Edit any message before it goes

A drafted opener is a starting point. You know the buyer, the account and the history in ways the research never will, and the draft should bend to that.

In Stage 1, every scheduled message is yours to change until it goes. And the changes you make teach it something.

What it does

Open the Desk and tap Going out. Every message waiting to send is listed there by day. First messages, follow-ups, email steps and the intro asks that go to mutual connections.

Tap Edit on any of them, change the words and save. The message keeps its place in the sequence and goes out on schedule with your words in it. Emails show the subject line above the body.

You can change a message right up until it sends. Once it's gone or been skipped, it's locked.

How Stage 1 keeps track

When you edit a message, Stage 1 keeps the original draft next to your version. The message gets an Edited tag, so you and anyone else on the team can see which ones a person touched.

When the message goes, Stage 1 compares what it drafted with what you sent and records one of three things. It went as drafted, it was lightly edited, or it was rewritten. A message that keeps most of its words is a light edit. One that doesn't is a rewrite.

The checklist runs on whatever is there now. If your edit opens a sentence with I or We, leaves a placeholder in brackets, adds a chase like "just checking in" or runs past the construct's word limit, an orange note says so under the message.

One message works differently. The second LinkedIn note is only written when it comes due, and only when something new happened at the account after your first message. With review on, which is the default, it then waits for your approval and you can edit it like the rest. With review off, it goes out as soon as it's written.

How it learns from your edits

Once a week, Stage 1 looks at your firm's first messages from the last 120 days. If your sellers have rewritten at least eight drafts, at least two of those rewrites earned a positive reply or a meeting, and rewrites are winning at least as often as drafts sent as-is, your edits are better than the drafts.

When that's true, Claude reads the drafts side by side with what was sent and names the pattern that wins. It comes back as a new private construct, a recipe for first messages, waiting for the owner to approve it under Insights, Constructs. Approve it and it starts testing on your own sends. More on that in variations and mining.

Say your sellers keep cutting the hypothesis down to one short sentence and moving the question up. The mined construct might read like this.

State the guess in one short sentence. Then ask whether it's right, before anything else.

You can watch the split yourself. Insights has a Seller edits card that shows how many drafts went as written, lightly edited or rewritten.

Why it matters for a services sale

Your best sellers already edit. They cut the line that sounds like a vendor. They add the detail from last month's dinner. They fix the title Stage 1 got slightly wrong. Until now, that judgment stayed in their heads.

Tracking edits turns it into something the whole team can use. If the rewrites win, the pattern becomes a recipe. If they don't, that's worth knowing too, and you'll see it in the record. For the kind of changes that usually help, see words that make you sound like a vendor and one idea per message.

Read every draft. Change what's wrong. Stage 1 keeps score on what you changed.