Instantly helped me sign my first cold email client (~$4.8K/mo)... even with my targeting completely off haha.
I was emailing companies hiring salespeople. The guy misunderstood my pitch, we jumped on a call anyway & he signed.
50+ of our agency clients went on to run their cold email on it.
Now it picks the leads for you too:
Lead Finder recommends prospects from 550M+ contacts (local businesses & creators included) - before you even search.
Here's how we'd get the most out of it:
1. Start from who already pays you
- It analyzes your offer + your best customers
- Then gives each prospect a match score: 61%, 82%, 98%...
(The launch video turns it into a fighting game character select screen, love it)
→ Same logic as our lookalike play: target companies similar to your best clients.
2. Buying signals first
- Live signals cover 85% of companies
- Lead scoring pushes the best leads to the top
→ Target the people who actually have a reason to reply.
3. Tight lists > broad lists
- Across the 1M+ emails we analyzed in Instantly, micro-lists of 500-1,000 greatly outperformed 100,000-contact blasts
- Blasting everything it finds just teaches inboxes to ignore you
4. Open on the signal
- You can enrich, research & write in the same place, no tool switching
- So instead of "hope all's well at [Company]", lead with it (my go-to: "Noticed you recently added [tool]...")
5. Value-first > ask-first
- Its AI agent can run outreach from the first email all the way to the booked call
- Keep it to 3 emails & offer something before asking for 15 min ("want me to send over a quick example deck?")
The search for your next customer is OVER 😎
Meet the new Instantly Lead Finder!
It proactively finds potential customers from 550M+ contacts ranging from:
- The world’s largest Enterprises
- Various SMBs
- Your Local businesses
- Over 50M Creators on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube
Also, it automatically spots who's showing buying signals and preps the suitable outreach for you 🙌
Go try it now:
instantly.ai/ai-agents/ai-cl…