AI and Cold Emails That Work: Get Replies From People Who Don't Know You

Adults reply to teens who write specific, short, curious cold emails — and almost none of you send them. AI removes the only excuse: not knowing what to say.

Some examples

• Ask Perplexity to find the work email of a person at the company you want to learn from.
• Ask Claude to write a 4-sentence cold email referencing one specific thing they shipped last month.
• Ask ChatGPT for 10 subject lines under 50 characters that get over 50% open rates from professionals.
• Ask Gemini to draft your one-sentence followup for day 7 if they ghost you.

Try it!

Pick one person whose work you actually like. Send them a 4-sentence email today asking for 15 minutes of their advice.

Practice this safely

Try this with a school, hobby, or family example where the stakes are low. Use the AI output as a draft you can question, not as the final answer.

1. 1Ask AI to explain cold email in plain language, then underline anything that sounds uncertain or too broad.
2. 2Give it one detail from "AI and Cold Emails That Work: Get Replies From People Who Don't Know You" and ask for two possible next steps plus one reason each step might be wrong.
3. 3Check networking against a trusted source, teacher, adult, expert, or original document before you use it.