on a weak premise, so making that evaluation an explicit required output forces the self-critique that actually improves the pitch instead of just dressing up a shaky one.
What you get back
Pitch: "Your cast-iron content is built for people who already know what they're doing with it — my audience is 100% the opposite, and that gap is exactly why a beginner-friendly weeknight video with your pan could reach people your current content doesn't. I'd love to do one sponsored reel: a 20-minute weeknight dinner using the skillet, in exchange for a flat fee plus the pan. Open to a quick call this week?" Fit check: genuinely specific, not generic. Proof check: thin — add the average view number before sending.
Verified against
ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-08-13
Changelog
- 2026-08-13 — Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT GPT-5.1.
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