You asked us to find your perfect customer. We ran an 11-step market study on the founder content category (competitors, buyer language, platform data, list sources) and turned it into 24 campaign ideas. Each one is a different list plus a different first email. Pick one or two to start; the rest stay on the shelf for later months.
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Skim the cards. Each one is a different audience and a different first email.
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Use the tray at the bottom to copy your picks, then paste them in the Telegram group.
Nothing is built or spent until you choose. The cost on each card is what it takes to build that list (finding the right people and their verified emails); it is not a fee from us and it is capped per campaign.
Where we would start: Founders who just announced a round. The list is free to build from public filings, every email has a real reason to exist, and it leans on the strongest thing the study found: buyers check the founder before they take the call.
Grouped by who we would be emailing. Segment A (seed to Series A AI and SaaS founders) scored highest in the study, so most ideas sit there.
Seed to Series A AI / SaaS founders 12
Top 3
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Creative Ideas: three things [their company] could be known for
Broad listSave time$50-100 to run
Who we email: Base ICP list, Segment A first: founder, co-founder or CEO of a 2 to 30 person AI or SaaS startup, seed to Series A, US, UK, CA first. No trigger required. com founder/CEO field, Hub71 directory, a16z Speedrun, YC directory.
The angle: The 90-minute trade: you already have a month of content in your head; we turn one conversation into 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, posted across five platforms, without you writing or filming anything.
Free public list · roughly 1,000 to 2,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "I had an idea for [their company]. Reading your site, there are three things [their first name] could be the person known for:" then the three bullets. Flow: E1 (day 0) the three ideas, then the trade in one sentence ("one 90-minute conversation a month, we turn it into a month of clips and carousels in your voice and post them; no scripts, you never film yourself"), one-line ask. E2 (thread, +2 days): "The short version: 90 minutes a month, no filming, 30-plus posted assets. Worth a 30-minute look?" E3 (new thread, +5 days): the four 15-minute exercises at aleteo.io/guide, "no call needed". Personalization variables: [their first name], [their company], [use case 1], [use case 2], [use case 3], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: "Would any of these be worth 30 minutes?" Proof points: mechanism only (90 minutes vs the nearest comparable service's four hours a week, Founder Funnel homepage; no scripts; guaranteed to ship). Pain language: the market study EDP 4 (no time, "physically cannot stop building") and EDP 9 (does not know what to talk about; we bring the topics); the market study Angle 3. Voice: direct, one number, one ask, no client names.
Pain we lead with:
No time; cannot stop building; posted then stopped
Does not know what to talk about
Feels awkward recording content; does not want to become a content creator
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Not a Content Creator (static, zero AI)
Broad listSave time$50-100 to run
Who we email: Segment A base list, technical founders (CTO, technical co-founder, or founder with an engineering background visible in title), 2 to 30 people, seed to Series A. No trigger.
The angle: You do not have to become a content creator to stop being your market's best-kept secret. One conversation a month; we do the rest.
Free public list · roughly 1,000 to 2,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "You are not a content creator. You are building [their company]." Flow: E1 (day 0) three short lines: the symptom, the trade ("90 minutes a month on a call with us becomes 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, posted across LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Instagram and Shorts"), the fear pre-empt ("no scripts, you never film yourself, nothing that reads like AI"). E2 (thread, +2 days): "Worth a 30-minute look?" E3 (new thread, +5 days): aleteo.io/primer, "what a founder brand is actually for". Only [their first name] and [their company] from the list; no generated fields. CTA: 30-minute call at [your booking link]. Proof points: mechanism (90 minutes, no self-recording, guaranteed to ship, yours to keep). Why no AI: the list filter (technical founder, small funded team) is the personalization; the pain is universal in this segment. Pain language: the market study EDP 5 ("I'm not a 'content creator', I'm a developer", HN) and EDP 4; the market study items 8 to 12 via the market study.
Pain we lead with:
Hate the camera; not a content creator; afraid of looking cringe
No time; cannot stop building; posted then stopped
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New Hire: the Head of Marketing who needs the founder's face
Focused listMake money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Head of Marketing, Head of Growth, CMO or Marketing Manager who started the role fewer than 90 days ago at a Segment A company (AI or SaaS, 11 to 50 people, seed to Series A). Persona P2.
