SDR application · Healthcare & Life Sciences

I already started on your pipeline. Here's what I found.

I didn't want to send just a resume, so I built the plan. The four buyers you sell to, eight real accounts with a reason to talk this quarter, the math behind 10 held meetings a month, and how every one of them gets qualified before it reaches your AE.

329
meetings booked at Resolve, 89% actually held
$7.1M+
net new pipeline sourced across my last three roles
300
dials a day in my current seat, 95%+ of first-stage opps sourced by phone
3 of 5
months hitting quota accelerators selling into regulated enterprises
01Why now

On October 20, the FDA finalized its guidance on prescription drug use-related software. What a sponsor's app shows a patient is now treated as labeling. Every pharma team with an app in flight just got a reason to take a meeting.

REGPDURS guidance is final

It covers how sponsors' apps are labeled, what goes in the prescribing information, and what gets submitted to FDA. Firms advising sponsors are telling them to inventory their software. That's a natural opener for anyone who builds it.

LAUNCHA busy approval season

New approvals in September and October mean new patient hubs, adherence tools and HCP portals that have to exist before the field team does.

CAPITALDigital health is raising again

Fresh Series A rounds in October mean CTOs with a roadmap that's bigger than their engineering team.

02The four buyers

Same product, four different conversations.

Each of your target personas owns a different problem, so each one gets a different opener. Pick a persona to see who they are and the first email they'd get.

Head of Digital / Product

Brand or franchise digital lead at a pharma or biotech sponsor
Owns
Companion apps, HCP portals, adherence tools, the digital side of a launch
Pressure
Ship on launch timelines while every release now has to survive labeling and med-legal review
Trigger
New approval, label expansion, PDURS guidance, a new digital leadership hire
Qualifier
"Is the app roadmap owned by your team, or by the brand team and an agency of record?"
Subject: app labeling

{{first_name}},

FDA's final PDURS guidance treats what a sponsor's app shows patients as labeling.

For teams with adherence tools in flight, that changes who signs off on every release.

We build regulated patient software with the submission trail built in, so review doesn't become the bottleneck.

How is your team handling app changes under the new guidance?

Written before I've seen your positioning. Final copy gets rewritten to your services and approved by you before anything sends.

Patient Services Leader

Head of patient services, hub or access programs at a commercial-stage sponsor
Owns
Enrollment, benefits verification, copay and financial assistance, nurse support
Pressure
Time to first fill. Every day a patient waits on paperwork is a day they might drop off
Trigger
First commercial launch, new indication, hub vendor change, a launch that's ramping slower than planned
Qualifier
"Is the hub run in-house, through a vendor, or a mix, and who owns the patient-facing piece?"
Subject: hub enrollment

{{first_name}},

Saw {{company_name}} is standing up patient support behind a new launch.

Most hubs start as a phone line and a fax form, and patients wait days on benefits verification.

We build the digital front door: enrollment, BV status and refill reminders, HIPAA-ready from day one.

How are new patients getting enrolled today?

Persona copy is a starting point. Each account gets a first line tied to its own trigger.

CTO

Technical leader at a funded digital health or health-tech company
Owns
The roadmap, the engineering team, HIPAA and SOC 2 posture
Pressure
Investors funded a roadmap that's bigger than the team, and hiring takes months
Trigger
New funding round, a new enterprise or payer contract, engineering job posts that sit open
Qualifier
"What's the one roadmap item you'd hand off tomorrow if you trusted the team doing it?"
Subject: roadmap capacity

{{first_name}},

Congrats on the round.

The next year usually means doubling the roadmap while engineering hiring is still catching up.

We add a team that ships HIPAA-ready features alongside yours, without pulling your core engineers off the roadmap.

How are you planning to cover the roadmap until hiring catches up?

Short, peer-level, one ask. No links in cold email, for deliverability.

Physician Founder

MD who started a company around a problem they saw in clinic
Owns
Everything. Clinical vision, fundraising, and usually the product spec
Pressure
Turning a workflow they know cold into compliant software, without a technical cofounder
Trigger
Pre-seed or seed raise, accelerator cohort, a pilot site signed, a first non-technical hire
Qualifier
"Is there funding behind the build, and who's making the technical calls today?"
Subject: build plan

Dr. {{last_name}},

You built {{company_name}} around a problem you saw in clinic.

The hard part now is turning that workflow into compliant software fast, without hiring a full engineering team first.

We do that build for physician founders, from first prototype to a HIPAA-ready product.

