Enterprise platforms already proved these sales jobs at scale: watch for a reason to reach out, keep the account current, find the people who can move a deal, personalize outbound, walk into the meeting prepared, follow through, and tell the seller what matters today.
Seed and Series A teams need the same jobs. They do not have RevOps, a GTM engineer, or a reason to buy a monolithic sales platform. They have Salesforce, Apollo, LinkedIn, Slack, and a founding AE or GTM operator trying to stitch it together by hand. Lumify defines the motion, then builds the job into that stack.
These are the core capabilities that power a modern GTM Engine. Start with what your organization needs today, then add capabilities as your sales motion matures. Get more from your existing technology investments while freeing sellers to spend more time selling.
The other jobs a first sales hire is already trying to automate
These are the same GTM jobs larger platforms already tested with enterprise teams. A founding AE or GTM operator needs them in the tools they already pay for. They are typical Lumify builds—not additional anonymized client stories. We start with the one bottleneck, not a catalog install.
In production · AI infrastructure company
External signals that arrive with a next step
Funding, a leadership change, or account news is only useful if it reaches the person who owns the relationship—and tells them what to do. If it sits in a newsletter, a shared Slack channel, or a founding AE’s Sunday research tab, the window is gone.
A first sales hire cannot watch two hundred target accounts. They can act when the right event hits, if the system already knows who owns the account and attaches a next-step hypothesis to the alert.
This company needed that pattern in production. We stood it up first on fundraising at AI-native targets—a leading indicator of upcoming technology purchases. The same workflow watches leadership changes and account news. Every match looks up the Salesforce owner and lands in Slack as an owned action, not a headline.
Who The account executive who owns the target. At Seed or Series A, that is often the founding AE.
Outcome Funding, leadership, and news become an owned Slack action with a suggested next step.
Steal this Look up the Salesforce owner before you alert anyone. Name the event, the source, and a next-step hypothesis. Let the AE decide.
What we watch
Funding
A raise, a new round, or a capital event that usually means budget and a reason to buy. The first signal class we shipped for this company.
Leadership
A new CRO, CISO, or founder-level hire—or someone who just left. The buying committee moved. The AE should know before the next sequence fires.
News
Product launches, expansions, incidents, partnerships, and other public events that change timing or positioning on that specific account.
What we built
A monitoring workflow that continuously searches the public web for the signal types the motion cares about. When an event matches a target account, Lumify looks up the Salesforce account owner and alerts and tags that AE in Slack. The alert names the company, the event type, the source, the Salesforce record, and a suggested next step—why this is commercially relevant and what to do. It does not send the outreach.
Web search APIs watch funding, leadership, and news
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Match the company to a Salesforce account
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Look up the account owner and form a next-step hypothesis
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Alert and tag that AE in Slack—with the next step attached
What the person still does
The AE judges whether the event is commercially relevant, whether the relationship is warm enough, and what to say. Nothing hits a sequence or changes a stage until a person agrees. The system owns the watch. The seller owns the motion.
When to start here
You already have a named account list and someone who should own each one. You are missing the trigger. Define which funding, leadership, and news events actually change how you sell—then watch those, not the whole internet. If the list itself is wrong, start with buying committee and the ICP—not with more alerts.
Continuous monitoring of public funding announcements, leadership moves, and account news—not a one-time list pull or a clipped newsletter.
System of record
Salesforce
Matches the company to an existing account and looks up who owns it, so the alert does not go to a shared queue.
Action
Slack
Alerts and tags the account owner with the event and a suggested next step, so the AE who should act is the one who sees it.
In production · AI infrastructure company
Living account plans that stay current
Account plans written for a QBR are stale the week after they are saved. The market moves, a competitor shows up, people change titles, and Salesforce no longer matches what the AE is actually working. A founding AE then spends Sunday re-researching the same twenty accounts in a browser and a ChatGPT tab. None of that writes back.
This company needed the plan itself to be a system: research that keeps running, people data that stays fresh, outreach that writes back, and a forecast the team can trust.
Who AEs and anyone running outbound against a named account list—including a first sales hire with no research support.
Outcome The plan still matches the environment a week later.
Steal this Treat the account plan as a running system, not a QBR artifact. The AE edits judgment. The system refreshes facts.
What we built
Deep web research continually updates a living account plan for each target account so it reflects the current environment—not last quarter’s slide. The plan covers the market, the competitive landscape that could affect that account, the people, the outreach, and the CRM state. Sources and freshness stay on the record so a seller can see what changed and when.
The market
What is changing around the account: funding, product direction, buying motion, and timing that should affect how the team sells.
Competitive landscape
Which alternatives could displace or delay a purchase, and what that means for positioning on this specific account.
