Real founders and agencies asking for lead generation and outreach tools on Reddit right now, updated weekly.
The most searched question in every founder community: "Where do I find customers?" On Reddit it gets specific - "Tool to find people asking for my product?", "How do you fill your agency pipeline?", "LinkedIn outreach is dead, what's working?". r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur, r/startups and r/agency generate this demand daily.
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I am planning to do a signal based cold outreach for my startup and am confused about which tool to choose for identifying buying signals. So far I have come across Apollo and Sales Navigator
B2B founders: which AI outbound tools are actually working?
B2B founders, have you tried any AI outbound tools that actually booked meetings for you? A few I’ve looked at: Startories - autonomous fresh-intent lead discovery + outbound Artisan / Ava - AI SDR for prospecting and outreach Clay - lead enrichment + personalization Instantly - cold email outreach at scale Most of the “AI sales rep” tools get expensive pretty quickly, so I’m more interested in what actually works in practice. Do you use one all-in-one tool, or a stack for prospecting + personalization + outreach? What has actually generated replies or demos for you?
Looking for recommendations on B2B signal / intent capture tools. We currently use Apollo for prospecting and enrichment, but we don't have much set up around website visitor identification or other buying signals. We primarily target the US and UAE markets, so I’m particularly interested in tools that work well for those regions. Looking for tools that can help with things like: \- Website visitor identification \- Intent signals \- Other useful buying signals that can feed into outbound What tools are you guys using for your signal layer? Would especially appreciate recommendations based on actual usage rather than just a list of tools. Also interested in how you connect these signals to your existing outbound stack. What has worked well for you?
LinkedIn engagement marketing tips - Any actual automation tools available?
Hey so I am in B2B niche tech, so niche that just one or two other companies do what we do. Managed data extraction partner as opposed to API specific tools that barely work. So we are doing ABM where we hope to warm the audience first using Ads - Linkedin ofcourse for company and role specific targetting LAYER 1: Thought leadership ads to first get engagement LAYER 2: Engagement marketing Where we comment and engage with our ICP. Send request, monitor posts, engage genuinely. We also have a different funnel where we wish to engage with commenters of our competitors. Commenters of our targetted thought leaders. More for awareness and new prospect finding. Would love to do the same on reddit as where where people show intent in targetted subreddit and main topic areas. I know linkedin don't have an API and actively blocks bots that monitor. If I have a instream of such opportunities, that's fine. I can go manually comment. Any recommendations on any tools? Please don't spam with random tools you barely built and trying to sell. I want genuine recommendations from fellow marketers. So post the two layers, we send a personalized outreach to seal the deal. Any suggestions on this approach?
What’s the best full sales pipeline setup to use for a niche audience ?
So, this is what I currently have. We’re doing enterprise sales with a very niche target group. This means I don’t need to blast 1,000 emails and LinkedIn messages a day. I’m looking for a more tailored, AI-driven automation setup. Ideally, the setup would work something like this: A tool or AI agent understands our ICP, our solution and our market. We then create different personas, and these personas can be targeted based on different rules, such as buying signals or manual entry by the sales team. Once someone matches the criteria, they should be added to a flow. For example, a flow could include a LinkedIn connection request/InMail and a cold email, with each message being deeply personalised by AI based on the individual, company and context. All of this data should then be synced back to HubSpot, so the activity and relevant information are visible in the company/contact records. In other words, I’m looking for something that works almost like a sales automation agent. I’m currently testing a few tools, including Lemlist, Gojiberry, Surfe, FirstTouch and Expandi. So far, Lemlist seems like one of the strongest options for the multichannel approach, especially because of its HubSpot integration. Unfortunately, Gojiberry doesn’t have a native HubSpot connection, which is a bit of a dealbreaker for us. What would you recommend for this kind of multichannel, AI-driven sales agent approach? Especially interested in setups that work well with HubSpot and focus on highly targeted, personalised enterprise outreach rather than high-volume outbound.
