The cold email stack we actually use.
Categorized, ranked, with notes on what we recommend and why.
AI & Research
- Clay AIRecommended
Writes personalized research summaries, email copy, and enrichment logic at scale inside Clay.
- OpenRouter
Routes between GPT, Claude, Mistral, and others in bulk workflows based on cost and task fit.
- Perplexity
Pulls live web sources to build prospect context faster than manual Googling.
Automation
CRM & Pipeline
Cold Calling
Cold Email Sending
Data & List Building
- ApolloRecommended
275M+ contact database and the first stop before waterfall enrichment.
- CrunchbaseRecommended
Company intelligence database for funding signals, headcount growth, and firmographic filters.
- Ocean.ioRecommended
Finds lookalike companies based on your best clients so you stop guessing who to target.
Email Verification
Enrichment
- Anymail Finder
Pay-per-verified-email enrichment that only charges when it actually finds the address.
- ClayRecommended
Central nervous system of the outbound stack that pulls from 75+ data sources and runs AI research in one workflow.
- FindyMail
Finds and verifies professional emails with strong accuracy on European and SMB contacts.
- Lead Magic
Waterfall email finder that surfaces work emails when Apollo and others come up empty.
- Prospeo
Turns a Sales Nav URL into a verified contact list.
- RocketReach
Multi-channel contact enrichment covering emails, phone numbers, and social profiles.
Intent & Signals
- Adyntel
Reveals competitor ad activity to time outreach around market moves.
- RB2B
De-anonymizes website visitors and pushes their LinkedIn profiles to Slack in real time.
- SignalbaseRecommended
Real-time buying signals: funding events, hiring trends, job changes, and M&A, verified with source URLs and delivered in minutes.
- Trigify
Scrapes LinkedIn engagement to surface warm prospects before you ever reach out.
LinkedIn Outreach
Scraping
- Apify
Cloud scraping platform that pulls Apollo data and runs custom scrapers at a fraction of platform cost.
- Jina
Converts any webpage into clean AI-readable markdown for research and enrichment prompts.
- SerperDev
Pipes real-time Google search results directly into Clay and n8n workflows.
- ZenRows
Handles JavaScript-heavy sites and rotating proxies automatically.
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