People and contacts
Roles and titles researched through LinkedIn so the plan names the people who can actually move a deal—not last year’s org chart. The dedicated buying-committee build goes deeper when the list is the bottleneck.
Enrichment
Those individuals are enriched through Apollo so outreach starts from a complete record, not a name and a guess.
Sequencing
Email sequences run through Apollo against the current plan, instead of a static list someone forgot to update. See personalized outbound.
CRM and forecast
Account activity and notes write back to Salesforce. Opportunity stage and forecast status stay aligned with what the research and outreach actually show.
Deep web research refreshes the account plan
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LinkedIn: people, roles, and titles
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Apollo: enrich contacts, then sequence email
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Salesforce: notes, activity, stage, and forecast
What the person still does
The AE adds relationship context the public web cannot see, accepts or rejects positioning hypotheses, and decides which recommended actions become work. Research refreshes without a person. Strategy does not.
When to start here
You already know who you sell to. The problem is that every conversation starts from scratch, and the CRM does not match the market. If you do not yet have an account list worth maintaining, define the ICP first—then build the plan.
Keeps the market and competitive picture current for each target account, instead of a plan that is rewritten once a quarter.
People
LinkedIn
Research on contacts, roles, and titles so the plan tracks the living org—not a static list of names.
Enrichment & outreach
Apollo
Enriches the people found in research and runs email sequences against that current view of the account.
System of record
Salesforce
Receives account activity and notes automatically, and keeps opportunity stage and forecast status in line with the live plan.
In production · AI infrastructure company
Forecast hygiene that matches the motion
The weekly review started from a spreadsheet next to Salesforce. Stages meant different things to different AEs. A deal could sit in “commit” with no next step, no recent activity, and a plan that had not been touched since the last QBR. At Seed and Series A this is usually the founder and the first AE disagreeing about what the number means—because the CRM never enforced a definition.
This company needed the forecast the founder reviewed to be the same object the AEs worked—and for exceptions to show up before the meeting, not during it.
Who Founder or first sales leader running pipeline review; AEs who own the deals.
Outcome Stage and forecast status stay aligned with research and outreach.
Steal this Write exit criteria into Salesforce, then alert when a deal violates them. The meeting is for judgment, not for discovering stale fields.
What we built
Stage definitions and exit criteria were written into Salesforce first—that is the process decision. Activity, notes, and account-plan updates from the living-plan workflow feed the record. When a deal’s stage or forecast field no longer matches the evidence—no next step, stale activity, plan out of date—the owner is flagged in Slack before the review. The system does not move the stage on its own.
Exit criteria written into Salesforce stages
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Activity, notes, and plan updates write back
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Deals that violate stage or forecast rules
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Owner alerted in Slack before the weekly review
What the person still does
The founder or AE still owns the number. The system surfaces the deals that cannot survive the definition of commit, so the review is about those deals—not a reconstruction of the pipeline from memory.
When to start here
You already have opportunities in Salesforce and a weekly review that nobody trusts. If stages were never defined, that is fractional CRO work first, then this workflow.
Notes and activity from the account-plan workflow are part of the evidence. Forecast hygiene is the CRO-facing half of the same system.
Typical build · Who to contact
Buying committee that is still in the seat
A founding AE often inherits a list: last year’s VP, a data-vendor export, names from a founder’s network. Titles have changed. The economic buyer is new. Outreach goes to people who cannot move the deal, and Salesforce contacts rot in place.
The job is not “more contacts.” It is a short, current committee—who supports you, who is missing, who just changed roles—and a reason each person is on the list.
Who Founding AE or GTM operator working a named account list.
Outcome Each target account has current people, with fit explained, before anyone is sequenced.
Steal this Rejects need a reason. A short validated list beats a thousand unverified rows.
What we build
From the ICP and the accounts you already own, the workflow finds people who can move the deal: economic buyer, champion, technical evaluator, blocker. LinkedIn research confirms they are still in role. Apollo enriches the record. Salesforce gets the contacts—or a review queue, if you do not want net-new people written automatically.
Start from ICP and the accounts you already own
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LinkedIn: find and confirm roles still in seat
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Apollo: enrich, then mark matched or rejected—and why
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AE reviews the list before Salesforce or a sequence
What the person still does
The AE or founder accepts or rejects each person. Relationship history the public web cannot see stays a human input. Nothing is sequenced until the list is short enough to defend.
Roles, titles, and whether the person is still in the seat—not a static export from last quarter.
Enrichment
Apollo
Completes the record and scores fit against the persona you defined, with the reject reason attached.
System of record
Salesforce
Receives approved contacts on the right account so the committee lives where the deal lives.
