Does it pass
the Trish Test?
Paste any email. Find out in one second whether a human wrote it — or a sequence did.
The original Trish scores 0.77. Red starts at 0.55. Honest email scores 0.
Who is Trish?
In July 2026, a founder got a follow-up from Trish R. — warm, apologetic, quoting an earlier conversation that had never happened, dangling $600k that didn't exist. There was no Trish: just an AI sequence wearing a friendly mask, sent from a domain bought that month.
The test is named after the mask. Millions of Trishes go out every day, and they all leave the same fingerprints — the bump, the two weekdays, the polite escape hatch, the number with nothing behind it. Here's the trick: those fingerprints aren't bad writing — they're structural. The bump is the sequence. The opt-out is the compliance line. The vagueness is all they know about you. The only way to remove them is to write a specific, honest email. Which is the point.
Sender name and domain fictionalized. The email is real.
What we check
Fake bump
"Just wanted to make sure this didn't get buried" — step 2 of a sequence, firing on a timer.
Meeting-slot ask
Two weekdays and fifteen minutes. The email exists only to fill a calendar.
Soft opt-out
A polite escape hatch bolted on because the sender knows it's bulk.
Vague value tease
"The kinds of results we're producing." Big number, zero specifics.
Self-quoted thread
It quotes its own earlier step to fake a conversation you never had.
Burner domain
Disposable .info / .xyz / .club domains, bought by the hundred.
Database personalization
"I saw you've been family-owned since 1967." That's not research, that's a Clay column.
Brand/domain mismatch
Says he's from one company. Sends from somewhere else entirely.
The ‘I help’ formula
“I help [audience] do [thing] so [outcome].” The LinkedIn bio, pasted into an email.
And one that works in your favor
Specificity cues
Invoices, referrals, your talk last month — real context a template can't fake earns points back.
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