For sales orgs done losing on timing

Your reps aren't dialing through bad leads. They're dialing through old news.

Permits, expansions, and leadership moves hit the public record weeks before the security spec is locked. By the time those projects reach your list, the conversation is already happening — with somebody else. Blacksmith puts your team on the wire the moment a permit drops — quietly, in the background, while your reps sleep.

Built by a former integratorFounding 250 onboarding cohort
Sound familiar?

Three weeks in your sales org. You've probably lived all of them.

If none of these scenes ring true, Blacksmith isn't for you. If two of them do, the rest of the page is going to land.

Tuesday, 2:14pm.

Your AE walks out of a site visit you should have won. Turns out the spec was locked three weeks ago — by the integrator who heard about the build the week the permit dropped.

Friday, 4:38pm.

Your BDR manager flags that two of your reps cold-called the same parent company this week. Different branches, different playbooks, zero coordination.

Sunday, 9:51pm.

You’re rebuilding the prospect list for Monday — again. The permits your team chased in March are already broken ground and trim-out. The list never quite catches up.

The reframe

Your win rate isn't a sales problem.
It's a timing problem.

Permits hit the public record six to eight weeks before the security scope is locked. The integrator who reads the project the week the permit lands wins the walkthrough, the proposal, and the spec. Whoever shows up in week six is bidding against a relationship that already exists.

Your reps aren't losing because their pitch is bad. They're losing because by the time the lead lands on their list, the conversation has already happened. The point of Blacksmith isn't a better email. The point is to put you in the room first.

From permit to spec
  • T + 0

    Permit filed publicly.

  • T + 4 minYou

    Blacksmith puts the project in your queue, scored and enriched.

  • T + 1–2 weeksYou

    Your AE has had the first walkthrough.

  • T + 4–6 weeksThem

    Most outbound finds the project. The conversation already exists.

  • T + 6–8 weeks

    Security scope is locked. The spec belongs to whoever was there first.

What ships in the box

Six features. Six places they pay back.

Every feature is on the trial. Nothing sits behind a higher tier. Here's what each one does — and what it tends to be worth in dollars, time, or win rate.

Signal layer

Permits, news, expansions, M&A, and leadership moves piped from public records the moment they file.

Median four-minute lag from filing to scored entry in your queue. Enriched with parent-company and contact data via web-search-enabled LLMs. Deduped against the accounts already in your pipeline.

3–5×
Win rate when first to the project
4 min
Filing → your queue
18+
Public sources, zero scraping

AI outbound generator

Three subject lines and a ≤120-word body per send — every one of them naming the actual permit, expansion, or hire.

JSON-shaped output. If the agent can’t name a trigger, it doesn’t draft. Tone calibrated to your workspace voice during onboarding. Your reps approve every send.

5–10×
Reply rate vs. generic cold
120w
Hard cap on body copy
3
A/B subjects per draft

Per-workspace lead scoring

A 0–100 score with a one-paragraph rationale on every lead, against a rubric you tune.

25 leads per batch, four-way concurrent execution. Cannabis dispensary licenses score differently from K–12 bond cycles. The rubric recalibrates as new signals attach to an account.

~60%
Of the list silenced as low-fit
25
Leads per concurrent batch
100%
Reasoning shown inline

Sender infrastructure, on day one

Five warmed sender domains provisioned for you. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX wired against the Ionos Developer API at activation.

Domain rotation, per-mailbox daily caps, reputation monitoring, and auto-pause on bounce spikes all live with the agents. Your primary domain stays clean. Your reps never touch DNS.

Day 1
Send-ready · vs. 6-week warmup
5
Domains, fully configured
$5–10k
/mo of outsourced infra replaced

Unified inbox + reply coach

Email and LinkedIn responses collapse into one conversation per account. AI drafts contextual replies tied to the original trigger.

HeyReach LinkedIn responses and inbound email stitched per account. Hot threads bubble to the AE with a draft already written. Status syncs back to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive.

3–5×
Meeting conv. when reply <1 hr
~10 hrs
/wk per AE reclaimed from triage
1
Thread per account, all channels

Multi-tenant workspaces

Workspace-scoped Supabase RLS on every table. Role-based seats. Cross-branch account dedupe baked in.

Owner / Admin / Member / Viewer roles. Full audit log of every agent action and status change. HQ sees what every branch is working on without a Monday standup.

0
Duplicate touches across branches
100%
Of agent actions audited
4
Roles, RLS-enforced

Reply-rate, meeting-conversion, and win-rate ranges drawn from public sales research (Lead Response Management Study, InsideSales / Velocify, RAIN Group). Ingestion latency, batch throughput, and domain warmup figures are measured against the Blacksmith pipeline. Dollar figures are typical replacement cost for outsourced cold-email infra.