The angle: The founder's profile is the channel that is growing while paid and the company page shrink; we need 90 minutes of the founder's month, you get a shared calendar, weekly reporting and 30+ assets you keep.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Most new heads of marketing I talk to at [their company]-stage companies are handed a flat budget, paid that is losing money and a founder with no time. Is that on your radar [start month] in?" Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, then stat-led turn (company-page organic reach on LinkedIn fell 60 to 66 percent from 2024 to early 2026, Ordinal; executive posts get 6.8x the impressions of an average post, coverage of LinkedIn's 2026 Executive Influence Report), then [inherited gap], then the trade ("90 minutes of [founder first name]'s month; we do the rest, with a shared calendar and weekly reporting; nothing depends on the founder's discipline"). E2 (thread, +2): "Does [founder first name] have 90 minutes a month? That is the whole ask." E3 (new thread, +5): burned-buyer line (the last agency sent a filming schedule; the AI tool sent posts that sounded like everyone else), execution guarantee, offer to map the founder's first month of topics. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [start month], [previous company], [founder first name], [inherited gap], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes, plus the topic map as the soft ask. Proof points: market data (Ordinal, 6.8x, Meta and Google negative ROI for a second consecutive year, Focus Digital 2026), mechanism (assets yours to keep). Maps to camp-05 "The founder's profile". Pain language: the market study EDP 2 and EDP 6; the market study Angle 6 and the P2 sequence skeleton.
Pain we lead with:
Marketing spend never compounds; paid CAC rising, Meta and Google negative ROI
Tools and ghostwriters lose the voice; agencies guarantee views and deliver 3.6 percent
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Lookalike: founders like the seed set (mechanism-grounded, no client names)
Focused listReduce risk$20-50 to run
Who we email: Companies that look like the discovery seed set in the market study (joinmodus.com, fish.audio, maisa.ai, venice.ai, town.com, monogram.ai, enzy.co, usesimpli.com, frugal.co, suger.io): seed to Series A AI/SaaS/fintech from 2026 funding lists, a named and visible founder, 2 to 30 people, English-speaking markets, a product but no distribution. Similarity axes: sector tag, funding stage, headcount band, founder-led sales visible on site. com, SEC Form D Atom feed, TechCrunch venture RSS, Crunchbase News RSS. PROOF RULE: Aleteo has zero citable customers. The seed set is a targeting pattern, not a client list; never name a seed domain or a homepage logo in copy. Replace the seed set with real pilots once the client confirms them.
The angle: Founders in your exact position are being researched before the first call and found empty; the fix costs 90 minutes a month, not a content career.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "We are working with founders in the same spot as [their company]: [lookalike trait], real product, founder doing the selling, and a profile buyers check and find nothing on." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, then the risk turn (74 percent of B2B buyers visit three or more team profiles before engaging a vendor, Ghost; 83 percent finish their research before contact), then [profile state] as the observed gap, then the trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice; posted and tracked; guaranteed to ship). E2 (thread, +2): the mechanism in three lines and "worth 30 minutes before the next raise?" E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer plus the third-party founder line, Arbol co-founder, attributed as a public quote, not a client). Variables: [their first name], [their company], [lookalike trait], [profile state], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute discovery call. Proof points: mechanism plus market data only. Copy must say "founders in the same spot" and never "we helped X"; the honest version of a lookalike until a pilot is named. Pain language: the market study EDP 1 (buyers research the person first) and EDP 7; the market study Angle 2 turn.
Pain we lead with:
Nobody knows we exist; every deal starts from zero; buyers check the person before the call
Has to sell themselves from scratch on every single call
Our first pick
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Just Raised: the louder worse founder
Focused listMake money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Segment A founders whose company announced a seed or Series A round in the last 90 days. com.
The angle: The raise buys you 90 days of attention; investors, hires and buyers are checking the person, and a founder with a worse product is the one they already know. Ninety minutes a month makes you the one they know.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Saw the [the round they raised] for [their company] on [where we saw it]. Congrats. One thing that happens next: there is a founder with a worse product on every panel and podcast in your space, and your buyers check the people before the product." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (74 percent of B2B buyers visit three or more team profiles before engaging, Ghost; VC funding raises media coverage 26 percent and that coverage raises the odds of the next round, HBS), the trade (one 90-minute conversation a month, 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, posted across five platforms, you decide what you want to be known for), one-line ask. Keep the ego line to one sentence, no pile-on. E2 (thread, +2): "The short version: 90 minutes a month, no filming, 30-plus posted assets. Worth a look before the next raise?" E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, soft close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [the round they raised], [where we saw it], [their lead investor] (optional), [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute discovery call. Proof points: market data (Ghost 74 percent, HBS 26 percent), mechanism, competitor weakness (nearest comparable service asks four hours a week, Founder Funnel homepage). Maps to camp-01 "Just raised" (priority 1 in research). Pain language: the market study EDP 3 ("a founder with a worse product is scaling faster than you", homepage) and EDP 1; the market study Angle 2.
Pain we lead with:
A founder with a worse product is louder and investors know his story
Nobody knows we exist; every deal starts from zero; buyers check the person before the call
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Just Launched: start warm instead of sixty cold emails a day
Focused listSave time$20-50 to run
Who we email: Segment A founders who launched on Product Hunt, Show HN, BetaList or YC Launches in the last 60 days, no marketing hire visible on the team page.
