16:22Taylor Haren · Essay
The Best Lead Generation Strategy for 2026
Cold email replies are rare. The real signal is the hundred people who clicked, browsed your site, and left, and a system built to follow up with them the same day.
October 19thThe argument in one line.
A single natural-language prompt can now replace days of manual LinkedIn prospecting, using a people-search agent that finds, scores, verifies, and emails qualified leads for any service business.
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READ IF YOU ARE…
- You run an AI automation, voice AI, or agency business and spend hours manually prospecting on LinkedIn.
- You want a faster way to find owners and founders at companies above a specific revenue threshold.
- You're comparing AI-powered lead generation tools and want to see one demoed end to end, not just described.
SKIP IF…
- You're looking for a free or organic lead-generation method; this tool runs on paid search credits.
- You sell to consumers rather than business owners and founders.
The full version, fast.
This is a screen-recorded demo of Lessie AI, a people-search tool that turns one plain-language prompt into a scored, verified list of business leads. The presenter searches for Australian healthcare businesses doing $1M+ ARR that would fit a voice AI product, gets back leads scored 0-100 against his criteria, opens individual profiles with AI-written summaries and verified emails, exports the list to a spreadsheet, and then has the same tool draft and send a personalized cold email to every lead. The takeaway: search, scoring, verification, and outreach that used to take days of manual work can now run as one continuous AI workflow.
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00:00 – 00:49
01 · The manual prospecting problem
Cold open naming the pain: hours spent manually clicking LinkedIn profiles and verifying emails, before promising a faster method.
00:49 – 02:09
02 · Introducing Lessie AI
Lessie AI is framed as a people-search agent: takes a prompt, searches hundreds of databases and social profiles, and can also draft outreach emails.
02:09 – 03:36
03 · Writing the search prompt
The presenter writes a prompt combining geography (Australia), business type (service-based), a $1M+ ARR floor, and fit for voice AI services.
03:36 – 04:31
04 · Confirming criteria and submitting
Lessie AI proposes adjacent industries (healthcare, legal) with high call volume, then locks in role, industry, and lead count before submitting the search.
04:31 – 05:44
05 · Leads populate with a match score
Results trickle in with a 0-100 match score built from tick/cross criteria checks, plus email, company, and job title data.
05:44 – 07:06
06 · Reviewing individual lead profiles
Opening two lead profiles (Douglas Higgins, Marie Lewis) shows an AI-written summary, work history, and verified contact and LinkedIn links.
07:06 – 07:34
07 · Exporting the lead list
The full 100-lead list exports to an Excel file with names, emails, companies, and match data, portable to any CRM.
07:34 – 08:02
08 · Organizing leads into saved lists
Leads are grouped into named lists (e.g. 'healthcare innovators') so separate campaigns and niches stay organized.
08:02 – 09:27
09 · AI-drafted cold email compose
A short outreach brief (pitch voice AI, save staffing costs, capture missed calls) is enough for the AI to write a subject line and full email body with merge fields.
09:27 – 10:13
10 · Sending and tracking outreach
Emails queue to send the next day, with a task view tracking sent, opened, and replied status per recipient for follow-up.
10:13 – 10:50
11 · Outro and offer
Sign-off pointing to a discount code and invitation link in the description for free search credits.
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- A single natural-language prompt, industry, revenue floor, and use-case fit, can now generate a scored list of qualified B2B leads without any manual searching.
- Assigning a 0-100 match score to each lead, built from simple criteria checks, turns an opaque AI search into something a human can audit before spending outreach effort.
- Naming a revenue floor like $1M+ ARR as a search criterion filters out prospects who can't afford a premium service before any manual vetting happens.
- The tool suggests adjacent industries that share a target's buying pattern (healthcare and legal both have high call volume), surfacing prospects a manual search might have missed.
- Bundling an AI-written summary, work history, and verified email into one lead profile removes the need to cross-reference LinkedIn and a company website separately.
- The same platform that finds and scores leads can also draft a cold email, from a one-line brief, and track its sends, opens, and replies.
- A lead list only compounds in value once it's exportable; locking qualified leads inside one tool's UI limits how they can be used downstream.
