The outbound engine replaces manual list building, inbox warm-up, and personalization with a single n8n pipeline. Prospects are sourced from Apollo and Sales Navigator, enriched, scored against ICP, then contacted across email and LinkedIn with Claude-generated personalization. Every reply is routed back into the CRM.
Cold email infrastructure uses dedicated domains with 2–3 warmed mailboxes each, full SPF/DKIM/DMARC records, and a 14-day warm-up before outreach starts. LinkedIn outreach sequences connection requests and follow-ups across operator accounts with automatic handoff to email on engagement. Reply routing classifies every inbound message.
Clients own the workflows, the inboxes, the domains, and the CRM data, nothing is locked inside a vendor tool. Typical builds ship in 14–21 business days.
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Outbound Engine.
Sourcing, sending, routing, all on one wire
The engine that sources, enriches, personalizes, sends, and routes replies across email and LinkedIn on workflows you own. Five moving parts wired together on one n8n instance, with the inboxes, the domains, and the CRM data on your side of the fence.
Ships · 14–21 daysStack · Claude · Instantly · HeyReach +3Runs on · your infrastructure
A streaming log from one installed pipeline. Each row is one event the agent classified live.
Live · outbound feed
8 events / min14:32:08HOTReply from Sarah Chen · Acme Corp · routed to AE Slack
14:31:44SENTOpener drafted for Marcus Webb · Cortex Health · Claude v4 · sent
14:31:22ROUTEDMeeting booked · Tuesday 10 AM · Cal.com logged to HubSpot
14:30:57SENTLinkedIn connect accepted · Priya Rao · Northwind Advisors
14:30:11HOTReply from David Ng · Orion Capital · "yes, let’s talk" · routed
14:29:48BOUNCEDDomain warmup paused · mailbox #2 reputation <97 · rotating
14:29:12SENT14 new prospects scored A+ · Apollo enrichment complete · queued
14:28:34ROUTEDOut-of-office recycled · Jenna Torres · 3-day nurture queue
14:32:08HOTReply from Sarah Chen · Acme Corp · routed to AE Slack
14:31:44SENTOpener drafted for Marcus Webb · Cortex Health · Claude v4 · sent
14:31:22ROUTEDMeeting booked · Tuesday 10 AM · Cal.com logged to HubSpot
14:30:57SENTLinkedIn connect accepted · Priya Rao · Northwind Advisors
14:30:11HOTReply from David Ng · Orion Capital · "yes, let’s talk" · routed
14:29:48BOUNCEDDomain warmup paused · mailbox #2 reputation <97 · rotating
14:29:12SENT14 new prospects scored A+ · Apollo enrichment complete · queued
14:28:34ROUTEDOut-of-office recycled · Jenna Torres · 3-day nurture queue
Before Benian · typical weak outbound
Why the numbers move.
Four pipeline metrics before and after a rebuild. The "before" column is a typical un-optimized outbound baseline we see in scoping calls, not a published industry average — the lift is what changes under sequenced, ICP-tuned, deliverability-clean outreach.
Benian build
Industry baseline
Email reply rate (cold outbound)% of sends
LinkedIn response rate (1st-degree connect)% of requests
Reply-to-meeting conversion% of replies
Cost per booked meeting (blended)lower is better
Pipeline
Five stages, one engine.
Nothing escapes the next stage until the previous one is clean. No enriched data means no send. No routed reply means no sales handoff.
ICP
Enrich
Personalize
Send
Route reply
What's in the box
What the engine actually does.
Daily pulls from Apollo, Sales Navigator, and public directories. Every row is deduped, enriched, and scored against your ICP. Unqualified rows never reach an inbox.
ApolloSales NavClay
Cold email that stays deliverable
Dedicated domains, two to three warmed mailboxes per domain, full SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and a 14-day warm-up before outreach. Sending caps tuned to keep reputation clean month after month.
InstantlySmartlead
Connection requests, follow-ups, and reply detection run across operator accounts. The second a prospect replies, they get handed to email, Slack, or a human, whichever path is set.
HeyReachPhantombuster
Funding rounds, role changes, stack additions, and website activity narrow the list before a single send. Cold lists stop feeling cold because the timing does the heavy lifting.
ClearbitBuiltWith
Not templated mail merge. Claude reads each prospect’s recent posts, company news, and case studies, then drafts an actual sentence that references a real thing they did.
Claude
Every inbound message is classified. Positive replies land on a calendar. Questions go to a rep. Out-of-office recycles. Everything logs to the CRM with the full thread attached.
HubSpotCal.comSlack
Integrations
Plugs into your stack.
Sourcing & sending
20+ApolloSales NavInstantlySmartleadCustom SMTPWarm-up
CRM & handoff
40+HubSpotSalesforcePipedriveCloseCal.comSlack
Next step
Scope this build.
Tell us the stack you want this wired to. We'll come back with the scope, the timeline, and, if the math doesn't work, say so before you sign anything.
Scope this build