We’re a software development company, working with international clients. Finding and qualifying those clients falls on our sales team. But very often, they had to rely on gut feel to rank prospects, use data that was often wrong or conflicting, and work with a CRM (Customer Relationship Management tool) full of duplicates and bad inputs.
So we built five solutions to fix it.
The challenge
In B2B sales, the two questions you’re always trying to answer are: is this a company we’d want to work with, and are they likely to need us right now. Answering those well takes good data: what industry a company is in, how big they are, what they build, and whether there are signals they’re looking for a development partner. Our data didn’t answer those questions well.
Three things were broken:
The industry data was wrong. We used tools like LinkedIn and Apollo to categorize companies by industry. The two platforms often disagreed on the same company. A software company serving logistics clients might be labeled “Logistics” in one and “Computer Software” in the other. Our whole scoring system was built on top of those tags, so wrong tags meant wrong scores.
Lead prioritization was manual. Our reps did rank prospects, but it was based on experience and intuition. There was no scoring, no external signals, nothing that could be checked or improved over time.
CRM hygiene had slipped for years. Fields went unfilled, contracts had no link back to the deal, profiles were incomplete, and duplicate companies piled up in Pipedrive. Cleaning it all up manually would have taken weeks, so it never happened.
The solution
We built five things, each aimed at one part of the problem:
AI that took over CRM hygiene, doing the ongoing cleanup work no one had time for by hand. It runs continuously, instead of waiting for someone to notice the mess.
A scoring workflow that ranks every lead automatically. Every company gets an ICP score and an Intent score. The two combine into a ranked list that posts to Slack every week.
An enrichment engine that fixes bad industry data. It pulls in five signals instead of trusting a single unreliable platform tag, and feeds cleaner data into the ICP score.
A complete company knowledge base built on RAG so reps, and eventually AI agents, can ask a direct question instead of digging through folders.
The infrastructure that connects all of it to live CRM data. MCP servers and a central gateway mean any tool the team already uses can pull from Pipedrive in real time.