AI can now run prospecting start to finish
CLIENT PROSPECTING
A single natural-language prompt can replace days of manual LinkedIn research by having an AI agent search, score, verify, and email qualified leads automatically.
02Introducing Lessie AI
- A 'people search AI agent' takes a single natural-language prompt and turns it into structured search criteria, then queries databases like Apollo plus public web and social profiles.
- The tool doesn't just find contacts, it drafts and sends follow-up emails from the same platform, collapsing search, verification, and outreach into one workflow.
03Writing the search prompt
- Effective lead-gen prompts stack multiple qualifiers at once: geography, business type, revenue threshold, and a specific service fit, not just an industry name.
- Naming a revenue floor (here, $1M+ ARR) is a fast way to filter out prospects who can't afford a premium service before any manual vetting happens.
04Confirming criteria and submitting
- The tool proactively suggests adjacent industries that share the target's buying pattern (healthcare and legal both have high call volume), which can surface prospects a human search might miss.
- Locking role, industry, and lead count into a single campaign submission turns a vague research task into a repeatable, saved search.
05Leads populate with a match score
- Leads are returned with a 0-100 match score built from simple criteria checks, so a prospect matching every filter scores 100 and one matching half scores roughly 50.
- Surfacing the underlying match reasons, not just a ranked list, lets a person sanity-check the AI's filtering logic before spending outreach effort on a lead.
06Reviewing individual lead profiles
- Each lead record bundles an AI-written summary, work history, and verified contact info in one profile view, removing the need to cross-reference LinkedIn and a company site separately.
- A generated summary that states a person's role and likely pain point in plain language makes it possible to personalize outreach without reading a full LinkedIn profile.
07Exporting the lead list
- A qualified lead list is only useful once it's portable; exporting to a plain spreadsheet is what makes it usable in any CRM rather than locked inside one tool.
08Organizing leads into saved lists
- Segmenting leads into named lists by campaign or niche keeps outreach organized when running several targeting criteria at once.
09AI-drafted cold email compose
- A short outreach brief, pitch angle, target pain point, and specific benefit, is enough for an AI to draft a subject line and full email body with merge fields for each recipient's name.
- Writing the outreach angle around the buyer's cost savings and revenue upside, not just the product's features, produced a noticeably stronger draft in this demo.
10Sending and tracking outreach
- Outreach only compounds when sends, opens, and replies are tracked in one place; that visibility is what turns a one-off email blast into a manageable follow-up campaign.
Terms worth knowing.
- Lessie AI
- An AI-powered people-search platform that takes a plain-language prompt and returns a scored list of matching business contacts pulled from public web, social, and lead databases.
- Apollo
- A B2B lead and contact database commonly used by sales and marketing tools as one of their underlying data sources.
- Match score
- A 0-100 score a lead-search tool assigns each result based on how many of the search's stated criteria that person or company satisfies.
- ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue)
- A company's predictable yearly revenue from subscriptions or repeat contracts, used here as a filter for whether a prospect can afford the pitched service.
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03:25toolApollo
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00:05
“We've all been there, spending hours manually clicking through LinkedIn profiles, verifying emails, and then spending even more time writing emails hand by hand.”
03:15
“This process usually would have taken days, if not weeks, finding hundreds of leads and finding the right clients, and this platform essentially does it instantly.”
10:42
“Hope this helps finding clients for AI automation services, and I'll see you in the next one.”
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Finding high value, ready to pay clients is one of the hardest parts of running an AI agency. We've all been there, spending hours manually clicking through LinkedIn profiles, verifying emails, and then spending even more time writing emails hand by hand, all just to find one person worth talking to. But now we can use tools like Lessie AI, which is essentially a people search engine that allows us to find and qualify real prospects.
And then we'll even go ahead and automatically email all of your prospects. follow up everything and track everything in one place. That's why in this video, I'm going to be showing you how you can find high value, ready to pay clients using Lessie AI for your automation services.
I'm going to be showing you step by step on exactly how to find, qualify and prospect these clients, verify emails, contact information. And then I'm even going to show you how to draft professional emails, which can send and follow up automatically. So without further ado, let's jump straight into the video.
