AI Ark

Episode 4 of GTM Talks just dropped! 🎙️ AI Ark customer Mitchell Keller, founder of LeadGrow.ai, has helped clients earn over $726K from cold email. He sat down with Ana Badrajan Dedecan, grabbed a whiteboard, and mapped out which outbound workflows AI agents should run on their own and which ones still need a human. Agents have zero intuition. Judgment and experience are the line. A few things you’ll pick up: → The campaign refill loop for scaling winning campaigns → A copy loop that fixes itself when reply rates drop 20% → Why most reply agents fail 🎬 In the clip: Mitchell whiteboards the campaign refill loop. When a campaign wins, an agent checks the campaign brief and knows exactly what to refill, no judgment call needed. Link in comments for the full vid 👇

A valid email doesn’t mean the right person is reading it. When someone leaves a company, their inbox often gets forwarded to their replacement. Your verifier says valid. Your email lands. The person you wanted never sees it. Watch the latest video from our co-founder Elias on how AI Ark catches job changes before you hit send. 👇 #outbound #b2bdata #leadgeneration

Episode 3 of GTM Talks just dropped! 🎙️ As partner at Workflows.io, AI Ark customer Lorenzo Amadei helps lead a 20-person agency dispatching nearly 1 million cold emails monthly with a 3% average reply rate. He sat down with GTM Talks Ana Badrajan Dedecan and opened up the signal-based system behind a program that added $470K in new annual revenue in a single quarter. Volume sets the base. Signals make the peaks. A few things you'll pick up:  → Volume vs. signal vs. micro campaigns  → Reply-rate benchmarks for the US and Europe  → Why the system still works with a small TAM 🎬 In the clip: Lorenzo runs AI Ark inside Claude Code and builds a 50-company ICP shortlist from a single prompt. Link in comments 👇

On Friday I cancelled Sales Nav and Apollo for AI Ark. Here's why the maths changed for me: 1) Pay for what comes back. 0.5 credit for a full profile. Another 0.5 only if it finds a working email. No email found, no charge. 2) No seats. One credit pool for the whole team. Unused credits roll over. Adding a second team member doesn't mean buying a second licence. 3) Verification is built in. Every email gets checked live at export, catch-alls included. No separate tool, no separate bill. 4) Built for how I actually work with AI now. API, CLI, MCP server. I describe the ICP to Claude, approve the spend, the list lands straight in my outreach tool. 1,000 prospects ready for outreach costs me about £3.70. With verified emails, it's £6. Sales Nav alone was £100 lol

Smartlead x AI Ark

A business is nothing without solid partners and you guys continue to make our lives a hell of a lot easier 🤝 Massive shout out to these brothers. Brian and Hamied Elias. Founders of AI Ark (b2b database) We're processing data on millions of individuals and businesses every month. So we need not only a comprehensive database to power this, but also great support. And these guys have absolutely nailed both. The product is great. Undoubtedly the best B2B database I've come across (spent 50+ hours testing them all). And it's insane how responsive and helpful they are generally - any issue, question, edge case, they’re on it. And I almost forgot this final point: they don't treat the database like a commodity. They also innovate like crazy. New (genuinely useful) features every week. Keep it up lads. And thanks for providing the backbone to our fulfillment ops.

Episode 2 of GTM Talks just dropped! 🎙️ AI Ark customer Matthew Lucero has sent 10 million cold emails. Booked 5,000 meetings. Runs Anevo Marketing bootstrapped with 10 full-time people and zero outside money. He sat down with Ana and walked through one of the biggest cold email tool tests we've ever seen: 6 tools, 600,000+ emails, same domains, same sequences, same lead lists. Everything controlled. The finding? The tool barely mattered. But that's not even the best part. The campaign with the worst stats he ever posted? Also one of the most profitable he ever ran. He explains exactly why on camera. A few more things you'll pick up: → Instantly vs Smartlead vs PlusVibe: the actual numbers → .com vs .info vs .org and why cheaper might still win → Why your best leads will always show your worst reply rates → What to do when your TAM is tiny and volume isn't the play 🎬 In the clip: Matt shows how he uses AI Ark's Skills filter to find people with specific skill sets on their profile, something he says he hasn't seen on any other data platform. Link in comments 👇

We're partnering with Smartlead for four days of events in San Francisco this October 🌆 A full week bringing together the outbound, sales, and GTM community for conversations, connections, and a little fun. And yes, you're invited 🎉 Come for the conversations. Stay for the people. See you in SF 👇 #outbound #gtm #b2bmarketing