cold-call

cold-call is a skill for Claude Code from oncesylvia/fundraising-skills. It costs 106 tokens per session (1,222 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A call-preparation guide for founders speaking with investors by phone or video. It covers a short opening, the main story, answers to objections, a voicemail, and the next-step request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a cold call or first investor meeting to prepare the introduction, fundraising story, responses to concerns, voicemail, and closing ask.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered thoughts into a conversation the founder can deliver without reading a full script.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fundraising-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before a cold call or first investor meeting to prepare the introduction, fundraising story, responses to concerns, voicemail, and closing ask.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills/cold-call
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add oncesylvia/fundraising-skills --skill cold-call
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oncesylvia/fundraising-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fundraising-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,222 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00106 $0.01222
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00122

Measured 12d ago against content hash 160666bc22cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cold-call scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/cold-call/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cold call / first investor call prep

Live conversations are where warm intros and cold emails get converted — or lost. This skill preps a founder to sound calm, clear, and confident on the phone (or first Zoom): a tight opener, a narrative they can run without reading, crisp objection handling, and one clean ask. The goal is a conversation, not a recitation.

Read shared/references/outreach-ethics.md. A call is consented contact when booked; a true cold call (unscheduled) is higher-friction — prefer earning the call via email/intro first, and only cold-call where it's culturally normal and you have a genuinely specific reason.

Gather before prepping

  • Who's on the call (partner, associate) and how it was booked (warm/cold/ inbound). If unknown, suggest the investor-research skill first.
  • The one-liner, the raise (stage/amount/ask), and the 1–2 strongest true traction points.
  • The single goal of this call — usually: earn the next meeting, not close.

The structure (prep, don't script-read)

Give the founder beats to internalize, with example phrasing they can make their own. See references/objection-bank.md for responses.

  1. Opener (~30 seconds). Who you are, why you're talking to this investor (specific + true), the one-liner, and the reason now. End by handing them the floor.

    "Thanks for the time. I reached out because you led 's seed and we're building the for . In one line: we help without . Happy to give the quick version and then go wherever's most useful for you?"

  2. The 90-second story (if they say "tell me more"): problem → why now → what you built → traction → why you. Concrete, numbers over adjectives. Stop and let them interrupt — investors steer; let them.

  3. Make it a dialogue. After traction, ask a question back: "Does this fit how you're thinking about ?" A call where only the founder talks is a lost call.

  4. Handle objections calmly (see the bank). Acknowledge → answer briefly → bridge back. Never get defensive; "good question" then a crisp, honest answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 100 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 160666bc22cb

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cold-call is a skill published in the GitHub repository oncesylvia/fundraising-skills (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 1,222 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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