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Founder-led team · Outbound lead generation

Demand,
with direction.

Outbound lead generation for software companies. CRM, sales operations and closing as add-ons.

The right people. A real reason to talk.
A clear decision about what comes next.

Light changes everything.

A study in perspective.
  • Founder-led
  • US Eastern hours

Clarity before scale.

How a campaign runs

Five steps. Each one ends with something you can open.

01 / Diagnose

Choose the segment, and write down what would change our mind.

A fixed-fee diagnostic compares candidate segments, excludes one on purpose and states the evidence that would overturn the decision.

  • A segment with a reason
  • A hypothesis you can test
  • Refunded in full if you do not find it worth acting on
Open the sample diagnostic
Diagnostic · choosing a segment

Synthetic demonstration — not client work or achieved results.

Diagnostic · Stannary Systems

Where should the next demand come from?

  • AIndependent inspection contractors, 20–200 field techniciansOne person feels the pain, holds the budget and can sign.Chosen
  • BIn-house compliance teams at the asset owners themselvesThe person who feels the pain does not hold the budget.Excluded

The evidence that would overturn this decision is written down.

See all five steps on one page, including what happens if a stage misses

Services

Outbound lead generation first. Add what your sales process needs.

The main service is a managed outbound campaign for software companies. A CRM build, a dedicated sales operations specialist and sales closing are add-ons, each with its own written scope.

  • Outbound lead generation & appointment setting

    A managed outbound campaign for software companies to find relevant buyers, handle replies and book conversations against a written qualification standard.

    Managed campaign: diagnostic, pilot, then monthly support.

  • CRM build & sales automation

    GoHighLevel pipelines, lead intake, routing, follow-up workflows and reporting, with a tested handover your team can use.

    A bounded implementation, with optional monthly support.

  • Dedicated outbound & sales operations specialist

    A named specialist working inside your agreed process on prospecting, follow-up, CRM hygiene and sales coordination.

    Monthly capacity, with responsibilities and working hours agreed in writing.

  • B2B sales closing

    Discovery, proposal follow-up, objection handling and negotiation for an established offer and opportunities that meet your written qualification criteria.

    Separately scoped retainer; an optional performance bonus can be agreed. No commission-only engagement.

01 / The approach

A broad market.
A sharper focus.

Most outbound fails before the first email is sent. We start with the decision that makes the rest of the work matter.

From possibility to purpose.

01 — Who

Choose who
actually matters.

A job title and an industry filter are a starting point. We identify the buyer, the problem they own and the conditions that make them a fit.

The output / A segment with a reason.

02 — Why now

Find a reason
to arrive today.

A new contract. A deadline. A change in responsibility. The reason to talk should come from the buyer's world.

The output / A relevant, testable hypothesis.

03 — What we test

Make the next
decision clearer.

Agree on the measures. Run the pilot. Report what happened, including what missed. What changes next follows the evidence.

The output / A decision you can act on.

Inside the approach

Less noise.
More signal.

A CLEARER WAY FORWARD ↓

Why most outbound stalls before the first reply

  • Cause 01

    The wrong list

    A job title and an industry filter are a starting point, not a segment. Without the right companies, a non-reply says nothing about the message.

  • Cause 02

    No reason to talk

    Feature lists read the same to everyone. The reason has to come from the buyer’s own situation, and be true on the day it is sent.

  • Cause 03

    A setup nobody checked

    Sending from the wrong domain, or too much too fast, can put a whole campaign in spam before anyone reads it.

02 / Open the work

Less promise.
More to inspect.

Three complete documents. The thinking, the tradeoffs and the decision — open for you to examine.

Synthetic demonstration — not client work or achieved results. Stannary Systems is invented.

01 / The diagnostic

Choosing is
the work.

Two segments. One deliberate exclusion. A buyer hypothesis and the evidence that would change our mind.

Segment → Hypothesis → Test

Inspect a sample diagnostic Download PDF ↓

Managed lead generation

A considered start.
A clear next step.

Not phases of a project — three separate commitments, each with something in your hands at the end of it and a decision you can take either way.

