I build the
outbound engine before you hire your
first sales hire.

For B2B SaaS founders still closing everything themselves. Senior operator at a fraction of US cost - not a vendor, not an agency, not an AI tool with a human attached.

<70%
the cost of a fully-loaded
US SDR hire ($60–80K/yr)
IB + AE
investment banking rigour
applied to outbound execution
EST+
covers EST through PST+
real overlap, not async-only

I got tired of watching genuinely good products get buried under garbage outreach, crappy meetings, and zero real connection.

Founders with real products. Real solutions. Real teams working hard. And then someone sends 500 AI-blasted emails on their behalf, books three meetings with the wrong people, and calls it pipeline. The AE is frustrated. The SDR is hitting dials with no context. The founder is confused why nothing converts. Money burnt. Not even spent - burnt.

The thing nobody says out loud: people don't buy your product because of how great it is. They buy because of how you made them feel in the process. Whether you actually listened. Whether the business is good to work with. Whether they trust that you'll deliver. That trust starts in the very first message - and most outreach destroys it before the conversation even begins.

I've been on both sides of this. As an AE in a 2-person team, closing deals with no support. As an IB analyst, watching founders burn runway on GTM approaches that were never going to work. The pattern is always the same: signals without understanding, volume without precision, activity without connection.

I believe outreach should build something - not just extract a meeting.

Even a cold email, written right, tells a founder that someone understood their situation before reaching out. That's the bar I hold myself to. And it's why I work with a very small list of very high-fit prospects, not a spray-and-pray database.

Every outbound operator claims to "personalise at scale with AI." That's table stakes now - and founders spot a merged template in two seconds. Here's what's actually different.

Everyone else
High volume, AI-merged personalisation
500 emails, first line swapped out. Looks personal. Reads generic. Founders delete it before the second sentence.
How I work
Small lists. Deep research per contact.
20 emails that each founder actually reads beats 500 that go to archive. Every time.
Everyone else
Apollo filters + job title targeting
Standard signals: size, industry, title. The same list everyone else is working from, sent the same week.
How I work
Psychographic profiling before outreach
I analyse tone, career arc, content patterns, and communication style to understand how a founder thinks - before writing a word. Signals inform. Understanding converts.

Most outreach fails not because the product is wrong but because the message shows no evidence of actual understanding. I use a proprietary scoring model that profiles founders across quality, problem sharpness, GTM complexity, and fit - then connects those dots into outreach that reflects their specific situation. Not their job title.

The result is a short list of high-conviction prospects reached with precision. It's slower to build. It converts significantly better. And it starts the relationship the right way.

This is the actual process - not a marketing summary of it. Every engagement follows these steps in order.

01
Score before you search
Before building any list, I define and score the ICP across four dimensions: founder quality, problem sharpness, GTM complexity, and LSI fit. Each prospect is evaluated individually. Most don't qualify. That's intentional.

Standard Apollo filters give you volume. Scoring gives you conviction. I'd rather send 20 emails I'd stake my reputation on than 500 I'd be embarrassed by.

02
Profile the founder, not just the company
For every high-scoring prospect, I go deeper: how do they communicate publicly? What's their career arc and what does it tell you about how they make decisions? What has their company just done - raised, hired, launched, pivoted? What's the real pain at this specific stage?

This isn't research for research's sake. It's building a model of how this specific person thinks, so the message speaks to them - not to a persona.

03
Multi-stakeholder mapping - done properly
Where multiple people at one company are relevant, I map and sequence them intelligently. Co-founders, heads of sales, CEOs - each gets a message written for their specific lens on the problem. Touches are timed so they compound, not conflict.

Blasting everyone at the same company at the same time with the same message is how you get forwarded to the "do not engage" folder. Sequenced, contextual multi-threading is how you get internal champions.

04
One real line per message
Every message contains one sentence that could only have been written for that person. Not a {first_name} token. Not a "I saw you raised a round" opener that 40 other people sent this week. Something specific enough that the founder knows someone actually looked.

This is the hardest part to scale and the part nobody does well. It's also the only part that actually makes a founder stop scrolling.

05
LinkedIn + email, sequenced together
LinkedIn builds context and warm signal before the email arrives. The email makes the direct ask with the context already in place. The sequence is timed so the second touch feels like a natural continuation - not a cold blast from a stranger.

