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AI Lead Engine

A pipeline that finds, enriches, scores, and engages your ideal leads — with a dashboard you actually open.Forget "AI SDR" hype. This is a measurable lead-generation pipeline: signal sources you choose, enrichment that resolves the right person, scoring grounded in your actual ICP, and outreach drafts your team approves before anything sends. Personalized dashboard tracks conversion at every stage so you know what works and what doesn't.

price

from $2,200

timeline

4 weeks

cadence

one-time

scope

One-time / fixed scope

Apollo / ClayLinkedIn signalsEnrichment APIsLLM scoringCRM syncCustom dashboard
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from $2,2004 weeksBuildTargeted outreach without spam
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01// why this exists

Find the right buyers, learn what they care about, write outreach you’d be proud to send.

Most "AI lead gen" is just a faster spam cannon. We build something different: a pipeline that ingests your ICP, finds matching companies and people, enriches with public-only signal, scores fit, and drafts outreach that goes through YOUR approval queue before a single message is sent. Nothing leaves the system without you saying yes. Every send is logged, every reply is routed, every metric is honest.

BYOK

Pay LLM providers direct — no markup on tokens

Eval harness

Regressions caught in CI before they reach production

Spend cap

Hard ceiling you set — no surprise OpenAI invoices

Human-in-loop

Approval queue on every action that touches money or customers

02// how it works

The architecture, end to end.

No black boxes. Here's the actual shape of the system you get — with the guardrails, eval loops, and human approvals where they belong.

Lead Engine pipeline

Signal → enrichment → scoring → your approval → send.

trainingapprovedYour ICPindustry · size · rolePublic signalsjobs · funding · newsYour CRMpast wins/lossesEnrichmentpublic sources onlyFit scoretuned to your winsOutreach draftcited reasonsApproval queueyou say yesSendemail · LinkedInReply routinghot → humanDashboardmetrics · retros
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// where this fits

Real use cases we ship.

  • 01

    B2B services & consulting

    Find decision-makers at companies showing buying signals — not the whole TAM.

  • 02

    Vertical SaaS

    Trigger-based outreach when your ideal customer hires for a role or hits a milestone.

  • 03

    Agency new business

    Surface accounts whose stack or hiring patterns match your bread and butter.

  • 04

    Account-based plays

    Target list of 50? Get rich profiles, custom angles, and approval-gated touches.

04// what you walk away with

The outcome, not just the output.

  • 01Pipeline of pre-qualified leads matching your ICP, refreshed automatically
  • 02Personalized outreach drafts you approve before they send (no auto-spam)
  • 03Dashboard with stage-by-stage conversion: signal → contact → engaged → meeting → close
  • 04Honest signal of which sources, segments, and messages actually work
  • 05CRM sync so nothing falls through the cracks
// agent flow

How the agent thinks.

The decision graph behind the engagement. Inputs, branches, and the point where a human stays in the loop.

AI Lead Engine FlowFirmographic and intent signals feed an enrichment service; a scoring agent ranks the leads and a personalization agent crafts outreach for parallel email and LinkedIn delivery, with replies routed back to a handler.FirmographicApollo / ClearbitIntent SignalsG2 / 6senseICP Filtersvertical · revenueEnrichmentmerge + dedupeScoring Agentfit × intent → scorePersonalizationhook · proof · CTAEmail Sendwarm domainLinkedIn Sendconn · messageReply Handlerclassify + routesyncparallelreplyENGAGEMENT FEEDBACK → RESCORE
// your command center

The dashboard you actually use.

Every flagship engagement ships with a control panel — live activity, eval pass rate, spend cap, and an approval queue you can act on from your phone.

Live · Production

Lead Engine — Pipeline

Your weekly pipeline review, but always live.