Best tools to monitor Reddit and LinkedIn for buying signals
Monitoring reddit and linkedin for pipeline is tricky cause most tools treat it as simple keyword alerts around competitor's and within 2 days your inbox is overwhelmed with irrelevant mentions and spam. If you are looking at tools in this space, what you need depends on how you plan to act on the data. If you just need basic brand monitoring or customer support listening, standard social listening platforms do the job but if you want to use social discussions to drive B2B outbound, monitoring the keyword is only the first step where you've to figure out if the person posting actually matches your ICP, determine what company they work for and see if anyone else at that account is active. That identity resolution layer is where scale intelligence sit which instead of forwarding a social post, the system ingests conversations from reddit, linkedin, X and technical communities and maps those individuals back to target accounts and tracks whether that intent compounds alongside other signals like hiring or website visits.
Can an AI agent help with signal based selling or just the alerting part?
The setup I've been using is pretty good at flagging individual changes but connecting them is where it falls apart. Had one last week where a new ops hire showed up, then a few days later I got another alert about a tech stack change. Almost missed that both were from the same company. I only looked into the account because those two things happened close together. Reached out after that, too early to know if it'll go anywhere. Has anyone built something that actually connects signals at the account level or are you still piecing that together yourself?
Best technographics data providers: how I decide which one to pay for
Every few months someone on my team asks "should we get BuiltWith" and the honest answer is "for what?" So here's how I actually think about it now, with the prices as of this September, because the prices are what change the decision. The question comes first, not the vendor. There are three different jobs hiding under the word technographics. Job 1: build an outbound list of companies running tool X. This is the one everybody means. BuiltWith is the biggest database and the default. $295 a month, but that plan only lets you search 2 technologies, so if your ICP is "runs Shopify and Klaviyo and not Gorgias" you're on the $495 plan before you've sent an email. Wappalyzer does the same for $250 (2 technologies, 5,000 lookups) or $450 unlimited. My rule: if you have fewer than 3 target technologies and you're going to run the play for 6+ months, pay. If you're testing an angle, buy credits somewhere instead. Job 2: find companies running internal software. Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, anything that doesn't load on a homepage. Website crawlers can't see this. TheirStack reads job postings instead. $109 for 1,000 companies, one-time, credits roll over a year. Great for testing an angle without a subscription. Weak on small companies that don't post jobs. Job 3: get a number for the deck. "44.9% of the Fortune 500 runs OneTrust." "HubSpot is on 25.6% of the Inc 5000." Lists from Job 1 can't give you this because they don't know the denominator. Installmap crawls whole lists (Inc 5000, YC, Fortune 500, unicorns, a SaaS list, top 10k sites) and publishes the share with the base printed next to it. Free to read, $79 one-time if you want the company list behind a number. Only covers those six lists, so it's for positioning and pitches more than for raw volume. The enterprise version of all three is HG Insights. Technographics plus IT spend estimates, inside your CRM. No list price, 2-year contract. Right answer at 50+ reps, wrong answer before that. Two cheap ones I keep around: PublicWWW ($109 a month, 20 rows free) and NerdyData ($200 a month) search raw page source, so they find a tool before anyone has a fingerprint for it. Datanyze ($29 a month) is a contact finder with a technology filter, not a dataset. So the decision tree I use: Deck number, Installmap. Internal tools, TheirStack. Fewer than 3 target technologies and a long campaign, Wappalyzer. More than that, BuiltWith Pro at $495. Over 50 reps, talk to HG. What's your setup? Curious if anyone is actually getting value out of the $995 BuiltWith Team plan or if that's just the price for not sharing a login.
im working on a site that lists ai sales tools and explains what each one does in like one line. dont wanna fill it with stuff nobody uses or promote things that sucks. prospecting, emails, dialing, notes, anything please lmk what you use. if you wanna see the site I can send it over too.
genuinely curious what ai tools you guys use to find customers or follow up with leads. i feel like theres a new ai tool every day and most of them are mid i started keeping track of everything that i felt was good and made a site for it. topsalesai.co but yeah drop what your using, especially if its something that works good in canada. ill add them to the site
Are there any tools that do LinkedIn keyword monitoring, not brand mentions?
