Case Study Details

Hiline × Corebits

From zero marketing attribution to a full outbound engine — tens of thousands of fresh prospects in 5 months

Company snapshot

Product

Bookkeeping, CFO, and tax services for U.S. SMBs

Audience

300 + SaaS start-ups, agencies, nonprofits

North-star metric

≈ $10 M—all referral-driven before project

Team

VP Growth (Jesse) · Head Sales (Toby) · 0 dedicated marketers

The starting point

Pain

30 000 Apollo emails → 1 closed deal

30 000 Apollo emails → 1 closed deal

Tiny, messy database

Tiny, messy database

No clear ICP slice

No clear ICP slice

Leadership time drain

Leadership time drain

Impact

0.05 % lead rate; four-month cycle

0.05 % lead rate; four-month cycle

1 000 contacts, half outdated

1 000 contacts, half outdated

“SMB” was millions of companies—too broad

“SMB” was millions of companies—too broad

CEO & VP Growth stuck prospecting, not closing

CEO & VP Growth stuck prospecting, not closing

Solution blueprint

ICP filter

U.S. SaaS & tech firms • < 50 employees • < $10 M revenue

Excluded: manufacturing, heavy-inventory, healthcare, civic, nonprofit

Signal stack (per contact)

Signal type

Recently funded SaaS

Recently funded SaaS

Hiring finance roles

Hiring finance roles

Website visitor alert

Website visitor alert

Competitor-tool followers

Competitor-tool followers

Multiple-time founders

Multiple-time founders

How we pulled it

Crunchbase funding ≤ 6 mo

Crunchbase funding ≤ 6 mo

LinkedIn Jobs → “Controller, Finance Dir.”

LinkedIn Jobs → “Controller, Finance Dir.”

RB2B → enrich in 15 min

RB2B → enrich in 15 min

LinkedIn followers of Gusto, Divvy, Justworks

LinkedIn followers of Gusto, Divvy, Justworks

Clay table flagging serial entrepreneurs

Clay table flagging serial entrepreneurs

AI copy engine

15-min website follow-up

Job-post parsing

Competitor hooks

Tech orchestration

“I asked for 15 minutes; you hit inboxes in 15.” — Toby

AI pulled pain points from the JD—copy wrote itself.

“Opens jumped when emails tied to tools like Gusto.” — Jesse

“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:

Creative plays that moved the needle

Play

Lift

90-day results

KPI

Contacts in HubSpot

Contacts in HubSpot

Daily send capacity

Daily send capacity

Weekly net-new prospects

Weekly net-new prospects

Live website follow-ups

Live website follow-ups

Deals from marketing

Deals from marketing

Before

1 000

1 000

0

0

≈ 0

≈ 0

None

None

1 in 4 mo

1 in 4 mo

After

30 000 +

30 000 +

1 200

1 200

500–700

500–700

15 min SLA

15 min SLA

10 active opps; 3 closed-won yearly contracts

10 active opps; 3 closed-won yearly contracts

Key takeaways for GTM leaders

Tight ICP filtering protects reputation while scaling reach

Signals + AI copy beat generic blasts every time

Real-time website triggers convert warm interest while it’s hot

Build and train inside the client’s Clay so the engine lives on

Delivery & hand-off

Playbooks built inside Hiline’s Clay — no black box

5 Loom walkthroughs · Prompt docs · Slack Q&A

Full domain + workspace hand-off; Hiline team now edits flows solo

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