The angle: Every deal after the launch still starts from zero and the founder is the SDR; a founder people already follow gets met warm, and it costs 90 minutes a month, not your evenings.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Saw [their company] on [launch platform]. The launch spike fades in a week; then every deal starts from zero and you are the one sending sixty cold emails a day." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (76 percent of B2B buyers would rather take a meeting with someone they already follow, HubSpot), trade (90 minutes a month with us becomes 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, posted for you; no scripts, you never film yourself), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "One conversation a month, a month of content. Worth a 30-minute look?" E3 (new thread, +5): the burned-buyer guarantee (we do not guarantee views; we guarantee every asset ships every month and you keep them if you leave) plus aleteo.io/guide. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [launch platform], [launch tagline], [launch audience], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes; guide as fallback. Proof points: HubSpot 76 percent, mechanism, execution guarantee. Maps to camp-02 "Just launched / hiring marketing". Pain language: the market study EDP 7 ("sixty to one hundred cold email touches per day"; "we ship to the sound of crickets", Indie Hackers); the market study Angle 1.
Pain we lead with:
Has to sell themselves from scratch on every single call
No inbound, no buyers, flat pipeline, rising acquisition costs
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Hiring Marketing: the founder's profile before the hire lands
Focused listSave money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Segment A companies (11 to 50 people, AI or SaaS) with an open marketing, growth or content role posted in the last 60 days. Recipient: founder or CEO, not the recruiter.
The angle: The role you posted is two jobs (strategist plus editor) and it will not start for months; the founder's profile is already the channel, and 90 minutes a month runs it for less than one salary.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Saw the [role title] post at [their company]. Two of the bullets ([jd content lines]) are the founder's content job in disguise." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, the money turn, the trade (90 minutes of [their first name]'s month; 15+ clips, 15+ carousels, scheduled, posted, tracked; assets yours to keep so the hire inherits a library, not a blank page), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Not instead of the hire. Before it, and cheaper than it." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, soft close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [role title], [jd content lines], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: Indeed salary figures, mechanism, yours to keep. Do not quote Aleteo pricing in E1; the Sprint can appear in a reply. Maps to camp-02 (hiring trigger). Pain language: the market study EDP 2 (every dollar starts from zero) and EDP 4.
Pain we lead with:
Marketing spend never compounds; paid CAC rising, Meta and Google negative ROI
Every marketing dollar starts from zero and never compounds
Top 3
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Posted Then Stopped: [days since last post] days of silence (quantified pain)
Niche listSave time$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment A founder (AI or SaaS, 2 to 30 people, funded in the last 12 months) AND public LinkedIn or X activity shows a burst of 5+ posts followed by 45+ days of silence.
The angle: The ideas were never the problem; the hours and the camera were. One 90-minute conversation a month is the reason month four looks like month one.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their first name], you posted [burst count] times about [burst topic] and then nothing for [days since last post] days. Usually a product fire, not a change of mind." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn, trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; we turn it into a month of clips and carousels that sound like you and post them across LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Instagram and Shorts; no scripts, no self-recording), the guarantee (every asset ships every month; yours to keep), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Most founders post for three weeks. We are the reason month four looks like month one." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, four 15-minute exercises, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [burst count], [burst topic], [days since last post], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: mechanism, the four-hours-a-week comparison (Founder Funnel homepage) used sparingly. Tone: observational, one sentence on the gap, never mocking. Creative stretch: quantified pain. Pain language: the market study EDP 4 ("tried posting for a few weeks. Then a product fire happened...and the content just stopped", HubSpot); the market study trigger "founder recently started posting inconsistently".
Pain we lead with:
No time; cannot stop building; posted then stopped
Building, shipping, posting, showing up, and results do not move
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Podcast With No Follow-Through
Niche listSave time$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment A founder AND appeared as a guest on a podcast or conference stage in the last 90 days AND no clips or posts about it on the founder's public profile.
The angle: You already did the hard part: 45 minutes of you talking about the work is half of what we need for a month of content. Ninety minutes with us and it never disappears into an episode page again.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "You spent [episode date] on [podcast name] talking about [episode topic], and nothing from it is on your profile. That is a month of content that evaporated." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (an interview is exactly the format we build from; you clearly do not need a script, you need someone to cut and write it), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month with us; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, captioned per platform, scheduled, posted, tracked), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Same as the podcast, minus the host plugging their sponsor: 90 minutes, once a month." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [podcast name], [episode date], [episode topic], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: mechanism (interview, not shoot); market data optional (76 percent would rather meet someone they already follow, HubSpot). Pain language: the market study trigger "podcast or conference appearance with no follow-through"; the market study EDP 4; the market study (video podcasts mainstream, 57 percent both listen and watch).
Pain we lead with:
No time; cannot stop building; posted then stopped
Every marketing dollar starts from zero and never compounds
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Burned Buyer: sounded like everyone else
Niche listReduce risk$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment A or D founder AND public profile shows the signature of a tool or ghostwriter (uniform hook-plus-broetry posts, identical cadence, AI-flagged style) OR a past agency or ghostwriter visible in public history (agency tagging the founder, 'content by' credits).