I'm looking for a tool that picks up public posts by keyword in the body text, the way tools do for X for instance. Most of the tools I checked just ask you to connect your page and then it surfaces posts that tagged your brand (like @brandname). I don't really get why you need this. If i'm already an admin, those land in page notifications anyway, so i can't work out what the subscription is for. So has anyone found something that indexes public LinkedIn posts by keywords? I'm aware of API limitations so is it an impossible task on LinkedIn? Thank you in advance!
From what I can tell, they’re useful for somewhat different things. zoominfo seems more focused on its large B2B database and contact and company information, while onfire appears more focused on finding buying signals and companies that may already be showing interest. for people who have actually used both, which one has been more useful for high-intent B2B lead generation?
How do you do more targeted outreach rather than mass volume?
Slowly but surely the whole mass volume thing is just telling less and less ROI every year, How do you guys send much more targeted outreach on LinkedIn and email with lower volume that gets much better results? (This is for selling B2B software) Do you genuinely just do it manually and spend hours everyday researching and sending messages to a small group of people (20-50) on LinkedIn or email? or do you use some tool with AI that helps with instant signals and things like that? Unless I’m wrong and mass volume is still what you guys mostly do
I’m starting a GTM Engineer role at a cybersecurity startup in a few days. One of my main goals is to build a repeatable system that can generate 5 qualified sales calls per week. I’d love to hear from people who’ve built something similar: what does your GTM system look like? What signals, tools, automations, or workflows have worked best for you? Thanks!
best AI tools for identifying companies who is ready to buy
So our VP wants "AI that tells us who is ready to buy" and somehow I am the designated wizard. Every vendor demo is the same. A very excited rep waving at a fake dashboard while the AI magically spots "high intent accounts" that all look suspiciously like whoever clicked a pricing page once in 2022. Half of them are our competitors. One of them was literally our own company domain lol. For context we are mid size b2b saas with a messy crm and a pipeline board held together with duct tape and vibes. Anyone using something that isnt just glorified lead scoring with a new label on it? would love any tips
Best AI tools for finding qualified B2B prospects.
ok so we keep hearing about AI prospecting tools and half of them feel like junk tbh. i'm trying to find something that helps us spot real buyers faster, not just spit out a hundred more leads we'll never touch. for context, we're a small b2b saas team and outbound still fills a chunk of pipeline. if something has been solid for account research, intent, or scoring, pls send it. appreciate any thoughts
Hi everyone, I’m exploring different ways to generate B2B SaaS leads organically and would love to hear from people who have actually used these platforms. I’m particularly interested in lead generation for NetSuite and Celigo-related services, such as implementation, integration, consulting, and ongoing support. A few things I’m trying to understand: What are the best platforms for finding B2B SaaS leads? Are there any free or freemium platforms that are actually useful? Can you generate a decent number of qualified leads organically, without relying heavily on paid ads or expensive databases? Which platforms have worked for you for reaching NetSuite, ERP, eCommerce, or integration decision-makers? Are communities like Reddit, LinkedIn, Quora, or niche ERP communities effective for this? I’m not looking for a huge list of tools. I’d really appreciate recommendations based on actual experience, especially platforms where organic lead generation is possible. Thanks in advance!
To all the Ycombinator founders in this sub, what has been the most effective way to get customers when you are in the initial phase of launching your product. Do you use any specific tools like Apollo.io or sales navigator? Has cold emailing worked for you? I am quite confused, please enlighten me on this topic.
Hi all. I’m ex Amazon, 25 years in software/platform engineering. I’ve just launched - it’s massive engineering leverage for funded SaaS teams. But more than that it’s scale, security, compliance etc. out of the box. You can’t buy the same anywhere else just now. Year 3 operational maturity on Day 1 is not an overstatement. It’s priced accordingly and is a serious commercial conversation, not a trivial online purchase. There is flexibility, it’s more a credibility signal - $15k to $30k annually. Willing to share 50% 1st year licence fee for any leads that we can convert. I know nothing about Sales / GTM distribution or how to get in front of the incubators, accelerators etc. who care about launch deadlines and scaling or perhaps regulation. This is game recognising game. Looking for the right person rather than believing AI spam is going to get me there. Worth a chat? Please DM.
