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Prospection, AI
and sales copilots.

Written for founders who sell their own product, SDRs tired of corporate BS, and B2B teams who want the real thing. Published regularly.

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founder-led
9 min ·May 11, 2026 new

Slack, Discord, Indie Hackers: the B2B dark pool nobody scans

While everyone is scraping LinkedIn, the real buying conversations are happening in private Slacks and Discord servers that no sales team is watching.

#prospecting#communities#slack
linkedin
10 min ·May 11, 2026 new

5 LinkedIn signals that flag a buyer closing in 30 days

Some prospects are three weeks away from signing a contract and they're broadcasting it openly on LinkedIn. Most sales reps aren't looking in the right place.

#linkedin#buying signals#outbound
x-facebook
12 min ·May 11, 2026 new

How to spot decision-makers in a Facebook thread (without being weird about it)

Facebook Groups has more active B2B buyers than most teams realize, and almost no one knows how to read the signals properly.

#facebook#decision-makers#icp
reply-craft
10 min ·May 11, 2026 new

Replying to a thread without sounding like a sales rep: 7 rules

Most replies to Reddit or LinkedIn threads get ignored in three seconds flat. The reason is almost never the product. It's how you show up.

#reddit#reply#prospecting
linkedin
11 min ·May 11, 2026 new

LinkedIn switch moments: the 72-hour window most reps miss

A job change, a promotion, a tool migration: these LinkedIn signals have a shelf life of about three days before the window closes and your competitors flood in.

#linkedin#triggers#job change
x-facebook
10 min ·May 11, 2026 new

'Looking for a tool to X' on X: the signal your competitors ignore

Every day, thousands of prospects announce their buying intent publicly on X, and most sales teams are busy A/B testing subject lines instead.

#twitter#intent search#b2b prospecting
reply-craft
9 min ·May 10, 2026

'I saw your post on Reddit' converts 5x better than cold email

A single line with real context beats a five-step automated sequence every time, and most sales teams still haven't figured out why.

#warm outreach#cold email#reddit
reddit
10 min ·May 10, 2026

Why Reddit beats LinkedIn for finding early adopters in 2026

LinkedIn is full of people performing success. Reddit is still the place where real problems get asked out loud, in real time, by people ready to buy.

#reddit#early adopters#b2b prospecting
ai-copilot
9 min ·May 10, 2026

7 tested prompts to turn a thread into a reply that closes

Most replies on Reddit or LinkedIn are too generic to convince anyone. Here is exactly what changes when you structure the prompt correctly.

#prompts#conversion#reddit
linkedin
9 min ·May 10, 2026

LinkedIn 'I'm sick of X' posts: the goldmine nobody's mining

Every week, hundreds of your future customers post exactly why they're about to switch solutions. Almost nobody replies with anything useful.

#linkedin#prospecting#buying intent
ai-copilot
10 min ·May 10, 2026

5 rules for AI-drafted Reddit replies that don't read like AI

AI can write your Reddit reply in 8 seconds. Reddit can smell the bullshit in 3. Here's how to not get torched.

#reddit#ai#prospecting
reddit
10 min ·May 10, 2026

Public comment vs Reddit DM: what actually converts

Most founders spam Reddit DMs and wonder why nobody replies. The answer is in public comments, but there's a specific order of operations you're probably skipping.

#reddit#dm#prospecting
case-study
8 min ·May 7, 2026

How we process 100k threads/day without blowing up

We nearly wrecked the whole thing three times before landing on an architecture that actually holds. Here's what we learned building it.

#architecture#scale#infrastructure
reddit
11 min ·May 7, 2026

How to find 10 prospects/week on Reddit from scratch

Reddit isn't a traditional sales channel, which is exactly why it still works for founders who know how to use it.

#reddit#prospecting#zero-to-one
ai-copilot
10 min ·May 5, 2026

Why your AI SDR sounds like a bot (and 3 fixes)

Most AI SDRs generate messages nobody wants to read, not because the AI is broken, but because you're configuring it wrong from day one.

#ai sdr#cold email#outbound
ai-copilot
11 min ·May 5, 2026

AI copilot vs autopilot: who actually keeps the wheel in sales

Letting AI run your outreach end-to-end sounds great until it messages a prospect whose company just shut down and you weren't in the loop to stop it.

#ai copilot#b2b prospecting#intent data
founder-led
9 min ·May 5, 2026

How much time a founder should spend prospecting

Most founders stop prospecting too early, then act surprised when their pipeline is empty six months later.

#founder-led sales#prospecting#founder time
linkedin
8 min ·May 2, 2026

LinkedIn in 2026: 90% of your messages aren't even opened

LinkedIn message open rates have collapsed, and most sales teams are doing exactly the things guaranteed to make it worse.

