Managed outbound

We don't pick the list. The evidence does.

We work backwards from the deals you have already closed, find the public data that would have caught those buyers early, and reach the companies sitting in the same position today.

Thirty minutes. We tell you on the call if the numbers don't work.

How a campaign narrows Illustrative
Condition18 closed deals
What your won accounts had in common before they bought, written as checks a machine can run.
Evidence sources6 sources
Public data that proves each check. Chosen per market, not per tool.
permits registry filings careers site diff licences tenders
Market scanned41,208
Every company the sources can see.
Passed the gate3,140
Binary checks. Could they buy at all.
Scored on intensity412
Not could they buy. How badly do they need it.
Clustered in time37
Evidence landing close together, with older signals decayed out.
One of the 37
Halberd Industrial
Chicago, IL · 240 staff
Apr 04Facility permit filed
Apr 09Two operations roles posted
Apr 15New VP named in a registry filing
Three events, eleven days62
Two ways to open
Situation
You filed for the Elk Grove facility on the 4th and posted two ops roles five days later. The pattern usually means the build is ahead of the staffing plan. Is that where you are?
Mirrors what the evidence proves. Asks, does not pitch.
Value
Pulled every facility permit filed in Cook County this quarter. Forty-three in your category, eleven inside nine miles of Elk Grove, six naming the same contractor you filed with. Sending the list either way.
Useful whether or not they reply. Nothing asked for.

Nothing is watched in advance. Companies surface because the evidence puts them there.

First campaign live
14 days
You pay for
Calls held
No-shows billed
0
Commitment
Monthly

The situation

You have tried outbound. Possibly more than once.

You bought the list. Someone wrote the sequence. A tool added the first line. Volume went out, and what came back was almost nothing, or a handful of meetings with companies that were never going to buy.

So you went back to referrals, which work, right up until you need to grow faster than your network does.

Outbound is not dead. It never worked in the form you tried it, because the list you sent to contained no information about whether anyone on it had the problem you solve.

Fit

We turn away more than we take on.

This works when
  • You sell to businesses and your average closed deal is above $15,000
  • You have closed at least ten deals in the last year
  • Most of your pipeline comes from referrals or inbound you don't control
  • Someone can take eight or more sales calls a month
  • You can close, and the constraint is getting in front of people
We'll pass if
  • You are still working out what you sell or who buys it
  • Your deal size can't make a booked call worth several hundred dollars
  • Nobody has capacity to run the calls
  • You want to test outbound rather than run it
  • You sell to consumers

If the arithmetic doesn't work for your business, the first call is where we say so.

The real problem

You don't have a copy problem. You have an evidence problem.

Think about what is actually in a bought list. Industry, headcount, location, maybe a tech stack. Not one of those facts tells you whether that company has the problem you solve, or has it badly, or has it right now.

So the message written off that list has to guess. Because it guesses, it hedges. Because it hedges, it sounds like every other email that arrived that morning.

The reflex is to rewrite. New subject line, shorter body, different offer. It never works, because you are editing the output of a system whose input was empty.

The cost isn't the wasted sends. It's that your growth stays tied to how many people you already know.

What everyone tries first

None of these are stupid. They just treat outbound as an execution problem.

01

Buy better data

The data is fine. It is the same data your competitors have, and it describes what a company is rather than what is happening to it.

02

Hire an SDR

More sends against the same empty list. The bottleneck moves from volume to salary.

03

Hire an agency

Most compete on domains, volume and a copywriter. All three of those got cheap in the last two years.

04

Build it yourself with AI

Closer than it sounds, and worth being honest about. You can build the sending infrastructure now. What you can't do quickly is the research behind the list.

05

Stay on referrals

Works. Caps at the size of your network.

What changed

The advantage moved from execution to data.

AI made two expensive things free at the same time: sending, and personalisation. The predictable happened. Inbox volume climbed, and buyers stopped reading and started deleting on pattern recognition.

The less obvious thing also happened. Every buying signal that used to be an edge became a checkbox. Hiring, funding, leadership changes, tech adoption. All of it sits in a dropdown in tools anyone can subscribe to.