The angle: Platforms now cut reach on content that reads as AI and buyers can tell; we record you and edit what you said, so the voice is the asset, and we guarantee execution, not views.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "The last agency sent scripts and a filming schedule. The AI tool sent posts that sounded like everyone else. Your profile has [style tell], which is usually the tool talking." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, risk turn (LinkedIn cuts views on content it flags as AI slop by about 40 percent, as reported; a founder's register is a ranking factor now), the mechanism (voice is the whole job; we record you talking, then cut and write from that; nothing invented, nothing generic), the guarantee contrast, light CTA. E2 (thread, +2): "Send me the last three posts you hated and I will tell you what went wrong." E3 (new thread, +5): 30 minutes, aleteo.io/guide. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [style tell], [voice contrast] (optional), [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: the three-posts ask first (high reply), then the call. Proof points: AI slop penalty (Yahoo Finance coverage), competitor weakness (view guarantee delivering 3.6 percent, Clutch review of Viral Coach; "spreadsheets and recycled videos", Hook Point review; Taplio "robotic"), mechanism. Never name the competitor in copy; describe the pattern. Pain language: the market study EDP 6; the market study Angle 4.
Pain we lead with:
Tools and ghostwriters lose the voice; agencies guarantee views and deliver 3.6 percent
Spending more and posting more has not bought trust
Who we email: Stacked three ways: Segment A company raised in the last 90 days (Form D, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News) AND has an open marketing or growth role (Wellfound 11 to 50 + Marketing, YC jobs) AND the founder's public profile shows no post in 60+ days. Small list, every name pre-qualified on budget, intent and gap.
The angle: You have the budget, you are hiring for the channel, and the channel's best asset (you) is silent; 90 minutes a month fills the gap before the hire lands and compounds after.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[signal stack]: [their company] raised a [the round they raised], is hiring a [role title], and [their first name] has not posted in [days since last post] days. Three signals that usually mean the same thing." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (the raise buys attention for a quarter; VC funding raises media coverage 26 percent and coverage raises the odds of the next round, HBS; the buyer checks the founder, not the job post), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month, 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, posted and tracked across five platforms; the hire inherits a library), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Before the hire, not instead of it. 90 minutes a month is the whole ask." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [the round they raised], [where we saw it], [role title], [days since last post], [signal stack], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: HBS, mechanism. Creative stretch: trigger-stacked; expect a list in the dozens, not hundreds, per month. Pain language: the market study EDP 3 and EDP 2; the market study trigger events (funding, hiring, inconsistent posting).
Pain we lead with:
A founder with a worse product is louder and investors know his story
Marketing spend never compounds; paid CAC rising, Meta and Google negative ROI
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You Are the Marketing Department (unusual title / team structure)
Niche listSave time$10-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment A company with 2 to 30 people AND zero marketing, growth or content headcount visible on the team page or LinkedIn AND the founder's public title carries a second hat ('CEO & Head of Growth', 'Founder, Product & Marketing', 'CEO / everything else'). 3 percent of startups rely solely on the founder for marketing.
The angle: You are the CEO, the seller and the marketing department; the one marketing job that needs your face is the one we can do with 90 minutes of you a month.
Paid list discovery · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Your title says [dual title] and the team page lists [team count] people, none of them in marketing. So the marketing department is you, between customer calls." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (15.3 percent of startups rely solely on the founder for marketing, GTM 8020; the founder's profile is the one channel a hire cannot do for you, and it now outreaches the company page by 6.8x per post, as reported), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; we write the hooks, run the Q&A, cut 15+ clips, write 15+ carousels, schedule, post and report; you do not write anything and you do not film yourself), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Ninety minutes. One calendar hold. That is the whole marketing meeting." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [dual title], [team count], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: GTM 8020 stat, 6.8x, mechanism. Creative stretch: unusual title plus team structure. Pain language: the market study EDP 4 ("I physically cannot stop building", HN) and EDP 7; the market study P1 (decides, pays, and is the talent).
Pain we lead with:
No time; cannot stop building; posted then stopped
Has to sell themselves from scratch on every single call
Fractional executives 3
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Feast or Famine: posts while you are billing
Focused listMake money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Fractional CFO, COO, CMO, CTO or Interim CMO running a 1 to 5 person practice, US, UK, CA, AU. LinkedIn title search is out of scope for this run.