Qualified leads / wk
124
+18 vs last wk
Approval rate
78%
you trust the drafts
Reply rate
14.2%
+3.1pp
Booked meetings
11
this week
Live activity
last 5 min
  • 5m12 new outreach drafts ready for your review (priority: Acme, Vertex, Lume)
  • 14mReply from Lume CFO — marked HOT, routed to Sage
  • 32mEnrichment found 47 new ICP matches from last week’s funding events
  • 1hSend batch: 8 messages sent (you approved at 9:14am)
  • 2hScore model recalibrated on last 30 days of wins/losses
  • 3hBounce: 2 invalid emails removed from queue automatically
Eval pass rate88%
42 / 44 test cases passed · last run 12m ago
Monthly spend$214 / $800
Auto-pause at cap. Slack alert at 80%.
Awaiting approval12
  • Refund request > $250 — review
  • Outbound email batch — 12 ready
  • 1 more queued
// cost forecast

Estimate your monthly run cost.

Cost estimator

Forecast your monthly lead cost

Includes enrichment + scoring + drafting. Email/LinkedIn sending stays in your tools.

Volume1,500 leads / mo
20010,000
Base infra
$145 / mo
Hosting · observability · evals
Variable (LLM + tools)
$270 / mo
≈ $0.18 per leads
Total monthly
$415 / mo
Forecast — actual capped in prod
Recommended monthly cap: $650 — we set this hard ceiling in production. Agent auto-pauses when hit, with a Slack alert at 80%. You raise it only if you want to.
Estimate uses average token costs and observed agent behavior in similar deployments. Final budget is set with you during scoping and enforced with a hard monthly cap. BYOK supported — pay your provider directly, we don't mark up tokens.
05// methodology

How the engagement actually runs.

Concrete phases, concrete artifacts. You always know where we are and what comes next.

  1. Week 1

    ICP + signal design

    Define your ICP precisely. Identify which signals predict good fits (job changes, funding, hiring, tech stack changes, intent). Pick the sources we'll use.

    ICP rubricSignal source listScoring criteria
  2. Week 2

    Pipeline build

    Wire the signal sources, enrichment layer, scoring logic, and CRM sync. First end-to-end run on test data.

    Pipeline liveCRM sync wiredFirst lead batch
  3. Week 3

    Outreach + dashboard

    Build the personalized outreach draft generator and approval queue. Stand up the custom dashboard with stage funnel + source attribution.

    Outreach generatorApproval queueCustom dashboard
  4. Week 4

    Pilot + tuning

    Soft launch with controlled volume, monitor scoring accuracy, tune outreach quality. Documented playbook + training + 30 days Slack support.

    Production pipelinePlaybookTraining sessionSlack channel
// track record

Receipts, not promises.

4 weeks
Median delivery · spec to first leads
Approval-gated
Outreach quality · no auto-spam
$200–$800
Typical tooling / mo · small business volume
06// scope

Concrete artifacts you keep — and what we leave out.

Working code, written docs, dashboards your team owns. We also list what this engagement deliberately does not cover, so scope is honest before you sign.

// deliverables
  • Signal sources wired (LinkedIn job changes, funding events, intent data, custom triggers)
  • Enrichment layer resolving the right contact + verified email + role context
  • LLM-based scoring grounded in your historical wins (or a starter ICP rubric)
  • Personalized outreach draft generator (not template-stuffer)
  • Approval queue — nothing sends without a human review
  • CRM sync to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, or sheet of choice
  • Custom dashboard: source attribution, stage funnel, message performance, cost-per-meeting
  • Monthly performance report with iteration recommendations
  • 30 days post-launch tuning + Slack support
// not included
  • Cold calling automation (use AI Voice Agent for that)
  • Email warmup or domain reputation services (use a dedicated provider)
  • Replacement of a human SDR — this augments, doesn't replace
// add-ons

Extend the engagement.

Custom signal source

+$600

Build a custom signal source beyond the base set (e.g., scraping a niche directory, monitoring a specific event feed).

Multi-channel outreach

+$480

Add LinkedIn message + SMS as outreach channels alongside email.

