Warm & Signal-Based Outbound for B2B SaaS

Warm them up.
Read the signals .
Then go outbound .

Warm outbound and signal-based outbound. We capture buying signals, enrich leads through Clay, and push them to automated outbound flows. Or straight to your SDR with everything they need for a warm call.

15%
Reply rate on signal-based outbound
Higher than generic cold outreach
More meetings from warmed accounts vs cold
80%
Of deals start with a buying signal, not a cold email
Trusted by B2B SaaS teams
Sova Assessment
Lead Forensics
Giga Energy
Huq Industries
Credit Logic
MarketerHire
Thrive Health
Beaconforce
Miicare
Fibbler

Warm them up. Read the signals.
Go outbound .

Warm outbound and signal-based outbound. We capture buying signals, enrich leads through Clay, and push them to automated outbound flows. Or straight to your SDR with everything they need for a warm call.

FEATURE 01

Warm signals, people who already know you

These are your highest-converting outbound targets. They've seen your ads, visited your site, or engaged with your content. They already have brand familiarity, all we need to do is reach out at the right moment with the right message.

We use LinkedIn Campaign Manager's Companies tab to identify "highly engaged" and "very highly engaged" companies from your ad campaigns. We use Jungler to capture LinkedIn engagement signals, comments, reactions, profile views. And we identify anonymous website visitors hitting key pages like pricing, demo, and integrations.

LinkedIn Ad Engagers Website Visitors Video Viewers Post Comments Profile Views Companies Tab
🔥 Warm Signals
📣
LinkedIn Ad Engagers
Clicks, reactions, comments on your ads
25 to 40%
🌐
Website Visitors (Pricing/Demo)
Anonymous visitors identified via RB2B/Clearbit
20 to 35%
🏢
Companies Tab, Very Highly Engaged
Campaign Manager company engagement data
20 to 30%
🎬
TL Ad Video Views (50%+)
Watched half+ of your thought leader video
18 to 28%
💬
LinkedIn Post Comments & Reactions
Captured via Jungler from organic + paid
15 to 25%
👤
Profile Views from ICP
Prospects viewing your founder's profile
15 to 22%
REPLY RATE RANGES, BENCHMARKED ACROSS B2B SAAS
FEATURE 02

Cold signals, companies showing buying intent right now

Cold signals don't come from your brand, they come from the market. A company just raised a Series B. A new VP of Marketing started last week. They just posted 8 SDR roles. These are all timing signals that something is changing and budget is in motion.

New leaders spend 70% of their budget in the first 100 days. 71% of recently-funded companies finalise vendors within 90 days. These windows close fast. We monitor them in real-time and trigger outreach while the window is open.

Funding Rounds Leadership Changes Hiring Surges Tech Adoption Expansion Earnings Calls
❄️ Cold Signals
👔
New Executive Hires / Leadership Changes
New VP/C-suite spending 70% of budget in 100 days
14 to 25%
💰
Funding Rounds
Series A/B/C, 71% finalise vendors in 90 days
12 to 20%
📈
Hiring Surges
Multiple roles posted = budget flowing to that team
10 to 18%
📊
Earnings Call Mentions
CEO publicly stating priorities = budget approved
10 to 15%
⚙️
Technology Adoption / Stack Changes
New CRM, MAP, or sales tool = integration needs
8 to 15%
🌍
Geographic Expansion
New offices, new markets, new challenges
8 to 14%
🔄
Job Changes (Champion Tracking)
Past user moves to new company = warm intro
12 to 22%
⚔️
Competitor Contract Renewals
Contracts up = evaluation window open
10 to 16%
FEATURE 03

Warmbound, warm them up with ads, then go outbound

This is the motion most agencies miss entirely. Before we go outbound to a target account list, we warm them up first using LinkedIn ads. We upload your target company list into Campaign Manager, run thought leader ads and content directly at those companies, and monitor penetration rate, impressions, and frequency.

Once the list has solid penetration, meaning multiple decision-makers at each company have seen your content multiple times, that's when we go outbound. The outreach references the content they've already seen. They recognise your name. It's not cold anymore. It's warmbound.

