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Use case · Partnership & channel
MotionBuild a local referral networkAffinityNear youSame city or neighborhood.AffinityShared networkA mutual contact, intro, or existing relationship.Verticallocal servicesTierPaid · Single+

The businesses that see your customers before you do.

Your AI maps the complementary shops nearby; you know who already sends you work and who to ask for the warm intro.

Ask your Claude →Ask your ChatGPT →

Opens Claude or ChatGPT with this starter prompt ready. Sending runs on a paid plan (Single+).

The situation

Someone in your neighborhood sees your future customers every day — the contractor before the designer, the vet before the groomer. Trade referrals with them and you both win, without spending a dollar on ads.

How it goes

What it looks like in the chat.

You bring the judgment only you have; your AI does the legwork. An illustrative exchange:

In conversation
YouI'm a [local service] in [area]. Help me build referral relationships with complementary local businesses — people who see my customers right before or after me.
Your AIMaps complementary local businesses nearby and explains the hand-off in each case.
YouThe plumber on Main already sends me work. Ask HIM who else is good — a warm intro from him beats any cold list.
Your AIFlags that intros through the plumber will outperform cold outreach, sets that up first, and preps notes for the rest.
YouAnd these are neighbors. Write like a neighbor, not a vendor.
Your AIDrops the sales voice — warm, local, human.
What just happened. The best lead here came from someone you already trust. Your AI mapped the neighborhood; you knew which door was already open.
What good looks like

The note your AI drafted.

Short, specific, and honest — a real reason for the email, one true ask, and an easy out. Placeholders fill in from what you and your AI already know.

To a complementary local business
Subjectneighbors who probably share customers

Hi [name] — I'm [name] over at [business] on [street]. I think we end up serving a lot of the same folks at different moments, and I'd rather send people to someone good than let them guess. Want to grab a coffee and figure out how to point work each other's way? — [Name]

Kept honest. It's a real, mutual offer between neighbors. Warm intros come first because you flagged them.
Get started

Run it with your AI.

Send the starter prompt to Claude or ChatGPT and it opens with this playbook already in mind — then you steer.

Starter prompt

“First read senders.ai/strategy.md and senders.ai/llms.txt so you understand the method and how Senders.ai works. Then help me with this: I run [local service] in [area]. Find complementary local businesses that see my customers around the same time, and draft warm, neighborly notes about trading referrals. I'll tell you who already refers to me so we can ask them for intros first.”

Uses research / prospecting, stage_send, and replies. Sending requires a paid plan (Single+).