● Process automation
We build complete prospecting and acquisition pipelines: multi-source extraction with Apify, data enrichment, AI personalization and multi-channel sequences, all connected to the CRM.
The context
Classic outbound, bought lists + same message to everyone + «let's see what happens», has stopped working. Buyers receive 15 cold emails a week, spam filters tighten their rules and generative AI has flooded inboxes with messages that smell like ChatGPT. The outbound that does work today looks more like surgical operational research than the prospecting of a few years ago.
Trend · 01
Platforms like Apify offer thousands of pre-built Actors to extract data from any public source (Maps, LinkedIn, websites, directories). What used to require a full-time developer can now be set up by a consultant in hours.
Trend · 02
Claude and GPT let you generate unique messages for each prospect based on enriched data, not templates with variables, but emails truly personalized at scale.
Trend · 03
Combining email + LinkedIn + phone improves engagement by 287% and conversions by 300%. Email alone is no longer enough.
The problem
Symptoms vary from company to company, but the patterns repeat. These are the four structural pains we find in practically every outbound audit we run.
01
The SDR spends hours on LinkedIn searching profiles, copying emails one by one, cross-referencing with Apollo, validating contacts. Building a list of 200 prospects can take them a whole week.
Impact
Sales reps spend 70% of their time on tasks that aren't selling.
02
Roles that change, companies that pivot, contacts who leave. A 6-month-old list is largely obsolete, and nobody has time to rebuild it regularly. Work continues on dead data.
Impact
High bounces, messages to people no longer there, damaged domain reputation.
03
«Hi {firstname}, I saw you work at {company}…», the same email to 1,000 people with two variables swapped. Buyers spot generic AI from a mile away. AI-generated emails without context get 90% lower response rates.
Impact
Response rates of 1-3% when they should be 8-12%.
04
Which subject lines work? Which follow-ups convert? Which lead sources give the best ROI? Without rigorous measurement, you keep doing «the usual». And the leads that do respond don't enter the CRM automatically, they get lost.
Impact
Impossible to optimize, valuable leads that never reach the pipeline.
My SDRs spend half the week building lists instead of selling. We send hundreds of emails a month and almost nobody replies, and the few who do don't even make it into the CRM.
, What we hear in discovery calls
The cost
−90%
lower response rate for emails that look AI-generated without real personalization.
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An uncomfortable conclusion
Traditional outbound is breaking down. But well-designed outbound works better than ever: precise extraction + AI personalization at scale + coordinated multi-channel. The difference between the two approaches is the difference between shutting down the SDR department or turning it into a pipeline machine.
The solution
The most common mistake when tackling outbound is buying a tool, «we need Apollo» or «let's hire Lemlist», without designing the complete pipeline. The difference between outbound that converts and outbound that doesn't is the architecture: clear ICP, precise extraction, solid enrichment, AI personalization, multi-channel sequences and rigorous measurement.
01
A detailed ICP by size, sector, tech stack, buying triggers. And a continuous review process: each cohort of responses refines the ICP. What looked like a good target 6 months ago may not be today.
02
Maps, public LinkedIn, websites, directories, commercial data. Thousands of pre-built Actors in Apify to extract leads with precise criteria, without building scrapers from scratch or maintaining proxies.
03
Each extracted lead goes through enrichment (Apollo, Hunter, Lusha) and email validation (NeverBounce, ZeroBounce). Only contacts with complete data and verified emails enter the pipeline.
04
Claude or GPT generate unique messages for each prospect using enriched data: role, sector, hiring signals, recent publications. Not templates with variables, real contextual personalization.
05
Email + LinkedIn + phone orchestrated, not each on its own. Sweet spot of 4-7 touchpoints with optimized timing. Multi-channel increases engagement by 287%.
06
Every lead, response and meeting arrives in the CRM automatically. Dashboards for open rate, reply rate, positive reply rate, meeting rate. What matters gets measured, what doesn't work gets iterated.
The tools
«The goal isn't «more emails sent». It's «more qualified meetings with less effort». Each layer of the architecture exists so that the sales team spends time selling, not researching, copying, validating, writing and logging.»
8,000+ pre-built Actors to extract data from any public source. Maps, LinkedIn, websites, directories: with proxies, captchas and ToS respect resolved.
Ideal for
The protagonist of the modern outbound pipeline: the extraction layer that feeds everything else. Without Apify, there are no fresh lists at scale.
8,000+ integrated apps, the widest catalog on the market. Accessible board for non-technical profiles, easy maintenance.
Ideal for
When the client already has Zapier in production or when the specific connectors they need (Smartlead, Lemlist, niche CRMs) only exist there.
Powerful visual orchestration layer: the glue of the pipeline. 3,000+ integrated apps, native AI Agents, professional error handling and full observability.
Ideal for
Connects Apify → enrichment → AI → outreach → CRM in a single visually auditable scenario. Ideal when the pipeline has many conditional steps.
AI-native, fair-code, self-hosted. Embedded JavaScript/Python, full control over data and deployment, custom code when the case requires it.
Ideal for
Regulated sectors or those with data sovereignty requirements (banking, health, defense). Technical teams that value embedded code and eliminating vendor lock-in.
A sequence proven in 200+ companies. Each phase has deliverables before moving to the next, and is developed in collaboration with your internal team.
Diagnostic
We audit existing processes and the current stack. We map bottlenecks and optimization opportunities to ensure the success of the following phases.
Planning
We define target architecture, rollout plan, roles, and metrics before getting into the weeds.
Build
We execute in short iterations with your team. We create, adapt, and integrate with your existing tools.
Rollout
We start with a test and expand after validation. We train your team so adoption feels natural.
Follow-through
We measure and listen to feedback throughout so the result truly becomes yours.
Results
Results are tangible from the first weeks. SDRs reclaim time, response rates rise, the CRM updates itself. As AI prompts get refined and sources get rotated, KPIs improve continuously over the first months.
2-3×
From 3% to 8-12% with contextual personalization and precise targeting. Hunter.io confirms a +52% just from deep personalization over enriched data.
−85%
From a week building 200 prospects by hand to a couple of hours with automated pipeline. The SDR goes from «preparing» to «selling».
+287%
Email + LinkedIn + phone orchestrated outperform email alone by a wide margin. Conversions to meeting +300% versus single channel.
100%
Every lead, response and meeting logged automatically. Documented legal basis, automatic opt-out respected, traceable origin. European outbound without legal scares.
My SDRs finally have time to talk to prospects instead of looking for them. And the emails no longer look like templates, each prospect gets something truly personalized.
, Head of Sales, B2B SaaS scale-up
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