I find them one by one, write the emails in your voice, and send them from your address. You approve every word.
Email meYou have a working product and an empty inbox. That is a distribution problem, and it does not fix itself while you ship features.
Most outreach fails in the same two places. The list is scraped, so nobody on it cares. And the second email never goes out, so the whole list gets spent on one cold hello.
I work the opposite way. Small lists, checked by hand, and a sequence that actually runs to the end.
Everyone says their lists are researched. Here is the unit of work, so you can judge it instead of trusting it. This entry is from a list I built this week, for a founder whose product refuses to send secrets to a model.
"Claude told me to revoke an API key I accidentally pasted."
He is not looking for a product. He already wrote the reason he needs one, in his own words, with a date and a link. That is the whole method: the opening line of his email is his sentence, not your pitch.
Every name is opened by hand and every quote is checked against the page it came from. If a quote does not hold up, the name is dropped rather than softened. A founder who receives a list and finds one invented name will never believe the other forty nine, and they would be right.
I read your product, then go looking for people who already care about the problem it solves. Every contact is opened by hand, checked against what that person actually publishes, and taken from their own site. No scrapers, no bought lists.
Each email opens with their work, not with your product. Five touches, written in your voice, grouped by segment because a researcher and a creator need different first lines. You read every one before it goes anywhere.
Everything sends from your address, so replies land in your inbox and the relationship stays yours. I handle timing and tracking. Nothing goes out that you have not approved.
I draft the responses within a day. The moment a thread turns into a real conversation, it is yours. You are the founder, and at some point they want to talk to you, not to your outbound.
$250 / 10 prospects
You pay at the end, and only if at least two of them reply. If nobody replies you owe nothing and you keep every email I wrote. Pre-revenue and even that feels like a risk? Say so, and we tie the payment to something further down your funnel instead.
$400 / next 15 to 20
No retainer, no minimum term, no contract to exit. If the first ten go nowhere, we stop there.
Write me a paragraph about your product and who you think should be using it. I will come back with the first names I would go after and whether I think this is worth doing at all. That part is free, and there is nothing to book or sign.
zafar@doneoutbound.com