This is the operating manual for your team. It explains, in plain language, what each teammate does, how a lead travels from "company we have never heard of" to "signed agreement," why the system exists, what it took off your plate, and exactly what it costs to run. No jargon required.
The short version
- You have a team of ten specialists that runs your outreach pipeline for you, end to end.
- They work in four stages (find, reach out, follow up, close), with one lead (Chief-of-Staff) that reports up to you.
- The cheap, repetitive work runs for free on a model on your own machine (Qwen). The work that needs real judgment or your voice runs on a paid model (Claude).
- You stay at the top. Nothing goes to a real person without your say-so; the team does the legwork and hands you decisions, not chores.
Why we built this
Running outreach by hand has a leak: the boring-but-critical steps (chasing follow-ups, fact-checking claims, tracking who went quiet) are exactly the ones a busy person drops first. That is what killed momentum before. The team exists to make those steps automatic and reliable, so the pipeline keeps moving even on the days you are heads-down on client work.
Before: you personally found companies, researched each one, wrote every email, checked every fact, remembered every follow-up, triaged every reply, prepped every call, and drafted every proposal. The pipeline only moved when you had time.
After: the team does the finding, drafting, checking, chasing, and prep. You do the judgment: approve a draft, take the call, make the final call. The pipeline moves whether or not you had a free hour.
How the pipeline works, end to end
A lead moves through four levels. Each teammate hands its output to the next, like a relay.
- Level 1 - Find. The Researcher watches the market for companies showing buying signals (new funding, AI hiring, tool churn). The Prospector takes those signals, confirms each company is a real fit, and writes a research profile.
- Level 2 - Reach out. The Personalizer writes the cold email and warm close in your voice, tuned to that company's specific gap. The Fact-Auditor then checks every claim in it against a source and blocks anything it cannot verify, so nothing wrong ever reaches a prospect.
- Level 3 - Follow up. The Pipeline-Monitor watches every deal and your inbox daily and flags what needs action. When a follow-up comes due, the Sequencer drafts it in your voice. When a reply lands, the Reply-Handler sorts it and drafts a response. This level is what stops deals from going cold.
- Level 4 - Close. The Closer-Prep turns a prospect into a one-page discovery-call brief (the likely pain, the questions to ask). After the call, the Proposer turns your notes into a finished statement of work.
- The lead. Above all four levels, the Chief-of-Staff reads what everyone did and gives you one short briefing: what the team did, what needs you, what is in flight. If nothing needs you, it stays quiet.
The level tag on each card (LEAD, L1 to L4) tells you which teammates belong on the same rung. If you rearrange the flow map, that tag is how you know which ones are supposed to sit next to each other.
The team, one by one
| Teammate | Level | What it does for you |
| Chief-of-Staff | Lead | Reads the whole team's work and gives you one daily briefing. Surfaces only what needs you. |
| Researcher | L1 | Scans the market daily for companies showing buying signals and writes a weekly read on where the opportunity is. |
| Prospector | L1 | Confirms a company is a real fit, verifies a public signal, and writes the research profile. |
| Personalizer | L2 | Writes the cold email and warm close in your voice, tuned to each company's gap. |
| Fact-Auditor | L2 | Checks every factual claim against its source and blocks anything unverifiable before it reaches a prospect. |
| Pipeline-Monitor | L3 | Watches every deal and your inbox daily and flags what needs action: follow-ups due, prospects gone quiet, new leads. |
| Sequencer | L3 | Drafts the follow-up emails that are due, in your voice, and queues them for your review. |
| Reply-Handler | L3 | Sorts inbound replies (interested, question, not a fit, spam) and drafts a warm first reply to the real ones. |
| Closer-Prep | L4 | Turns a prospect profile into a one-page discovery-call brief. |
| Proposer | L4 | Turns your call notes into a finished statement of work. |
What runs on what, and the cost
AI models charge by the "token," which is roughly a chunk of a word the model reads or writes. Two kinds of model run this team:
- QWEN A model running on your own machine. It is free to run, no matter how many tokens. Best for high-volume, repetitive, lower-stakes work.
- CLAUDE A paid model (billed per token), used where quality, your voice, or careful judgment is worth paying for.
The rule of thumb we follow: free local model first, pay for Claude only where it clearly earns its keep (your voice in client-facing copy, or judgment where a mistake is costly).
Consumption audit: where we could move work to the free model
This is a review of every teammate using paid Claude today and whether the free local model could do the job instead.
| Teammate | Runs on today | Could Qwen do it? | Recommendation |
| Researcher | Qwen daily + Claude weekly | Daily yes; weekly is a judgment call | Keep as is. The free model already does the daily scan; the weekly "where is the opportunity" call is worth Claude. |
| Prospector | Claude | Partly | Hybrid Let Qwen draft the profile; keep Claude for the fit decision so we do not chase bad-fit companies. |
| Personalizer | Claude | No | Keep Claude. This is your voice going to a real prospect. Quality is the product. |
| Fact-Auditor | Claude | No | Keep Claude. This is the guardrail that catches wrong claims. Do not weaken it to save pennies. |
| Pipeline-Monitor | Code + Qwen | Already free | No change. Already optimal. |
| Sequencer | Tiered (Qwen / Haiku / Sonnet) | Already smart about it | No change. Uses the cheapest model that can hold your voice. |
| Reply-Handler | Qwen sort + Claude draft | Already split | No change. Sorting is free; only the reply draft pays for voice. |
| Closer-Prep | Claude | Yes | Move to Qwen. It is an internal brief only you read, so the cost of a small miss is low. Good free-model candidate. |
| Proposer | Claude | Mostly | Hybrid Let Qwen fill the statement of work; an optional light Claude polish before it goes out. |
| Chief-of-Staff | Qwen daily + Claude weekly | Likely yes | Try Qwen weekly too. The numbers are calculated in code; the model only phrases them, which the free model handles well. |
Bottom line: the clean wins are Closer-Prep and the Chief-of-Staff weekly briefing, both internal and low-stakes, which can move to the free model now. Prospector and Proposer are good hybrids (free draft, paid where it counts). The three that should stay on paid Claude are the ones carrying your voice to prospects (Personalizer) and the fact-checking guardrail (Fact-Auditor), plus the Researcher's weekly judgment. Everything else is already running as cheaply as it sensibly can.
How you drive it
- The dashboard (this page) shows every teammate grouped by level, lit up live when working.
- Flow view (bottom-right button) opens the pipeline as a map you can explore and rearrange, with each teammate's connections to the others.
- The directive console (inside any teammate's panel) lets you hand a teammate a custom job. It queues a real run; nothing is faked.