Sales prospecting tool
Describe your buyer. Get a list of people to contact, and a first email for each.
What is a sales prospecting tool?
A tool that finds people likely to buy from you, and helps you write to each of them.
Prospecting is the slow part of selling: working out who to contact, then writing a first email that doesn’t read like it was sent to a thousand people.
Here you describe your buyer and what you sell. You get a list of real people, and a short first email to each that opens with something true about them.
How it works
Describe your buyer
Who buys from you and what you sell, in a sentence or two. Add your customers and anyone who asked not to be contacted, so they're left out.
Get the list
Chatly finds matching people from public LinkedIn profiles, and says how well each one fits and why.
Approve the first emails
Each person gets a short first email that opens with something true about them. Nothing sends until you approve it.
Hannah Price
VP Finance, Ledgerly
- Why she fits
- Runs finance at a 240-person software company in the UK.
- Something true to open with
- Joined Ledgerly in MarchFrom her LinkedIn profile
ToHannah Price
SubjectSupplier invoices at Ledgerly
Hi Hannah,
Congrats on the move to Ledgerly in March. New finance leads often find supplier invoices eat the first week of every month.
We help teams like yours pay them in an afternoon. Worth a short call next week?
Every first line is something true about the person. If there’s nothing true to say, there’s no draft.
Things you can ask
A list and first emails
Finance leaders at UK software companies with 100 to 500 people. Pitch our invoice-payments tool.
People to contact, and a first email each.
Try itYour first fifty
Find 50 boutique gym owners in Bristol, Leeds and Glasgow and write each a first email.
Fifty drafts, each about their own business.
Try itLeave out who you shouldn't contact
Build the list for HR directors in London, leaving out our customers and anyone who opted out.
Only people you're allowed to write to.
Try itWrite in your own voice
Write first emails to these prospects in the style of this email I sent: Paste it
Drafts that sound like you.
Try itFresh reasons to reach out
Which of my prospects changed jobs or posted about month-end close this month?
A true reason to write to each, today.
Try itA list for each salesperson
Split these prospects by area for 4 salespeople, with drafts for each.
One list and set of drafts per person.
Try it
What you get
You ask: “Finance leaders at UK software companies with 100 to 500 people. Pitch our invoice-payments tool.”
Where each email stands
Waiting for your OK1
Hannah PriceApproved3
Marcus Bell
Aisha Rahman
James WhitakerSent1
Sofia MarinoNo draft1
Daniel Osei
Who it’s for
UK finance leaders · First emailsGym ownersABCDEFGHIJKLM1NameStudioCityFitFirst line2Leah GrantForge StrengthBristol92%Opening a second Forge site this spring.3Callum ReidNorthside BarreGlasgow88%Five years of Northside, from one room.4Nadia HaddadPulse Cycle ClubLeeds85%Your timetable post about waitlists.5Ben AshworthIronbark GymLeeds81%Coaching and running Ironbark full time.6Erin WalshTidal YogaBristol77%Saw Tidal added reformer classes.Fifty openers draftedEach about the person's own studioFounders doing their own sales
Go from a rough idea of your buyer to fifty named people and fifty first emails in an afternoon, then send the ones that read right.
UK finance leaders · First emailsTeam pipelineABCDEFGHIJKLMN1RepAreaProspectsApprovedRepliesReply rate2MayaUK North6048714.6%3JonUK South6052611.5%4PriyaDACH554137.3%5LeoNordics5044511.4%6Team2251852111.4%Approved and repliedApprovedRepliesMayaJonPriyaLeo21 replies this week185 emails, every one approvedSales teams filling the week
Each salesperson gets a list and first drafts for their area, so the hours go into conversations, not into finding names.
UK finance leaders · First emailsClient: Lumen HRABCDEFGHIJKLM1NameTitleCompanyFitCheck2Olivia BrennanHead of PeopleSaltmarsh Media90%Include3Ravi KapoorHR DirectorGreyfield Labs87%Include4Megan ShawChief People OfficerHarbourline85%Left out: a customer5Lucas PerrinPeople Ops LeadTinsel & Thread78%Include6Zara AhmedHead of TalentCorvid Health74%Left out: opted outTwo left outA customer and an opt-outAgencies selling for clients
Build a list for each client, with that client's customers left out, and drafts in the client's voice for them to approve.
Frequently asked questions
What is a sales prospecting tool?
It finds people who match your ideal buyer and helps you start a conversation with them. Here that means a list of people from public LinkedIn profiles, and a first email for each.
Where do the people come from?
From public LinkedIn profiles, read through Apify at a steady pace. Each row links to the profile it came from, so you can check the person before you write.
Does it find email addresses?
No. It doesn't guess or collect private email addresses. Bring the addresses you already have, from your sales tools or a lead enrichment step, and the drafts are matched to them.
Will the emails sound automated?
Each one opens with a real detail from the person's profile, and follows your own sample email and length. You read every draft before it sends, so you can cut anything that sounds off.
Does it send the emails by itself?
Only after you approve them. Drafts wait in an inbox (through AgentMail), and you approve them one at a time or all together once you've read them.
One prompt in.
Real work out.
Describe your buyer. Get a list of people to contact, and a first email for each.
Chatly on your phone and your Mac
Chatly for iPhone
Ask for the list on the train, check the first rows, and work it from your phone. Every list you build here is on your phone.
Download on the App Store
Chatly for Mac
Lead lists on your desktop, with the CRM exports and spreadsheets you already have to hand.
Download for macOS