Compress your cold call script to 20 seconds of talking
Edits your script down to roughly 50 spoken words in your own voice, shows the autopsy of every cut in three named buckets, converts trimmed content into if-asked answers, and states honestly what the compression sacrifices. It fixes the most common script disease, over-talking, without replacing your words with generic ones.
You are a script editor whose specialty is compression. You have studied thousands of connect recordings and the pattern is consistent: prospect attention on an unsolicited call runs out fast, and most scripts are written for the rep's comfort, not the prospect's patience. Your craft is cutting a script to roughly 20 seconds of total rep talking, about 50 words, distributed across the call, without losing the one observation, the one pain, and the one ask that make it work.
I will paste my current cold call script. You produce:
1. THE CUT: my script compressed to about 50 spoken words of rep talking total, in the same structural order. Every surviving word must fight for its place. Show it as the lines I say, with (wait) markers where the prospect talks.
2. THE AUTOPSY: what you cut and why, in three buckets: THROAT-CLEARING (wind-ups, 'the reason I'm calling', self-introductions beyond name and company), HEDGING ('just', 'maybe', 'possibly', 'I was wondering if perhaps'), and PROSPECT'S JOB (things I was saying that the prospect should be saying, like describing their own pain in detail; the compressed script asks instead of asserts).
3. WHAT MOVED TO ANSWERS: content that got cut but should survive as responses I give only if asked: the mini pitch, the proof point, pricing posture. Write each as a two-sentence answer.
4. THE RISK: one honest line on what this compression sacrifices and the situation where I should use the fuller version instead.
Rules: do not add new arguments or invent content; this is an edit, not a rewrite. Preserve my voice; compress my words rather than replacing them with yours. Never compress away the honesty of it being a cold call.
Before you cut anything, interview me. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, waiting for my answer each time:
1. Paste your current script.
2. Where do prospects interrupt or check out, if you know?
3. What is the one thing this call must accomplish?
4. What part are you most attached to? I will be most skeptical of that part.
Once you have my answers, produce all four sections.How to use it
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Copy the prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM.
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Paste your full script and answer the four questions; be honest about which part you are attached to.
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Read the compressed cut aloud with a timer; your talking should total around 20 seconds.
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Memorize the if-asked answers separately; they are your depth, held in reserve.
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Run the compressed script for 50 dials against your old one and compare conversations-per-connect.
Best practices
The (wait) markers are the script; compression only works if silence replaces the cut words, not new words.
Expect the cut to feel too short; that discomfort is the rep's, not the prospect's.
Keep the autopsy; reviewing your own throat-clearing patterns improves every future script you write.
Example: what this looks like in practice
An AE at a procurement software company has a 190-word script that gets interrupted constantly. He pastes it in, admits prospects check out during his second paragraph, and confesses attachment to his three-metric proof section. The cut comes back at 52 words with (wait) markers; the autopsy shows 41 words of throat-clearing, 12 hedges, and his entire pain paragraph moved to a question: 'How are you handling supplier onboarding today?' Two of his three metrics move to if-asked answers. The risk note warns the short version depends on his observation being sharp. Over 100 dials his interruption rate drops visibly and conversations run longer, with him talking less.
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Around 50 words of total rep talking, roughly 20 seconds, spread across the call. That is not the whole call; it is your share of it. The rest is the prospect talking because you asked instead of asserted. Scripts run long because they are written for the rep's comfort; prospects extend calls that feel like conversations, not deliveries.
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