The angle: Referrals only come from people who already know you and they arrive when you are busiest; a founder brand that posts while you are billing is the one pipeline that does not stop when you are staffed.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Referrals only come from people who already know you, and they show up when you are busiest. [referral line] suggests [their company] runs on them." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (a founder brand that posts while you are billing is the one system that fixes the availability paradox; 74 percent of B2B buyers check three or more profiles before engaging, Ghost), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; a month of LinkedIn video and carousels in your voice on [specialism], posted for you; nothing salesy, nothing you would be embarrassed to be tagged in), Sprint framed as a trial. E2 (thread, +2): "What would you want to be known for by [month plus 3]?" plus one proof line (carousels get 39 percent more reach on LinkedIn and under 5 percent of creators use them, AuthoredUp). E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [referral line], [specialism], [post cadence], [month plus 3], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-Day Sprint as trial, 30-minute call. Proof points: Ghost 74 percent, AuthoredUp carousels, mechanism. Maps to camp-03 "Feast or famine". Pain language: the market study EDP 8 ("a presence that's visible only when you're least available", Blueberry Media) and EDP 5 ("icky or salesy"); the market study Angle 5 and the Segment C skeleton.
Pain we lead with:
Feast-or-famine referral cycle; referrals are not a reliable growth strategy
Availability paradox: visible when idle, invisible when staffed
Posting feels icky or salesy; dread; does not know what to do on LinkedIn
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Fractional Sprint at Launch Price (static, zero AI)
Focused listSave money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Same Segment C list as cs-009 (fractional CFO/COO/CMO/CTO, 1 to 5 person practice). Optional filter: profile shows no post in the last 60 days.
The angle: One month, one 90-minute conversation, a month of LinkedIn video and carousels in your voice, at the launch price for the first five; you keep every asset even if you stop.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "One conversation, a month of content. For fractional executives we are running a 30-Day Sprint at the launch price for the first five." Flow: E1 (day 0) four lines: the symptom (feast or famine; visible when idle, invisible when staffed), the trade (90 minutes on a call; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, scheduled and posted; no scripts, no self-recording), the price, the guarantee (guaranteed to ship; yours to keep). E2 (thread, +2): "Worth 30 minutes to see if it fits your practice?" E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, close. Variables: [their first name] only, plus [your name] and [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: mechanism and the execution guarantee only; the price is the hook. Why no AI: the title filter is the whole qualification. Pricing note: this is one of the few ideas that states the launch offer; keep the "first five" line honest and drop it once five are signed. Pain language: the market study EDP 8; the market study Segment C budget note (solo practitioners will not spend $8k a month; the $4k Sprint fits).
Pain we lead with:
Feast-or-famine referral cycle; referrals are not a reliable growth strategy
The awkward first month and the 8 to 20 week ramp before content pays
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Between Engagements: the window is now
Niche listReduce risk$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: fractional CFO/COO/CMO/CTO (Segment C) AND a public signal that an engagement just ended or capacity opened (HN 'Who wants to be hired?' post in the last 30 days, 'open to new engagements' on the site or profile, a 'wrapped up with' post).
The angle: You are visible right now because you have capacity, and invisible the day you are staffed again; a system that posts for you closes that gap before the next famine, and it costs 90 minutes a month.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[availability signal]. The paradox of fractional work: this is the only month anyone sees you, and the month you least need them to." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, risk turn (a presence visible only when you are least available and invisible when the next opportunity should be forming; the ramp before content pays is 8 to 20 weeks, so starting while you have capacity is the only time it is free), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; a month of LinkedIn video and carousels on [specialism] in your voice, posted whether or not you are staffed), Sprint as the trial. E2 (thread, +2): "Start while you have the hours. By the time the next engagement lands it is running without you." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, close. Variables: [their first name], [availability signal], [specialism], [retainer shape] (optional), [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-Day Sprint at launch price where budget is tight; 30-minute call. Proof points: mechanism, the ramp figure. Pain language: the market study EDP 8 ("visible only when you're least available, and invisible when you most need the next opportunity to be forming", Blueberry Media); the market study Segment C pain "the awkward first month and the 8 to 20 week ramp".
Pain we lead with:
Availability paradox: visible when idle, invisible when staffed
The awkward first month and the 8 to 20 week ramp before content pays
Agency owners 3
cs-011
Cobbler's Kids: your clients get your best marketing
Focused listMake money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Founder, owner, managing partner or managing director of an ad, SEO, web development or AI automation agency, 1 to 49 people, US, UK, CA, AU, AE (Segment D). Owner posts rarely while the agency page is active.
The angle: Your clients get your best marketing and your own pipeline gets what is left; 90 minutes a month puts the owner in front of the fun clients and the podcasts the competitor is getting.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their company] publishes [agency cadence] for clients and [client work example] looks great. [their first name]'s own profile: [owner cadence]. Cobbler's kids." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (company-page organic reach on LinkedIn fell 60 to 66 percent from 2024 to early 2026, Ordinal; when the founder's visibility drops the agency's pipeline follows), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice on [agency service], posted across five platforms; nothing that reads like AI, because your audience will know), Sprint. E2 (thread, +2): "One calendar hold a month. Your team never gets pulled off client work." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer; optionally seed the white-label conversation as a second topic (research: white-label as a second conversation, never the opener). Variables: [their first name], [their company], [agency cadence], [owner cadence], [agency service], [client work example], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-Day Sprint, 30-minute call. Proof points: Ordinal reach data, mechanism. Risk: marketers judging marketing; any AI-sounding line kills it. Maps to camp-04 "Cobbler's kids". Pain language: the market study EDP 8 ("There's no time. The budget always goes to client work first.", Setup); the market study Angle 5 agency variant.
