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The 1:1 Outbound Sprint

A clean outbound cockpit your founder or seller can run daily.

Your first 10 customers

A focused outbound motion for a tight list of buyers. No mass blasting. The point is to learn who cares, what problem they name back, and which offer earns a reply.

Timeline2–4 weeks from stack access to handoff

Plan fitFits the $3,500 plan on sheets + n8n · $5,000 on HubSpot or Salesforce

Run this play if

  • You're hunting your first customers
  • You send outbound personally, daily
  • You can hand-pick 30-100 accounts
  • You know your buyer and trigger

Skip it if

  • You want spray-and-pray volume
  • No one will send or take calls
  • Your domain's burned or list's purchased

If that’s you, another play fits better. Find it in 60 seconds →

Week by week

2–4 weeks from stack access to handoff

01

Scope

3-5 days

Intake, pain digest, design decisions locked

02

Build

5-10 days

Cockpit, list, tracker, automations, dry run

03

Train

1 session, same week

60 minutes, your sender drives

04

Own

day one onward

You run the sending sprint; 30-day check-in

How to measure this play’s success

Replies per week

The number that decides it

Calls booked

On your dashboard

Objections logged

On your dashboard

Baseline captured before we ship · reviewed at the 30-day check-in.

EvidenceHow Proxycurl started: founder cold email to a hand-picked list; Churnkey closed its first customers the same way.

What happens next

We build it, document it, and hand it over.

From here the sprint is yours to run: your sender works the list daily, the tracker turns every reply into the next task, and the objection log tells you exactly what to fix in the offer. When replies cluster around one problem, that is your signal. At the 30-day check-in we compare replies and booked calls against your baseline and decide together: keep running, sharpen the buyer profile, or graduate to the next play.

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