In case you missed last week’s announcement, welcome to the first edition of our new newsletter format (our site has been updated too).

Every week, we share three things with you. Two are free. The other is for Pro members only. Here’s what we’ve got this week:

→ Blueprint: Anti-Pitch Claude Skill (free)

→ Deal: $1000 Coda Credits (pro)

→ Guide: Automate your emails with Slashy

Claude Skill → Download now

Cold email has an AI problem. Every tool now drafts the same bloated, over-personalized, hype-stuffed message, and prospects have learned to delete them on sight.

Anti-Pitch is a Claude skill that does the opposite: it writes short, plain outbound that reads like a real person sent it, built on a tight structure (intro, a credibility line, a one-line pitch, the obvious objection handled up front, and one easy yes/no ask) and it handles your inbound replies too, routing every "interested," pricing question, objection, and "not now" toward the next step instead of the hard close.

It's free to download for the next 48 hours.

Pro members get $1,000 in free Coda credit toward any paid plan. For the average startup, it lasts around 18 months before you've used it up.

If Coda's already part of how you work, that's a year and a half of it covered. And if you've been curious but didn't want to commit, this is a low-stakes way to actually try it.

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Most of your inbox is the same handful of tasks on repeat: forwarding receipts, chasing replies, prepping for calls. Slashy can handle those in the background. You set each one up by typing what you want in plain English and it runs automatically. Here's how to do it.

Open the agent sidebar with Cmd+Shift+L and describe what you want the way you'd explain it to an assistant. For example: "when a prospect opens my email, send me an iMessage”.

Slashy reads that as a condition (what to watch for) and an action (what to do about it), then shows you a preview before it goes live. Anything it would send on your behalf gets drafted for your review first, so nothing leaves your account without you seeing it.

Automations come in four shapes, and knowing which one you need makes the instruction easier to write.

→ Email triggers fire when a message matches a condition you describe. Use these to forward receipts, get alerted when a specific person emails, or auto-draft a reply to routine mail.

→ Calendar triggers fire around your events. They're for prep briefings before a call, a reminder to send the follow-up afterward, or RSVP handling.

→ Auto-reminders watch for dropped balls. When a thread you're waiting on goes quiet, you get flagged instead of forgetting about it.

→ Scheduled reminders run the agent at a set time, like a daily inbox scan in the morning or a one-off task you want handled next Tuesday.

If you’re looking for more value from your NCF membership, Pro membership gives you access to:

Currently discounted to $149/lifetime with a price increase coming soon.

We have various sponsorship options for businesses of all sizes. We’ve worked with 1-person startups to global companies like Squarespace, Pipedrive, Intercom and Stripe. We focus on companies that are a good fit for our members.

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