Okay, and the platform we're going to be using inside this video, of course, is going to be Lessie AI. Now, Lessie AI is a people's search engine that essentially takes in our prompt. As you can see right here in a prompt box, it's going to define certain parameters and criterias based on our prompt.
It's then going to search hundreds of databases throughout the internet. So, you know, social media profiles. websites, databases through Apollo, for example, and it's going to try and match it to our criteria.
And then from there, once it's found enough high quality leads, it's then going to prioritize them and score them inside a nice viewable database. So we can go ahead and filter based on matches. We can see what specific matches have linked up to our criteria, etc.
So I'll show you how that all works later on the video. And then from there, we're even able to write automatic emails with AI to those people that were found. and follow up so this is all done in one platform this previously would have taken you know for me personally i know as an ai automation agency owner it's very hard for us to find clients at some times and this platform makes it really really easy and takes hours of manual work away from us so this process usually would have taken you know days if not you know weeks maybe finding hundreds of leads and finding the right clients and this platform essentially does it instantly okay so now let's go ahead and get started so essentially this is going to be our prompt box right here and we can just simply say something like this we'll just say i want you to find me high quality leads inside australia for service -based businesses only doing one million dollars plus in annual reoccurring revenue and i want them to be fit for voice ai agent services so businesses that get a lot of high
calls high volume and calls a lot of appointment based scheduling aspects conversational aspects on the phone please that is fit for voice ai so you can see this is something that really really works for my industry so i primarily sell a lot of voice ai agents and i want businesses to at least be doing a million dollars plus in annual recurring revenue so they can actually afford our services because voice ai is quite expensive to sell so we can see if we go ahead and click find it's going to be put in to lessee ai so now what lessee is going to be doing is going to define some of our criteria and which industries work best voice ai so healthcare legal services these are all businesses that have a lot of appointment based you know scheduling a lot of you know high volume of calls etc okay so we can see these are some of the industries that it's best fit for okay we can see before i jump in let me confirm a couple things so owners and founders yes that makes sense um industry focus
let's go ahead and do healthcare right lots of high volumes and then we'll just do 100 leads right for a campaign we go ahead and submit that right now that's all of our criterias that we have right here but now what it's going to do is it's going to use essentially the entire internet it's going to search apollo which is a very popular you know lead generation platform it's going to search apollo databases it's going to search up websites it's going to search up essentially everything that you can find on the internet and it's going to try and match it to our table right here so if we can see right here quickly it's gone ahead and put us put us into this table and what it's going to do soon is it's going to populate some of these leads inside its table and it's going to give us a score now that score is going to be out of 100 essentially 100 being one up a 100 match to all of our um you know criteria right here Um, and then it's also going to give us things like, you know, emails, companies, social media profiles.
Um, all the, all this can be done very, very quickly. Okay. So we can see the leads are starting to slowly trickle in.
Um, the criteria that I did was actually quite specific and it was quite defined. So it was not going to be a whole lot of leads, but we can see they're starting to come in. So we can see.
