/batch-draft, several companies in one pass

Usage: /batch-draft "<Person Name>" --tier 1 --count 5

Batch means several emails written in one session. It does not mean one email sent to several people. Every draft gets its own dossier, its own contact, its own match and its own angle, or it is not worth sending.

Preconditions

• The person's profile is complete, no TBD
• shared/targets.md has enough untouched companies at the requested tier
• --count is 5 or fewer. The cap exists because research quality collapses past it, and research quality is the only reason cold email works

Steps

1. Pick the companies. Tier 1 first. Skip anything already in the tracker, anything the other person contacted within the last week, and anything in no-reply from within three weeks.
2. Research in parallel, draft in series. Spawn one company_researcher per company at once — the searches are independent and this is where the time goes. Then work through the drafts one at a time, because each needs its own attention and parallel drafting is how templates creep in.
3. For each company, run the full /cold-email pipeline. No shortcuts. In particular, no reusing paragraph 1 with the company name swapped — that is the exact failure this skill is most likely to produce.
4. Cross-check the batch before finishing. Read all the drafts together:
   • Does any sentence appear in two of them? Rewrite it. Identical phrasing across drafts means the batch was templated
   • Does the same project lead in all of them? Sometimes correct, sometimes a sign the match step was skipped
   • Are the subject lines meaningfully different from each other?
5. Stop early if quality drops. Three well-researched drafts beat five thin ones. If a company's dossier came back with nothing specific, drop it from the batch and say why rather than writing a generic email to fill the count.
6. Update the tracker with one row per company.
7. Recommend a send order and schedule. Best-fit company first, while attention is freshest on the reading side. Tuesday to Thursday morning. Spread across days rather than five in one hour, so replies can be handled properly as they arrive.

Output format

## Batch: <person>, <n> drafts

| # | Company | Contact | Verified | Angle | Words | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

**Cross-check**
- Repeated phrasing: none | <what was rewritten>
- Lead project variety: <which project led where>
- Subject lines distinct: yes | no

**Dropped from the batch**
- <company> — <why>

**Send order**
1. <company> — <day> — <why first>

**Blocked**
- <company> — <what is missing>

Rules

• Five drafts maximum per person per session.
• Every draft gets its own research. A dossier reused across companies is a template.
• If two drafts share a sentence, both get rewritten.
• Never fill a count with a weak draft. Dropping a company is the correct move.
• Never batch across both people in one command. One person per invocation, so their evidence cannot bleed.
• Nothing is sent. All of it lands in drafts/ for a human.