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Personalized line — one researched sentence for every contact

6 min read · Updated 2026-10-15

“Personalized line — one researched sentence for every contact” is a Direct University lesson from Direct REI, the AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors. Put [Personalized Line] in a campaign message and, just before it sends, the AI writes one sentence for that contact — something from an investor's website or public profiles, or something local near an owner's property.

A message that mentions something real about the person reads like you wrote it to them. [Personalized Line] does that at scale: put it in a campaign email or text, and just before the message goes to each contact, the AI looks them up and writes one sentence for that spot.

It's on the Pro and Scale plans.

Add it to a message

  1. Open the Email or Texting page and pick the campaign in the message editor.
  2. Put the cursor where a personal sentence fits — usually right after the greeting.
  3. In the fill-in list, under AI · Pro & Scale, choose Personalized Line ✦, then save.

A message that starts Hi [First Name], [Personalized Line] I buy land in your county… reaches one owner as "Hi Maria, Lake Livingston has been beautiful this fall. I buy land in your county…".

What it looks up

The ✦ line under the message opens Settings & preview. What to look up has three choices:

What should the AI look for? lets you steer it — "mention a lake or park nearby", "focus on their recent projects". Click Save settings; changes apply to lines written from then on.

What it will never write

If nothing good and certain turns up, there's no line — never a guess about the wrong person. A contact with only a name usually gets no line; add their website or a profile link and try again.

See real examples first

In Settings & preview, click Preview for 3 contacts. The AI writes the line now for three of the campaign's contacts and shows each one in its sentence, with what it was based on. These exact lines are the ones that send.

The Lines written tab lists every line for the campaign. Before a line has gone out you can click ↻ New line for a different one, or ✕ Don't use to send that contact the backup words (or the message without the line).

When the lines are written

Each line is written once, shortly before that contact's message sends (the platform looks a few hours ahead), and the same line is used if a send has to retry. A brand-new campaign's first personalized messages can wait a few minutes for their line. A message never waits more than about two hours — after that it goes out with the backup words, or without the line.

It uses your monthly AI allowance

Research counts toward the same monthly AI allowance as Oliver (the % meter on the Oliver page). Looking someone up on the web uses more than looking near a property. Settings & preview shows about what share of what's left this campaign's queued messages would use.

Personalized lines pause at 80% of the allowance, so a big campaign can't use up what Oliver and your other AI features need. Messages keep sending — with the backup words, or without the line — and lines start again on the 1st.

Help it find the right person

Good to know: with Vary wording on, the sentence that holds the personalized line is never reworded. Copying a campaign keeps its personalized line settings. Oliver can do all of this for you — "show me 3 examples of the personalized line on the Polk County texts".
This lesson lives in Direct University inside the Direct REI app, where you can search every lesson and ask the built-in AI assistant. Sign in to open it there.

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