Solo Marketplace BD Engine
Solo BD machine for a data marketplace: buyer map first, daily lead routine into a sheet, seller portfolio, criteria matching, drafts only
What it does
A one-person BD engine built in three weeks. It starts with a map of buyers (what they buy, who to contact, what the pitch should lead with). A weekday routine scans X, Google, Reddit, and LinkedIn into a leads sheet with a suggested opener (100+ rows so far). Each seller that replies gets a portfolio profile. When a partner's criteria email comes in, every seller is checked against it in minutes, with fits, maybes, and missing info flagged. Every email is a draft, and the author enforces rules like 'no naming sellers without consent' and 'never inflate numbers'.
- Who it's for
- Founder / GTM Lead
- GTM motion
- Partnerships, Outbound/ABM
- Building blocks
- Routines (schedule), Memory, Drafted sends (human approves), Connectors/MCP
- Complexity
- Intermediate
Setup + template
🔒 Prerequisites, trigger, step-by-step setup.
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