Software

Switzerland

AI technology generates 60 leads over 6 months through automated cold email campaigns

Romain Blaser

CEO at Haidi

“Strike Up handles 90% of our business development efforts. Thanks to Strike Up I can focus on selling and strategic tasks like developing our technology.”

60
Leads
24k
Contacts
25
Weeks
7
Personalised copies
2
Client acquisitions
10
Sales opportunities

Why Strike Up?

When the first version of Haidi’s technology went to market Romain, the CEO, had a number of challenges :

01

Many hats, including sales

Romain was primarily focused on building great technology and keeping good investor relations but he also had to manage the sales pipeline at the same time.

02

Starting the business development almost from scratch

Although Romain had been able to convert some clients from his previous job’s relationships, to generate good conversations through his network’s connections and to get a few client referrals, there were still not so many opportunities in the pipeline.

03

Sales and marketing resource constraints

Romain had not hired a sales team yet, did not have the time to take action in any outreach related activities like cold calling or cold emailing and did not have so much resources available for extensive marketing programs.

04

Testimonial

More about the client

Haidi is a supply chain planning platform, designed to give SMEs greater visibility in their operations, enabling them to reduce inventory needs, optimise purchases, ultimately ramping up profits.

ICP

Regions

Worldwide

Industries

Manufacturing
Consumer Goods
Food & Beverage
Automotive
Wholesale
Pharma
Retail

Persona

CEO
COO
Head of Supply Chain
Operations Manager

Roadblocks & Solutions

In six months we encountered and addressed only one major roadblock.

Campaign Performance Variability: as the technology was relatively new and ICP and Persona were still under definition there were occasions where some campaigns did not perform at the beginning. The problem was solved over time by augmenting the number of concurrent campaigns on various different target audiences at the same time.

Campaign Performance Variability: as the technology was relatively new and ICP and Persona were still under definition there were occasions where some campaigns did not perform at the beginning. The problem was solved over time by augmenting the number of concurrent campaigns on various different target audiences at the same time.

Benefits

Test & Learn

In the early stages, many assumptions were necessary, but tangible market feedback and the first incoming leads enabled Romain to gradually refine his business development strategy.

High-Quality Conversations

Prospects like Fleur de pains had pain points in the stock management of their 30+ franchises: right within Haidi's comfort zone.

Business Development on Autopilot

Once the onboarding was complete, Romain was able to return to his product development tasks while leads began to flow in. From there, he continued to receive a steady stream of leads with minimal management required on his part.