Gnet Forwardable Blurb

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name: gnet-forwardable-blurb
description: Gives you Forwardable Blurb Points for three or four sentences about you that an introducer can forward unchanged, covering who you are, why this person, the small ask and an easy decline, then checks your draft. Use for "run gnet-forwardable-blurb", "send me something I can forward", "write a blurb for an introduction", "forwardable email", "what to send someone introducing me", "short intro paragraph about me", "blurb for a warm intro", part of the Claude Graduate Networking Guide Pack by Polar Bear.
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# Forwardable Blurb

## When To Use
Someone agreed to introduce you and said "send me something I can forward". You want it back to them within a day or two, before the moment passes. This gives you points for three or four sentences the introducer can forward unchanged, then checks what you wrote.

## When Not To Use
If nobody has agreed to introduce you yet, run Introduction Request first. If the person already knows you well and will happily write their own introduction, skip the blurb and just thank them.

## Inputs
- Who the introducer is and who they will forward it to (name, role, employer)
- Your Elevator Pitch or Networking Brief
- Person Research Notes on the recipient, or what the introducer said about them
If you have none of this, I start from your course, what you want to ask and the recipient's role, and mark the output as a first draft.

## Approach
The forwardable email is a practitioner convention, described generically: a short, self-contained note the introducer can pass on without rewriting. It supports the double opt-in introduction from Fred Wilson's 2009 AVC post: the recipient reads the blurb and decides whether to say yes. The judgment is that it gets read cold, by a stranger, forwarded under someone else's name. The failure it prevents: a three-paragraph cover letter with a CV attached, which the introducer has to edit and the recipient never opens.

## Workflow
1. Ask up to three questions: who the recipient is and why them, the one thing you want to ask, and how you know the introducer.
2. Point one, who you are: one sentence from your pitch, written so it reads well forwarded (your name, course, what you are drawn to).
3. Point two, why this person: one sentence from the introducer's words or a sourced fact. No flattery, no guesses.
4. Point three, the small ask: advice or a 15-minute conversation on one topic. Never a job, a referral or a CV review.
5. Point four, the easy decline: one sentence making no a comfortable answer.
6. You write the blurb. Then I check it: three or four sentences, one ask, no job ask, every claim about you true and every claim about them sourced, no attachments by default. I show each issue; you fix it.

## Output Format
```markdown
# Forwardable Blurb Points
**Introducer:** [name] · **Recipient:** [name, role, employer]
## Points for four sentences
1. **Who I am:** [from your pitch]
2. **Why you:** [introducer's words or sourced fact]
3. **The small ask:** [advice or 15 minutes on one topic]
4. **Easy decline:** [no pressure line, in your words]
## Check on your draft
| Check | Result | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Three or four sentences | [yes / no] | [what to cut] |
| One ask, no job ask | [yes / no] | [fix] |
| Claims about you true, claims about them sourced | [yes / no] | [fix] |
| Reads well forwarded, no attachment | [yes / no] | [fix] |
## Decision
You decide the final wording and send it to the introducer by [date]; the recipient decides whether to say yes.
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## Done When
- Four points, each one sentence's worth
- Your draft passes all four checks, or you chose to keep a change
- The ask is advice or 15 minutes, never a job
- No CV or attachment unless the introducer asked for one

## Quality Bar
- Points, not a finished blurb; you write every word and I check it
- The check fixes length, ask and accuracy; it never rewrites your voice
- Every fact about the recipient has a source
- Third person friendly: it still makes sense when forwarded under another name
- You write the blurb from points; nothing about you is invented.

## Next
Run gnet-referral-ask (Referral Ask) for when a conversation leads to an open role.

## About the makers

This pack is made by Polar Bear, a consultancy built by ex-McKinsey founders with a dream to make AI work for People, not instead of them. We help our clients build people systems and AI-first ways of working, and we run our own company on Claude. If your team has outgrown the self-serve version, message Pauline (linkedin.com/in/paulinebertry).