What was built
An outbound engine that researches, writes, sends and routes on its own: leads come out of Apollo, land in Pipedrive, get email and LinkedIn copy written per contact by two AI agents, and go out through Apollo for cold email and Lemlist for LinkedIn. What comes back is classified and routed before anyone reads it.
| Area | Description |
|---|---|
| Foundations | Pipedrive field schema, native integrations and outreach fields grouped so the CRM can carry the campaign state |
| Cold email layer | Apollo sequences with tag sync into Pipedrive, gated behind domain warmup |
| LinkedIn layer | A Pipedrive filter feeding Lemlist autosync, launched first while the email domains warmed |
| AI copy generation | A Make scenario running a research agent and a copywriter agent per lead, writing in the client's voice |
| Reply routing | A sentiment classifier that routes replies and hands hot leads to the team as a one-to-one conversation |
| Stop-sync | Blacklisted and interested contacts pause natively in Lemlist and Apollo, with Make only as a fallback |
| Recovery | When copy generation stalled, the backfill for 583 stuck contacts was run as an automated webhook re-trigger rather than by hand |
| Handover | A written guide, a walkthrough video and a branded PDF for the client's team, plus Telegram alerts when the flow stalls |
Scoring was deliberately left out: Pipedrive Growth cannot score natively, and a custom Make scoring engine was judged more machinery than the funnel justified.
Tech stack
| Technology | Role |
|---|---|
| Pipedrive | CRM, outreach fields, qualification, hot-lead handling |
| Apollo | Contact sourcing, enrichment and cold email sequences |
| Lemlist | LinkedIn outreach |
| Make.com | AI copy generation, reply routing, lifecycle sweeps, alerting |
Project stats: 29 tasks, ~35h, running since May 2026.
Recently touched
- 2026-09-05 Phase 6 — Lifecycle & ops (Make M5 archive sweeper, throttling, monitoring) Open
- 2026-09-01 Incident — Apollo→PD lead flow stalled since 2026-07-26: Gemini step down → missing Email 1 vars → 711 contacts Not sent Done
- 2026-09-01 Outreach Automation Build — Apollo → Pipedrive → Lemlist In Progress
- 2026-08-25 Setup — Pipedrive workflow automations (fields done) Done
- 2026-08-10 Setup — Apollo enrichment & cold email campaign (after domain warmup) Open
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