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EMPRAOUTBOUND
The engineDeliverabilityMethod
SignalsAn engine built around your ICP that watches the market daily and fires the week a company becomes worth contacting.LinkedInThe other half of outbound, on the same timeline as the email.Reply agentAn agent trained on your voice, your product and your customers.AutomationsWhat happens the second a reply lands.
Find your marketFirst outbound, run as an experiment.Scale outboundThe message earned it.New marketsA vertical or a country you have never sold into, mapped and tested before anyone relocates or hires for it.HiringThe best candidates are not applying.InvestorsA raise is an outbound campaign with one buyer type.Re-engageClosed-lost deals, cold trials, old lists.EventsA conference is a deadline for the whole market.
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The engineDeliverabilityMethod

EXTENSIONS

SignalsLinkedInReply agentAutomations

MISSIONS

Find your marketScale outboundNew marketsHiringInvestorsRe-engageEventsApply

EMPRA

EMPRA

Outbound

RUN BY HUGO DUPONT & GEORGE LEVESON
LONDON

WHAT WE RUN

  • The engine
  • Deliverability
  • Method
  • EXTENSIONS
  • Signals
  • LinkedIn
  • Reply agent
  • Automations

MISSIONS

  • Find your market
  • Scale outbound
  • New markets
  • Hiring
  • Investors
  • Re-engage
  • Events

FREE TOOLS

  • Grade my email
  • Deliverability test
  • SPF checker
  • DKIM checker
  • DMARC checker
  • Subject line tester
  • Spam checker

THE PLAYBOOK

  • Playbook overview
  • Subject lines
  • The ask
  • The sequence
  • Follow-ups
  • Identify your ICP
  • Infrastructure

COMPANY

  • Cold email agency
  • Agency shortlist
  • Agency vs DIY
  • Blog
  • About
  • Start a build

Every figure on this site is a count of work we have done. Pipeline and closed revenue are our clients’ results, and results vary. Replies are shown as they arrived, with senders blurred at source.

M3 New markets

The next market, mapped before you enter.

Entering a market usually means hiring into it and finding out a year later whether it was the right call. A probe campaign finds out first, from the replies.

Reconnaissance

Read the market
before you move into it.

The territory you already win stays lit and untouched. The next one starts dark. A few probes go out, a handful of them come back, and where they land is how the second territory gets its shape.

WHERE YOU WIN · SETTLED, KNOWN

WHERE YOU WINTHE NEXT MARKET

WHERE YOU WIN → THE NEXT MARKET

  • 01Probe arcs launch from the market you already own.
  • 02Landings wake small areas. A few come back coral — replies.
  • 03Enough landings connect into a second cluster.
  • 04A faint line bridges the two. Two territories, one read.

How the run works

Five moves into unmapped ground.

  • 01

    The territory, databased

    The same ten-source build that grounds any campaign, run against the new vertical, segment or country. Cross-referenced into one verified list, built once, handed over, yours.

  • 02

    Angles translated, not copied

    What worked at home does not get pasted into the new market. It gets rewritten for buyers with different vocabulary, different pressures, and no memory of your name.

  • 03

    Small volume, real replies

    The probe runs at a size built to be read, not to scale. Enough sends to hear back from the market, not so many that a weak angle burns the list before you have learned anything.

  • 04

    The read: enter or don't

    Reply rate, and what the replies actually say, decide the next move. That is an answer built from inside the market, not a guess made from outside it.

  • 05

    Then the volume

    If the probe reads well, the database and the variant that earned the replies take the volume up, watched by the same signals and the same reply agent as any other run.

Why it works

A probe costs weeks.
A wrong hire costs a year.

Entering blind usually means hiring into the market before you know if it answers: a country lead, a rep, months of ramp, spent finding out whether anyone there wants what you sell.

A probe costs a few weeks of sending against a small, real database, built the same way as any other run and tested the same way before the volume follows. It gets you the same answer the hire eventually would, before you have spent the headcount, the year, or the market’s first impression of you.

Other missions

Same engine, pointed elsewhere.

  • M1Find your market
  • M2Scale outbound
  • M4Hiring
  • M5Investors
  • M6Re-engage
  • M7Events
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