Pain we lead with:
Cobbler's children: the budget always goes to client work first
When the founder's visibility drops the agency's pipeline follows
Competitors get the podcasts and the fun clients
cs-021
New Service Line, Nobody Saw It
Niche listReduce risk$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment D agency (1 to 49 people) AND launched a new service line or niche in the last 90 days (new page on site, directory listing updated, announcement on the company page) AND the owner's profile did not post about it.
The angle: You launched [new service] on a company page that reaches a fraction of what it did in 2024; the owner's face is the launch channel, and it takes 90 minutes a month.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their company] launched [new service] on [announce date]. It is on the company page and nowhere on [their first name]'s profile, which is the one place [service audience] would actually see it." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, risk turn (company-page organic reach on LinkedIn fell 60 to 66 percent from 2024 to early 2026, Ordinal; executive posts get 6.8x an average post, as reported; a launch on the wrong channel is a launch nobody saw), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice, the first month built around [new service]; posted across five platforms), Sprint. E2 (thread, +2): "One calendar hold. Your delivery team stays on client work." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [new service], [announce date], [service audience], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-Day Sprint, 30-minute call. Proof points: Ordinal, 6.8x, mechanism. Pain language: the market study Segment D buying signal "new service line or niche launched" and pain "when the founder's visibility drops the agency's pipeline follows"; the market study EDP 2.
Pain we lead with:
When the founder's visibility drops the agency's pipeline follows
Cold outreach fatigue; visibility as the fix
cs-022
Team Page Math: everyone points at clients
Niche listSave money$10-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: Segment D agency with a public team page listing 8 to 49 people AND at least two content, social or video roles on that page AND the owner's profile posts less than monthly.
The angle: You already employ the people who could do this for you and every one of them is billed to a client; pulling one off client work costs margin, while 90 minutes of the owner a month costs a calendar hold.
Paid list discovery · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their company] has [team count] people on the team page, [content role count] of them in content or video, and all of them billed to clients. That is why the owner's profile is quiet." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, money turn (the budget always goes to client work first; taking a content lead off billable work costs margin every month, while an outside service that needs only the owner's 90 minutes does not touch utilisation), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in the owner's voice, scheduled and posted; your team never opens the project), guarantee (guaranteed to ship; yours to keep, so it is also portfolio proof), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Zero hours from your delivery team. Ninety minutes from you." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [team count], [content role count], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: mechanism; the in-house substitute cost only in E2 or a reply, never against a named employee. Creative stretch: team-structure count. Pain language: the market study EDP 8 ("There's no time. The budget always goes to client work first.", Setup); the market study Segment D notes (they value multi-platform output as portfolio proof).
Pain we lead with:
Cobbler's children: the budget always goes to client work first
When the founder's visibility drops the agency's pipeline follows
Health tech and climate tech founders 2
cs-008
Health Tech Trust Line (Segment F inside A)
Focused listReduce risk$20-50 to run
Who we email: Founders and CEOs of health tech companies, 2 to 50 people, funded in the last 12 months, US, UK, CA, AU. Rides inside the Segment A list with a vertical opening line.
The angle: In a vertical where every buyer and regulator is sceptical by default, a founder who is visibly explaining the work is a credibility buffer; we build it from 90 minutes a month with nothing invented and nothing promised.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their company] is selling [product class] into buyers who assume the worst until a person they trust explains it. Right now that explanation lives on your site, not on you." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (73 percent of decision-makers trust thought leadership more than marketing materials, Edelman-LinkedIn as reported, footnote only; 74 percent check three or more team profiles, Ghost), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month, cut and written from what you actually said, no scripts; we do not put words in a clinician's mouth), the risk pre-empt (no outcome claims about your product in the content; you review before anything ships; guaranteed to ship, yours to keep). E2 (thread, +2): "It is a conversation, not a shoot. 90 minutes a month is the whole ask." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [product class], [credibility claim], [profile state], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: Ghost 74 percent, mechanism (in your voice, review step). Caution: health tech pain rests on vendor claims (P3_CLAIMED); keep the vertical line to one sentence and lean on the Segment A pains. Climate tech is unresearched; do not extend this idea to climate without research. Pain language: the market study Segment F pain ("visibility as a credibility buffer against regulatory and clinical scepticism"); the market study EDP 1.
Pain we lead with:
Visibility as a credibility buffer against regulatory and clinical scepticism
Nobody knows we exist; every deal starts from zero; buyers check the person before the call
cs-019
Don't Teach Your Agency Your Industry (Segment F, deep-tech translator)
Niche listSave time$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: health tech or climate tech founder (Segment F, 2 to 50 people, funded in last 12 months) AND product requires domain explanation (site carries a glossary, a 'how it works' science page, or regulatory language) AND a past agency or generic marketing vendor is visible in public history. Rides inside Segment A lists.