Outbound goes multi-channel: automated LinkedIn outreach via HeyReach, personalised email sequences via Instantly, and for high-value targets, enriched profiles pushed to your SDR team via Slack for warm calling. We don't make the calls, but we give your team everything they need: the prospect's warmth score, exactly which content they saw, how many impressions and clicks, their verified phone number, email, LinkedIn, and a suggested talk track.

Account List Warming Penetration Rate TL Ads → Outbound Multi-Channel SDR Enrichment Warm Calling
The Warmbound Motion
1
Upload Target Account List
Your ICP company list goes into LinkedIn Campaign Manager. Could be 200 or 2,000 companies, filtered by size, industry, ACV fit.
200 to 2,000 companies ICP verified
2
Run Thought Leader Ads to the List
TL ads, content ads, and video from your founder's profile. Targeted exclusively at decision-makers in those companies. Building trust and recognition over 4 to 8 weeks.
TL Ads Content Ads Video 4 to 8 Weeks
3
Monitor Penetration & Frequency
Track Companies tab for engagement levels. Monitor impression frequency per company. Wait for "highly engaged" and "very highly engaged" status.
Penetration Rate Frequency 5 to 8× Companies Tab
✅ List is warm, go outbound
4
Multi-Channel Warmbound
LinkedIn outreach (HeyReach) + email sequences (Instantly) + enriched profiles to your SDR for warm calls. Outreach references the exact content they saw.
LinkedIn Email Warm Calling Enriched via Clay
FEATURE 04

Your SDR gets an enriched profile, not a cold name on a list

For high-value warmbound targets, we don't just fire off automated sequences. We push fully enriched lead profiles to your sales team via Slack or directly into your CRM, showing exactly how warm the prospect is.

Your SDR can see which thought leader ads they saw, how many impressions and clicks, whether they visited your website, their engagement level from the Companies tab, and whether they commented on or reacted to any content. Alongside that, they get verified phone number, email, LinkedIn URL, company details, and a suggested talk track based on the content the prospect engaged with.

This turns a cold call into a warm conversation. When your SDR says "I noticed you've been checking out some of our content on LinkedIn", it's true, and the prospect knows it.

Warmth Score Content Seen Clicks & Impressions Phone Number Talk Track CRM Enriched
Enriched SDR Profile
AH
Alex Hernandez
VP of Demand Gen @ CloudMetric
ICP: 96
Warmth Score: 82/100
Saw 3 TL Ads Clicked 2× 12 Impressions Visited /pricing Very Highly Engaged Co.
Phone
+44 7700 ••• •••
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/alexh
Company Size
180 employees
Funding
Series B, £18M
Talk Track
"Demand gen content" angle
ENRICHED VIA CLAY → PUSHED TO SLACK / CRM
FEATURE 05

Clay is the brain. AI is the muscle.

Every signal flows into Clay, the enrichment and orchestration layer that makes everything work. Clay pulls from 75+ data providers to build complete lead profiles: verified emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn URLs, company data, tech stack, and funding history.

Then AI takes over. Claude and other LLMs score ICP fit automatically, generate personalised first lines based on the specific signal that triggered outreach, and route leads to the right outbound flow. No manual research. No spreadsheet jockeying. Signals in, enriched leads out.

Clay 75+ Data Providers AI ICP Scoring Claude AI Waterfall Enrichment Auto-Routing
End-to-End Workflow
1
Signal Captured
Ad engagement, site visit, funding alert, job change
2
Into Clay
Contact enriched: email, phone, company, ICP score
3
AI Qualification
ICP checked, message personalised, lead scored
4
Route to Outbound
Email → Instantly  |  LinkedIn → HeyReach
5
Or → Slack Alert
Enriched lead with phone + context → your sales team
6
Track in CRM
Source signal, attribution, pipeline tracking
FEATURE 06

The tool stack that makes it all work

We don't just use one tool, we orchestrate a full GTM stack where each tool does what it's best at. Clay enriches data. Instantly handles email deliverability and sequences. HeyReach automates LinkedIn outreach at scale. Jungler captures engagement signals from LinkedIn that Campaign Manager doesn't surface.

