Scenario: after a call, your buyer mentions that the CISO and CEO will both weigh in. That is useful context, but only if you act on it quickly.
Using Claude + Via, you can pull those stakeholders from the transcript, find warm paths through your team and customer champions, and generate the exact Slack and email drafts needed to activate those paths.
In seconds, you learn your VP Sales worked with the CISO at Stripe, and one of your customers was a YC batchmate of the CEO.
Instead of sending a generic follow-up and hoping your champion forwards it, you now have two warm plays to expand the deal.
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FindTopConnectionPaths (batch)
Result 7 stakeholders · 2 with warm paths
| Stakeholder | Role in deal | Best warm path | Source | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priya Shah CISO, Acme |
Security gate; must sign off | Sarah Kim Worked at Stripe together |
Team Circle | Review Slack draft |
| Marcus Lee CEO, Acme |
Exec sponsor for the tier | Daniel Sun YC W21 batchmate |
Customer Champion | Review email draft |
Install the connectors, open Cowork, paste the prompt, review the drafts. A runbook — not an article.
In Claude, open Settings → Connectors → Browse connectors and add the four you'll need for this workflow. Via is currently in private beta, so you'll need to request access before it shows up in your directory. (Claude's menu labels can shift — if the path has moved, look for the connectors browser under your account or workspace settings.)
Multi-tool workflows like this run more reliably in Claude Cowork than in regular chat. The agentic workspace handles four sequential tool calls without losing context, and gives you an audit trail of what each connector did.
Replace Acme with the prospect company. The prompt tells Claude to prioritize Team Circle paths first, fall back to Customer Champion paths, and draft only — nothing gets sent automatically. Uncertain matches go into a "Needs Review" section at the bottom for your eyes.
Heads up: this prompt assumes you've set up a Team Circle and a Customer Champions Circle in Via. You can do that directly from Claude — just ask Via MCP something like: "Create a Customer Champions Circle with the following LinkedIn URLs: [paste URLs]." Same pattern for the Team Circle.
Claude returns every stakeholder the buyer named, the warm path to each, and a draft for each — a Slack to a teammate for Team Circle paths, a short vouch-note request email to your champion for Customer Champion paths. Always keep a human in the loop on personalized outreach. The prompt is set up to draft only — nothing leaves your inbox or Slack until you press send. Two things to do for every draft:
Get the warm intros queued before your buyer's other priorities knock you out of cycle.