Trying to build B2B SaaS software, played by the book, and get stuck at the step of talking to your customer. Damn that's harder than I thought. The fact is, your prospect are busy, very busy (that's why you want to sell to them too), and they rarely talk to random people reached out to them on Linkedin. Sent dozens of cold DM on different platform, and talked to one person, very apperciate it, but whom also refused to give details on how they do things internally. All the books like the mom test, founding sales etc.. though very helpful, but I can't use them. There's rarely people talking about how to find the customer to start with. I'm now thinking about doing a bit of youtube videos and keeping myself active on X to improve public exposure and profolios, in hope to make myself more trustable, but that'll take time. What else should I do in the meanwhile to overcome this step? All advice are apperciated, thanks.
Struggling to find clients (Cold outreach getting 0 responses)
&x200B; I recently learned direct-response copywriting focused on dev tools, B2B, and SaaS products. I write landing pages and email sequences, and I even have a portfolio built out. My core strength is translating complex engineering features into clear buyer pains, agitation, and benefits. Here’s where I’m stuck: outreach. I’ve been testing outreach tactics suggested by different AI tools and YouTube advice, but the conflicting strategies are confusing: \ The teardown approach: Pointing out copy mistakes/weaknesses on their live site and suggesting fixes → 0 responses. \ The permission-based approach: Reaching out first just to ask permission to share feedback → 0 responses. It has been two months of doing this consistently—visiting sites, auditing weak copy for hours, and sending personalized cold emails and LinkedIn DMs. Total radio silence. Spending hours dissecting a landing page only to get completely ignored is exhausting, and I genuinely don’t know where I'm going wrong. For those who have successfully booked SaaS/B2B copy clients: \ Where am I likely messing up in my approach? \ How should I rethink my cold outreach to actually get replies?
i automated my lead follow ups and then realized i had stopped noticing which leads were serious
the manual follow up was annoying but doing it by hand meant i read every reply and slowly built a gut feel for who was a real buyer and who was just kicking tires. i automated the whole sequence, response rate held fine, but i completely lost that read. i ended up putting myself back in the loop for the replies, just the replies, and let the machine handle the sends. some of the value of a boring task was the attention it forced on me, not the task itself.
A high email warmup score doesn't guarantee results. I focused on getting perfect scores, yet my campaigns flopped. Turns out, deliverability isn't just about a spotless setup—it's about the list quality and whether you've got something people care about. I thought my domains were warmed well, so why weren't there any returns? Maybe the problem was deeper: are the emails actually getting delivered? Are there unseen bounces? Am I even targeting the right crowd? The infrastructure looked flawless, but if the offer is irrelevant, it's all moot. Am I the only one finding a high score doesn't equal high success? Anyone else experiencing this disconnect?
How did you land your first clients for a high-trust service
Question for anyone who's sold a high-trust service (financial, advisory, consulting) where the client is putting real money on the line How did you land your first 3–5 clients before you had a track record or testimonials? Specifically, where did they come from (existing networks, a referral partner, an event, something else, etc), and what did you show them that got them over the trust hump? Or if you did something unconventional that actually worked. I'm early, doing this through relationships and referrals, and trying to avoid wasting months and potential relationships that would convert for this. Obviously cold calling isn't to much an option so what did you do to get your first clients?