LinkedIn Campaign Manager's Companies tab gives us company-level engagement data showing which companies are "highly engaged" and "very highly engaged" with your ads, these become priority outbound targets. Everything syncs to your CRM so pipeline is tracked from signal to closed deal.

Clay Instantly HeyReach Jungler Campaign Manager HubSpot/Salesforce
Clay
Clay
Enrichment & orchestration. 75+ data providers. ICP scoring. The brain of the stack.
Instantly
Instantly
Automated email sequences. Domain warming. Deliverability management. Inbox rotation.
HeyReach
HeyReach
LinkedIn outbound automation. Connection requests. Message sequences. Multi-account.
Jungler
Jungler
LinkedIn signal capture. Post commenters. Ad engagers. Profile viewers. Reaction data.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn Campaign Manager
Companies tab for engagement data. Highly engaged company lists for warm outbound.
Claude AI
Claude AI
Personalised message generation. Signal-based first lines. ICP qualification logic.
Slack
Slack
Real-time enriched lead alerts. Phone numbers. Signal context. Sales team notifications.
HubSpot
HubSpot / Salesforce
CRM sync. Pipeline tracking. Source attribution. Signal-to-revenue reporting.
FEATURE 07

Enriched leads, straight to Slack, with everything your sales team needs

Not every signal should go to automated outbound. High-value warm signals, like a VP at a target account visiting your pricing page, deserve a personal touch. For these, we push enriched lead alerts directly to your Slack channel.

Each alert includes the signal that triggered it, the contact's name, title, company, verified email, direct phone number, LinkedIn URL, company size, funding stage, and a suggested talk track based on the signal. Your sales team can pick up the phone immediately with full context. No research needed.

Real-Time Alerts Phone Numbers Full Enrichment Signal Context Talk Tracks
Kiin Signal Bot 2 min ago
🔥 Warm Signal Pricing Page Visit + Ad Engager
Sarah Chen , VP Marketing @ DataStack (Series B, 120 employees)
Visited /pricing 3× this week. Clicked TL ad on Monday. Very highly engaged company.
Phone
+44 7911 ••• •••
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/sarahchen
Funding
Series B, £12M (Apr 2025)
Kiin Signal Bot 18 min ago
❄️ Cold Signal New CMO + Series A
James Rivera , CMO @ Metric (just hired, started 6 days ago)
Metric raised £8M Series A last month. 4 marketing roles open. ICP score: 94/100.
Phone
+1 415 ••• •••
Previous Role
Head of Growth @ ScaleUp
Talk Track
"First 90 days" angle

Signal-based outbound,
demystified .