the match you know score we can see our different criteria and we can see right here we've got a tick a tick meaning it is a match for this criteria so it works in the healthcare industry and is in australia okay so that's what a tick means if we come down to a cross that essentially means you know this is not a match for this specific criteria okay and if they all get matches it's going to be 100 if only one gets matched it's going to be 80 etc okay depending on how many you know criterias you have okay so we can see we've got the name we've got the social media profiles we've got the emails right here you can go ahead and check and verify the email so we can directly see the email for that specific person it's got the company company size cities that it's based in the job title even um so we can see all these are very very useful things that are done pretty much instantly using less you know previously this would have taken ages to set up campaigns go through different softwares qualify the leads verify the leads all these different things but now we have a bunch of high quality leads instantly that we can go ahead and email so just go ahead and click on a few profiles right here we can see douglas at the moment okay we just go ahead and load up douglas's profile and we can see some information right here so again we have a ai summary right here the individual is a mechanical engineer
uh and visionary founder for this particular company transforming you know muscle uh skeletal healthcare with intelligent devices okay so this is an ai summary we've got some of its previous work we've got professional summary right here um education we've got an email linkedin so this is all information available that um could very very well use our voice ai services okay so we can see if we just go ahead and open up another profile we can see it's quite similar so marie lewis and we've got a professional summary you know links we've got our linkedin we can go ahead and click on linkedin and we can see that linkedin profile so we can see everything and these obviously all match our criteria okay so we can see that match score is 100 right here so now what we can do with these leads essentially we've got 100 leads right here okay so we can see all of our leads are here if we come up to export and click export and downloaded xlx file we can see download and if we come up and open this up we have a beautiful file right here with the name match links um emails companies everything all in this one file and you can actually go ahead and export this to any crm of your choice any databases right here so we can see all of the files um are ready okay and then we can come down to lists right here and we can see we come to export we can see all of our lists and people right here so we've got healthcare innovators
all of our individual lists which you can go ahead and click on and all of our people um so this is just a way that you can see the separated people of lists for example if i were to have service based businesses um different types of businesses this would all be you know broken up and defined into these different lists so as you can see we've got healthcare innovators we've got exported people that are just exported recently added etc okay so now if we go ahead and click email compose we can go ahead and compose all of it to all of our leads right here and what this is going to do is it's going to write up an email using lessee ai and then we can essentially generate that email through ai okay so if we go ahead click email compose it should load up anytime soon okay so now it's going to ask us to put in a email address so essentially we can just do ashton or if you want you can go ahead and sign in with google or outlook and use your direct inbox so i'll just go ahead and put ashton ai right there
and now we can see all of our leads so we don't even actually need to do any of this we can just go ahead and click ai compose and write in a prompt so we'll just say draft a email to these healthcare finders about a voice ai solution make sure to pitch the email selling voice ai solutions to help them manage a high number of inbound calls and and save them costs on staff and generate them extra revenue by being able to take in calls.
So that's just a very basic prompt. Again, you can, you know, put in a better prompt that matches marketing, you know, purposes and cold email purposes. But just to show you how you can just go ahead and click generate right here.
What it's going to do is it's going to design the subject. It's going to design the body of the email. And it's even going to have those, you know, dynamic variables and those variables in here for the first name.
Okay, so we can see it's quickly able to drop this email. So hi email. Hope this message find you well and reaching out because I understand how challenging it would be to managing high volume of calls in healthcare.
And then as you can see, it's going to to come down, right? We can see it's pretty good cold email actually, right? So this is an AI for cold emailing.
Okay, and then you can just go ahead and click send. Okay, so right there. send and the emails will be sent tomorrow okay so now if we go ahead and click up here we have our task so this is where you're able to track emails you're able to follow up emails you can see i've just gone ahead and sent everything and it's going to send tomorrow we've got you know the recipient email addresses all right here and then we can see the sent open and reply so we're able to track all of these different messages and even reply to some um when they when they come through it'll notify us and then we can even follow up with people that actually haven't opened it or have opened it so we can set up further campaigns right here so that's exactly how you can find a high quality lead specifically for voice ai solutions um right here with lessee ai so if you do want to go ahead and get started with lessee i go down to the link in the description you'll be able to enter in an invitation code that will give you some free credits so you can just go ahead and get started
pretty much immediately. So hope this helps finding clients for AI automation services, and I'll see you in the next one.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
The video opens on the familiar grind of B2B prospecting, hours of manual LinkedIn scrolling and email verification, then pivots straight into a full screen-recorded demo of an AI tool built to replace that grind end to end.
Named ideas worth stealing.
02:10model
The AI lead funnel
- Define criteria in one prompt
- AI search and score
- Verify and review profiles
- Export
- AI-drafted outreach and tracking
The five-stage workflow the tool collapses into one platform: turning a plain-language prompt into a searched, scored, exported, and emailed lead list.
Steal forany service business's client-prospecting process
04:51concept
Match-score criteria system
Each lead is checked against every stated search criterion; a tick counts as a match and a cross doesn't, and the match score is the percentage of criteria satisfied.
Steal forauditing any AI-ranked list before trusting it
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
10:13link
“if you do want to go ahead and get started with Lessie AI, go down to the link in the description, you'll be able to enter in an invitation code that will give you some free credits”
Soft, single CTA placed after the full demo rather than up front; the affiliate link is framed as a way to get free trial credits rather than a hard sell.
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