AI agents for sales & lead gen

Agents that find leads, research prospects and run outreach pipelines. Each entry has a copy-paste prompt, difficulty, setup time and known pitfalls.

Use cases

Sales & lead genReddit

Prospect B2B leads autonomously for 2 weeks (lessons)

An agent running 24/7 on a Mac Mini finds prospects, verifies emails, sends outreach, makes PDF briefings, and tracks the pipeline, keeping a lessons log so it improves over time.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Strong evidence
OpenClawSource-linked
Sales & lead genReddit

Research inbound leads when HubSpot fires a webhook

A HubSpot webhook alerts a 'Researcher' agent, which scrapes the prospect's site and LinkedIn for recent news. The trigger itself is a plain webhook, not an LLM.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
OpenClawSource-linked
Sales & lead genX · 2026-10

Grok Bot as a musician's booking agent (30 shows)

An Elvis tribute singer says Grok Bot emails venues, negotiates prices, closes deals and reports back, and booked 30 shows in a month.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Some evidence
Grok BotSource-linked
Sales & lead genX · 2026-03

Run a 4-agent cold outreach pipeline

Scrapes 500+ leads, verifies the emails, writes a personalized icebreaker from each lead's website, and uploads everything to an Instantly campaign.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
OpenClawClaude CodeSource-linked
Sales & lead genReddit

Manus lead-to-meeting workflow for a freelancer

Picks a contact from the database, writes a briefing, drafts a custom message, attaches portfolio assets, builds a presentation, logs it in the CRM, sends, follows up, and adds booked meetings to Calendar. It runs daily.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
ManusSource-linkedNeeds verification
Sales & lead genReddit

$50/24h outreach experiment: brutal site critiques, 60% replies

A context bug made the agent drop its polite template and send blunt, specific critiques of founders' sites to 40 founders. The author reports a 62% reply rate, 8 calls, and 2 paid $300 audits.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
Custom agentSource-linked
Sales & lead genReddit

Clay + Claude: 2,000 sends to 5 meetings in 5 days

Sales Navigator list enriched in Clay, Claude writes a personalized first email, 2 follow-ups and 3 subject lines, then emails are verified and sent via Smartlead.

  • Level Intermediate
  • Setup1–3 hrs*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
ClaudeSource-linkedNeeds verification
Sales & lead genReddit

n8n execution videos on YouTube landed a €750 client

A builder posted plain n8n workflow-run videos on a 40-subscriber channel, and a viewer hired him for €750 paid upfront.

  • Level Beginner
  • Setup~30 min*
  • Evidence Anecdotal
n8nSource-linkedBeginner-friendly

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