I was speaking to a business owner recently about generating leads for his business.
He’d heard about AI-powered lead generation. He wasn’t buying it. “You can’t find the exact person I need to speak to inside a company,” he said. “That’s just not how it works.”
I told him we could. Not just the company. The specific individual. Their email, their number, the exact person he’d want in a room.
He didn’t believe me.
So I made him an offer. Give me four of your client company names, just the names and nothing else, and I’ll show you what we can find.
He agreed quickly. He was sure we’d come back with nothing.
Our system crawled his website and everything publicly available, mapped it against a proprietary framework across 70-80 parameters, and got a clear picture of exactly who he should be speaking to. We fed the four names in, the agent crawled each of their websites, and found one contact per company. Then we sent them through, one by one.
His reply to the first: “Correct.”
His reply to the second: “😳😁 100/100.”
And so on.
He was convinced. But that wasn’t the part that got to him.
What actually rattled him was when I mentioned that his competitors were probably already running something like this. Not to find new business, but to go after his existing clients. The people who already trusted him. The accounts he’d built over years.
The question isn’t whether this is possible. It’s whether you’re the one using it, or the one it’s being used on.
If you’re willing to share two client names, I’ll find the exact people you’re speaking to, and probably the same ones your competitors are already targeting. Just reply to this email.
See you next week. Dhruv
I’ve been building on the internet for two decades. I help founders and business owners actually implement AI.