What does your build plan look like for the next six months?

Physician founders pick up their phones. This persona leads with a call, and the email follows.
03Week one, already started

Eight accounts I'd work first.

Each one has a public trigger from the last six weeks and a named persona to start with. This is what my research looks like before a single dial.

INOVIO
First launch
Oct 30: Voceryq won FDA accelerated approval for RRP, the company's first-ever approved product. Ordering opens in about 60 days, with full commercial launch in Q1 2027.
Start with: Patient services / commercial operations
Angle and first line

Management has talked about a patient-support hub as part of launch. A first-time commercial company is building that from zero, on a deadline, which is exactly when an outside build team gets a meeting.

"Ordering opens in about 60 days. Is the patient hub's digital side built yet, or still on the launch plan?"

Revolution Medicines
Scaling launch
Nov 4: Q3 results cover the U.S. launch of RASONQUE in pancreatic cancer, an (ON)Path patient support program, and a positive CHMP opinion setting up a potential EU approval.
Start with: Patient services leader
Angle and first line

Leadership is talking about scaling global commercialization fast. A support program built for one market now has to stretch to more, and oncology patients can't wait on paperwork.

"With RASONQUE heading toward the EU, is (ON)Path being extended as-is or rebuilt for multiple markets?"

Teva
Adherence play
Oct 9: FDA approved Weltruza, the first once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine for schizophrenia, positioned around fixing adherence and launched with a direct-to-consumer push.
Start with: Head of Digital, neuroscience franchise
Angle and first line

The whole story for this drug is adherence. Reminder and support tools around a monthly injection now fall right into the new PDURS guidance, so it's a two-trigger account.

"Weltruza's whole story is adherence. How is the team thinking about digital support now that PDURS is final?"

GSK
New approval
Oct 20: Hibsago (bepirovirsen) approved under priority review for chronic hepatitis B, used alongside existing antiviral therapy.
Start with: Digital lead for the hepatology launch team
Angle and first line

A big sponsor with established vendors, so this is a longer play. The way in is a specific launch team that needs patient education and treatment-course support for a combination regimen.

"Hibsago is added on top of an existing antiviral. How are patients being supported through the combined course?"

Ayble Health
Series A
Oct 2026: Closed a $16M oversubscribed Series A led by Neon, with Cleveland Clinic Ventures participating, to expand its AI-enabled virtual GI clinic.
Start with: CTO / Head of Product
Angle and first line

Growth capital, a health-system investor on the cap table, and a clinical product. Expanding a virtual clinic means integrations and features faster than the team can hire.

"Congrats on the Series A. What's the first roadmap item that slips if hiring takes longer than planned?"

Vera Health
Series A
Oct 30: Raised a $28.5M Series A led by Threshold Ventures. Its clinician search app grew to 800,000+ medical professionals in 190 countries.
Start with: CTO
Angle and first line

Usage grew far faster than the company. Scale like that brings reliability, security and new-product work all at once.

"Going from thousands of clinicians to 800K in a year usually breaks something. What's first on the list now that you've raised?"

Healthleap
Seed + Series A
Oct 7: Raised $38M across seed and Series A (Sequoia, First Round, Hummingbird). Plans to expand from inpatient into 40+ conditions plus outpatient and home care.
Start with: CTO / co-founders
Angle and first line

A stated expansion from one care setting to three is a roadmap that needs builders. Hospital deployments also mean security reviews on every deal.

"Moving into outpatient and home care is a different product surface. Is that being built in-house?"

General Medicine
$120M raise
Oct 2026: Raised $120M. The founders previously built PillPack, sold it to Amazon, then built Amazon Pharmacy. It just signed a deal to power Walmart's Better Care Services store.
Start with: Head of Product / Engineering
Angle and first line

A partner launch at Walmart scale on a deadline. The founders know how to build, so the pitch is capacity and speed, not expertise.

"Powering Walmart's store is a launch date you don't get to move. Is the team staffed for it?"

Triggers are from public announcements and coverage between Oct 7 and Nov 4, 2026. Contacts get named and verified in week one.

04The math

10 held meetings a month, worked backward.

Your post says about 100 touches a day and 10 held meetings a month once ramped. Here's how those connect, and what it pays. Move the sliders.