The combination consistently outperforms either channel alone. LinkedIn without email is visibility. Email without LinkedIn is cold. Together, done right, it's a conversation that started before the first message landed.

06
Measure, report, iterate - weekly
Every metric tracked weekly: emails sent, open rate, reply rate, positive reply rate, meetings booked, meetings attended. Numbers are shared with you as-is - no filtering, no spin. If something isn't working, we fix it the following week.

IB background means I'm allergic to vanity metrics. Open rates without reply rates are noise. Reply rates without meetings are noise. The only number that matters is qualified meetings booked - everything else is a diagnostic to get there.

01
ICP Definition & Scoring
Scored, prioritised list with psychographic profiling built in. Small list, high conviction - not a bloated Apollo export.
02
Cold Email Infrastructure
Domain setup, warmup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC - deliverability first. The foundation most operators skip, then wonder why they're in spam.
03
Outbound Sequences
5-step sequences written, tested, running. Each with a genuinely personalised first line. Not a template wearing a costume.
04
LinkedIn Outreach
Targeted connection + follow-up sequences coordinated with email so touches build on each other, not repeat each other.
05
Pipeline Visibility
Weekly reporting. Open rates, reply rates, meetings booked. Numbers that survive scrutiny - not a dashboard built to look good.
06
Qualified Meetings
Booked into your calendar with context notes. Right ICP, right stage, right pain. Definition agreed upfront - no disputes at invoice time.
B2B SaaS, 5–25 people, US-based
Seed through Series A. You've raised. Now you need pipeline that doesn't depend on your calendar.
Founder is still the primary closer
It works - until it doesn't. You already know the ceiling is coming.
No dedicated sales function yet
Pre-sales hire - or about to hire and want the system working before they start.
Not for teams with an existing sales function
I build from zero. If a sales function already exists, I'm not the right fit.
2026–now
Founder, Lightspeed Impact
Fractional GTM · Outbound engine for pre-sales-hire SaaS teams · US clients
2024–2025
Sole Account Executive
Early-stage B2B SaaS · Delhi · 2-person sales team, no safety net, no playbook
2021–2023
Senior Analyst, Investment Banking
IIFL Securities · Front office · Private & public markets · Fundraising, valuation, founder advisory
Education
Singapore Management University
Business · Singapore

The IB background isn't a credential - it's a way of thinking. I build pipeline the way I built financial models: explicit assumptions, clean data, numbers that survive scrutiny. I don't guess at ICP. I score it. I don't guess at messaging. I profile the founder first.

The AE experience in a 2-person team means I've run the full sales motion without process, support, or playbook. I built the playbook under pressure. That's what you're getting - at <70% the cost of a US hire, because I'm based in India and that cost advantage is yours to use.

Yes. I cover EST through PST with real overlap - not just async. Calls during US business hours work by arrangement, and anything async gets a same-day response as standard.
Depends. If you have one person doing sales - a founder, an early AE, a generalist - yes, I slot in cleanly alongside them. I own the top of funnel, they own the close. Clean division, no overlap. If you already have a structured sales team with process and hierarchy, I'm probably not the right fit. I build from zero. Managing around an existing system is a different job.
Two things actually matter: qualified calls booked and conversion from those calls to clients. Everything else - open rates, reply rates, connection requests - is diagnostic data to get there, not the goal itself. We agree on what "qualified" means before we start, track calls booked weekly, and review conversion together monthly. If calls aren't converting, that's a conversation about ICP, positioning, or handoff - not just a number on a report.
Then we figure out why - together, quickly, without waiting for the quarter to end. Outbound fails for specific reasons: wrong ICP, weak message, deliverability issues, bad timing. Each has a fix. I'd rather spend week three rewriting the sequence than week twelve explaining why nothing converted. Full transparency on what's working and what isn't is non-negotiable. If after genuine iteration and honest assessment it's still not working, I'll tell you that too - and we part ways cleanly.
As quickly as you need. Outbound is one of those things where every week of delay is a week of pipeline you don't have - and the problem compounds. Infrastructure takes a week to set up properly. First outreach goes out in week two. The sooner we start, the sooner there's data to work with.
Is your pipeline
founder-dependent?

If yes - that's the problem. Let's talk about fixing it.