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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
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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.

04 Signals

Contact them the week it becomes true.

We build an engine around the ICP that proved out. It watches the whole market, waits for a reason to contact each company, and fires while the reason is still warm.

The engine

A radar pointed at your market.

Every company that fits your ICP, and every decision maker inside them, watched daily. It fires the week something changes.

Job changeFundingNew reqTech changePREventFiling
YOUR ICP
  • Job change
  • Funding
  • New req
  • Tech change
  • PR
  • Event
  • Filing

What it watches

Eight kinds of reason.

  • Job change

    A buyer you already knew moves into a seat where they can sign.

  • New req

    They are hiring for the problem your product removes.

  • Funding

    A round closed, the mandate changed, and the budget is new.

  • PR

    An announcement that tells you what they are about to spend on.

  • Tech change

    They added or dropped something adjacent to your category.

  • Event

    They are attending or speaking where your buyers gather.

  • Filings

    A public record that moves them into or out of your reach.

  • Expansion

    A new market or a second persona, derived rather than announced.

In practice

The journey of one signal.

WATCHING · EVERY COMPANY, DAILY

SIGNAL · 87

Licence application — Meridian Resources

Permit filings precede procurement by ~4 months. No incumbent on record.

“Saw the Meridian permit went in this week…”

Approve & send
  1. MondayA licence application is lodged. Public, months before any decision.
  2. Tuesday, 7:00The system catches it, finds who matters, builds the case.
  3. Tuesday, 7:05It lands in your Slack. Signal, reasoning, drafted email.
  4. Tuesday, 7:06You approve. It sends. First in, with a real reason.

You never check anything. It tells you.

  • Every trigger justified. Step-by-step reasoning, sources linked. Disagree? Tell it, and it never repeats the mistake.
  • A hard volume cap. It physically cannot spam the market you will be selling into for the next decade.
  • Humans for judgment. Nothing sends without your approval.
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Empra APP 7:05 AM

SIGNAL · 87 New licence application — Meridian Resources lodged an exploration permit in your market.

Why now: Permit filings precede procurement by ~4 months. No incumbent supplier on record. Their new COO ran your ICP’s last three rollouts.

DRAFTED · IN YOUR VOICE

“Saw the Meridian permit went in this week. We kitted out two operators through the same phase last year — happy to send what the first order actually looked like.”

Approve & sendEditWhy?

Built once. Handed over. Yours.

Runs in your accounts

Standard tools in your name, at cost. No markup, no lock-in.

No CRM to babysit

Slack is the interface. Underneath, a queryable database of your entire market.

An asset, not a subscription

Every signal is written into your market map. It compounds, and it is yours.

Read the full method →

You will recognise yourself in about ten seconds.

  • Your market fits in a spreadsheet.
  • Your buyers leave public footprints: filings, licences, announcements.
  • Reputation is everything: one clumsy campaign poisons the well.
  • Growth is founder-led: nobody has time to own outbound properly.

Mining tech. Motorsport software. Maritime, aviation, utilities, specialty insurance. If your buyers are finite and their moves are public, this was built for you.

Why it works

The reason goes in the email.

Every lead the engine surfaces arrives with its trigger attached. The email refers to the actual reason for writing, because there is one.

That is the difference between outreach that reads as timed and outreach that reads as automated. Same inbox, different week, different answer.

Next

The rest of the engine.

  • 01The engineA model trained on four million sent emails learned the science of cold email. Subject, length, the right ask per persona. It writes with it.
  • 02DeliverabilityWe build the sending stack rather than rent it. Mailboxes, custom SMTP and our own sending servers, sized to your volume.
  • 03MethodDefine the ICPs. Write many variants per ICP. Measure on reply, meeting and close rate. Scale only the one that wins.
  • 05LinkedInThe other half of outbound, on the same timeline as the email. Connection and message sequences from your team's real profiles, plus the founder content that warms the market first.
  • 06Reply agentAn agent trained on your voice, your product and your customers. Every reply answered within 30 minutes.
  • 07AutomationsWhat happens the second a reply lands. Interested leads reach your CRM and your team without anyone copying anything.
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