Outbound touches per day 100
Meetings booked per 100 touches 0.6
Show rate 85%
First-year revenue sourced $625K
Base salary $57.5K
Touches / month
2,100
Booked / month
12.6
Held / month
10.7
Projected OTE
$82,300
Base, plus $150 per held meeting, plus 1% of first-year billed revenue sourced
Held meetings / year
128
$19,200 in meeting pay
Deal bonus
$6,250
1% of first-year billed revenue
50
Calls a day, in two power hours. I do 300 today.
35
Emails: researched first touches plus threaded follow-ups
15
LinkedIn: connects, comments and voice notes
05Six-week ramp

From day one to full run rate.

The ramp is six weeks. My goal is the first held meeting inside week three, so the ramp is spent improving, not waiting.

WEEK 1

Learn & build

  • Learn your offer, case studies and the deals you've won
  • Agree on the ICP and what "qualified" means
  • Build segmented lists for launches and funded digital health
  • Write copy per persona, and you approve it
300 accounts mapped and scored
WEEK 2

Go live

  • Sequences live on the top 100 accounts
  • Calling starts at full volume
  • Daily CRM logging, every touch
First conversations booked
WEEKS 3–4

First meetings

  • First held meetings with AE handoff notes
  • Weekly read on which persona and angle is landing
  • Cut what isn't working, double what is
First held meetings on the board
WEEKS 5–6

Run rate

  • 2 to 3 held meetings a week
  • Second tier of accounts enters the sequences
  • A Friday report to you, every week
On pace for 10 held per month
06Qualifying & handoff

Your AE should never walk in blind.

You asked for qualification on budget, regulatory constraints, timeline and who decides. Every meeting gets checked on all four and handed off with a note like the one shown here.

B

Budget

Is there money for this, or does it need to be created? A funded launch line item and a "we'd need to find budget" are different meetings.

"Is this already in the plan for this year, or would it be a new line item?"
R

Regulatory constraints

HIPAA, GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, SaMD or PDURS. Knowing which apply up front shapes the scope and who has to be in the room.

"Does this touch patient data, and will it be reviewed as labeling or as a device?"
T

Timeline

Tied to something real, like a launch date, a contract go-live or a board milestone, not just "sometime this year."

"What date does this have to be live by, and what happens if it isn't?"
D

Decision setup

Who signs, who reviews (med-legal, IT security, procurement) and whether there's an incumbent agency of record.

"Besides you, who would need to be comfortable with this before it moves?"
AE handoff noteEXAMPLE · ILLUSTRATIVE
Account
Mid-size biotech, first commercial launch, approval last month
Contact
Head of Patient Services. Reports to the CCO. Joined from a larger sponsor's hub team
Trigger
Ordering opens in 8 weeks. Hub vendor is signed, but the patient-facing enrollment flow is still a PDF
B · Budget
ConfirmedLaunch budget includes "digital patient experience," amount not shared
R · Regulatory
KnownPHI in scope, so HIPAA applies. Med-legal reviews all patient-facing copy
T · Timeline
Hard dateNeeds an MVP live before ordering opens
D · Decision
PartialShe owns the decision. The CCO signs off, and IT security will review the vendor
Pain, her words
"Patients are going to hit a fax number on day one and I can't let that happen."
Watch for
Their agency of record pitched an app last quarter. She wasn't impressed, but they're still in the picture
07Proof

Where the numbers come from.

Three years of outbound, much of it as the first sales hire building the motion from scratch.

Unleash · SDR · Feb 2026 to present

I already sell software where compliance shapes the deal.

I generate $120K to $160K in enterprise pipeline a month, mostly into financial services and other regulated enterprises, with a $260K to $300K peak month. Those buyers ask the same kinds of questions your buyers will:

Audit trailWho changed what, when, and who approved it
Access controlWho can touch production, and how that's enforced
Data residencyWhere data lives and whether it can be self-hosted
Security reviewGetting through vendor risk before the deal stalls
Resolve · SDR Lead
89%

hold rate on 329 meetings booked, behind $5.84M in net new pipeline. 100,000+ cold emails sent, and 32% of inbound and event leads converted to pipeline.

The TV Bookers · Founding GTM hire
65→88%

show rate, after I turned case studies into pre-call assets. Built $1.26M in pipeline and $186K closed, with reply rate up from 2% to 8%.

OurFuture · Founding GTM hire
0→1

Built the cold email infrastructure, stack and copy from scratch. Ran a 15,000+ email campaign with open rates up to 90%. The company was later acquired by Morning Brew.

Next step

Give me 20 minutes and I'll show you the first 50 accounts.

Tell me which services you lead with and which deals you've won, and I'll come back with a scored list and the opener for each persona, before you've made a decision.