Inside the Leveraging AI Community, we build AI apps people pay to subscribe to — and today's is a favorite: an Outreach Agent that researches a whole list of companies and writes a personalized cold email for each one, built with just two prompts.

Here's how to build it yourself.

Step 1 — Set up

• Download VS Code

• Install the Claude Code extension

• Create a new folder called Outreach

• Start a new Claude Code session

Step 2 — Build it Paste Prompt #1 to build the agent.

Build a modern AI-powered outreach web application.

The app should allow me to enter a company name and website.

When I click "Research Company," use the OpenRouter API to:

1. Research the company.
2. Identify what the company does.
3. Find potential pain points or opportunities.
4. Identify where AI or automation could help.
5. Generate a personalized cold outreach email explaining how my services could help solve those problems.

The app should have:

- A clean modern interface
- Company Name field
- Website field
- Research button
- Results panel
- Editable outreach email
- Copy button

Store the OpenRouter API key using environment variables.

Build everything as a production-ready Next.js application.

Make this an agent, not a single tool:

- Let me paste a LIST of companies (one per line, or upload a CSV).
- When I click "Run Agent," loop through every company automatically:
research it, then draft its personalized cold email — one after another,
with a live progress log showing which company it's working on.
- After drafting each email, have the agent review its own draft against
the company's pain points and rewrite it once to make it sharper before
moving on.
- Show all finished emails in a results table with a Copy button per row
and an Export All button.

Step 3 — Get your key Create a free OpenRouter API key at openrouter.ai (sign up, then go to Keys → Create Key).

Step 4 — Deploy it Paste Prompt #2 to deploy the agent to Vercel.

Deploy this application to Vercel.

Create all required environment variables.

Explain exactly where I should paste my OpenRouter API key.

Verify the deployment is working correctly.

Return the live URL.

That's it. Within minutes you'll have your Outreach Agent up and running — paste in a list of companies, and it researches each one, writes a personalized email for every single one, and even improves its own drafts, on its own.

You're not learning to code — you're learning to direct. Two prompts, build then deploy, is a rhythm that works for almost any agent you can describe. Learn it once and every idea you have is two prompts away from being live.

If you'd like to build more AI-powered apps like this — apps that people pay to subscribe to — join us inside the Leveraging AI Community.

👉🏾 Come build with me: https://www.skool.com/leveragingai

Cheers,

-Dr. Erin Jacques
Founder @ Leveraging AI, Chatify IT

Professor, AI Strategist, Columbia Grad