The angle: You should not have to teach your agency your own industry; an interview built from your explanations, cut and written by people who follow tech, means the content is right the first time and costs you 90 minutes a month.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Every agency you brief on [their company] needs [concept 1] explained twice. That onboarding cost is why founders in your vertical stop posting." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (the interview is the brief: you explain [concept 1] and [concept 2] once, on a call, and the month's clips and carousels are cut from your words, so nothing gets dumbed down or invented), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice; you review before anything ships; guaranteed to ship, yours to keep), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "No scripts, no self-recording, no glossary for us. 90 minutes a month." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [concept 1], [concept 2], [translation line], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30 minutes. Proof points: mechanism, AI slop penalty as a why-now. Caution: the "five years in tech content" claim is held until a body of work exists ; the industry-fluency pillar must be shown by [translation line], not asserted. Climate tech pains are unresearched; keep vertical wording generic. Pain language: the market study observable_pain "tired of explaining their industry to agencies who do not get it"; the market study EDP 6.
Pain we lead with:
Tired of explaining their industry to agencies who do not get it
Visibility as a credibility buffer against regulatory and clinical scepticism
Fintech founders (on hold: needs a compliance step) 2
cs-012
Fintech Just Raised, compliance-reviewed (HOLD until review step is in the offer)
Focused listReduce risk$20-50 to run
Who we email: Founder, co-founder, CEO or CMO of a 5 to 50 person fintech that announced a round in the last 90 days, US, UK, SG, AE, AU (Segment B). HOLD: research says do not run until a compliance-review step is written into the offer.
The angle: Trust-first buyers and investors research the person before the product, and fintech pays the highest CAC in the ICP to reach them; founder content with a compliance review step is the channel that compounds without a promissory claim in it.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Saw the [the round they raised] for [their company] on [where we saw it]. In [regulated activity] the buyer checks the founder before the product, and the founder cannot say anything promissory. Both are solvable." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (fintech CAC is $1,450 against $239 for B2B SaaS, First Page Sage; 74 percent of buyers check three or more team profiles, Ghost), the trade with the risk line (one 90-minute conversation a month; we cut and write from what you said; every asset passes a compliance review you control before it ships; no performance or outcome claims about your product, ever), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "No scripts, no self-recording, nothing ships without your review." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [the round they raised], [where we saw it], [regulated activity], [licence or partner], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: First Page Sage CAC, Ghost, mechanism, review step. Compliance notes ; no promissory claims in Aleteo's content. Maps to camp-06-hold. Pain language: the market study Segment B pains; the market study EDP 1 and EDP 2.
Pain we lead with:
Highest CAC in the ICP ($1,450); trust-first buyers
Cannot make promissory claims; needs a review layer
cs-023
Licence Milestone: the trust window (Segment B, HOLD)
Niche listMake money$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: fintech founder or CEO (Segment B, 5 to 50 people) AND a licence, registration, partner-bank or regulatory milestone announced in the last 60 days AND no founder content about it. HOLD with cs-012 until the compliance-review step is written into the offer.
The angle: A licence is the one moment a regulated buyer and an investor both look at you; founder content with a review step turns that window into a channel that compounds, at the highest CAC in the ICP.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[their company] announced [milestone] on [milestone date]. That is the moment regulated buyers and investors both look at the founder, and the press release is the only thing they will find." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (fintech CAC is $1,450 against $239 for B2B SaaS, First Page Sage; trust-first buyers research the person, 74 percent check three or more profiles, Ghost), trade with the review line (one 90-minute conversation a month; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice; every asset passes your compliance review before it ships; no promissory claims, ever), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Nothing ships without your review. 90 minutes a month is the whole ask." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [their company], [milestone], [milestone date], [regulator or partner], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: First Page Sage CAC, Ghost, mechanism plus review step. Compliance: FINRA Rule 2210 for registered persons, FCA promotion rules unverified. Pain language: the market study Segment B pains and buying signal "licence or regulatory milestone announced"; the market study EDP 1.
Pain we lead with:
Obscurity before regulated buyers and investors
Highest CAC in the ICP ($1,450); trust-first buyers
Emerging VC managers (on hold) 2
cs-013
New Fund Form D: LPs find you before the deck (HOLD until a pilot exists)
Focused listMake money$20-50 to run
Who we email: Partner, managing partner, general partner or founder of a fund I or II, 1 to 10 people, with a new Form D 'venture capital fund' filing or first close in the last 120 days, US, UK, CA, SG, AE (Segment E). HOLD: research says wait for a pilot before a dedicated VC campaign.
The angle: LPs discover managers through video and podcasts before they see a deck, and raises take 15 months; 90 minutes a month keeps you visible for the whole raise without a second job.