6 weeks of artisan's ava running our outbound. mostly regret
4 person agency, \8k acv, no sdr. outbound was me sending 30-40 emails a week whenever i remembered, so in august i signed up for artisan thinking ava would just take it off my plate. 3 months later: cancelled. numbers first \6,300 contacts touched. replies sorted into three buckets: unsubscribe requests, less polite unsubscribe requests, and "is this an ai". meetings booked: 2. one no-showed, the other was ten minutes with someone who was never buying anything and i think just wanted to see what the thing was. pipeline: zero. the copy is the core problem. every opener is the same shape. "noticed you're growing the team at {company}" went to a company that had just announced layoffs. a different prospect screenshot it and replied "lol is this the ai" and honestly, fair. after that i was reviewing every send before it went out, which defeats the entire point of paying for it. other grumbles: lead data in our niche (ops people, mid-size logistics) was maybe 60-70% the actual right human. warmup took longer than promised. support replies fast but every answer is some version of "add more leads" . Because the problem was definitely volume and not the emails. Getting an actual price took three emails, which should've been the warning sign. What i'll give it: the bundled database isn't bad value if your icp sits in a well covered vertical. And the reply classification worked, it correctly filed all the angry ones as "not interested", which i suppose is a form of product-market fit. net: 20 minutes a day babysitting it, zero pipeline, and whatever 2,300 bad emails did to our domain rep, which i get to find out over the next few months. anyway. i'd genuinely like to believe one of these works. Has anyone actually had an ai sdr book them real meetings? Looked at 11x, krabat, a couple of others and honestly can't tell if any are worth it or if the whole category is a demo.
AI powered account research feels useless unless the scoring is tight, how are you deciding who gets touched first?
We get decent buyer data, but the hard part is still deciding which accounts deserve time today and which ones are just noise. I'm trying to tighten the scoring before our reps keep chasing shiny stuff again :/
Collection agency owners / B2B salespeople, what has actually worked for you for generating leads?
I own a collection agency and one of the biggest challenges I’m running into isn’t doing the actual work, it’s finding the businesses that need us at the right time. We’ve been trying just about everything, direct outreach, networking, referrals, social media, content, SEO, and even Google Ads, which so far has mostly felt like throwing money into a furnace. The frustrating part is knowing there are probably thousands of business owners dealing with unpaid invoices and aging receivables right now, but actually finding those people when they need help feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. I’m not looking to pitch anyone here. I’m genuinely curious from other owners or people doing B2B lead generation. What has actually worked for you? Cold email? LinkedIn? Referral partnerships? Industry associations? Paid ads? Content/SEO? Something completely different? I’m willing to put in the work. I’m just trying to figure out where that work is best spent instead of burning time and money on channels that don’t convert. Any advice or lessons learned would be appreciated.
Why expensive third party intent data platforms are failing mid-market sales teams
Majority of B2B teams sign $30k annual contracts for account based intent platforms expecting a clean list of companies ready to buy but the reality after six months of deployment is usually a dashboard full of vanity metrics. The platform flags an enterprise account as surging on a topic because three junior engineers browsed a generic article on a publisher site or a marketing contractor researched an industry keyword from a shared VPN. When an outbound team triggers aggressive outreach off those broad, probabilistic intent scores, the reps get immediate pushback and the prospect has no active project, no allocated budget and no idea why a vendor is pitching them an enterprise solution. The team burns domain reputation and sales morale chasing phantom demand that only existed as a statistical aggregation inside an intent vendor’s proprietary black box. High-conversion outbound engines have pivoted toward first-party, deterministic signals that leave zero room for ambiguity. Instead of buying third-party surging badges, teams track observable operational events: teams posting job listings with specific infrastructure requirements, leadership hiring sprees, verified software stack changes detected on subdomains, or direct interaction with technical documentation. When an outbound trigger is tied to a verifiable event rather than a vague browsing score, the outreach message writes itself and conversion rates reflect genuine timing.
Hi folks, I’m evaluating Lemlist as a potential replacement for Apollo. I like that whole platform is one price and you get all of it. I like that it’s highly integrated and AI native. And I really think the UI/UX and workflow are way better than Apollo. Also intent/signal data. We run Salesforce as our CRM and ZoomInfo for contact data in addition to Apollo. I have experience with salesloft and 6sense, but salesloft is a mess now and 6sense won’t sell anything under $75k/year. For context, I run outbound sales (and am sole Ae but we are hiring) for an 80 person msp running a play on companies from about 20-300 ftes. My question is have you used the tool, and does it at least equal Apollo of not better from a prospecting/execution perspective. Is it as easy to use as it looks, and is their data decent? toolreview? howdoIaddflair?
Basically needed help in outreaching US based clients for my B2B SaaS business. What are the ways I can convert the clients as design partner / early customers for my product? If you can get us some meetings I can pay for that as well.
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