A/B testing framework

+$360

Built-in A/B testing for outreach messages with statistical significance reporting.

Sample deliverables

See the artifact, not the marketing.

Real shape, redacted content. Pick a tab to preview what ships.

Sample Audit Report

Twelve-page audit excerpt: scope, methodology, findings ranked by impact, and a prioritized fix list. Redacted.

Sample provided after intro call · ask sage@sageideas.dev

SAMPLE · REDACTED
How we reduce risk

Money-back if you're not happy in week 1

Reset the engagement before momentum builds. No invoices to dispute, no awkward email.

Async-first, weekly demos, no surprises

You see exactly what shipped each week. No status meetings to attend, no reports to chase.

Code is yours from day 1 — no lock-in

Your repo, your infra, your accounts. We work in your stack. You can take the work in-house at any time.

07// questions

Honest answers.

01Won't this just spam people?
No — by design. Every outreach draft goes through an approval queue before sending. The agent drafts; a human reviews and clicks send (or rejects). You control quality, the agent saves you research time.
02How is this different from Clay or Apollo?
Clay and Apollo are great tools. This wires them together with your scoring logic, your CRM, and a dashboard that shows what's working. It's the layer on top of those tools — not a replacement.
03How much do leads cost?
Depends on signal sources and enrichment volume. Typical small-business pipelines run $200–$800/mo in tooling costs (Clay, enrichment APIs, LLM). We give you a forecast in week 1.
04What if my ICP is hard to find?
Niche ICPs are where this shines. Generic ICPs ("SMB B2B") are easy and crowded. Specific ICPs ("HVAC contractors with 5–25 trucks in the Sun Belt who switched ERPs in the last 12 months") are where signal-based pipelines beat list-buying every time.
05Can I use this with my existing SDR team?
Yes — that's the ideal use case. Your SDRs spend less time on research and more time on calls. The pipeline feeds them pre-qualified, pre-researched leads with draft outreach.
// engage

Ready to scope Lead Engine?

Book a 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck. We'll either confirm fit and send a proposal, or tell you straight that this isn't the right move.

automation system

From offer to operating system.

AI Lead Engine is presented as a real engagement, not a generic service page: the surface, backend shape, delivery artifacts, and conversion path are all visible before the first call.

Scope Lead Engine

price

from $2,200

timeline

4 weeks

tier

flagship

Living architecture

Scope ⇄ Ship

The page now exposes how the engagement moves from buyer pain to production artifact, then into measurement and next-step routing.

Scope Lead Engine
  1. 01ICP + signal designDefine your ICP precisely. Identify which signals predict good fits (job changes, funding, hiring, tech stack changes, intent). Pick the sources we'll use.
  2. 02Pipeline buildWire the signal sources, enrichment layer, scoring logic, and CRM sync. First end-to-end run on test data.
  3. 03Outreach + dashboardBuild the personalized outreach draft generator and approval queue. Stand up the custom dashboard with stage funnel + source attribution.
  4. 04Pilot + tuningSoft launch with controlled volume, monitor scoring accuracy, tune outreach quality. Documented playbook + training + 30 days Slack support.

Conversion path

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    Confirm the real automation constraint, current surface, and business goal before writing code.

  2. 02

    Design the system

    Turn the offer into screens, data, workflows, ownership boundaries, and a measurable delivery plan.

  3. 03

    Ship the artifact

    Deliver Lead Engine as working code, docs, dashboards, or launch assets your team can actually use.

  4. 04

    Route the next move

    Decide whether the work becomes a one-time delivery, a care plan, or a larger product build.

Proof assets

AI Lead Engine service visual

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Service proof visual

Add a real screenshot, deliverable preview, or dashboard capture from a shipped engagement when approved.

pending real proof
Jason Teixeira, founder of Sage Ideas

Verified asset

Founder/operator photo

Real founder photo reinforcing principal-led delivery.

live

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Client quote or logo

Add only permissioned testimonials or logos tied to this service category.

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