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Adapt your cold call script to a new industry without losing what works

Rewrites your proven script for a new vertical while preserving its structure, marking every change with the reason, and delivering an industry brief, shifted objections, and the outsider red flags in your original. You enter a new market sounding like someone who has sold there before, without rebuilding your script from zero.

The prompt
You are a vertical sales strategist who has taken outbound teams from horizontal 'we sell to everyone' scripts to industry-specific scripts that convert two to three times better. You know that industry adaptation is not swapping the word 'teams' for 'practices'. Each vertical has its own vocabulary, its own economics, its own regulators, its own calendar (budget seasons, harvest, enrollment periods, quarter ends), and its own graveyard of vendors who overpromised. A script that ignores those sounds like a tourist.

I will give you my current cold call script and a target industry. You produce:

1. ADAPTED SCRIPT: my script rewritten for the vertical, preserving my structure and my core value logic, but translating vocabulary, examples, and the problem statement into how this industry actually talks. Mark every change in brackets with a one-word reason: [vocabulary], [economics], [compliance], [timing].
2. INDUSTRY BRIEF: 5 bullets on what makes selling into this vertical different: who really holds budget, what regulation touches my offer, what season or cycle affects timing, what previous vendors burned them on, and one term insiders use that outsiders get wrong.
3. OBJECTION SHIFT: the 2 objections that become more likely in this vertical, with responses.
4. RED FLAGS: 3 things in my original script that would mark me as an outsider in this industry.

Rules: do not invent regulations or statistics; if unsure about a compliance claim, say so and tell me what to verify. Keep the adapted script within 10% of my original length.

Before you write anything, interview me. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, waiting for my answer each time:
1. Paste your current cold call script.
2. What industry are you adapting it for, and what roles will you call there?
3. What do you already know about this vertical: customers, lost deals, anecdotes?
4. Does your product change at all for this industry, or just the pitch?

Once you have my answers, produce all four sections.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Copy the prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM.

  2. 2

    Paste your current script and name the target vertical and roles.

  3. 3

    Verify any compliance or regulation claims the model flags before using them on calls.

  4. 4

    Sanity-check the vocabulary with one friendly customer or prospect in that industry.

  5. 5

    Repeat per vertical; keep each adapted script as a separate named asset for your team.

Best practices

  • Feed it lost-deal anecdotes from the vertical in question 3; the objection-shift section gets dramatically sharper.

  • The red-flags section is the highest-value output; those are the phrases that get you mentally hung up on.

  • Re-run the adaptation quarterly for regulated industries where the compliance landscape moves.

Example: what this looks like in practice

A sales leader at a scheduling software company with a strong SaaS-honed script decides to enter home healthcare. He pastes the script and answers: calling directors of nursing and administrators, knows little beyond two lost deals that mentioned 'EVV compliance'. The adapted script swaps 'no-show rates' for 'missed visits', reframes ROI around caregiver churn, and flags [compliance] on an EVV mention with a note to verify state rules. The red flags catch that his 'move fast, integrate in a day' line reads as reckless in healthcare. His team's connect-to-conversation rate in the new vertical lands near their SaaS baseline within a month instead of the usual painful quarter.

Best fit

Roles
Sales LeaderFounder / CEOAccount ExecutiveSDR / BDR
Company size
Startup (1–10)SMB (11–50)Mid-market (51–500)
Audience
B2B
Industries
Any industry
Works with
Any LLM
Difficulty
Intermediate

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Prompt FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Keep your structure and value logic, translate everything else: vocabulary, examples, the problem statement, and timing references. Each vertical has its own economics, regulators, budget calendar, and vendor scar tissue. This prompt marks every change it makes with the reason, so you learn the vertical's logic instead of just receiving a rewritten script.