A signal every competitor can see is not intelligence. It is a queue everyone is standing in.

The method

Five things have to be true in the same campaign.

Get four right and you get nothing. That is why teams doing sensible work still see three percent reply rates.

01

Condition

Not a customer profile. Two to five things that are observably true about a company right now which together mean they have your problem. Two layers: a gate that decides whether they could buy at all, and an intensity score that decides how badly they need you. Most teams have a rough gate and no intensity score, which is why their best and worst prospects look identical on a spreadsheet.

02

Evidence

For every condition, the public data that proves it. Not a single data point, a combination that would be difficult to explain any other way. This is where the work is and where nearly everyone stops, because the four sources everyone uses are the four that come pre-connected. If your evidence comes from a source your competitor's tool also connects to, it is not evidence.

03

Timing

Evidence proves the situation exists. Timing proves it exists now. Velocity measures how tightly the evidence clusters: three related things in three days is a company deciding something, the same three across three months is a company that exists. Decay measures how fast each piece stops meaning anything. Score without decay and your best list slowly fills with things that were true last quarter.

04

Message

Once the first three are right, the message stops being a writing problem. You are not personalising, you are reporting. Here is what we can see, here is what usually goes wrong for companies in that position, are we reading it correctly. The test is simple: could this message have been sent to anyone else on the list? If yes, the first three were not done.

05

Delivery

The unglamorous half, and the one that quietly kills campaigns that got everything else right. Separate warmed domains so yours is never at risk. Volume throttled per inbox, monitored daily. Every reply read and answered fast, because a reply left overnight is a meeting that does not happen. Perfect targeting delivered into a spam folder is worth nothing.

How it runs

First campaign live in fourteen days.

Week 1

The offer

Before we target anyone, we check whether what you're asking a stranger to say yes to can be said yes to by a stranger. Most offers that work on referrals fail cold. If yours does, we build you a smaller first thing to offer instead.

Week 1

The condition

We go through your closed deals and work backwards. Not what those companies were, but what was happening to them shortly before they bought. You get it as a written document and can argue with the targeting before anything is built.

Week 1–2

The evidence

We find the public data that proves each condition, name every source, and check each one is reachable, reliable and fresh enough to matter. You see the sources and can verify them.

Week 2

Infrastructure

Domains bought and warmed. Inboxes configured and throttled. Your suppression list loaded across every channel. Your own domain is never used for cold sending.

Week 2–3

First campaign

Messages written from the evidence, one per condition, approved by you before anything sends. Then live.

Ongoing

Replies and recalibration

Every reply read, classified and answered fast, then qualified and booked with a brief. Reply outcomes get traced back to the evidence that triggered them, so conditions that produce conversations get more weight and the rest get dropped.

What you get

Four layers, all run by us.

Strategy

  • An assessment of whether your offer can be sold cold
  • A frontend offer built for you where it can't
  • Your condition document, gates and intensity criteria written down

Targeting

  • Evidence sets with every data source named and assessed
  • Velocity and decay applied to every scored account
  • Recalibration from reply outcomes each month

Infrastructure

  • Dedicated domains, bought, warmed and monitored daily
  • Inbox rotation and throttling, burned domains replaced free
  • Suppression across email, domain and phone

Conversion

  • Every reply read and answered fast
  • Qualification against agreed written criteria
  • Calls booked to your calendar with an account brief

The difference

Same work. Different input.

NowWith us
List built from industry and headcountList built from conditions observably true today
Signals anyone with the same tool can seeEvidence from sources most competitors never connect
Timing based on when the campaign launchedTiming based on how tightly evidence clusters
Messages personalised around a guessMessages that report what is actually happening
Replies handled when someone gets to themReplies answered fast, qualified, booked
Growth capped by your networkPipeline from companies you have never met
Paying for effortPaying for calls that happen

The honest bit

Why you can't just do this yourself.

You partly can, and pretending otherwise would be insulting. The infrastructure is genuinely buildable now. Domains, warming, sending, sequencing, even reply drafting. Give someone on your team a few weekends and they will get something working.

