You finished the 5-Day AI Business Launch Playbook. You have a shortlist, some market signals, and a blank screen. The question is no longer what to think about. It's what to do with your hands at 9 AM tomorrow. This is that list.
Task 1: Write your one-line offer before you check email
Your first coffee is for this. Open a blank doc. Write one sentence that describes what you sell and who it's for. Not a mission statement. A transaction statement.
Bad: "An AI-powered platform that leverages data to supercharge team collaboration."
Good: "A $29/month Notion add-on that turns meeting notes into assigned action items for remote teams."
Use this format: "A [price] [product category] that [core benefit] for [specific audience]." Force the specificity. If you can't name a price, you're not ready to sell. If you can't name the audience, you can't find them. This line is your compass for every task that follows.
Task 2: Find 50 real people who fit your audience
Not a list of companies. A list of human beings with names, job titles, and a way to contact them. Your goal is 50. Use two tools.
First, use Apollo, Clay, or even LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Search for the job title you named in your one-line offer. Filter by company size if that matters. Export 75 names. You will discard some.
Second, cross-reference. Take those names and paste them into Perplexity AI. Use this prompt for 5 of them as a sample.
Find recent public content or commentary from [Person Name], [Their Job Title] at [Company]. Summarize their stated professional priorities or challenges from the last 6 months.
This does two things. It verifies they are real, public professionals. It gives you a hook. Your list is now a list of people, not leads.
Task 3: Draft the first outbound sequence you will actually send
You are not sending it today. You are drafting it. Open a new doc. Write three emails and two LinkedIn connection request templates.
Email 1 is one paragraph. Lead with the specific priority or challenge you found in Task 2. Connect it to your one-line offer. Ask one open-ended question about their current process. That's it.
Email 2, sent three days later, adds one piece of social proof or a one-sentence case study. Use the format: "We helped [similar role] at [similar company] achieve [concrete, modest outcome]."
Email 3, sent five days after that, is a soft close. "If exploring [your solution] isn't a priority, just say no—I'll close your file. If it is, here's a link to book 15 minutes."
The LinkedIn requests are shorter. Reference a specific piece of their content. Do not pitch.
This entire sequence should take 45 minutes to draft. Use ChatGPT to tighten prose, not generate substance. The substance comes from Task 2.
Task 4: Build a single landing page with one goal
Do not build a website. Build one page. Use Carrd, Softr, or a simple Webflow template. The page has one job: collect an email address in exchange for a specific, high-value artifact.
The artifact is not a "lead magnet." It is a tool. A calibrated pricing calculator for their industry. A swipe file of proven email templates for their role. A benchmark report based on data they can't easily get.
Your one-line offer is at the top of the page. Below it, describe the tool. Then the email capture form. Then three bullet points of what they get. No features. Only benefits phrased as outcomes. "Know what to charge for a 50-employee UK SaaS company" not "Access our dynamic pricing database."
This page is your validation engine. You will drive the 50 people from Task 2 to it. If they give you their email, you have signal.
Task 5: Manual outreach to your first 5 prospects
Before you load any list into an automation tool, you send 5 emails manually. Pick 5 names from your list of 50. Write each email individually, using the template from Task 3 as a base, but customize the first line with what you found in Task 2.
Send them. Use a regular email client or a tool like MiraReach set to manual send mode. Then wait.
Your metric is not replies. Your metric is insights. You are looking for patterns in the silence. Are your emails bouncing? You have a data problem. Are they opening but not replying? Your hook is weak. Is someone replying with "not interested" but asking a question? That's gold. Document everything.
This manual batch is your quality control. It prevents you from automating a broken process.
What we'd do next
These five tasks turn a plan into a project. They force decisions about price, audience, and message that abstract planning avoids. If you get through this list, you have the core of a launch: a defined offer, a targeted list, a outreach system, a validation mechanism, and real-world feedback.
The next layer is systematic execution. That means loading your refined sequence into a platform that respects the manual process you just validated—a tool that finds prospects, scores inboxes, and drafts personalised emails but never sends without your permission. If that's the workflow you're building towards, you can give MiraReach a try.
— Mira