Find who's ready to buy. Get the first meeting.
Find the accounts getting ready to buy. Get in through people you already know. Send a first message built on real research, and let Stage 1 work every reply until the meeting is booked. You choose the accounts and approve what goes out.
Free for 14 days. No credit card. Your first Board in about two minutes.
Accounts that are moving, ranked by signal strength.
Four times a day Stage 1 checks your plays for new signals and scores each account against your ideal customer. Three signals in a week outrank one, and fresh signals rank above stale ones.
- 46 buying signals in ten families, read from LinkedIn, SEC filings and earnings releases, the Federal Register, the news, public tenders and events
- A Watchlist that tracks every account like a portfolio, with strength, the change this week and a 30-day trend
- When a champion changes jobs, the seat they left and the company they joined both light up
- Rules in plain English that you can read and change
- Approve or pass in one key. Passing teaches the rules
Example accounts. Every name is invented.
Three sources, three facts each, before anyone writes a word.
For every account, Stage 1 gathers what the company has put out, what its people are doing and what's happening around them. You see the research behind the message, not just the message.
- Public record. SEC filings, news, job posts, funding, RFPs and the stack they run
- Social context. New seats, their own posts, engagement with you
- Market. Competitor engagement and who you're compared with
Public record
- RFPClaims data platform modernization, responses due in 5 weeks
- Company profileProperty and casualty carrier, claims data in three systems
Social context
- Engaged with youLiked your post on consolidating claims data
- CommitteeAlan Okafor, CIO
- CommitteeRachel Stein, Head of Enterprise Data
Market
- Your BrainBuyers compare you with a larger firm with longer timelines
A first message that's an idea, not a pitch.
The strongest signal becomes the hook. The person's seat becomes the trigger. Your own buyer pains become the hypothesis. It ends with a question that invites them to correct you, which is far easier to answer than a request for time.
- No product name, no proof points, no flattery in the first touch
- An RFP or a new leader always leads; otherwise the person's own activity does
- Drafted for you and edited by you. Nothing sends until you approve
- 1Research hookRachel - saw Pinecrest put out an RFP for claims data platform modernization.
- 2Personal triggerGiven your role as Head of Enterprise Data,
- 3HypothesisI suspect analysts wait days for data the business wants the same morning.
- 4Exit questionIs that accurate, or is the bigger issue something else?
Reach the people who decide together.
Approve an account and Stage 1 threads the buyer, the champion and the technical lead, a day apart, across LinkedIn and email. A meeting with any of them stops the rest of the sequence for the whole account.
- Profile visit and connection request, then the opener the next day
- Already connected? The opener goes straight to their inbox
- Work email found and included in your plan
- Opt-outs honored on every channel, forever
- Day 0
- Profile visit and connection request
- Day 1
- Hypothesis opening on LinkedIn
- Day 4
- A short follow-up on LinkedIn
- Day 7
- The same idea by email, if we found one
It gets sharper every week you run it.
Every signal starts from a default weight. Then your replies take over. Stage 1 tracks the reply rate behind each signal for your firm, and once a signal has ten sends, its weight moves up when it beats your average and down when it trails.
- Reply rate by signal, on a panel you can read any time
- Moves within 0.75 and 1.35 of the start, so one lucky week can't take over
- Every pass and every reason you give moves the rules too
What it learns stays in your workspace. Month three ranks better than month one.
Example numbers for a made-up firm.
The fastest way in is someone they already trust.
Stage 1 checks every person on the committee against your LinkedIn network. It shows who you have in common, ranks them by how they're connected, and recommends the strongest one. Tell it how well you know each person and it reranks.
- Former colleagues, shared boards and people inside the account rank first
- One person is asked once per account, never about everyone
- The ask carries your hypothesis as a note to forward
- A yes cancels the cold opener. A no or six quiet days sends it, without their name
- Intros you're waiting on sit at the top of the Desk
Needs LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator on the account you connect.
Nina Patel and 1 other can introduce youIntro via Nina- Day 0
- Stage 1 asks Nina, with the note to forward
- She says yes
- The cold opener to Dana never goes
- She says no
- The opener goes to Dana that day
- Day 6, no answer
- The opener goes to Dana, without Nina's name
Example people. Every name is invented.
Every reply, sorted and already answered.
Replies from LinkedIn and email land in one place, sorted by what they mean, with answers about intros right alongside. Each one comes with a draft that fits what they said. A reply that's waited more than two days gets flagged. A warm reply goes cold fast.
- Interested replies get two meeting times in the draft
- Objections get the answer from your own playbook
- Mark a meeting booked and it lands in HubSpot
It learns how you sell before it writes anything.
Point Stage 1 at your website and it reads up to 20 pages, starting with services, industries and case studies. Add your decks, battlecards and win notes. Every draft uses what it learns, and you can edit any of it.
- Reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text and Markdown
- Builds your ideal customer, buyer pains, proof points, objections and voice
- Suggests plays from what it reads
- Industries
- LogisticsInsuranceHealthcare
- Buyers
- CTOCIOVP Data
- Deal size
- $150K to $600K
- Buyer pain
- Analysts wait days for data the business wants the same morning
Your accounts, your tools.
Stage 1 sends from the accounts you already use and writes back to the systems you already run.
Your own profile
Signals, the buying committee and warm paths come through your connected account, on Premium or Sales Navigator. Messages go out as you.
Google or Outlook
Email touches and replies run through your own mailbox, with a one-line footer that lets people reply stop.
Meetings become deals
Mark a meeting booked and Stage 1 creates or updates the company, the contact and a deal at the stage you choose.
The daily digest
New accounts land in Slack with the first run of the day, with approve and pass right in the message. Warm replies ping you.
Bring your list
Already have target accounts? Import a CSV and Stage 1 watches them alongside everything it finds.
Written with Claude
Openers and replies are drafted with Claude from your research and your Brain, then edited and approved by you.
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