What is signal-based outbound? +
Signal-based outbound is a B2B sales methodology where outreach is triggered by real-time buying signals rather than cold lists. Instead of blasting thousands of generic emails, you monitor for specific signals, like a prospect engaging with your LinkedIn ad, visiting your pricing page, receiving funding, or hiring for a new role, and trigger personalised outreach within hours. Teams using signal-based outbound see 15, 25% reply rates compared to the 3.4% industry average for generic cold outreach. It replaces spray-and-pray with data-driven timing and relevance.
What is warmbound and how is it different from cold outbound? +
Warmbound is an outbound strategy where you deliberately warm up a target account list with LinkedIn ads before going outbound. You upload your ICP company list into LinkedIn Campaign Manager, run thought leader ads and content to those specific companies over 4 to 8 weeks, and monitor penetration rate, impression frequency, and engagement levels via the Companies tab. Once the list shows solid penetration, meaning multiple decision-makers have seen your content multiple times and the company shows as "highly engaged" or "very highly engaged", you trigger multi-channel outbound via LinkedIn, email, and warm calling. The outreach references the content they've already seen, so it doesn't feel cold. It's the missing link between brand awareness and pipeline.
How do you know when a target account list is warm enough for outbound? +
We monitor three key metrics from LinkedIn Campaign Manager: penetration rate (the percentage of your target audience that has seen at least one ad), frequency (how many times on average each person has seen your content), and engagement level from the Companies tab. A list is typically ready for outbound when you've achieved a penetration rate above 30%, average frequency of 5 to 8 impressions per person, and multiple companies showing as "highly engaged" or "very highly engaged" in Campaign Manager. This usually takes 4 to 8 weeks depending on list size and budget. Going outbound before the list is warm enough wastes the opportunity, going too late means you've missed the buying window.
What data does the SDR get for warm calling? +
For high-value warmbound targets, we push fully enriched profiles to your sales team via Slack or directly into your CRM. Each profile includes: the prospect's name, title, company, and LinkedIn URL; a warmth score based on their engagement with your content; exactly which ads and content they saw, how many impressions, and whether they clicked; whether they visited your website and which pages; their company's engagement level from the Companies tab; a verified direct phone number and email address (enriched via Clay); company details including size, funding stage, and tech stack; and a suggested talk track based on the content they engaged with. Your SDR picks up the phone with full context, not a cold name on a list.
Does Kiin make the calls or does our team? +
Kiin handles everything up to the phone call. We build and warm the target account list with LinkedIn ads, capture all the engagement signals, enrich contacts through Clay with phone numbers and full context, and push enriched profiles to your team with warmth scores and talk tracks. Your SDR or AE makes the actual call, because that personal conversation should come from your team, with your voice and your product knowledge. We give them everything they need to make that conversation warm and contextual rather than cold and scripted. For LinkedIn outreach and email sequences, we handle those entirely via HeyReach and Instantly.
What's the difference between warm signals and cold signals? +
Warm signals come from people who have already interacted with your brand, they've clicked your LinkedIn ads, visited your website, watched your videos, commented on your posts, or viewed your founder's profile. They already know who you are. Cold signals come from external market data, a company just raised funding, a new VP was hired, they're posting jobs, or they just adopted a new technology. The prospect doesn't know your brand yet, but the timing signal tells you they're likely in a buying window. Both are valuable, but warm signals convert at roughly 3, 5× higher rates because trust already exists.
What is Clay and why is it essential for outbound? +
Clay is a data enrichment and automation platform that acts as the central orchestration layer for signal-based outbound. It connects to 75+ data providers, including Apollo, Clearbit, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn, and dozens more, to build complete lead profiles from raw signals. When we capture a signal like a website visit, Clay takes that company name or domain and finds the right contacts, enriches them with verified emails, phone numbers, job titles, company size, funding history, and tech stack, then scores them against your ICP criteria using AI. It replaces the 5 to 10 separate tools and hours of manual SDR research that traditional outbound requires. Without Clay, signal-based outbound at scale simply isn't possible.
How does LinkedIn Campaign Manager's Companies tab work for outbound? +
LinkedIn Campaign Manager has a Companies tab that shows which companies are engaging with your ads, ranked by engagement level. Companies are categorised as "engaged", "highly engaged", or "very highly engaged" based on ad impressions, clicks, and interactions across your campaigns. This is gold for outbound because these companies have been exposed to your brand repeatedly through paid campaigns. At Kiin, we regularly export the highly engaged and very highly engaged company lists, push them into Clay to find the right decision-maker contacts, enrich with email and phone data, and route them into outbound sequences. The outreach references the content they've already seen, making it warm rather than cold.
What are the best cold buying signals for B2B outbound? +
