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How to improve comment and DM draft quality

How your Context and Style shape the comments and DMs Extrovert drafts, and how to set them up for better drafts - including fixing comments that come out in the wrong or mixed language.

Written by Oleg Sobolev

Every comment and direct message Extrovert drafts is shaped by two things you control: your Context and your Style. Without Context, drafts read generic. Without Style, they read robotic. Together they help Extrovert write useful messages that sound like you.

Style is how you write. It includes your instructions for comments and DMs, plus real Comment Examples that show your voice.

Context is useful material Extrovert can draw on. It includes facts about you and your company, Insights for comments, and DM Playbook entries for direct messages. Extrovert is not limited to this material. It also responds to the post or conversation itself.

Both live in Settings. Open your Context library and Style library there to create and edit them. Each library can hold more than one profile, and you can assign different profiles to different campaigns. The number of profiles available depends on your plan. See Plan features and differences.

What affects what

  • Both comments and DMs: factual Context about you and your company.

  • Comments only: Comment Style instructions, Comment Examples, and Insights.

  • DMs only: DM Style instructions and the DM Playbook.

Keep each part focused. Facts go in Context. Opinions and talking points go in Insights. Sales material goes in the DM Playbook. Instructions about how the writing should sound go in Style. Mixing them is a common reason drafts feel off.


Context about you and your company

Where: Settings → Context library → open a Context profile → Context about you and Context about your company.

This is factual material Extrovert can use in comments and DMs. Keep it detailed and specific rather than filling it with marketing lines. Works best if formatted as paragraphs separated by double line breaks for better readability.

Context about your company: explain what it does, who it serves, the problem it solves, what makes it different, real results, and recent milestones.

Context about you: include your name and role, background, experience, strong beliefs, and a few personal details that make you relatable.


Comment Insights library

Where: Settings → Context library → open a Context profile → Comment Insights library.


Insights are ideas, observations, lessons, and points of view Extrovert can use when they fit the post. Each Insight should hold one clear thought and show real expertise.

More good Insights give Extrovert more useful angles to choose from. Add as many distinct, genuine Insights as your experience and source material support. Do not add generic, repeated, or invented points just to fill the library.

Good insights are unique to you - they demonstrate expertise, share contrarian views, or reveal lessons from experience. They're specific enough to be credible, not generic statements anyone could make.

You can use your company expertise as examples, but it's better if they are framed as personal opinions/talking points. Good sources for insights are your existing posts, content pillars, expert articles, webinar transcripts, etc.


Examples of content pillars that you can use as insights:

  • Unique industry observations based on my experience

  • Counterintuitive findings or lessons from failures

  • Specific methodologies or frameworks I've developed

  • Personal anecdotes that illustrate broader principles

  • Quantified results or data points from my work

  • Expert opinions on emerging trends

  • Practical tips derived from hands-on experience

Exclude:

  • Common knowledge everyone agrees on

  • Surface-level observations without specifics

  • Facts about my company (that's basic context)

  • Sales pitches, product descriptions, pricing, booking links, and outreach templates. That material belongs in the DM Playbook.

DM Playbook

Where: Settings → Context library → open a Context profile → DM Playbook.

The DM Playbook is material Extrovert can use in direct messages: message templates, value propositions, objection handling, product details, resources, booking links, pricing and so on. Add each useful item separately.


For a template, say when to use it and whether Extrovert should follow it closely or adapt it to the conversation. How the DM should sound belongs in DM Style instructions, not here.


To see how these DMs are drafted and sent, read Suggesting relevant DMs to prospects.

What you can include

Conversation starter templates if you have them

  • Templates for first message to new connections

  • Different openers for different situations (warm lead, cold lead, inbound)

  • How to reference their content or activity

Follow-up templates if you have them

  • 2nd message if no reply

  • 3rd message / final follow-up

  • Conversation restarters for leads that went cold

Value and pitch

  • Main value proposition

  • Specific problems you solve

  • Results customers typically achieve

  • Competitive differentiation (why you vs alternatives)

Objection handling

  • Top objections and how I respond to each

  • "Not now" / timing objections

  • Price objections

  • "Already using something" objections

Resources and links

  • Booking/calendar link

  • Trial or signup link

  • Case studies or resources I share

  • Free value you can offer (and when to offer it)

Company updates

  • Recent launches or features worth mentioning

  • News or achievements to reference

  • Webinars, events, anything that provides free value

Comment Style instructions

Where: Settings → Style library → open a Style profile → Comment Style instructions.


These instructions describe how your comments should sound. Cover tone, length, sentence structure, punctuation, emoji use, language rules, phrases you use, phrases you avoid, any other signature patterns in how you write, and so on. Also include whether you want to mention the post author by name (if your comment draft contains their name, they will be automatically tagged when you post it).

Keep each rule clear and practical. Works best if you have separate, distinct, clear rules, formatted as bullet points or a list.


Comment Examples: your writing DNA

Where: Settings → Style library → open a Style profile → Comment Examples.


Use comments you have actually written as Comment Examples. AI can use your posts and other writing to suggest a Style, but it should not present generated text as your real comments. If AI suggests examples, review and approve them before they are saved.


Choose comments that clearly show how you write. Skip one-word replies, generic praise, repeated comments, and short replies that say little about your voice. If you do not have good examples, it is better to leave Comment Examples empty than add weak or misleading ones. You can add better examples later.


Check every example carefully because future drafts will follow its patterns. For useful comment patterns for different campaign goals, read Comment copy tips.

Turn on Learning mode to keep improving automatically. It saves comments that you edit and approve as new examples, so your Style gets better over time.


DM Style instructions

Where: Settings → Style library → open a Style profile → DM Style instructions.

These instructions describe how your direct messages should sound. Cover tone, how quickly you get to the point, length, structure, anything you avoid.

Cover how direct you want to be in presenting your offer, how you open cold conversations, how you do follow-ups if they never responded, and how you continue existing conversations.

Good DM style instructions capture how you actually message people privately, which is often different from how you write comments publicly. Works best if you have separate, distinct, clear rules, formatted as bullet points or a list.


Generate a first draft with AI

You do not have to fill these sections from a blank page. Generate with AI can use your website, LinkedIn profile, comments, posts, sales documents, and past messages to prepare a first draft.


Give AI enough source material to build a useful, detailed draft. Keep the strong and distinct items. Remove anything generic, repeated, unsupported, or unlike you. Review the result before saving it.

Use a different Context and Style per campaign

You can use different profiles for different audiences, products, and goals. For example, one campaign may need a formal enterprise voice while another needs short, casual founder comments.


Open the campaign, go to Context and Style, choose the profiles it should use, and save. Future drafts in that campaign will use those profiles. Editing a profile updates every campaign that uses it.


Comments in the wrong language or mixing languages?

By default, a comment follows the language of the post. Comment Style instructions can override that behavior.


If comments use the wrong language or mix languages, check the Comment Style instructions for a rule that sets or mixes languages. Remove or rewrite that rule, then save the Style.

Where to start

Check whether your Context about you and your company is accurate and detailed enough. If it is missing or incomplete, build it from your LinkedIn profile, company website, and other useful materials.


Then review your Comment Examples, since they have the biggest effect on Style, and turn on Learning mode. Add Comment Style instructions and Insights as you refine the setup. When you start using DMs, add DM Style instructions and a DM Playbook.


You can update any of these settings at any time. New drafts will use the latest version. To adjust one draft after it is generated, use the Improve draft feature.

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