Repilot – AI SDR targeting companies with buying signals
One sentence what it does:
Repilot is an AI SDR that finds companies actively hiring SDRs, raising rounds, or launching products — and sends them personalized cold emails automatically.
Why you built it:
Cold outbound is broken. 0.9% reply rates on static ICP lists because you're emailing people with no urgency, no budget, no problem worth solving. I was spending hours on LinkedIn manually finding signals. I built Repilot to make that automated and continuous.
The signal-based insight:
Companies actively hiring SDRs have open budget and a pressing need to build pipeline. Companies that just raised money are in hiring mode. Companies launching products are in growth mode. These signals = urgency + budget. Repilot detects them and targets companies in that window. Early data from our campaigns shows 8x higher reply rates vs industry baseline (0.9% → ~7-8%).
How it works:
- Define your ICP once (industry, company size, geography)
Repilot continuously monitors hiring, funding, product launch, and expansion signals across your target companies
AI writes personalized cold emails — unique angle per company based on their specific signal
Every reply is classified: interested / not interested / unsubscribe — and meetings auto-book from interested replies
Honest about stage:
MVP. $299/month. 1 email sent so far. Looking for honest feedback — does this solve a real problem or am I fooling myself?
Tech stack (for the HN crowd):
Node.js + Postgres on Render, Postmark for transactional email, Hunter.io for lead sourcing, GPT-4o for signal detection and email personalization. Nothing novel under the hood — just applying existing tools better.
Ask:
Roast my positioning — am I solving a real problem or fooling myself? Is there anyone who actually wants this?
Not fooling yourself, the signal is real, but I'd push on the "raising rounds" leg specifically since I've been heads-down on exactly that data source for a side project. If you're pulling funding signals from press/news coverage, you're missing a lot: a large share of actual raises (smaller rounds, non-VC-backed) never get a TechCrunch-style writeup at all. The primary source is SEC Form D filings, filed within 15 days of first sale, public, and it catches raises before most funding-news aggregators do. Worth checking whether your funding signal is press-derived or filing-derived, that's the difference between finding out 2 weeks late like everyone else and actually being early. Agree with Aryan's point on hiring/launch signals though, those are much noisier as buying-intent proxies than a funding event, which is a hard, dated, public fact.
The hardest part here isn’t detecting signals — it’s whether those signals actually map to buying intent or just correlated activity.
A lot of systems look strong early because they’re picking up real motion, but not necessarily real intent to purchase.