I build the whole outbound machine: lists pulled from real buying signals, verified contacts, warmed sending infrastructure, copy that reads like a person wrote it, and the automations that catch every reply.
Hi there,
Most cold email fails before anyone reads it: stale lists, unverified addresses, burned domains. I fix that layer first, then write the emails.
Tell me who you sell to and I will map the list, the signal and the first email before we start.
Matt
A full outbound engine for an international events brand: audience sourcing, a 30,000-contact verification pass, and sending infrastructure built to carry the volume.
Double-digit reply rates held across a 390,000-email campaign.
Interested leads from 72K emails, 4.6% reply rate.
Deal opportunities in the first 35 days.
Genuine positive replies from 500 creators, 0 bounces. Beat the client's pilots in two other countries.
Opportunities from 8,418 sends to a list built off a 231K-row public license registry.
6,575 Meta ads scanned down to 86 verified decision-makers at 38 qualified companies. An 8-stage pipeline that runs weekly on its own.
At 1,233 brands actively running Meta ads, so every email opens with something true about their current ads.
Client names withheld. Figures come from campaign analytics and Upwork records.
High-volume lead gen up to 100K emails a month, help-desk and time-tracking tools, AI sales intelligence.
Recruiting independent retailers and stockists for consumer brands, wholesale outreach.
200-mailbox infrastructure builds, public-sector and MSP-partner lanes.
Advisors, insurance agents, fractional CFO and COO firms. Regulated copy, no loose claims.
Contractors, specialty trades, home improvement, construction tech, facilities.
Marketing agencies, podcast advertising, white-label outbound, creator economy apps.
Industrial distributors, CNC, plastics, metal fab, food and beverage, product studios.
Solar installers, restaurant groups, property management acquisitions, events, education.
The steps stay fixed. The signal, the data source and the angle change for each client.
Who has a reason to buy now: ads, hiring, funding, licenses.
Companies and decision-makers from the cheapest source that covers it.
Email waterfall plus strict verification. Catch-alls resolved, not guessed.
AI yes/no gates on ICP, title and size, spot-checked by hand.
Plain text, one idea per email, several angles tested at once.
Warmed mailboxes, ramped volume, every setting read back.
Replies classified and routed to Slack or CRM with a draft ready.
Finds brands actively spending on Meta ads, scores them, then finds and verifies the owner.
License registries, federal contract awards and trade registries turned into clean lead lists.
LinkedIn job posts, Kickstarter raises and funding rounds matched to the right buyer.
Accept-all domains usually get thrown away. A second verification pass recovers most of them safely.
A seed inbox subscribes to store newsletters and records where they land, plus SPF and DMARC faults.
Cloudflare Workers that tag replies, alert Slack, push leads into GoHighLevel and draft the answer.
Finds companies posting about hiring SDRs, qualifies the poster, writes a 3-touch sequence daily.
Workspace-wide teardown of infrastructure, data quality and copy, with a ranked fix list.
Scripts that lint copy for spam words and broken spintax and read back every sequence before a send.
No cold send before two weeks of warmup, four when the calendar allows.
Each mailbox climbs over three weeks, and only while bounce stays under 2%.
No unverified or raw catch-all address ever gets sent.
No tracking pixels, no links in email one, a clear opt-out on every sequence.
Numbers in copy are verified floors. If it cannot be proven, it does not ship.
Every sequence and setting is verified on the platform before launch and in the first hour.
I will come back with the signal I would use, how many contacts it produces, and the first email I would send. Contracts run through Upwork.
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