Sales & Automations Audit

You've built marketing. What's missing is sales.

The recommendations from our call. You've built a real marketing operation: content, a 6,000-person newsletter, survey lead magnets. What you don't have is a sales system: targeted 1:1 outbound, led with personalised video, that gets a specific buyer into a conversation. Here's how we'd build it.

July 2026 Chalkhill Blue Outbound Sales System Video-led

Ivo walks you through it.

What the audit found.

Four findings. The gap is entirely top-of-funnel: getting qualified buyers into a process that already works.

01
You've built a marketing operation. What's missing is a sales system.

Content, newsletter, lead magnets: that's marketing, and it works. Phantom Buster bolted onto Sales Navigator is a volume tool, not a targeted sales process.

02
The outreach that exists is unstable and unreported.

Phantom Buster is an unstable dependency you've already asked us to help reduce reliance on. And Zoho can't report on your LinkedIn activity in any usable way, so the one sales motion you've got runs blind.

03
Referrals are covering for the sales gap.

New business is almost entirely referrals. Fine while it lasts, but it's a single point of failure, exactly what happened when manual LinkedIn dried up post-COVID.

04
Your strongest lead-gen instinct isn't being built out.

The exit-readiness survey and its personalised report is a strong asset. You want outreach built around it, but the landing page isn't converting and there's no follow-up after completion. It should be the centrepiece, not an afterthought.

What's not on this list: your process once someone's in front of you. It already closes around 85% at the diagnostic. This audit doesn't touch that, it just fills the top of the funnel.

What we'd do about it.

One per finding. A sales system running alongside your marketing.

01
Build a dedicated outbound sales system Targeted ICP prospecting, personalised 1:1 outreach led with video, meetings booked straight to your calendar. Video is the format that converts best. You record once, we personalise and deliver it at scale.
02
Replace Phantom Buster with HeyReach Fully automated CRM hygiene and follow-up.
03
Segment the system by buyer type Your clients span growth, scale-up, exit, acquisition, funding and EOT, and a generic pitch can't speak to all of them. We start with the two highest-value tracks, growth-stage (£750k-3m) and scale-up / exit-prep (£2m+), messaged and tested independently, then layer in the others as the data shows where demand sits.
04
Turn the survey into the intent engine Treat every survey completion as a live intent signal that triggers a warm, automated follow-up, instead of a static PDF. First-party intent data, not scraped.

Two ways to do it.

Start lean and own it, or run the full system with us managing it. A rolls into B whenever you want.

Option A · Fixed fee
£2,500 one-time
LinkedIn only · built and handed over

One-time build, yours to keep.

  • ICP scoring across both segments
  • Verified lead lists
  • HeyReach setup replacing Phantom Buster
  • Sequences written and segmented
  • Personalised video outreach: record a couple of clips once, we personalise and deliver them at scale
  • Launched and handed over

Rolls into Option B whenever you want us managing it.

How we get you conversations.

How the system actually gets you conversations, not just activity:

Signal-based

Reading intent, not blasting a list.

Segmented

Different messaging per buyer type, not one generic pitch.

Lead-scored

Effort goes to the people most likely to convert.

Multi-channel

LinkedIn isn't carrying the whole system alone.

Your outreach today is capped by how much time you and Rachel can give it by hand. We set up and maintain full outbound sales systems, with full visibility for you on what converts. No promised call numbers. Here are some real results from a live client below, in a similar industry.

Consulting Platform LinkedIn only Two senders Live numbers after 5 weeks
892
Connection requests sent across two senders
21.4%
Acceptance rate
9.5%
Reply rate from accepted connections
6
Meetings booked, LinkedIn only
Ivo Gavin
Co-founder, Trigger AI

Ivo has held leadership roles in tech companies across London, Europe and the US, working inside businesses with a combined capital raise of over $100m. He's built sales and commercial systems from the ground up, generating over $20m in ARR across the companies he's led and the clients he's worked with.

Callum Carlstrom
Co-founder, Trigger AI

Callum is a marketing and ops leader who has built and scaled multichannel campaigns that have generated over $10m in ARR across international markets. He's the systems architect behind every Trigger AI build, turning strategy into automations that actually run.

Let's walk through it Friday.

Friday's call is where we walk through both options and pick the one that fits. Reply or message on LinkedIn in the meantime.