Glossary
The language of first person outbound
Plain meanings for the terms we use, and the ones the category has muddied. Each one links to the page that covers it in full.
- First Person Outbound
- B2B outbound in which the whole presence runs as the customer themselves, on their own real account, in their own name and voice, rather than by a named AI persona or an agency. It is integrated, it graduates from approval to autonomy, and it remembers every relationship. Read more.
- Done as you outbound
- Outreach that is fully run for you but still goes out as you, on your account and in your voice, so the relationships stay yours. The contrast is done for you outbound, where an agency or a bot acts under its own name and keeps the pipeline it builds. Read more.
- AI SDR
- An AI sales development rep: software that runs outbound under its own named persona, on its own infrastructure, sold as a digital employee. The prospect is talking to the bot, not to you. It is the borrowed face that first person outbound is defined against. Read more.
- Voiceprint
- A model of how you actually write, built from your own words and a short guided capture of your stance and proof. It lets each message read like you wrote it for one person, instead of a template with your name pasted in, and it sharpens as you edit. Read more.
- Graduated autonomy
- The model where outbound starts under your full approval and earns independence one step at a time, as its drafts keep matching what you would have sent. You set the pace and can pull approval back at any time, so autonomy is proven in front of you, never assumed. Read more.
- Account safety
- Keeping a LinkedIn account healthy by acting at the pace a real, active person sustains. Restrictions come from bursts of activity no human could match, so a fixed cap that behaves like a genuine user, rather than a slider you can push, is the safest way to run. Read more.
- Warming
- Engaging with a prospect before any message lands, with genuine comments and likes on what they post, so your name is already familiar when you reach out. A warm message from a face they recognise reads very differently from a cold one out of nowhere. Read more.
- Done for you outbound
- Outbound run entirely by someone else, an agency or a named AI persona acting under their own identity. The work is off your plate, but the relationships form with them, so the pipeline can leave when the contract does. The contrast is done as you outbound, which runs the same work as you. Read more.
- Warm up ramp
- Starting a new account slow and increasing its activity over weeks, the way a real person easing into a network would, rather than firing at full volume on day one. It is one of the main reasons an automated account stays healthy instead of getting restricted. Read more.
- Decorrelation
- Giving each connected account its own timing and rhythm so accounts never act in lockstep. Identical patterns across accounts are one of the clearest signals of automation, so keeping each account behaving like its own person is what lets several run safely at once. Read more.
- Edit learning loop
- The mechanism where every edit you make to a draft becomes a signal that sharpens your own voiceprint. Unlike a template that only ages, the writing moves closer to how you actually sound the more you use it, and those edits improve only your profile, never a shared model. Read more.
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