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For it service providers

A pipeline that is not just whoever's server broke this month.

Managed IT is sold into companies that already have a provider, which makes cold outreach look pointless and makes it, in practice, a question of being present and credible when the incumbent finally disappoints somebody. Consistency beats cleverness here more than in almost any other market.

Managed services sell on trust and switching costs, which makes cold outreach look futile. It is not — it is a patience game, and patience is exactly what an agent running quietly every day is good at.

Start with your own website. The agents read it, work out which companies look like your best customers, and find the named decision makers inside them — then show you the emails they would write. Free to look, no account, no card.

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Where it breaks down

Incumbents everywhere

Nearly every prospect already has a provider, so the message has to earn a conversation, not a purchase.

Technical people write like technicians

The proposal is strong and the first email is unreadable to the person who signs.

Nobody owns prospecting

The engineers are on tickets and the owner is on escalations. Outbound is a Friday intention.

A run, for you specifically

  1. 01

    Let the agent read your site and name the services and company sizes you genuinely serve.

  2. 02

    Target by the shape you support best — headcount, sector, the stack you specialise in.

  3. 03

    Read the drafts. They speak to the buyer, not the admin console.

  4. 04

    Run at a low daily pace so the follow-ups stay personal.

What you look at day to day: Replies, and which segment keeps answering — the honest signal for where to focus the offer.

Writing for the person who signs, not the person who administers

Technical strength is the trap. The best providers write emails full of things the buyer does not evaluate — response times, certifications, stack detail — to a managing director who is thinking about downtime, staff frustration and cost predictability. The draft has to sit in the buyer's language.

Because you read every draft before it sends, that is a correction you can make once. Edit two or three and the rest follow the same register.

Targeting by the shape you actually serve well

The companies you support best have a shape: a headcount band, a sector, a couple of systems. Segments let you express that instead of buying a list of everyone in a postcode, and each segment carries its own message and its own reply history.

That history is the useful part. After a few weeks you can see whether the accounting firms or the logistics companies are the ones replying, which is a positioning answer, not a marketing metric.

A pace that survives a busy support week

Nobody in an MSP has a clear afternoon for prospecting, and that is exactly why the sending runs in the background at 20 emails a day. Approve drafts when you have ten minutes; the queue waits.

Follow-ups are capped deliberately low, because a third and fourth chase is where cold outreach starts costing reputation rather than earning replies.

Why it service providers pick this

  • Nearly every prospect already has a provider.
  • Your team writes technically and sells to non-technical buyers.
  • Prospecting has no owner and no free afternoon.
  • You want a consistent trickle rather than sporadic pushes.

Questions

Is it worth emailing companies that are locked into a contract?
That is the normal case in this market, and it is why the pace is low and the follow-up count is capped. The goal of a first message is to be remembered and easy to find later, not to win a switch that week.
How much does it cost to start?
Looking is free and needs no card: type your web address and watch a full run on your own domain. Sending starts at $79 a month for Start, which includes your own sending domain and a hard cap of 20 emails a day.
Why only 20 emails a day?
Because that is what a mailbox can send cold without hurting its own reputation. The daily cap is enforced in the backend per plan, rather than offered as a setting, and a single sender never carries more than 20 a day. Moving to a higher step and provisioning new capacity takes about twenty-four hours because the account is real.
Do I have to write anything?
No. The agent reads your site, works out who buys from you, finds named people at named companies, verifies the addresses and writes one email per person. Your job is to read what it proposes and correct what you disagree with.
Is cold outreach like this compliant?
Every message is a plain email from a named person; replies are read within minutes, and anyone who asks us to stop is suppressed immediately and permanently across every campaign, and we write business-to-business to named roles. We do not send to consumers.

Start with your own domain

You will see the companies, the named people and the emails we would write before you decide anything. Free to look, no card.

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