Case 001. Suspect
The bounced email
- Cause of death:
- Hard bounce
The address looked fine on paper. Then it bounced, and took a piece of your sender reputation down with it.
Dead end
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Missing: your ideal customer.
Last seen: definitely not in your CRM. The Lead Finder Detective Agency has 450M+ verified B2B contacts on file. We’ll track them down.
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Case file no. 450MConfidential
Wanted
- Title:
- Head of Sales
- Industry:
- SaaS
- Company:
- 50–200 employees
- Last seen:
- Not in your CRM
Filed by: Lead FinderVerified email on file
The cold case
Every outbound campaign that dies has the same three suspects. We pulled their files.
Case 002. Suspect
The wrong person
- Cause of death:
- Pitched the office manager
You pitched the office manager about sales tooling. They forwarded it to nobody.
Mistaken identity
Case 003. Suspect
The list from 2019
- Cause of death:
- Old age
Half of them changed jobs. The other half changed companies.
Cold
The trail went cold years ago.
Method no. 1 · AI search
Describe the suspect
Tell Lead Finder who you’re looking for in plain words. Its AI search builds the search for you.
No filter gymnastics, no twenty dropdowns at midnight. You give the description like a witness would. The detective turns it into job titles, industries, headcounts and signals.
Witness statement
Form LF-1- Statement taken by:
- Lead Finder AI search
- Witness:
- You
“Heads of Sales at SaaS companies with 50–200 employees who just raised funding.”
Translated into search
Example- Job title: Head of Sales
- Industry: SaaS
- Employees: 50–200
- Signal: Recent funding
Narrow down the lineup
Nine ways to tell your suspect from everyone else in the room. Stack them up and watch the crowd thin out.
- Picked out
No. 1
Job title
“Head of Sales”
No. 2
Seniority
“VP and up”
- Picked out
No. 3
Industry
“SaaS”
No. 4
Location
“Austin, TX”
No. 5
Company size
“50–200 employees”
No. 6
Revenue
“$10–50M a year”
No. 7
Technologies
“Uses HubSpot”
No. 8
Funding
“Series A”
No. 9
Job listings
“Hiring SDRs”
Nine filters on the lineup wall, two picked out. Add a third and the room gets very quiet.
We interrogate 5+ informants
One source never knows everybody. So Lead Finder runs waterfall enrichment across 5+ data providers, one after another, hunting for a work email.
If one informant doesn’t talk, we ask the next one. Whatever they give up gets verified before it lands in your file. Verified alibis, not hearsay.
- Sources:
- 5+ data providers
- Order:
- One after another, until someone talks
- Hand-over:
- Verified work emails
Interrogation logSubject: Head of Sales, SaaS
- 1Clammed up
Informant 1
“Sat there. Said nothing.”
- 2Dead end
Informant 2
“Knew the company. Didn’t know the guy.”
- 3Verified alibi
Informant 3
“Talked.”
h.sales@acme-example.com
- 4Not needed
Informant 4
“Sent home early.”
- 5Not needed
Informant 5+
“Still waiting in the hall.”
Follow the clues
Nobody buys out of nowhere. There’s always a trail.
Lead Finder tracks the signals that give a buyer away: buying intent, growth signals, company news and funding. You show up while the trail is still warm.
Exhibit A
Buying intent
“Been reading up on tools like yours.”
Exhibit B
Growth signals
“Headcount climbing. New hires in sales.”
Exhibit C
Company news
“Made the papers this week.”
Exhibit D
Funding
“Fresh money in the bank.”
- Person of interest
The suspect
Your next customer
Known associates
Birds of a feather. Your best customer has friends, and they look a lot like the people who already buy from you.
Run a lookalike search: give Lead Finder your best customer’s domain and it finds companies just like them. Same kind of industry, size and tech stack, rounded up for questioning.
Prime associate
yourbestcustomer.com
- Industry:
- B2B software
- Size:
- 51–200 employees
- Status:
- Already buys from you
- Exhibit photo
Known associate
Northwind SaaS
Resemblance: Same industry, same size.
- Exhibit photo
Known associate
Brightloop
Resemblance: Same tech stack, same market.
- Exhibit photo
Known associate
Ledgerline
Resemblance: Same size, same tech stack.
- Exhibit photo
Known associate
Quietpeak
Resemblance: Same industry, same region.
Agency rules
Lead Finder Detective Agency · House rules
- Rule No. 1
Skip over-contacted leads
“Don’t knock on a door 10 detectives already knocked on.”
Turn it on and Lead Finder leaves out leads that are already over-contacted, so your email isn’t lost in the pile.
- Rule No. 2
Skip leads you already own
“No paying twice for a suspect already in your files.”
Leave out leads already in your Instantly workspace, so you don’t spend credits on contacts you already have.
- Rule No. 3
One lead per company
“One suspect per household.”
Limit results to a single contact per company, so one account doesn’t hear from you five times.
Signed
The Management
Every good agency has rules. Ours keep your money out of dead ends.
Three switches, posted on the wall where nobody can miss them. Flip them on before the search and the duds never make it into your file.
No fee unless we find them
The Agency doesn’t bill you for walking the streets. Only for bringing back an address.
Lead Finder Detective Agency
Fee schedule
- Searching the files
- Free
- Email found
- Credits charged
- No email found
- Nothing
Terms: searching is free. Credits are only charged when an email is found.
No find, no fee
Case closed
Found them? Send your leads straight to an Instantly campaign or list, or export them to your CRM. No paperwork left on the desk.
Case file no. 450M
Routing slip · Disposition
- Send toInstantly campaignOutreach starts
- Send toInstantly listFiled for later
- Send toYour CRMExported
Pick a route. The file goes where you send it.