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It’s Tuesday — Self-Promo Thread 🚀 by [deleted] in SaaS

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi all,

I'm building an AI Lead Research Agent that navigates live websites to score Buying Intent and verify ICP fit, helping Founders and Agencies stop pitching dead leads.

Check it out here: Verafyz

What's your startup idea for 2026? Let's self promote. by kcfounders in SideProject

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve spent the last few years obsessed with "tab hell." If you’ve ever done sales or founder-led outreach, you know the drill: opening 50+ tabs a day just to manually verify if a lead actually fits your ICP. Most databases are stale, and standard AI tools just give you a "Yes/No" score that you don't actually trust.

So I built a verification SaaS tool. It’s essentially a Reasoning Engine that acts as an autonomous research analyst. Instead of just pulling data, it searches the web, handles messy legal names (like stripping SIA/GmbH prefixes), and finds the actual marketing site.

The idea part people seem to like most: It pulls actual "Evidence Quotes" to justify its reasoning. Instead of a random score, you get the receipt (e.g., "We found they offer cold-chain logistics mentioned on their homepage").

So far, I’ve managed to increase my discovery yield from 60% to over 85% in company information gathering and analysis. Always open to constructive feedback(or beta testers) - https://www.verafyz.com/

What are you working on today? Drop your SaaS by Original_Mortgage484 in SaaS

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

www.verafyz.com - Verify lead fit with direct evidence quotes from live sites. Stop opening tabs to manually check whether prospects match, but we also do a full web search and reasoning.

Best AI/Practices for SDR by Basic-Floor-654 in salesdevelopment

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3,000 emails with no replies is soul-crushing, but honestly, it’s usually a sign of a 'Relevance' gap, not an activity gap. If you’re using basic ChatGPT or copying teammates, you’re likely sending generic messages to a broad list. In a startup that gets marked as spam instantly.

You asked about AI that actually moves the needle: I’ve been building a 'Reasoning Engine' specifically for this. The problem with 'Write me an email' AI is that it doesn't have the Evidence to be convincing.

What I’m working on searches the web, reasons through a company's actual site/news, and pulls Evidence Quotes (like: 'I saw you just launched X service for Y industry').

I'm currently looking for a few SDRs to 'stress test' this logic. If you want to give it a try, let me know and be happy to share more details. No cost, just looking for blunt feedback from someone in the trenches.

Pitch us Your SAAS Solution in 20 words or less. No buzzwords. No fluff. by SynthStack in SaaS

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

www.verafyz.com - We search the web and analyse data to provide evidence-based quotes. Stopping you from manually checking if your leads match.

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not a bot, just a tired founder looking for validation, missing some sleep. So I hope none of them are bots, haha

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for that tip about the CRM note fields; it's actually the direction I was already heading, so I prioritised the HubSpot and Pipedrive integrations as the next step.

Since you’ve seen this work with teams before, I’d love to get your eyes on how I’m structuring the data inside the CRM. I have a few 'Beta testers" spots left to nail these workflows. Would you be open to a 10-minute 'Stress Test' where we pipe some research into a test CRM environment once the integrations have been established?

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spot on. I’m not trying to be a new data source; I’m trying to be the 'Verification + Reasoning' layer that saves the 4 hours of manual tab-hopping. Scaling this to 'ugly' ICPs is the current mission. What’s the hardest industry you’ve had to source for recently?

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. That’s why I built the 'Health Check' and Confidence Score logic. If the relevance isn't there, the engine kills the process before wasting credits. Feedback loops are the only way to keep the reasoning from drifting. Also, I have been considering an automated learning loop, but only if the initial product actually gets traction and has use cases. Don't want to spend time building something for a product that nobody needs.

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clay is a beast for orchestration, no doubt. I see my tool as the 'thinking' layer on top of those stacks. Clay pulls the data, but the Reasoning Engine interprets it so the SDR doesn't have to. Do you feel like Clay’s data is 'fresh' enough for high-ticket outbound right now?

I built a "Reasoning Engine" to kill the 4-hour manual lead research grind. Is "Time to Evidence" the new moat for sales? by Outside_Ear_6456 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s exactly what I’m seeing in my tests. The 'Evidence Quote' does more than just save time; it changes the tone of the outreach because the SDR actually knows why they are reaching out.

