Get your 10 best accounts to prospect this week

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own ICP and connectors to see live results. Personal details in any live examples are masked or abbreviated for privacy.

Every rep starts the week the same way — opening a filter panel, scrolling a list, guessing where to start. This play replaces that with a single prompt. Give it your ICP, connect Lusha, Google Calendar, and Gmail, and it does the work: scores accounts against your ICP and live signals, checks your calendar so you’re not prospecting into meetings already booked, checks your inbox so you’re not reaching out to threads already open, and returns 10 accounts that are genuinely ready to prospect — not accounts you’re already working, not accounts with no signal, not accounts that don’t fit.

Ten accounts. One pass. Ready to call.

The prompt

Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT 
<context>
I want to start this week with a shortlist of the accounts
most worth prospecting right now — not a generic list, not
accounts I'm already working, not accounts with no signal.

My ICP: [describe your ideal customer — industry, company
size, geography, funding stage]
My best customers for lookalike matching: [optional — list
2–3 company names or domains]
My target function: [e.g. VP of Sales, Head of RevOps, CFO]
</context>

<task>
1. ICP SCORING — Use Lusha to surface accounts that match
   my ICP and have buying signals firing right now:
   - Firmographic fit: industry, size, funding stage
   - Live signals: hiring surges, executive moves,
     funding, intent
   - Lookalike fit against my best customers if provided
   - Score each account by signal strength and ICP fit

2. CALENDAR CHECK — Check Google Calendar for this week
   and next week:
   - Remove any accounts I already have meetings booked with
   - Flag if a high-scoring account already has a meeting
     so I can prep instead of prospect

3. INBOX CHECK — Search Gmail for open threads in the
   last 30 days:
   - Remove any accounts with an active thread already open
   - Flag accounts where I sent an email but got no reply —
     these need a follow-up, not a new sequence

4. CONTACT VERIFICATION — For each final account, verify
   one VP+ contact via Lusha:
   - Current title and tenure
   - Verified email and direct dial

5. FINAL OUTPUT — Return exactly 10 accounts ranked by
   signal strength and ICP fit. For each account:
   - Why it surfaced
   - Top signal firing right now
   - Verified contact with direct dial and email
   - One-line outreach angle
</task>

What you'll get back

Ten accounts. Each one ICP-fit, signal-strong, and not already in your calendar or inbox. Here’s what the output looks like.

Your 10 accounts this week

Calendar check: 2 high-scoring accounts already have meetings booked this week — moved to prep list below.
Inbox check: 3 accounts have open threads with no reply — moved to follow-up list below.
Net-new accounts ready to prospect: 10

#1 — [Company] · Series B · 320 employees · Austin, TX

Why it surfaced: Matches your top 3 customer profiles on industry, size, and funding stage. Three signals stacked in the last 14 days.

Top signal: New VP of Sales joined 3 weeks ago. 8 SDR roles posted since. Intent on sales prospecting data at score 79.

ContactTitleTenureEmailDirect dial
R.M.VP of Sales3 weeks ⚑r.m@[company].com+1 512 555 ••••

Outreach angle: New VP scaling the SDR team fast — lead with verified data for new reps from day one.
Contact confirmed live via Lusha connector, [date]

#2 — [Company] · Series A · 140 employees · New York, NY

Why it surfaced: Strong ICP match. Series A closed last month. Head of Revenue Operations hired 6 weeks ago.

Top signal: Funding round closed 28 days ago. Headcount up 18% in the last 90 days across sales and ops.

ContactTitleTenureEmailDirect dial
J.K.Head of Revenue Operations6 weeks ⚑j.k@[company].com+1 646 555 ••••

Outreach angle: Post-funding scaling motion — new RevOps leader building the stack from scratch.
Contact confirmed live via Lusha connector, [date]

Accounts #3 through #10 follow the same structure — ranked by signal strength and ICP fit, each with a verified contact and a one-line outreach angle.

