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    Field Notes: Real Campaign Playbooks from RevenueFlow

    Every note here comes out of a campaign we ran ourselves. Real send volumes, real reply rates, the experiments that worked and the ones we killed at day 14. Written by the RevenueFlow founders, with the numbers left in.

    cold email case studiesoutbound experimentsreal campaign datacold email playbooksB2B outbound results

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    June 12, 20266 min read
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    The Paris AI Map: 23 Companies and $35B

    23 AI companies, more than $35B of reported value, and 10 of them inside one 2km circle. Here is the Paris AI map and why the density is the real asset.

    Field Notes · AI Startups · Market Analysis

    June 2, 20266 min read
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    27 Intent Signal APIs, Grouped by How You Connect Them

    Twenty-seven intent signal providers, grouped by how you actually connect them: MCP servers, REST APIs, webhooks, and orchestration. Plus what each one is for.

    Field Notes · Intent Data · APIs

    May 19, 20266 min read
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    We Spent $100K Testing Sales Tech. 8 Layers Survived

    There are 4,664 tools in the sales tech market. We spent about $100,000 testing them and kept eight layers, in a fixed order, with one owner each.

    Field Notes · Sales Stack · GTM Strategy

    May 15, 20266 min read
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    How to Actually Choose a Cold Email Platform

    Most cold email platform comparisons are written by a vendor. This one is not. Five steps, real thresholds, and the pricing model that quietly costs the most.

    Field Notes · Cold Email · Sales Tools

    April 29, 20267 min read
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    SDR vs AI SDR vs GTM Engineer: Which Seat to Staff, and When

    AI did not kill the SDR job. It split it into three seats with three different failure modes, and most teams staff one before the system underneath exists.

    Field Notes · GTM Engineering · Sales Team Structure

    April 23, 20265 min read
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    Three Buyer States: Demand Creation, Capture, Conversion

    Every B2B buyer sits in one of three states: not aware, shortlisting, or ready to buy. Each needs a different play, a different stack, and a different metric.

    Field Notes · Demand Generation · GTM Strategy

    April 22, 20266 min read
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    Prospects Ignore Your Cold Emails and It Is Rarely the Copy

    Copy tweaks move cold email results a little. The offer moves them 10 to 20x. Six rules for fixing the offer, the audience and the proof before the wording.

    Field Notes · Cold Email · Offer Design

    April 1, 20265 min read
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    Smartlead Hit $20M ARR Bootstrapped After 11 Failures

    Smartlead crossed $20M ARR in 2025 with no outside funding. Here is the five-part go-to-market playbook behind it, and the caveat that decides if you can copy it.

    Field Notes · GTM Strategy · Cold Email

    March 13, 20266 min read
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    429 Inbound Leads, 12 Closed Deals in 10 Days: What Changed

    429 inbound leads, 13 sales calls, 12 closed deals and $15,267 in ten days. The full arithmetic, including the 3 percent lead-to-call rate the headline hides.

    Field Notes · Inbound Marketing · Content Strategy

    March 5, 20266 min read
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    Revenue Per Employee: Do You Need Reps or Systems?

    Lovable earns $2.74M per employee with 146 people. Apple earns $2.51M with 166,000. Here is what the ranking says about your next go-to-market hire.

    Field Notes · Benchmarks · Sales Strategy

    March 5, 20266 min read
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    I Built 99 Claude Code Skills. Only 24 Touch Revenue

    Of 99 Claude Code skills I built for RevenueFlow, 24 touch revenue. Here are those 24, grouped by GTM stage, and the three ways this approach breaks.

    Field Notes · Claude Code · AI Agents

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