Every first message agaria drafts has the same shape. It fits on a phone screen without scrolling, it mentions two things that are true about the person, and it ends with an offer rather than a request. Here is what that looks like for a founder who just raised a round and is hiring engineers:
Hi John, you went from six engineers to twelve this quarter. That is a lot of interviews on top of the work you were already doing. If it helps, I can send what we changed when we did the same thing.
Three sentences. Let's take them apart.
Sentence one: the person, and the thing that happened
The first line names the person and the thing that made them a lead. A funding round, a new role, a launch, a post that did well. It states the fact and stops: "you went from six engineers to twelve this quarter" could not have been sent to anyone else.
What it does not do is congratulate. A congratulation is the one line a template can always produce, so it tells the reader nothing about whether you looked. And it does not explain who you are: the reader can see your name and headline right above the message, and repeating them spends the one line that decides whether the rest gets read.
Sentence two: what that fact means for them
The middle sentence draws one conclusion from the first. "That is a lot of interviews on top of the work you were already doing" is the part that shows you understood the fact rather than scraped it.
That observation is the whole point. A message that lists facts about someone reads like a database. A message that draws one conclusion from those facts reads like a colleague.
Sentence three: an offer, not a meeting request
The last line offers to share something. It does not ask for fifteen minutes, it does not attach a calendar link, and it does not ask whether they are the right person. "If it helps, I can send what we changed" leaves the next step with them, and the cost of saying yes is a reply, not a meeting.
The meeting comes later, once there is a conversation. agaria nurtures the reply thread and asks for time when the other person has shown interest, not before.
Two habits that make a message read like a bot
When we review drafts, two patterns get rejected every time.
Dropped subjects. "Hope to share some ideas." "Wanted to reach out." "Saw your post." Templates drop the subject to sound breezy, and readers have learned to spot it. Every sentence agaria writes keeps its subject: "I saw your post", "I can send what we changed".
Generalizations about their world. "Many founders struggle with hiring." "Most sales teams waste hours on research." The reader knows you did not write that for them. Say something about them, or something about you. Never something about people like them.
The same goes for formatting: no em-dashes, no bullet points, no bold. Nobody formats a hello.
Why short wins
A first message is not the pitch. It is the knock on the door. Three sentences is enough to show you looked, say why you are here, and let them decide. Everything else belongs in the second message, and only if there is one.
If you want to see how agaria writes these for your own prospects, the Free plan finds five leads and messages three of them, with no card needed.