Case Study Details

Finimize × Corebits

Turning a niche fintech ICP into 2,000+ qualified touches a month — without adding any SDR headcount

Company snapshot

Product

B2B licensing of bite-sized finance content

Audience

Trading platforms, neo-brokerages, and robo-advisors that serve retail investors

North-star metric

User engagement inside client platforms

Team

2 SDRs · 1 BD Lead · HubSpot CRM

The starting point

Pain

Spray-and-pray lists from Apollo

Spray-and-pray lists from Apollo

Manual research (100–200 accounts/wk)

Manual research (100–200 accounts/wk)

“Financial services” keyword noise

“Financial services” keyword noise

Generic sequences

Generic sequences

Impact

70 % of contacts are outside their true ICP

70 % of contacts are outside their true ICP

SDRs spent 60 % of their time digging, not emailing

SDRs spent 60 % of their time digging, not emailing

Stripe & crypto exchanges cluttered searches

Stripe & crypto exchanges cluttered searches

Low open & reply; hard to stand out

Low open & reply; hard to stand out

Solution blueprint

ICP filter

Built a custom AI agent that visited each website in real time to confirm if “This is a trading platform, broker, robo-advisor, or neo-bank serving retail investors?”

Auto-excluded sites mentioning “institutional,” “enterprise treasury,” or pure crypto focus.

Result: 458 laser-fit accounts from thousands scraped in the first batch.

Signal stack (per contact)

Signal type

Blog & help-center themes

Blog & help-center themes

LinkedIn posts & job changes

LinkedIn posts & job changes

“We’re hiring” cues

“We’re hiring” cues

Event panels

Event panels

Competitor follows

Competitor follows

How we pulled it

Text scrape → OpenAI summarized

Text scrape → OpenAI summarized

Clay LinkedIn enrich block

Clay LinkedIn enrich block

Clay Jobs → filter roles with “content,” “education,” “engagement”

Clay Jobs → filter roles with “content,” “education,” “engagement”

News → keyword + company

News → keyword + company

LinkedIn competitor follower scrape

LinkedIn competitor follower scrape

AI copy engine

Claude took the top three signals and wrote a 90 to 100-word first email sequence.

Tone: helpful analyst, not pushy vendor.

Each email referenced the prospect’s own content gaps (e.g., lack of beginner explainers).

Tech orchestration

Clay drives research + personalisation.

SmartLead rotates domains for deliverability.

Make.com posts positive replies to a #hot-leads Slack channel.

“Content Workshop” wedge

Instead of pitching a licence fee on email #1, we invited leads to a 30-minute “How to write finance content that sticks” webinar:

Social proof: “Execs from Wells Fargo, Visa, Mastercard already registered.”

CTA felt like free value, not a sales ask.

Generated 11 replies → 9 yes → 2 meetings booked from one campaign.

Creative plays that moved the needle

Play

Competitor-follower hook

Competitor-follower hook

Website visitor nudge (RB2B)

Website visitor nudge (RB2B)

Lift

4 % higher open, 2× reply vs generic personalisation

4 % higher open, 2× reply vs generic personalisation

24-hour follow-up lifted meeting rate by 30 %

24-hour follow-up lifted meeting rate by 30 %

90-day results

KPI

Prospects touched

Prospects touched

Positive replies

Positive replies

Positive → meeting

Positive → meeting

Qualified meetings

Qualified meetings

Markets reached

Markets reached

Before

400 / mo

400 / mo

Few

Few

N/A

N/A

0–2 / mo

0–2 / mo

US / UK

US / UK

After

2 000+ / mo

2 000+ / mo

15 in Campaign #1 alone

15 in Campaign #1 alone

60–70 %

60–70 %

8–9 / mo

8–9 / mo

+ CA, EU, MENA, APAC, LATAM

+ CA, EU, MENA, APAC, LATAM

Key takeaways for GTM leaders

Narrow ICP + AI filter = fewer, better accounts

Signals drive personalisation; personalisation drives replies

Content-led first touch opens doors faster than a product pitch.

Build in the client’s Clay, not ours — handover is 10 × simpler.

Delivery & hand-off

All workflows are built inside Finimize’s own Clay account.

6 Loom walk-throughs covering prompts, filters, and sequencing.

12-page playbook PDF: naming rules, scoring weights, cold-reply templates.

Weekly Slack stand-ups; by month three, the SDRs edited prompts themselves.

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