Buying signal detection systems to fill B2B sales pipelines

I generate leads for B2B teams based on prospect buying signals and competitor vulnerabilities, replacing generic high volume outreach with quality, market intelligence-based prospecting

Market intelligence-based prospecting by someone with 17-years’ experience filling B2B sales pipelines…

My signal-monitoring lead-generation process replaces slow, manual research and generic outreach with a flow of close-fit prospects that are entering a buying window before your competitors know about them.

Using deeper and more customised signal monitors than those from the basic off-the-shelf tools, I’ll plug a flow of high intent opportunities straight into your pipeline.

Plug my intelligence-based lead-gen process into your existing GTM systems, or use it to replace generic templated outreach campaigns.

  • Use it as a more targeted add-on to your existing outreach activity

  • Reduce or eliminate manual workload from your sales team

Prospect & ICP / TAM Intelligence

Continuous monitoring of technographic and behavioural signals across your ICP to detect triggers and events that show prospects developing a need for your services.

In-house or outsourced outreach activity

I’ll manage and execute outreach activity for you - or my signal monitoring will provide detailed outreach-ready briefs on each opportunity for your team if preferred.

Real-Time Signal Monitoring

I build automated 'listening engines' to monitor your target accounts, detecting and alerting your sales team to specific buy-signals that are not available from off-the-shelf tools.

Competitor vulnerability intelligence

Continually monitor your competitors and their clients to spot emerging patterns or vulnerabilities across positioning, pricing, features, partnerships and custom signals.

My background

Starting as a programmer in the early dotcom era, I founded, scaled and exited my own digital agency.

Post-exit, I’ve worked with 50+ B2B tech firms supporting their growth and GTM challenges - and now focus on lead-generation through analysis of external market activity, competitor behaviour and account-level signals, to fuel high quality, targeted outreach.

My work combines founder-level commercial judgment with modern research automation and analysis workflows, designed to drive the highest-intent prospects into your sales pipeline.

Read more about my full background here »

Typical engagement, process and budgets…

01. Intelligence Scoping & Outcome Definition

Defining your ICP and the technical, commercial and strategic triggers that typically precede your ideal accounts developing a requirement for your services.

02. Signal Workflow Validation and Build

A targeted scan on a sample of your market to verify data is accessible and signals are accurate - to create a validated sample dataset for your review

03. Ongoing Intelligence Monitoring

Your target ICP continually monitored 24/7 for the custom, bespoke signals that identify your prospects experiencing challenges or initiatives that indicate an emerging requirement for your services.

04. Intelligence Delivery & Outreach

A flow of alerts to your sales team - or piped in to your GTM system. Bespoke one-to-one outreach carried out on your behalf, or outreach ‘briefs’ sent to your own sales team if preferred.

Typical budgets: These are agile, low-code builds designed to fit discretionary ops budgets - avoiding heavy procurement cycles.
Projects typically range from £2,500 to £7,500 with monthly monitoring and support typically in the region of £1,000 p/m

Recent market intelligence engineering case studies

  • Requirement:
    The sales team of this cloud computing consultancy needed to target businesses in the health sector that run Google Cloud Platform. GCP is backend infrastructure, so is invisible to standard lead-gen tools, so they weren’t able to to simply buy or ‘scrape’ lists of prospects.

    Solution:

    • A custom ‘technographic discovery pipeline’

    • It crawls all UK health sector businesses looking for GCP footprints

    • Industry / tech criteria can be changed to new audiences any time.

    • Tracks down decision-makers at matching companies (by job title)

    • Enriches contacts with email & LinkedIn data

    • Auto-inserts the prospects straight into the client’s CRM (Pipedrive).

    • Result: A continual stream of ‘ideal fit’ prospects in the CRM ready for the sales team’s ABM campaigns

  • Requirement: The partnerships team at one of the best-known ecommerce email marketing platforms wanted to identify ecommerce retailers using their competitor’s technology - but rather than reach out to the retailers, wanted to establish contact with the agencies behind those sites in order to build partner relationships at scale.

    Solution:

    • A custom potential partner data pipeline

    • It finds websites by specific CMSs (Shopify & Adobe Commerce)

    • Cross-references by specific email marketing technologies.

    • My system then finds the agencies the retailer works with

    • Then finds agency account director / owner names and contact data

    • Sends the results directly into my client’s CRM (Salesforce).

    • Result: Many hours of tedious, manual research for their partner marketing team is now fully automated.

  • Requirement:
    The UK division of a global hosting provider wanted a ‘competitor pricing and packaging intelligence’ system, which would give them a real-time, live view of hundreds of their key competitors’ pricing packages and feature offerings. As well as a breakdown of data by competitor, they also needed an aggregated real-time view of the ‘market averages’ for a range of specific features to help benchmark their own offering against their entire competitor market landscape.

    Solution:

    • A daily crawl of every one of their competitors’ websites

    • A scan of all features and pricing pages across the market

    • A custom process to ‘normalise’ a huge amount of un-structured data

    • Converts messy, raw text data into standardised data points

    • Automatically flags updates or outliers in the data

    • Result: A competitive matrix dashboard giving the product team a real-time view of the entire market landscape - both on a per-competitor basis and a global aggregated data view.

  • Requirement:
    A recruitment agency specialising in fintech engineering roles wanted to automatically monitor a list of over 200 of their ideal target clients for relevant new job postings - and receive an instant alert whenever their target accounts showed signals of hiring relevant roles.

    Solution:

    • 200+ ideal target clients setup in a signal monitoring system

    • System monitors their job posting activity, primarily via their ATS postings

    • Whenever a new vacancy is posted, the recruitment agency is alerted

    • Automatic contact-finding is triggered to source hiring manager’s email

    • Instant email and Slack alert to the agency, with job and contact details

    • Result: The client can proactively contact the right person at the target company with speculative CVs the instant a matching role is published, with no manual monitoring required

  • WorkingWith.io is a SaaS tool that gives users insight into the clients their competitors are working with.

    Users can scan their own list of competitors Or do a broad scan of their whole market to find their competitors and uncover who those competitors' clients are.

    The app then enriches the data with the full contact details of those clients as well as other insight like software platforms they use, ad technology and campaigns, industry sector data, etc.

    Solution: The best prospects are often those which already have budget assigned to similar services with a competitor, but may be drifting apart from or outgrowing them.

    www.workingwith.io lets users 'self serve' their competitor research to surface the best prospects that are already working with their competitors - data which is ideal for ABM or outreach marketing activity

If you want your GTM, lead-gen or RevOps processes engineered for leverage…

Get in touch to describe your requirements, or book a free discovery call.