The highest-converting cold signals for B2B outbound, ranked by typical reply rate, are: new executive hires and leadership changes (14, 25% reply rate, new leaders spend 70% of their budget in the first 100 days), funding rounds (12, 20%, 71% of funded companies finalise vendors within 90 days), job changes and champion tracking (12, 22%, following a user who loved your product to their new company), hiring surges (10, 18%, multiple roles posted reveals where budget is flowing), earnings call mentions (10, 15%, CEO publicly stating a priority means budget is approved), competitor contract renewals (10, 16%, evaluation window is open), technology adoption (8, 15%, new tech signals integration needs), and geographic expansion (8, 14%, new offices bring new challenges). The key is acting fast, most of these signals have a 30, 90 day window before they go stale.
What tools does Kiin use for signal-based outbound? +
Our GTM outbound stack includes: Clay for data enrichment, ICP verification, and workflow orchestration; Instantly for automated email outbound with domain warming and inbox rotation; HeyReach for LinkedIn outbound automation including connection requests and message sequences; Jungler for capturing LinkedIn engagement signals like post comments, reactions, and profile views that Campaign Manager doesn't surface; LinkedIn Campaign Manager's Companies tab for ad engagement data and company-level targeting; Claude AI for generating personalised outreach messages based on signal context; Slack for real-time enriched lead alerts with phone numbers and full context; and HubSpot or Salesforce for CRM sync, pipeline tracking, and attribution reporting.
How does AI help with signal-based outbound? +
AI is used throughout the outbound workflow. In Clay, AI scores leads against your ICP criteria automatically, checking company size, industry, job title, funding stage, and dozens of other attributes. Claude and other LLMs then generate personalised first lines and email copy based on the specific signal that triggered outreach, like referencing a recent funding round, congratulating a job change, or noting their company's engagement with your content. AI also helps deduplicate contacts across signal sources, prioritise which signals to act on first based on historical conversion data, and continuously optimise messaging based on reply rates. The result is outbound that feels hand-crafted but runs at scale.
How does signal-based outbound connect to LinkedIn ads? +
LinkedIn ads and signal-based outbound work as a reinforcing loop, each channel makes the other more effective. LinkedIn ads build awareness and generate engagement signals: ad clicks, video views, and company-level engagement data from the Companies tab. These warm signals are captured and fed into outbound workflows where the outreach references the content the prospect has already seen. Meanwhile, outbound engagement data feeds back into ad targeting for retargeting. At Kiin, this is why we offer both services as one integrated system. Running LinkedIn ads without capturing the signals for outbound leaves pipeline on the table. Running outbound without the ad-driven awareness makes it feel cold.
What does the outbound workflow look like end to end? +
The end-to-end workflow has six stages. First, signals are captured from multiple sources, LinkedIn ads, website visitors, market data feeds, CRM activity. Second, signals flow into Clay where contacts are enriched with verified email, phone number, company data, tech stack, and funding history using waterfall enrichment across 75+ providers. Third, AI qualifies the lead against your ICP criteria and scores it. Fourth, qualified leads are routed to the appropriate outbound flow, email sequences via Instantly or LinkedIn outreach via HeyReach, with personalised messaging based on the specific signal. Fifth, for high-value signals, enriched lead alerts are pushed to your team's Slack channel with full context and phone numbers for immediate manual follow-up. Sixth, everything is tracked in your CRM with source attribution so you can measure pipeline and revenue from each signal type.
How is Kiin's outbound different from traditional outbound agencies? +
Traditional outbound agencies buy static lists and blast cold emails at volume. The average reply rate is 3.4% and declining. Kiin's approach is fundamentally different because every outbound touchpoint is triggered by a real buying signal, either from your own LinkedIn ad campaigns (warm) or from market data (cold). We enrich everything through Clay with AI-powered ICP verification, and personalise at scale using Claude. The result is outbound that feels relevant and timely, not spammy. And because it's integrated with our LinkedIn ads and founder content services, it creates a complete GTM engine where awareness, content, and outbound all reinforce each other. That's how we get reply rates 5× above industry average.
How much does signal-based outbound cost? +
Signal-based outbound is included as GTM Lite in all of Kiin's LinkedIn ads packages, you get warm signal capture from your ad campaigns, Clay enrichment, and outbound flows at no additional cost above the base management fee starting at £3,000 per month. For companies wanting a dedicated, full-scale outbound engine with cold signal monitoring, advanced Clay workflows, multi-channel sequences, and Slack alerts, we offer expanded GTM packages priced based on scope and volume. Book a call and we'll recommend the right setup based on your sales team size, ICP, and pipeline goals.
Do I need to be running LinkedIn ads to use signal-based outbound? +
You don't need LinkedIn ads to run cold signal outbound, funding rounds, job changes, and hiring surges exist independently of your ad campaigns. However, the combination of LinkedIn ads and outbound is where the real magic happens. Ads generate warm signals that convert at 3, 5× higher rates than cold signals alone. The Companies tab data from Campaign Manager gives you engagement intelligence that no other data source provides. And the brand awareness from ads makes all outbound, even cold, feel warmer because prospects have already seen your name in their feed. We always recommend the combined approach for maximum pipeline impact.

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