Outbound
Cap at 500. Stagger 100 week one
Sales Nav or Crunchbase into Clay. Stop at 500–1,000 contacts. Claygent writes the line. Smartlead sends 15–20 a day. Week one is 100 people, not the whole list.
The loop
- 01Build the list in Clay, not a 10k dumpSales Nav or Crunchbase companies in. Waterfall enrich. Cap at 500–1,000 qualified contacts. That is the TAM for this run.
- 02Write one Claygent line per rowA personalization column, not a mail-merge token. If the line is generic, the row is not ready.
- 03Seed-test the inboxes firstGmail, Outlook, Yahoo before launch. Do not scale a sequence that already dies in the seed test.
- 04Send the 4-step at 15–20 a daySmartlead: opener, +3 value, +7 ask, +14 breakup. Fifteen to twenty sends per inbox per day. Not a blast.
- 05Stagger 100 week one. Route the restFirst week is 100 contacts, then scale. n8n: interested reply → CRM deal + Slack. Hard bounce → remove from every campaign.
Most $300 stacks die on list size. CheeTung’s version is a cap. Five hundred to a thousand is the list. A hundred is week one.
The interesting constraint is the stagger, not the sequencer. n8n only earns its keep after the list is small enough to watch.
