Agentic Priming

The Lever Glossary

Disliking/hating

When positioning your solution against a common market frustration.

Why it works

People often bond over shared frustrations with industry standards or common annoying problems. By pointing out a common enemy, you position yourself as an ally who understands their daily struggles.

Example

Most CRM tools force you to waste hours on data entry instead of actually talking to your potential customers.

An illustration of the mechanism, not a template. Copied verbatim it stops being persuasion and starts being the pattern everyone else is already sending.

Is your sequence pulling this one?

Paste it in and find out which levers are working, which are missing, and which single zero is capping the whole message.