#linkedin#prospecting#cold outreach
founder-led
12 min ·May 1, 2026

From Reddit post to signed deal: the founder-led funnel that replaces your SDR

A founder answering Reddit posts from prospects closes faster and cheaper than a full SDR team. Here's the funnel nobody talks about seriously.

#founder-led#reddit#funnel
intent-signals
11 min ·May 1, 2026

Real buying signal vs false positive: how to tell in 10 seconds

Half the 'intent signals' you're tracking are noise dressed up as pipeline — knowing how to sort them fast is the actual skill worth developing.

#intent signals#scoring#b2b prospecting
intent-signals
9 min ·May 1, 2026

Your competitor's angry users are your next customers

When someone publicly complains about a competitor's tool, they've already mentally checked out. You just need to show up before they start Googling alternatives.

#intent signals#competitor churn#reddit prospecting
reddit
10 min ·May 1, 2026

The 20-subreddit map that actually fills your B2B pipeline

Most founders have no idea their prospects are describing their exact problems on Reddit, in public, with zero corporate filter — here's how to use that.

#reddit#b2b pipeline#prospecting
reply-craft
11 min ·Apr 30, 2026

The 'comment with edit' format that outconverts DMs

A public comment followed by a one-line edit at the bottom beats cold DMs on almost every metric, and most sales people have never tried it.

#comment#prospecting#reddit
reddit
11 min ·Apr 30, 2026

Prospecting on Reddit without getting banned: the 2026 playbook

Reddit is probably the best place to find warm prospects in 2026, and almost everyone is doing it completely wrong.

#reddit#prospecting#moderation
founder-led
10 min ·Apr 30, 2026

Build in public on Reddit: 50 beta users in 2 weeks

Most founders post their build in public updates into a void. Here's what actually worked to recruit 50 beta users in under two weeks, with zero ad spend.

#build in public#reddit#beta
ai-copilot
10 min ·Apr 28, 2026

5 rules for AI-drafted Reddit replies that don't sound like AI

AI can write a Reddit reply in 4 seconds. The problem is Reddit figures that out in 3.

#reddit#ai#prospecting
x-facebook
11 min ·Apr 28, 2026

Facebook Groups for B2B: where nobody is prospecting

While everyone fights over the same LinkedIn real estate, thousands of decision-makers are asking buying questions in Facebook Groups that your competitors haven't opened in years.

#facebook groups#b2b prospecting#buying intent
case-study
8 min ·Apr 25, 2026

Why we built on Reddit first (not LinkedIn)

Everyone told us to start with LinkedIn. We tested Reddit instead, and the signal/noise gap was bigger than we expected.

#reddit#prospecting#product decisions
reddit
10 min ·Apr 25, 2026

Reddit karma: how much you need before pitching

Most founders pitch too early on Reddit and get banned before they build anything. Here's what the karma number actually means, and what it doesn't.

#reddit#karma#prospecting
linkedin
10 min ·Apr 25, 2026

Commenting on the right LinkedIn posts beats 100 InMails

Most sales teams track InMail volume like it's a proxy for effort. It's not. It's just a fast way to get ignored at scale.

#linkedin#prospecting#outreach
strategy
11 min ·Apr 24, 2026

Own 1,000 companies in a niche. Stop chasing a 1M TAM.

Founders obsessed with total addressable market size often end up dominating nothing. Here's what I keep seeing in the companies that actually win.

#niche#icp#tam
prospection
10 min ·Apr 24, 2026

Reddit: the prospect goldmine nobody's tapping yet

While everyone fights over LinkedIn real estate, thousands of prospects are publicly describing their exact problem on Reddit and waiting for someone to respond.

#reddit#social listening#prospecting
prospection
10 min ·Apr 23, 2026

Your ICP Is Probably Wrong. Here's How to Tell.

Most B2B teams build their ICP once, treat it like scripture, and spend the next 18 months prospecting the wrong people with the right message.

#icp#b2b prospecting#targeting
ai
11 min ·Apr 23, 2026

1,000 personalized emails in 1 hour: here's what actually works

Everyone claims AI can personalize outreach at scale. Most teams get it completely wrong, burn the budget, and blame the tool.

#cold email#personalization#ai
sales-ops
10 min ·Apr 23, 2026

Your CRM Is a Graveyard. 5 Hygiene Rules to Bring It Back to Life

80% of the data in your CRM is wrong or dead. Here's how to stop selling to ghosts and start closing real deals.

#crm#data hygiene#salesforce
prospection
11 min ·Apr 23, 2026

Intent Data: Why 90% Is Useless and How to Spot the 10% Worth Gold

Most intent signals are noise. Here's how to identify the rare ones that actually signal a buyer ready to move — and build a system around them.

#intent data#signals#prospection