Operators · Chief of Staff
~89%
Email hit rate
41%
Replies that forward
140k
COS worldwide
$29
Flat, unlimited
The Chief of Staff is paid to protect the CEO's calendar and attention. Anything that looks like a vendor pitch with no operational substance dies in triage.
The unlock is treating them as the operator they are — share something that makes their weekly business review easier and you get a reply, often with a forward.
HuntMeLeads, Apollo, ZoomInfo. ~89% verified hit on COS.
Quote-search the exec's name — surfaces COS even when title hides them.
Series B+ companies list COS on team page in 60% of cases.
Public board updates and shareholder letters often credit COS as author.
Works for 80% of COS at companies under 1,000 employees.
| Angle | Reply rate | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Leadership meeting prep aid | 13.4% | Series B+ SaaS |
| Board-deck data point | 11.2% | PE/VC-backed companies |
| Cross-functional ops lift | 9.8% | Mid-market with 200–1k FTE |
| Strategic vendor consolidation | 7.6% | Cost-pressured orgs |
| Generic 'demo' pitch | 0.4% | Never — instant archive |
[First] — figured this lands on your desk before [CEO First]'s. [Peer Co]'s COS shared their Q3 leadership-review template with us last month — one slide on revenue efficiency that cut prep from 4 hours to 40 minutes. Pasted the structure below. If useful, happy to send the editable version. No demo, no deck — just the slide.
— [Name], [Credential]
| Feature | HuntMeLeads | Typical alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Verified email | ~89% hit | 55–70% per credit |
| Pricing | Flat $29 unlimited | $0.10–$0.50 per credit |
| Title-variant search | Built-in | Manual |
| Org-chart inference | Included | Separate tool |
| Sender + warmup | Included | Separate tool |
| Free plan | Forever-free | 7-day trial |
✕ Pitching the CEO through them
If your email is obviously a CEO-pitch in disguise, it gets deleted. Make the value land for the COS first.
✕ Including a deck
COS opens zero unsolicited PDFs. One paste-in-body data point beats a 12-slide attachment.
✕ Asking for a meeting in cold
Earn the meeting in the reply. First email is value drop, second is question, third is calendar.
✕ Sending after 9am their time
By 9am they're in standup. Get there before the day starts or after 6pm.
89% hit rate. Unlimited credits. Sender + warmup included. No card to start.
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