Stage
Diagnostic
Pilot
Ongoing
What you get
DiagnosticA written diagnostic: the segment we would go after, the segments we would exclude and why, the buyer and trigger hypothesis, and a prioritised test plan.
PilotA target list, approved messaging, sending infrastructure live in your accounts, a weekly report with denominators, and a written recommendation at the end.
OngoingContinuous sourcing, sending and reporting, with the same weekly denominators and a monthly review that names what changes next.
The decision it lets you make
DiagnosticWhether to run a pilot at all, and against which segment.
PilotWhether the channel works for you well enough to run continuously.
OngoingReviewed monthly. You decide each month whether it continues.
What we need from you
DiagnosticOne or two conversations with whoever currently owns sales, plus whatever outreach and CRM history you already have. If you have none, we say so and work from the market instead.
PilotApproval of messages and lists within the agreed turnaround, agreement on the target list, and follow-up on the conversations we hand over. The at-risk refund depends on these three.
OngoingThe same three as the pilot, plus a named person on your side who owns the handover of conversations.

Fees, the at-risk split and what happens if a stage misses: how we price and how an engagement works. Durations are set per engagement, in writing — we do not publish a fixed number of weeks we have not agreed with you.

Clients

Different companies.
Specific work.

Client

Inotexel

What they are

AI software & digital-product development studio (US)

What we did

Lead generation

Client

iqprompt

What they are

AI/SaaS product company

What we did

Investor relations, strategic partnerships, event handling, branding

Client

Gluck

What they are

Live ecommerce store

What we did

Meta paid-social campaigns to drive sales

Results from these engagements are not published. The clients hold the performance data and haven't shared it with us, and we don't publish figures we can't source. That is also why the worked examples above are invented rather than borrowed from a client — it lets us show you all of the work instead of the part someone else approves. How we'll report results from now on

All seven engagements, in full

Risk

What happens if it doesn't work

The diagnostic has a fixed fee. If you don't find it worth acting on, we refund it in full and you keep the document.

G-B · Terms §3.1

Before a pilot starts, we agree with you, in writing, what counts as a qualified conversation and how many the pilot should produce. If it doesn't, you get the at-risk part of the fee back.

G-C · Terms §3.2

Whatever we build — lists, messaging, sending infrastructure — is yours from day one, in your own accounts and domains. Ongoing work is month to month and you can leave with notice.

G-E · Terms §3.4 · Ownership · Terms §5

Read the full terms. They're on the page, not in the fine print. Here is a pilot that missed its threshold, reported the way yours would be.

Illustration, not a quote Pilot · G-C

How a pilot fee splits

  • Build portion (non-refundable)
  • At-risk portion (refunded if the written threshold is missed)

Per 100 of fee: 70 is the build portion (non-refundable), 30 is refunded if the written threshold is missed.

We set the size of each portion per pilot, in writing, before you sign. Terms §3.2

The person accountable

A person to call.
A team accountable.

So we start with who you should be talking to, and then we do the talking. I do the demand work with a small founder-led team. I'm in Pakistan, I work the full US Eastern business day, and I'm one message away — that's my email and my phone below, not a shared inbox.

What I don't have is years or published numbers, and I won't pretend otherwise. What I'll give you instead is written measures, part of my fee at risk, and every result reported with its denominator including the ones that miss.

Muhammad Nouman Zafar

Founder, Scipioform

Written down, not promised

Four things you can hold us to.

Next step

Your next chapter.
Let’s find its direction.

Who it's for

A founder or commercial lead at a software or tech company who needs their next customers, partners or investors, and doesn't yet have a function that produces them.

What it is

30 minutes, with Nouman, the founder, on US Eastern hours. Nouman stays accountable for the engagement; your proposal names the team responsible for delivering it.

Bring, if you have it

Whatever outreach you're running now, and who you think your buyer is. If you have neither, that is a normal place to start and worth saying on the call.

Afterwards

A written follow-up of what we discussed. If a diagnostic makes sense we'll quote a fixed fee in writing; if it doesn't, we'll say so. We don't produce a bespoke strategy on a first call and won't pretend to.

Book 30 minutes with Nouman

Rather read first? The three sample documents, or how an engagement works, including what happens if it fails.

Or email Nouman: hello@scipioform.com, or call +44 7400 754177 or