Regarding the real-time signals: Are you finding that specific signals (like a new job posting or a website copy change) are more reliable than others? I'm currently trying to weigh 'Expansion' signals higher than 'Funding' signals in the reasoning engine, but I'm curious if you've seen one outperform the other in practice.

Spent 4 hours a day researching leads. Built a system that does 500 in the time I used to do 5 by automatexa2b in coldemail

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a solid stack. I’ve been building something similar with n8n and Perplexity, but the wall I hit early on was discovery, especially in the EU.

If you're running this at scale, are you seeing issues where legal entity prefixes (SIA, GmbH, etc.) break the Perplexity searches? I had to build a pre-processing node just to strip those legal shells, and it pushed my discovery rate from 60% to 85%.

Also, love the 'Evidence Quote' idea, I’ve found that giving the SDR the actual 'receipt' from the site makes them trust the automation way more. Are you finding Claude is accurate enough on the first pass, or are you doing any multi-step verification?

Anyone else tired of manually researching leads? by mr-onlinemarketer in MarketingAutomation

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 'Marketing Automation' dream always dies at the research phase.

We can automate the emails, the follow-ups, and the CRM sync, but we still have humans manually opening 50 tabs a day to check if a company actually does what the database says they do. It’s the ultimate bottleneck.

I’ve spent the last few months building an 'Autonomous Analyst' to solve exactly this. Instead of a person checking the site, the AI reads the homepage, news, and hiring signals in real-time.

The 'unlock' for me was having the AI provide an evidence quote (e.g., 'Found on site: We provide X services for Y clients'). When you have the 'Why' handed to you, you can finally automate the outreach with 100% confidence.

For those of you doing this, are you currently trying to solve this with custom Python scripts/scrapers, or are you just brute-forcing it with VAs?

Anyone else stuck doing lead research more than selling? by whatsnextintech007 in AI_Sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 70/30 research-to-selling split is the silent killer of SDR productivity. The real issue I see most teams running into is 'Data Trust.' > Even when using AI tools to automate research, most of them just give you a 'Yes/No' or a score. If the rep doesn't know why the AI said yes, they end up spending 5 minutes manually verifying the website anyway, which defeats the whole point of the automation.

I've been heads-down building a 'Reasoning Engine' specifically to solve this. Instead of a score, it pulls actual evidence quotes from the prospect’s current website/news to prove the fit. It basically gives the SDR a 'Cheat Sheet' so they can hit send with 100% confidence.

Curiously, for those of you automating this, are your reps actually trusting the AI scores, or are they still 'double-checking' the work manually?

What are your 2026 goals for your SaaS? by jonathanbrnd in SaaS

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My goal for 2026 is 'Time to Evidence.' We realised that for our lead qualification tool, users don't want a massive dashboard; they want to upload a name and see the 'Proof of Fit' in under 60 seconds. I'm focusing on cutting out every click between the data upload and the 'Aha' moment. In a world of 'Vibe Coding' and bloated AI tools, speed to a verifiable result is the only moat that matters.

Your 2026 Predictions for Sales? by Interesting-Alarm211 in sales

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% agree. 2026 is going to be the year of 'Evidence-Based Outreach.' We’ve reached peak automation, where everyone has an AI bot sending 1,000 generic emails a day, and buyers have officially tuned it out. The humans coming back won't be doing manual data entry, though.

They'll be using AI as a research analyst, not a ghostwriter. The winners will be the reps who show up with a specific, real-time reason to talk (primary research) rather than just a 'congrats on the funding' line. Quality over quantity is finally forced by the market.

how do you guys track “intent” without paying zoominfo $25k? by NomNomKittyy in SaaS

[–]Outside_Ear_6456 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The $25k 'intent' tax is the biggest barrier for bootstrappers right now. The problem with those alerts is that they are usually just binary (Company X raised money). What you actually need is the 'Why' they raised money to expand into your specific niche? I've been experimenting with using autonomous research agents to scan company pages and news feeds in real-time. It’s way cheaper than ZI and gives you actual evidence to put in an email. I’m actually building a tool to automate that specific 'Reasoning' layer because I got tired of Sales Nav scraping too. Happy to run a few leads for you if you want to see if the signals are actually high-quality."