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🚀 Built an Open-Source AI Outreach Engine to Find Customers, Jobs & Investors ⭐

I got tired of spending more time finding the right people than actually talking to them.

While building Observer, my workflow looked something like this:

LinkedIn → Apollo → AI writing → spreadsheets → repeat.

All that just to answer one question:

Who should I talk to next?

Customers.

Investors.

Hiring.

Job opportunities.

Partnerships.

The workflow never really changes.

So I built an open-source AI Outreach Engine to automate it.

It can:

  • Discover companies that match your criteria.
  • Find the right people inside those companies.
  • Verify and enrich contact information.
  • Research prospects automatically.
  • Generate personalized outreach.

The goal wasn't to build "another AI SDR."

It was to create a transparent, hackable workflow that founders and engineers can self-host, customize, and extend instead of paying for an expensive stack of tools.

If you're building something and founder-led outreach is becoming a bottleneck, I'd love your feedback.

The repo is open source, so feel free to roast it, contribute to it, or just steal ideas from it.

GitHub: https://github.com/rohitmalhotra1420/ai-outreach-engine

on August 3, 2026
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    The “who should I talk to next?” framing is interesting because that’s a different problem from automating the outreach itself.

    From people using it so far, is the real value turning out to be better prospect selection, or replacing the LinkedIn/Apollo/AI/spreadsheet workflow around it?

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