Cluedog

Cold outreach starts with a list. Cluedog starts with a question.

Most lead tools give you people who might buy, and you hope one of them is looking. Cluedog gives you people who just asked for what you sell, in public, in their own words.

List-led tools

Start from a list

  1. Pick people who might buy. Filter a database by job title, company size and city.

  2. Send them all the same message. Nobody asked for it, so it opens with an introduction.

  3. Land in a crowded inbox. One more pitch among many, so most are never opened.

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Cluedog

Start from a question

  1. u/quietledger in r/smallbusiness · just now

    Need someone to rebuild our Shopify store before the Diwali sale. Budget around ₹80k. Who should I talk to?

    Someone asks in public. In their own words, with their budget and deadline.

  2. Cluedog finds it and checks the fit. Against what you sell, and who is asking.

  3. You reply where they asked. They are looking for help, so your answer is welcome.

A conversation, started

Cluedog reads the post the way you would

A list gives you a job title. A post tells you the problem, the budget, the deadline and who decides.

A typical row from a contact list
NamePriya N.
TitleHead of Support
CompanySaaS, 11 to 50 people
Looking for help??
With what??
By when??
Who decides??
Everything that decides the sale is blank.
The same person, found by Cluedog
Priya Nair, Head of Support at a 40-person SaaS

Our team answers the same 40 questions all day. Has anyone brought in a team to build an assistant on their own docs? We have budget for it and want it live this quarter.

Strong fit · 92Close to your helpdesk assistant case study
Every answer is in their own words.

Timing is most of it

People who ask in public usually choose within days. A reply on the day they asked joins the conversation; an email a week later arrives after it ended.

Asks for help in public
Talks to the people who replied
Picks someone
Day 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7Day 8Day 9Day 10
Your reply, through Cluedog. Arrives while they are still asking.
✉A cold email. Arrives after they chose someone.Too late

Finding the lead is the start. Cluedog helps you win it.

A list tool hands you a name and an email address. Cluedog stays with you from the first reply to the proposal.

✓
Lead foundList tools stop here, at a name and an email address.
  1. 1
    Brief
  2. 2
    Reply
  3. 3
    Conversation
  4. 4
    Call prep
  5. 5
    Proposal
Step 1 of 5

Brief

Before you write anything: what they need, what they have not said yet, and how to win it.

They need
An assistant on their own docs, live this quarter.
Not said yet
Who signs off, and where the docs live.
How to win
Lead with your helpdesk case study. Ask what went wrong with their last chatbot.

The send button is always yours

Cluedog finds the conversation and drafts what to say. Joining it is your call, from your own account.

Settings you will not find in Cluedog
Send messages for youDrafts stop at your clipboard. You send them.
Connect your Reddit, LinkedIn or XIt reads public posts, so it never needs your login.
Sell you a contact listEvery lead is a post someone chose to write.
How a Cluedog reply ends
Reply to u/quietledger in r/smallbusiness

We rebuilt three D2C stores this year. Happy to share how we would approach yours. What has to work by Diwali?

Copy replyCopiedOpen the thread

You paste it and press send, from your own account, when it feels right. Cluedog never posts, comments or messages anyone.

When a list is the better tool

Cluedog only finds people who ask in public. Some sales do not start that way:

  • You sell to a named set of large accounts and need every decision maker in them.
  • Your buyers rarely talk about their problems online.
  • You run a team sending outbound at volume every day.

Most teams use both: outbound for the accounts they choose, Cluedog for the people who put their hand up.

List toolsAccounts youchoose to targetCluedogPeople who askfor what you sellUse both

Someone is asking for what you sell today

Free during early access. Paste a link to your site; your first leads usually arrive on day one.

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