Typical build · What to say
Outbound that uses the current account, not a static list
A founding AE is either writing every email from scratch or blasting a generic sequence that ignores the living plan. Activity never writes back. The CRM cannot tell whether the motion is working, and the seller cannot tell which accounts are actually in play.
Larger GTM platforms already proved that personalization has to be generated from account and person research, then dropped into the sequencer the team already uses. Seed and Series A teams need that in Apollo—not a second outbound product.
Who Founding AE running outbound without a BDR team.
Outcome Sequences reflect the current plan and write activity back to Salesforce.
Steal this Draft from the account plan. Review before send. Write the touch back to the CRM or do not bother sequencing.
What we build
Messaging is generated from the current account plan and the person on the committee: why this account, why this person, why now. Drafts land in Apollo as a sequence the AE already knows how to run. Opens, replies, and sends write back to Salesforce. The first pass is review-before-send. Autopilot is a later decision, not the default.
Pull the current plan, person, and trigger
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Draft the sequence against that context
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AE reviews, then Apollo sends
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Activity writes back to Salesforce
What the person still does
The AE edits voice, kills a draft that is wrong, and owns anything that leaves the building. The system does not invent a motion you have not defined.
The current market, competitive, and people picture is the source for the message—not a blank prompt.
Outreach
Apollo
The sequencer the team already runs. Drafts go here. The AE does not learn a new engagement platform.
System of record
Salesforce
Receives the activity so outbound is visible on the account, not trapped in the sequencer.
Typical build · Before and after the call
Meeting prep and follow-through that survive the call
A founding AE walks into a call with last night’s tabs still open. After the call, the recap lives in a notebook, the thing they promised is late, and Salesforce still says “next step: follow up.” There is no conversation-intelligence team. There is one person who cannot also be the system of record.
The job enterprise platforms sell as meeting briefs and drafted follow-ups is the same job here: walk in with context, leave with a written next step that actually hits the CRM.
Who Founding AE or founder taking the meetings.
Outcome A brief before the call. A recap, next step, and CRM update after—without a second round of admin.
Steal this Extract commitments with owners. The follow-up is the thing you said you would send, waiting to go out.
What we build
Before the meeting: a short brief from the living account plan, Salesforce history, and the last email thread—open questions, objections already raised, who is in the room. After the meeting: commitments extracted with owners, a drafted recap, the promised artifact, and a Salesforce next-step and activity write-back. The AE sends the follow-up. The system does not impersonate them.
Calendar plus plan plus CRM history
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Pre-meeting brief to Slack or email
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After the call: commitments, recap draft, promised send
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AE sends. Salesforce next step updates
What the person still does
The AE runs the conversation, corrects anything the draft got wrong, and hits send. Judgment stays with the seller. Admin does not.
Current market, people, and open questions so the brief is not a dump of old notes.
System of record
Salesforce
Receives the next step, activity, and any stage change the AE actually approved.
Delivery
Slack
The brief and the drafted follow-up land where the AE already works, in time to use them.
Typical build · What to do today
A daily priority brief for the person who is selling
A founding AE opens Salesforce, Apollo, Slack, inbox, and a research tab, then guesses. Signals arrived overnight. A deal went stale. Two meetings need a brief. A sequence is waiting on a human. None of that shows up as one list.
Enterprise GTM platforms put recommended next actions on every account. A Seed or Series A team needs the same idea as a morning brief: what actually requires a person today, pulled from the workflows already running.
Who Founding AE, founder-seller, or first GTM operator.
Outcome One short list: signals, stale deals, today’s meetings, and drafts waiting on a human.
Steal this Exceptions, not a dashboard. If it does not need a person today, it does not belong on the brief.
What we build
A morning Slack or email brief assembled from the other jobs: new signals that reached an owner, deals that violate stage or forecast rules, meetings that still need a brief, sequences sitting in review, and follow-ups that were never sent. It is the GTM version of the Owner’s Daily Brief—same pattern, pointed at pipeline work instead of an owner-operated inbox.
Collect overnight signals, CRM exceptions, and calendar
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Keep only what needs a person today
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Slack or email brief the AE can work in order
What the person still does
The AE works the list. The brief does not send mail, change stages, or invent priorities you did not define. It is an attention layer over the motion you already agreed to.
Stale deals, missing next steps, and the accounts behind today’s meetings.
Delivery
Slack
The brief lands where the AE already starts the day. Email if that is the habit.
Tied to
The other workflows
Signals, plans, outbound reviews, and meeting drafts are inputs. The brief is the daily cut of the same system.
The stack stays. The work between the tools is what we build.
Same pattern as the rest of Lumify: Salesforce, Slack, LinkedIn, Apollo, and research APIs remain the systems the team already knows. We connect them and make the motion run. See GTM automation and fractional CRO.
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