Work Case study
Automated Lead Infrastructure
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The problem
Lead generation ran as a chain of disconnected manual steps: find the leads, enrich them, verify emails, upload to the CRM, add to sequences, follow up, report. Every handoff was a person and a spreadsheet.
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What needed to change
A pipeline where a lead moves from source to outreach to follow-up on its own, and the team spends its time on replies instead of lists.
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Architecture
An end-to-end lead pipeline built around n8n and a small Node.js service: sourcing tools feed enrichment, verification filters out what would bounce, clean records land in the CRM, and outreach sequences start automatically with follow-ups and reporting attached.
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What I built
- Sourcing from Evaboot and SalesQL with deduplication against the CRM
- Enrichment and NeverBounce verification before anything enters the CRM
- RecruitCRM as the system of record, kept in sync both ways
- Smartlead and HeyReach sequences started by the workflow, with follow-up logic and reply handling
- A reporting layer on volume, deliverability, and replies
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Stack
- n8n
- Node.js
- APIs
- RecruitCRM
- Smartlead
- HeyReach
- SalesQL
- NeverBounce
- Evaboot
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Result
Leads flow from source to sequenced outreach without manual handoffs, and the team works the conversations instead of maintaining the list.
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What I learned
Verifying before CRM entry saved more time than any later automation. Bad data that gets in is expensive to get out.