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Read Every Message on a Phone First
Command note: Nobody reads your automation in the builder. They read it on a lock screen.
Every message looks fine inside GHL. Wide editor, merge fields labeled, the whole context in your head. Your lead sees two lines of preview on a small screen, stacked between other notifications.
What breaks on a phone that looked fine in the builder:
• An empty merge field, so the text opens with "Hi ,"
• The real ask buried below the preview cut-off
• A long link that eats half the screen
• An email subject that truncates mid-word
• A sender name the lead doesn't recognize
Do this before any message goes live:
1) Send it to your own phone from the real workflow, not the preview pane
2) Read only the lock-screen preview. Is the point clear from that alone?
3) Test once with a contact missing a first name and see what renders
4) Open the email in your phone's mail app, in light and dark mode
5) Check the sender name reads like a person or business they know
6) Fix it, resend, and read it again cold
When Claude drafts the copy, add one more pass: ask it to rewrite the first line so the message makes sense from the preview alone. That single edit fixes most of what the phone exposes.
The builder shows what you wrote. The phone shows what they got.
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