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cold-outreach-gmail · included with Chameleon Mode Pro

It writes the cold email. It never sends it.

An OpenClaw skill that finds local businesses by trade and location, reads their websites, judges each one against a description of what you offer, and writes a personalised email for the ones that fit. Every email lands as a draft in your own Gmail. You read them and send the ones you want, by hand.

Get Pro, $199 a monthThe skill carries no fee of its own. It runs on your own accounts at cents per run.
Chameleon VAbot
Run ID: 20260908T152620-fd37bd
  • Found: 15 SEO agencies in New York
  • Qualified: 11 fit the offer (threshold 7+)
  • Excluded: 4 already contacted previously
  • Queued: 7 prospects → 35 drafts (5-email sequence)
Now saving to Gmail.6:36 PM
/new7:02 PM
New session started.7:02 PM
"Qualify 15 SEO agencies in New York against localseosequence, sender Alex, save to Gmail"7:03 PM
Pipeline finished. Result: 15 scraped, 13 enriched, 12 fit the offer, but 11 were already contacted in prior outreach. Only 1 new prospect queued (5 drafts, this is a sequence run with sequence.enabled: true).

Let me now save the drafts to Gmail.7:17 PM
Done. Five-email sequence for 1 prospect, 5 drafts saved to Alex's Gmail Drafts, all 5 confirmed in Drafts. Nothing sent.7:18 PM
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The permission it uses to reach Gmail is scoped to creating drafts. It cannot send. Google refuses a send attempt. That is a property of the credential, not a promise about the software's behaviour, and there is no send step in the product to press.

How it works

You type one sentence. It does the finding, reading and writing.

Telegram"Find 15 plumbers in Denver, selling SEO, sender Alex."
1
Find

Local businesses by the trade and location you named.

2
Read

Screenshots each business's live homepage and reads it, plus up to two more pages from the same site.

3
Judge

Compares what it found against your written description of what you offer. Drops the ones that are not a fit.

4
Draft

Writes each email from what it actually found on that site. Not a template with the name dropped in.

5
You send

Every email waits as a draft in your Gmail. You read it. You send it, or you don't.

Two modes. Audit critiques the site and writes about what is wrong with it. Qualify judges whether that business is genuinely a fit and drops the ones that are not. In either mode, if a site is already good it declines to pitch it rather than invent a problem to have something to say.

Five things it does, and why each one is true

A benefit without its mechanism is a claim. These are mechanisms.

01 · NOTHING IS EVER SENT

A human reviews every email first, in their own Gmail. The credential the skill uses is scoped to draft creation only, so Google itself refuses a send. Not a setting. Not a policy. The permission cannot do it.

02 · IT REFUSES RATHER THAN GUESSES

With no offer file describing what you do, a run will not start, because without one there is no list of things the email may never promise. With no sender name from any source, it refuses rather than signing an email with a name it made up. It would rather do nothing than do something plausible.

03 · IT NEVER CONTACTS THE SAME PROSPECT TWICE

On by default. It remembers every business it has drafted to and skips them on later runs. The feature exists because a run once re-drafted a business contacted earlier the same day. When you deliberately want to re-contact someone, the override names every business it is letting back in rather than silently including them.

04 · EVERY EMAIL OPENS ON SOMETHING REAL

It reads the actual site, up to three pages, and builds the email from what it found there. On audit mode it writes about what is wrong with the site. On qualify mode it decides whether the business is worth contacting at all. It will not manufacture a problem for a site that does not have one.

05 · YOUR KEYS, YOUR ACCOUNTS, YOUR MAILBOX

You supply your own Google and Anthropic keys. They live in a file on your own computer and bill your own accounts directly. No seat fee, no licence check, no vendor account in the middle. Nobody else holds your mailbox: you grant the Gmail permission yourself, in your own browser, scoped to drafts, and you can revoke it at any time. Your prospect data stays on your machine. The honest other side: bring-your-own-keys means you do the setup yourself.

The two fields you write yourself

It drafts most of your offer file. It leaves two lines blank on purpose.

The skill can build most of an offer file automatically from your own website. It deliberately will not fill in two fields: what an email may never promise, and who is worth contacting versus who is not.

A website documents what a business offers and asserts. What you need is what you will withhold, refuse, and turn away.

This is a safety feature, not an unfinished one. A wrong answer in either field does not produce an email that looks wrong. It produces a fluent, confident, well-written promise you now have to honour, or twenty well-written emails to the wrong twenty companies. Reading the drafts cannot catch either, because each draft looks fine on its own.

And because the skill never contacts the same business twice, the cost is not twenty wasted emails. It is twenty spent prospects, and they are your best twenty, because a first run reaches those first. Editing the file afterwards does not give them back.

Follow-up sequences

Five drafts. You send each one by hand.

The sequence feature writes a five-email follow-up series for a prospect and leaves all five as drafts. You send the first when you choose, the second when you choose, and so on. Nothing is timed, scheduled or sent on your behalf. The same draft-only credential applies to every one of them.

What it requires

What you need before the first run.

ACCOUNTS AND KEYS, ALL YOUR OWN
  • A Google account with billing enabled
  • An Anthropic account with a payment method
  • A Gmail account, plus a one-time permission step: you grant the skill draft-only access to that mailbox, in your own browser. No part of the product can do this for you, and it happens once per mailbox.
  • Optionally, a Hunter.io key for verified contact names
SOFTWARE
  • Windows
  • Chameleon Mode, installed and working
  • OpenClaw, installed and working
  • Telegram, which is the day-to-day interface
WHAT IT COSTS

The skill itself carries no fee and no licence check. Included with Chameleon Mode Pro. Running it costs cents per run, billed directly to your own Google and Anthropic accounts.

Included with Pro. Nothing sends until you do.

Chameleon Mode Pro is $199 a month. 1,500 browser profiles, unlimited team members, role-based access, priority support, and cold-outreach-gmail. 7-day free trial. Annual billing saves 30%.