The part that does not compress is the first two steps. Working backwards from your closed deals to find what was actually true about those companies before they bought, then hunting public data that proves it in sources that are not in any tool's integration list.

That is research. It takes weeks per market, it does not automate, and it is the reason two agencies with identical tool stacks get completely different results. The second thing that does not compress is answering every reply within the hour, every day, for months.

If you should build it yourself, we will tell you on the call. Sometimes that is the right answer.

Scope

Every part of getting from a stranger to a signed client.

01

Finding who to talk to

Working out which companies are worth the effort, then building the lists and the data behind them.

02

Starting the conversation

Infrastructure, messaging, and campaigns across email and LinkedIn, run daily rather than launched and left.

03

Handling what comes back

Every reply read, qualified, and answered. Follow-up that does not go quiet after the second attempt.

04

Getting them onto the call

Booking, confirming, and reminding, so that a meeting on the calendar is a meeting that happens.

05

Waking up dormant leads

Reactivating the people who went quiet, and the closed-lost deals whose situation has since changed.

06

Feeding the calls back in

Turning sales call transcripts into the objections, language, and angles that go into the next campaign.

07

The operations underneath

CRM structure, routing, reporting, and the handoffs that decide whether pipeline turns into revenue.

08

The AI doing the work

Agents that research accounts, classify and draft replies, qualify inbound, and keep the whole thing running.

If it doesn't work

You pay for calls that actually happen.

A flat monthly fee for infrastructure, and a fee for each qualified call that takes place. A qualified call is defined in writing before launch: a meeting that happened, with a decision maker at a company matching the criteria we both agreed, with your offer as the agenda.

If someone doesn't show, you aren't billed. If a booked meeting doesn't match the criteria, you cancel it and you aren't billed. Month to month after the first two months, thirty days notice.

To be straight about what this is not: it is not a revenue guarantee. We control targeting, messaging, delivery, and whether qualified people appear on your calendar. We do not control your close rate, and anyone promising otherwise is guessing on your behalf.

Questions

The ones we actually get.

Does this work in my market?

It depends on whether your market leaves a public data trail. Most do, in places people don't think to look. We work that out on the first call and tell you if the answer is no.

How is this different from the last agency I hired?

Most agencies compete on execution: domains, volume, copy. All three became cheap. We compete on what is in the list, which takes research that doesn't automate.

Ask your last agency which data sources they used. If the answer is one of the four big ones, that was the problem.

Can't I just do this with Clay and Claude?

Partly, yes, and we'll say so if that's genuinely your best option. What doesn't compress is the research behind the list, and answering every reply within the hour for months on end.

How much of my time does this take?

Roughly two hours in week one for the working session on your closed deals, then approving messaging. After that, showing up to calls.

How long until anything happens?

Domains warm for about two weeks. First campaign live around day fourteen. First replies usually within the first week of sending, meetings shortly after.

What if the calls aren't good?

The criteria are agreed in writing before launch. If a booked call doesn't match them, you cancel it and it isn't billed. If it happens repeatedly, the criteria were wrong and we fix them, which is a targeting problem and therefore ours.

What does it cost?

A flat monthly fee for infrastructure, plus a fee per qualified call. The per-call fee is set by what a closed deal is worth to you, so the arithmetic works clearly in your favour. We run that calculation with you on the call rather than quoting blind.

Will you email my existing customers?

No. Your customer list, open deals and anyone your team is already working get suppressed across email, domain and phone before the first send, with a live CRM sync where possible.

Will this damage my domain reputation?

No. Your primary domain is never used for cold sending. Everything runs on separate warmed domains pointing back to your site.

What happens after I book the call?

Thirty minutes. We look at what your best customers had in common, size how many companies in your market are in that position now, and work out what a call is worth to you and whether the numbers hold. You get that analysis either way.

Your list is the problem. Let's look at it.

Thirty minutes. We'll go through what your last ten closed deals had in common before they bought, estimate how many companies in your market are in that same position right now, and run the arithmetic on whether this makes sense for you.

Book a call

If it doesn't make sense, we'll say so on the call.