Your Clay list can already write its own first line
"You literally can't manually scrape google maps, enrich through clay," one agency owner wrote about building local prospect lists by hand.
- Job: Outbound prospecting
Building a list of local businesses one tab at a time is slow, and once the list exists, every cold email still opens the same way: a line about their industry that could belong to any business in it.
Picture a list of every business of one type in one city, already pulled with their reviews and their websites, ready before you have written a single line.
Clay is the tool that pulls that list from Google Maps and reads each business's own website, pulling out something real, a service they mention, a review they answered, and turns it into the opening line of the email.
You end up with outreach that proves you looked at their business before you wrote to them, instead of a line that would fit anyone in the same industry.
The catch: A written line still gets a detail wrong when the subject is specific, so read each one before it goes out.
Three ways to get this done
- Do it yourself (Free). The step-by-step playbook: what to do each week, in plain words, and how to know each step is done. Download the playbook: getting leads
- Let the agent run it (Founding cohort). The agent for this playbook drafts the work into an approval queue you control. We are proving it with a small group of agencies first. Apply for the founding cohort
- Have us run it for you ($2,500 setup, then $297 a month). We set the playbook up in accounts you own, against acceptance tests you sign, then run it and report the numbers every month. Have us run it
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You have a list of real prospects and an opening line for each one that proves you looked.