How I work

One machine, six stages, no handoffs

Outbound isn’t magic and it isn’t guaranteed. It’s a system you build, measure, and improve. Here’s what’s actually happening on screen at each stage.

01

Lead sourcing

Who actually buys this, and why now. The wrong ICP kills a campaign before a single email sends — so every list starts as a scored, filtered set, not a raw export.

ai-ark — list build
Target: VP+ · 50-500 employees247 found
Northline FreightVP Operations92
Basecamp LegalManaging Partner88
Halden GroupDirector of Sales81
Corven AnalyticsHead of Growth76
02

Enrichment

A list is a hypothesis. Each contact runs through a waterfall of sources until an email is found and verified — no send happens on an unverified address.

clay — waterfall enrichment
NameEmailStatus
J. Haldenj.halden@basecamp.legalverified
R. Corvenr.corven@corven.ioverified
M. Northlinetrying next source
03

Sending infrastructure

Domains, inboxes, warmup, volume caps. Unglamorous, and the reason most campaigns quietly fail before the copy is ever read.

deliverability — warmup status
29 domains · 87 inboxes87/87 warm
SPF · DKIM · DMARC passing on every domain
04

Copy writing

One offer, one angle per test. Four emails, each with a different reason to reply — personalized per contact, not just per company.

sequence — email 1 of 4
Subject
Quick one for {{company}}
Hey {{firstName}},
Noticed {{company}} is hiring for outbound roles — usually means the pipeline’s the bottleneck, not headcount.
Worth 15 minutes to compare notes?
05

Reply management

Every reply gets classified the moment it lands. Interested ones hit Slack in seconds; everything else gets filed without anyone having to look at it.

slack — #outbound-replies
Reply classifierwatching inbox
Not interested — Marcus T. · auto-archived
Interested — Jane Doe, Acme Co“This is exactly what we need — can we grab time this week?”
Routed to Slack in 8 seconds
06

Demo booking

The only number that matters. Everything upstream — the list, the infra, the copy, the routing — exists to get to this screen.

calendly — demo booking
Jane Doe · 30 min call
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
1:00 PM
3:30 PM
Confirmed for 10:30 AM

Good outbound is turning campaign data into better decisions. What worked, what didn’t, why, and what we test next.

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