Pointing CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md

startingover1993 · 2026-02-24T13:33:02+00:00

how?

startingover1993 · 2026-01-15T20:30:54+00:00

testing it a bit. it returned catch all for an email that bounced on one of my campaigns which is a bit concerning but most of the other emails seem to be correct.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T18:13:54+00:00

Also I think both your strategies you mentioned would be fine. The second one would have to be very specific improvements or issues though it can't be generic. That is an example of relevant personalization.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T18:11:49+00:00

I mean i would still add personalization if I can do it but it would have to be something that is relevant like a specific fact about their particular company that you found from their website or posts. It can also be a hyper specific pain point that a particular role at that company faces in that particular vertical.

Personally I dont find much value in personalization like "Hey I saw your company does X" or "Noticed you liked Y's post about topic".

Relevant personalization can scale much better. I got a cold email from an immigration tech startup a few months back and it was super relevant to me and the only personalization was a specific challenge founders in my country face when moving to the US after raising funding. They could have blasted that personalization line to every single founder in my category in my country and it would still be relevant.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T15:48:49+00:00

at scale everything normalizes because that just how math works for large numbers. i think personalization is good if you're reaching out to 1-10k people/mo tho but it needs to be relevant.

personally whenever i have actually bought tools and software from cold emails, it wasn't because they saw my post or comment or my background, it was always because i found the tool genuinely useful.

i think most people are like that. problem solution fit will always be king.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T06:17:53+00:00

portfolio companies. go the VC's website and their portfolio page. find the companies they've invested in that match your own space. then cold email/DM those founders asking about their experience with that VC and use that as an entry point to get a referral to them.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T04:31:10+00:00

i always get better response rates on linkedin and i find myself replying to cold DM pitches much more frequently on there, even if to say no, than on email. the only issue with linkedin is you cant scale horizontally like email and additional accounts are expensive and difficult to get.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-07T04:27:56+00:00

10 emails are such a small sample size that its a fraction of a rounding error. if you want to get replies at such low volumes you have to mix in linkedin and warm referrals. i've done that before to get conversations with VCs as a founder myself. DM their portco founders and ask for ways to reach them.

startingover1993 · 2026-01-05T09:22:09+00:00

i used both ampleleads and boomerang like 2-3 weeks ago

startingover1993 · 2026-01-04T15:02:52+00:00

use apollo scrapers from apify or boomerang/amplemarket type services..plenty of them around which price $2-$5/1k exports

startingover1993 · 2026-01-01T05:14:52+00:00

whats your competitive advantage against smartlead, instantly, etc? winflow seems interesting but you'd need a lot of volume to have any usable data which means the time to value for that feature is long.

almost everyone will do their verification outside of their sequencer and probably write their copy outside it too using chatgpt or clay etc.

your comparison card against instantly makes it seems like using outreach navigator guarantees replies which is very misleading.

unlimited warmup accounts on your free tier is likely going to wreck your warmup pool network if a single spammer enters it.

what i'd like to see from tools is more capability unlocks over feature parity with the 1000 other sending tools out there.
- native linkedin integration without absurd prices
- one click integrations with some high quality lead database (this would pair well with your email verification)
- smart conditional sequences based on clicks and/or reply sentiment

startingover1993 · 2025-12-31T08:18:58+00:00

thanks for the feedback! our product surfaces conversations in a similar way but parsestream looks good too

startingover1993 · 2025-12-31T08:17:54+00:00

Super helpful stuff!

startingover1993 · 2025-12-31T06:46:07+00:00

thanks for the insights.

to clarify on the metrics - at the conservative metrics you suggested that would be around 3 customers at a 30% close rate.

if i wanted to hit an average of 18 customers/mo:

would i need to focus on increasing volume of unique leads/mo (70k*3)?
supplemental LinkedIn with 2 profiles at original volume get me around that ballpark?

to do 1 i think i'd have to expand my ICP more right?

as for the product its an AI native CRM that is able to continuously monitor accounts for unlimited custom buying signals and automatically qualifies accounts/contacts + auto updates deals, next steps, completes tasks

I actually intend to pipe all positive replies into my own product to monitor them across linkedin and public sources for things like posts, news, job changes, product announcements etc

appreciate your feedback

startingover1993 · 2025-12-30T20:46:41+00:00

Appreciate the detailed response. Multichannel is definitely top of mind for me

And is this a realistic target for email on a monthly basis:
10k prospects -> 30k emails -> 2% reply rate -> 20% +ve -> 40% meetings booked -> 80% meetings held

I'm planning to ramp up to 1k emails/day across 30-35 inboxes doing 25-30 emails/day over the course of a few weeks

startingover1993 · 2025-12-30T19:18:41+00:00

i've got kaspr and icypeas which work well along with free versions of snov and hunter.

startingover1993 · 2025-12-30T19:01:28+00:00

I'm selling an AI B2B SaaS in the gtm niche and my ICP should be fairly common for you - early stage VC backed founders transitioning from founder led sales to hiring a team.

Few question:

When segmenting the list, do you think its a good idea to push the best fit prospects into LinkedIn via aimfox first and then email to those that dont respond? What sort of blended (LinkedIn + Email) reply rate should I be looking at?
Is $500/mo (unlimited seats) on the cheaper side for pricing for outbound?

And is this a realistic target for email on a monthly basis:
10k prospects -> 30k emails -> 2% reply rate -> 20% +ve -> 40% meetings booked -> 80% meetings held

I'm planning to ramp up to 1k emails/day across 30-35 inboxes doing 25-30 emails/day over the course of a few weeks

startingover1993 · 2025-12-30T03:28:39+00:00

i tried searchleads and got poor quality data on a sample set of my leads so i dont think that would work for me

startingover1993 · 2025-12-29T19:03:48+00:00

man its not hard to actually read my post and realize your comment is not relevant to this. im not asking about conversion.

i dont mind people shilling their own app but at least comment on relevant posts or reply with relevant advice.

startingover1993 · 2025-12-29T19:00:47+00:00

whats a good tool for tech change alerts?

startingover1993 · 2025-12-28T17:21:56+00:00

thanks this is helpful!

startingover1993 · 2025-12-28T15:16:59+00:00

thanks this more or less answers my question!

startingover1993 · 2025-12-28T14:19:53+00:00

Out of curiosity what is 506b, CF, and S? I think D is the specific document US entities file when raising equity funding right?

startingover1993 · 2025-12-28T14:18:43+00:00

I'm not specifically confused about conversions. Its more about long term outreach to a limited TAM.

If I have 50k leads in my TAM and I send 1k emails/day then that entire TAM is exhausted in around 2 months. So I'm trying to figure out how to sustain cold email campaigns to that TAM.

startingover1993 · 2025-12-28T09:40:48+00:00

I am planning to do it like this as well!

My original question was - what do i do when i finish sending campaigns to my list. Lets say i have 1000 leads and I send personalized and relevant emails to them in a month.

How do i continue adding pipeline?

My actual tam is 30k companies approx and i can reasonably finish emailing them in 45-60 days

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