Also surfaced

Meetings already booked — prep instead of prospect:

  • [Company A] — discovery call Thursday. Signal: intent on your category spiked this week. Worth mentioning in the call.
  • [Company B] — QBR Friday. Signal: new CFO joined 4 weeks ago. Confirm they’re in the room.

Open threads with no reply — follow up, don’t restart:

  • [Company C] — last email sent 11 days ago. No reply. New hiring surge this week — use it as a reason to follow up.
  • [Company D] — last email sent 8 days ago. No reply. Funding round announced yesterday — strong re-engagement angle.
  • [Company E] — last email sent 14 days ago. No reply. No new signals. Consider deprioritizing.

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha, Gmail, and Google Calendar connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own ICP and connectors to see live results.

Built by: Lusha
Time to build: 3 min
Difficulty: Easy
Tools: Claude, Gmail, Google Calendar, HubSpot
Type: Prompt

Why use Lusha in Claude

The reason most reps start the week staring at a filter panel is that nothing in their stack knows enough about their business to make the decision for them. The CRM has accounts but no ranking. The intent tool has signals but no contacts. The calendar has meetings but no connection to what’s worth prospecting. Every tool holds a piece of the picture and none of them talk to each other.

This play connects all of it in one pass. Lusha’s Deep Intelligence layer does the heavy lifting — it scores accounts against your ICP, surfaces the ones with buying signals firing right now, and ranks them by fit and urgency. That’s not a keyword search or a filter combination. It’s predictive scoring built from the patterns in your own closed-won data, running against 1.2B+ data points processed daily and 7M new signals every week.

The calendar and inbox checks are what make the output genuinely actionable. A high-scoring account you already have a meeting with this week isn’t a prospecting target — it’s a prep opportunity. An account where you sent an email two weeks ago and got no reply isn’t a cold prospect — it’s a follow-up, and the new signal gives you the angle. Removing those from the list before it reaches you means every account in the final 10 is genuinely ready to contact today.

The contact verification step closes it out. Every account comes with a verified VP+ contact — current title, direct dial, business email — pulled live from Lusha’s database during the session. No separate enrichment run. No bounced emails. No calling a switchboard and hoping someone picks up.

Lusha data is sourced and used in accordance with Lusha’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

FAQ

  • What connectors do I need?

    Lusha in Claude is required — it handles the ICP scoring, signal detection, and contact verification. Google Calendar and Gmail are strongly recommended because they’re what make the output genuinely net-new. Without them the play still works, but it can’t filter out accounts you’re already working, which means you might spend time on a prospect you emailed last week or have a call with on Thursday. Connect all three once in Claude settings and they’re available every time you run it.

  • What if I don't have best customers to use for lookalike matching?

    Leave that field blank and the play runs on ICP criteria alone — industry, company size, geography, and funding stage. The lookalike field is optional and makes the scoring more precise when you have it, but it’s not required. If you’re a newer rep or in a new territory, describe your ICP as specifically as you can and the signal scoring does the rest.

  • Why only 10 accounts?

    Because a rep can realistically work 10 accounts well in a week. More than that and the list becomes another thing to manage rather than a thing to act on. The constraint is intentional — it forces the scoring to surface only the accounts worth your time right now, not a long list you’ll scroll past. If you want more, run it again with a different ICP segment or a wider geography.

  • How is this different from the Territory Signal Digest Skill?

    The Territory Signal Digest Skill sweeps your full territory and returns everything that moved — all accounts, all signal types, ranked by strength. It’s built for the weekly pipeline review, not the prospecting decision. This play is narrower and more prescriptive — it filters against your ICP, removes accounts already in your workflow, verifies contacts, and returns exactly 10 accounts ready to prospect today. Different job, different output.

  • Can I run this for my whole team, not just myself?

    Yes — with one adjustment. Each rep needs to run it connected to their own Gmail and Google Calendar so the inbox and calendar checks reflect their specific accounts and meetings. If you’re a sales manager who wants to run it across the team, skip the Gmail and Calendar connectors and run it as a pure ICP and signal scoring pass — it returns the strongest accounts in the territory without the personal context filter. Useful for territory planning and account assignment even if the individual rep version is more precise.

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