Three shops in the cohort

If any of these read like a description of your sales floor, keep going.

Most founding members touch two of the three. Nobody ever lands on a fourth.

You just hired your first BDR manager

She’s building the list, the cadence, the playbook, the rubric, and the scorecard at the same time. Three of her reps quietly use ChatGPT in another tab to write the opener. Nobody owns deliverability.

What changes on Monday

Blacksmith ships the list, the rubric, the drafts, and the sender infrastructure on day one. Your BDR manager spends her quarter coaching the call, not rebuilding the prep.

Your branches each run their own playbook

Phoenix calls from a permit feed. Dallas calls from a referral list. Atlanta calls from whoever the branch manager thinks looks promising. Twice this quarter, two branches walked into the same parent company at the same trade show.

What changes on Monday

One workspace, one scoring rubric, one dedupe layer across territories. HQ sees what every branch is working without a Monday standup. Branches keep their autonomy on how they sell — not on what they call.

Your AEs keep walking into specs already locked

The walkthroughs are good. The proposals are tight. The win rate is fine — when you actually get to bid. You’re not losing deals; you’re losing the chance to deal. The other integrator was on site in week one.

What changes on Monday

Your queue surfaces the project the day the permit drops, paired with the parent company and the right contact. Your AE walks in during week one, with the trigger in the opener. The spec is yours to lose, not theirs to defend.

Quiet by design

A fleet of agents doing the work in the background.

Six purpose-built agents share one workspace, hand work to each other, and only surface when there's something worth a human's attention. Your reps never open a chat box.

Agent fleet
24/7
Signal ScoutLive
Reads permits, news, M&A, and leadership moves across your territory.
Continuous · 24/7
Enrichment HandWorking
Resolves parent company, contact, and project value for every hit.
On signal · ~90s latency
Rubric ScorerWorking
Runs your scoring rubric. Returns 0–100 with a one-paragraph rationale.
On signal · batched 25 at a time
Draft WriterLive
3 subject lines, ≤120-word body that names the trigger. JSON-shaped.
Pre-shift · 4am queue build
Reply CoachLive
Reads inbound, drafts contextual replies, flags hot threads for the AE.
Continuous · email + LinkedIn
Domain WardenIdle
Rotates sender domains, watches reputation, auto-pauses on bounce spikes.
Continuous · per-mailbox caps

Your reps shouldn't have to babysit the AI.

The agents run on cron, on signal, and on reply. They write to the queue, hand off to each other, and stay out of the way until there's something worth a human's attention.

  • Overnight runs build a fresh queue for 7am. No "what should I work today?" standup.
  • Bulk operations — 25 leads per batch, 4-way concurrent — for when an AE needs to score a list before lunch.
  • Domain rotation, bounce monitoring, and reply routing all live with the agents. Your reps never touch DNS.
  • Every agent action lands in the audit log. Managers see exactly what ran, on which signal, with which rationale.
Calibrated against the niches the cohort sells into

The rubric reads each of these differently. So does the outbound.

Generic data tools don't speak your buyer's world. The signal layer is tuned to the verticals the founding cohort actually works.

Cannabis
Dispensary licenses, expansions, and rebrands.
Warehousing & logistics
New DCs, freight tenants, and dock builds.
Healthcare
New clinics, hospital wings, and MOB expansions.
K–12 & higher ed
Bond cycles, grant deadlines, capital plans.
Multifamily & retail
New properties, leasing changes, franchise rollouts.

Your niche isn't here? Tell us on the waitlist form — if a few founding members work the same one, it goes on the calibration roadmap.

When Blacksmith isn't the answer

We'd rather tell you up front than waste a discovery call.

  • — If the founder is still the top BDR and outbound hasn't been hired against, the agents have nothing to hand work to. Come back when you've hired the first rep.
  • — If you've already got a bespoke data team and a custom CRM doing this internally, we're flattered, but you probably want something we build for you, not for the founding 250.
  • — If you're running horizontal outbound across a dozen industries, Apollo and Clay are better tools for that. We only know how to think in security.
  • — If you're shopping for a CRM, we sit upstream of the CRM. Bring your HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive — we sync to it.
Founding 250 + Austin

Become a founding customer.

50% off every month of your first year for every founding member, no exceptions. Five seats at the Austin Power User Summit — flights, hotel, and entertainment on us — for the operators who push the product hardest in the first 90 days.

One email at launch. Never a newsletter.

We email you once at launch with your 50%-off-year-one invite. No newsletters. By joining you agree to our privacy policy.

If any of this sounds like your shop, you should be on the list.

50% off your entire first year for every founding member. Top 25 selected applicants fly to the Austin Power User Summit on us.

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