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Prospecting with Chip

Tell Chip who you sell to. Get real prospects back.

An AI lead generation tool for small business. Describe your ideal customer in plain words and Chip finds real companies and people on the web, with the reasons and the sources. You choose who goes into your contacts.

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Discover

Describe your customer. Chip does the digging.

Type who you are looking for, the way you would say it to a friend. Chip reads your request, searches business listings and the web, and keeps only the people and companies its sources support.

  • "I'm looking for…", or start from a suggestion
  • The first results usually land within a minute or two
  • If nothing usable comes back, you are not charged
Reasons

A reason and a source for every prospect.

Open any prospect to see why Chip picked them, the signals it found and where it found them. Work emails and business phones stay hidden until you choose to reveal them.

  • Why Chip picked this prospect, with Signals and Sources
  • Work email and Business phone: "Not revealed" until you ask
  • Mark anyone Do not contact, and they stay off your list
Convert

Keep the good ones. Skip the duplicates.

Tick the prospects you like and convert them to contacts. startbuddi checks your list for duplicates first, links them to a company, and records the search each one came from.

  • Bulk actions: Add to list, Assign owner, Convert to CRM, Dismiss
  • Checks your contacts for duplicates before adding anyone
  • Draft an intro with Chip straight after converting
ICPs & lists

Save your ideal customer once.

Save an ideal customer profile with the roles, industries, places and company sizes you sell to, then run it with one click. Not sure where to start? Ask Chip to suggest one from the customers you have already won.

  • ICPs: roles, industries, countries, cities, employee range, tools they use
  • Ask Chip to suggest one
  • Lists by market, role or campaign, and "Ask Chip for more like these"
Saved searches

New matches, every week.

Save a search and tick "Re-run weekly and tell me about new matches". Chip runs it again each week and only shows you who is new. Each run uses credits, so you stay in control of the spend.

  • Saved searches with weekly monitoring
  • Every converted contact carries the search it came from
  • Searches stay on professional criteria: role, company, industry, size, location
What comes next

From stranger to customer.

Prospecting fills the top of your pipeline. The rest happens in the same account.

You describe who you sell to

  1. Chip finds prospects

    With a reason and a source for each one.

    Prospecting

  2. You convert the best

    They become contacts, tagged with the search.

    ContactsCompanies

  3. You say hello

    Draft an intro with Chip and send it from the inbox.

    InboxChip

  4. Interest becomes a deal

    Track it in your pipeline until it's won.

    Pipeline
A new customer, paid
Works with everything

CRM talks to the rest of your business.

Everything below shows up on the client's record on its own, so you never piece the story together by hand.

CRMConverted prospects become contacts and companies
InboxSend the intro Chip drafted from the inbox
MarketingAdd converted contacts to an email list
CRMOne record per client
AutomationsStart a follow-up sequence for new contacts
WorkAssign an owner and a follow-up task
Chip AIChip searches, explains and drafts the intro
Chip AI

Ask Chip. It already knows your clients.

Chip works from your own records, so the answer comes with names, amounts and dates, and a next step you can take in one click.

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Plans

Which plans include Prospecting?

Prospecting is on every plan and uses Chip credits: up to 50 prospects a search on Free, 250 on Starter and 500 on Growth and Scale. A search that finds nobody is refunded.

Start freeSee plans and prices
  • FreeIncluded, free forever
  • StarterIncluded, 30-day trial
  • GrowthIncluded, 30-day trial
  • ScaleIncluded, 30-day trial

More in Customers

Customers Contacts & companies Sales pipeline & deals Inbox Website chat
For agencies

Win the pitch. Bill the work.

Proposals, projects and invoices for every client, without four tools in between.

Start free See it for agencies

Questions about Prospecting

Where does Chip find prospects?
On the web and in business listings. Every prospect shows the sources Chip used, so you can check them yourself before you reach out.
Can I find B2B leads in Lagos or elsewhere in Africa?
Yes. Describe the role, industry, city and company size you want, like "logistics CEOs in Lagos with 20–200 staff", and Chip searches for businesses that fit.
Do you look up personal emails and phone numbers?
No. Prospecting only uses professional data: company, role and work contact details. Personal emails and personal phones are never looked up, and that isn't a setting you can switch off.
How do credits work?
Each search uses Chip credits, and bigger searches run in batches that cost more. Revealing a work email also uses credits. If a batch finds nobody, you are refunded.
Does Chip contact prospects for me?
No. Chip finds them and can draft an intro, but nothing is sent until you choose who goes into your contacts and send it yourself.

Your next customers are out there. Let Chip find them.

Describe who you sell to and get real prospects back, with the reasons and sources. Free to try.

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