Free public list · roughly 300 to 1,000 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "Saw the Form D for [fund name]. LPs now find managers through videos and podcasts before they open a deck, and a fund I raise is a 15-month job." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (attributed public quote from TechCrunch coverage: a solo GP says LPs often discover him through videos or podcasts before seeing a fund deck, Jarrosson; executive posts get 6.8x the impressions of an average post, as reported), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month on [thesis]; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice; posted and tracked; guaranteed to ship), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "Solo GP, no one to share the load: that is what the 90 minutes is for." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/primer, close. Variables: [their first name], [fund name], [thesis], [content state], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: TechCrunch quote (public, attributed, not a client), 6.8x, mechanism. Caution: no first-hand buyer voice beyond one public quote; payoff is 12 to 18 months (vendor claim), so keep the promise to visibility during the raise, never to closing LPs. Pain language: the market study Segment E pains; the market study EDP 3 and EDP 8.
Pain we lead with:
LPs discover managers through video and podcasts before the deck; raises take 15 months
Solo: no one to share the load
cs-024
Stalled Fund Content: tried every channel, sustained none (Segment E, HOLD)
Niche listSave time$0-20 to run
Who we email: Stacked: emerging VC manager or solo GP (Segment E, fund I or II, 1 to 10 people) AND the fund launched a newsletter, podcast or content series that stalled (last issue or episode 60+ days ago). HOLD with cs-013 until a pilot exists.
The angle: You tried every channel at once and sustained none of it because there is no one to share the load; one 90-minute conversation a month is the version that survives a raise.
Free public list · roughly 100 to 300 contacts
How the emails would go
Hook: "[fund name]'s [content format] last went out [days since last issue] days ago. Emerging managers try every channel at once and sustain none of it; that is a load problem, not an ideas problem." Flow: E1 (day 0) hook, turn (LPs discover managers through videos and podcasts before they see a deck, public TechCrunch quote from a solo GP, attributed; a fund I raise runs about 15 months, so the channel has to survive the whole raise), trade (one 90-minute conversation a month on [thesis]; 15+ clips and 15+ carousels in your voice; scheduled, posted and tracked; guaranteed to ship every month whether or not you had time), ask. E2 (thread, +2): "The 90 minutes replaces the newsletter, the podcast prep and the posting. One calendar hold." E3 (new thread, +5): aleteo.io/guide, close. Variables: [their first name], [fund name], [content format], [days since last issue], [thesis], [your name], [your booking link]. CTA: 30-minute call. Proof points: mechanism, TechCrunch quote. Caution: only one public buyer quote exists for this segment; promise visibility, never LP outcomes. Pain language: the market study Segment E pains ("try every channel at once and sustain none of it"; "solo: no one to share the load") and buying signal "fund launched a newsletter or podcast then stalled"; the market study EDP 8.
Pain we lead with:
Try every channel at once and sustain none of it
Solo: no one to share the load
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Also on the shelf
Campaigns with no AI personalisation
Short and direct; the list does the qualifying.
Not a Content Creator (Segment A technical founders). The list filter (technical founder title, 2 to 30 people, seed to Series A) is the qualification. The pain is near-universal in the segment, so the copy needs no generated line to land. Broad end of the spectrum. Same idea as cs-002.
Fractional Sprint at Launch Price (Segment C). Fractional CFO/COO/CMO/CTO titles self-qualify: one-person buying committee, feast-or-famine pain, referral-dependent. The launch price is the hook; personalization would dilute it. Focused end of the spectrum. Same idea as cs-010.
Ninety Minutes vs Four Hours a Week (Segment A and D, comparison static). Founder time is the axis no competitor owns : the nearest comparable service asks four hours a week of founder time, per its own homepage. A factual comparison needs no personalization; the number is the message. Sits between broad and focused: any founder-led list of 2 to 50 people.
Things we could give away to earn the reply
The Guide: four 15-minute personal brand exercises (aleteo.io/guide). Existing free resource on the site. Send as the E3 fallback or the reply to 'not now': four 15-minute exercises the founder does alone, no call needed, that end with a draft of what they want to be known for.
The Primer: what a founder brand is actually for (aleteo.io/primer). Existing free resource on the site. Send to founders who do not yet have a personal brand (cta.preferred_first: ask whether they have considered building one) and to the ego-angle openers (Just Raised, Lookalike) as the no-pressure close. Line to quote from it: 'A personal brand is what your name does for you when you're not in the room.'
First-Month Topic Map (free, 30 minutes of Aleteo time). After a reply or on the second touch, Aleteo maps the founder's first month of topics from their public site, launch posts and any podcast appearance: 8 to 10 hooks in the founder's language, sent as a one-page note. Built from the research CTA in camp-05 ('offer to map the founder's first month of topics') and the Angle 4 reply CTA ('send me the last three posts you hated and I will tell you what went wrong').