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Extract First Name From Email For Sales Teams

Outbound prompt for prospecting: This utility prompt extracts the most likely first name from any email address and formats it correctly for personalization. It analyzes patterns such as first.last, initials plus surname, and common separators to return a single capitalized first name (for example, [email protected] becomes John). If no clear name is available, it reliably outputs exactly there in lowercase. The response is always one word with no punctuation, making it safe for automated workflows.B2B sales and marketing teams can use this to enrich lead lists, personalize cold email subject lines, and dynamically insert names into outreach at scale. It minimizes manual cleanup, prevents casing errors, and ensures consistent fallback behavior. Ideal for SDRs, growth marketers, and RevOps teams running high-volume campaigns where accurate first-name tokens drive higher open and reply rates.This B2B lead generation prompt fits seamlessly into an AI sales research workflow or outbound enrichment pipeline. Feed it a column of emails from your CRM, data vendor exports, or scraped lists, and use the standardized output to power merge tags across sequences, chat messages, and in-app notifications. It is especially valuable when upstream data lacks a clean first name field, enabling fast, reliable personalization without risking broken templates or awkward capitalization.Original input language: English. If provided in another language, the prompt still returns the same single-word English output format with the same rules.

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Extract the most likely first name from the email address: {{property_1}}If the name is found, return it with only the first letter capitalized (e.g., "[email protected]" → "John")If no clear name can be found, return exactly: there — all lowercaseRespond with only one wordDo not return “There” or any capitalized version of “there” under any circumstancesDo not include any punctuation, explanations, or extra text — return only the word

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