Play · Warm path

Talk shop with people in the same trenches.

Senders finds operators at companies near your stage. You decide who you already know and what the real bond is.

Plan and pull the list free (100 credits a month). Sending starts on Single at $50/mo, from your own mailbox. Nothing sends until you approve.

Signal
You've done the same job
For
Operators who want peers, not prospects
Runs on
Free to plan · Single to send · Pod
The situation

Why it works.

You'd learn more from an hour with someone running the same playbook one stage ahead (or behind) than from any webinar. You just don't have the time to find them.

Who brings what

Senders brings the data and the sending. You bring what you know.

Senders brings

  • Data from 80+ sources: People in your role at companies around your stage, with a line on each.
  • Signal: Stage and role, so every name on the list is a real peer.
  • Verification: Every address checked before anything sends.
  • Sending: From your own mailbox, after you approve each note.

You bring

  • Who you've already met, so only new people get a note.
  • The real bond: you've done the job too.
  • No pitch. Just comparing notes.
Step by step

How it runs.

Senders does the legwork at every step. The calls stay yours.

  1. Senders

    Finds peers at similar-stage companies and returns a list with a line on each.

    Your call

    “Half of these I've already met at [community]. Only reach the ones I don't know.”

  2. Senders

    Filters to the people you haven't met.

    Your call

    “Say I ran ops at a Series B too. That's the real bond, not ‘I admire your journey’ filler.”

  3. Senders

    Leads each note with the shared operator reality, cuts the flattery, and sends once you approve.

    Your call

    “Send five this week. I'd rather have five real calls than twenty maybes.”

What just happened.

The credibility here is that you've actually been there. Senders can't claim that for you, but once you said it, it knew exactly what to do with it.

See it as a Claude conversation

An illustrative exchange: this play in Claude with Senders connected over MCP. ChatGPT works the same way.

  1. You

    I want to connect with other heads of ops at companies around our stage. Not to sell. To actually compare notes.

  2. Claude, using Senders

    Finds peers at similar-stage companies and returns a list with a line on each.

  3. You

    Half of these I've already met at [community]. Only reach the ones I don't know.

  4. Claude, using Senders

    Filters to the people you haven't met.

  5. You

    And say I ran ops at a Series B too. That's the real bond, not "I admire your journey" filler.

  6. Claude, using Senders

    Leads each note with the shared operator reality and cuts the flattery.

  7. You

    Send five this week. I'd rather have five real calls than twenty maybes.

  8. Claude, using Senders

    Sends the five you approve from your mailbox and holds the rest for next week.

What lands

The first note.

Short, specific, and honest: a real reason for the email, one true ask, and an easy out. The brackets fill in from what you know and what Senders finds.

To a peerSubject: ops to ops
Hi [name],

I run ops at [company], and we're about where you were a year ago. I keep hitting the same wall you've probably already solved ([specific thing]). No pitch. I'd just genuinely value 20 minutes comparing notes, on me. Happy to trade whatever I've figured out in return.

[Name]

Kept honest.

This is genuinely a peer reach-out: the note offers to give as much as it asks. You confirm who's actually new to you.

Two doors

Run it yourself, or hand it to a Pod.

Run it yourself

$0to start
  • Free: plan the play and pull the list with 100 credits a month
  • Single, $50/mo: send from your own mailbox, 50 sends a day per mailbox, 500 credits a month
  • Runs in Claude or ChatGPT over MCP
  • Nothing sends until you approve
Already connected in Claude or ChatGPT? Copy the starter prompt

First read senders.ai/strategy.md and senders.ai/llms.txt so you understand the method and how Senders.ai works. Then help me with this: Find heads of [function] at companies near our stage so I can compare notes, not sell. Lead with the fact that I've actually done the job. I'll tell you who I've already met so we only reach new people.

Have a Pod run it

$1,800/mo
  • A GTM engineer and an email & integrations engineer build and run this play for you
  • 12,000 credits and 200 sends a day included
  • Beyond that: $0.025/send and 1¢ a credit
  • Deliverability and CRM wiring handled

Starts at $1,800/mo · no setup fee

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