SYS / OUTBOUND ENGINE | v.04.26
B2B COLD EMAIL

Your Prospects Aren't Ignoring You. You Just Haven't Said Anything Worth Replying To.

We study your prospects, your market, and your best customers, then write outreach so specific it feels hand-written. Because it basically is.

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PROPOSAL.PREVIEW DRAFT
Target market
Your ICP, segmented and ranked
Buying signals (live)
  • New hire trigger▲ 24
  • Funding event▲ 11
  • Tech stack change▲ 38
  • Regulatory deadline▲ 7
Sample emails
3 drafts, your prospects
Delivered
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02  /  PROOF · CROSS-CLIENT DATA VERIFIED
01 REVENUE GENERATED
$0.00M
in client revenue generated
02 POSITIVE RESPONSES
0+
positive responses in 2025
03 RESPONSE RATE
0x
the industry response rate
03  /  THE DIAGNOSIS WHY MOST OUTREACH FAILS

Three reasons your campaigns aren't converting.

Each compounds the last. Wrong people, wrong message, no system. Most outreach gets all three wrong before anyone presses send.

01 / LIST
acme.co · vp_sales
stale.io · changed_role
north.io · cmo
old.co · wrong_industry
forge.ai · founder
ghost.io · no_reply_addr

Your list is wrong before you write a word.

Export from any database. Half the contacts have changed roles. Companies tagged the wrong industry. Some of those people will be the assistants to the c-suite. None of it updates in real time. You're building campaigns on bad data.

02 / MESSAGE
Hi {first_name},
I noticed {company} is in the {industry} space and...
×

A first name isn't personalization.

If you don't know their business, their customers, or what's actually working for them, you have nothing real to say. Your prospect can tell the difference between an email meant for them and a template sent to a list.

03 / SYSTEM
ONE ANGLE DEAD END

One angle, no system, no answers.

One sequence sent to one list. No objections handled. No idea if they already have someone doing the job. When it fails, there's nothing to learn from because nothing was tested.

04  /  HOW WE DO IT SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

A system, not a service.

Four modules that map directly to the failures above. List, message, testing, timing. Each one engineered around your business, not ours.

Cold email doesn't fail because of bad writers. It fails because of bad data. When you know enough about a prospect, the email writes itself.
01 PLAYBOOK

We build your playbook, not ours.

Before we write a single email, we build a complete outbound strategy from scratch for your business. We study your best customers, map your market into segments ranked by fit and intent, define who to target and who to skip, and identify the specific criteria that separate your ideal buyer from everyone else.

Your playbook includes segment prioritization, persona mapping, exclusion rules so no prospect gets hit twice, and a targeting framework that narrows from your total market down to the exact right companies. A full custom GTM strategy built like we're on your team.

DIAG · TARGETING FUNNEL
START HERE ICP TAM
02 RESEARCH

Research that becomes the email.

For every prospect on your list, we pull specific data about their business: their operations, their customers, what tools they're running, how their team is structured, what's working for them, and what's changing. This research isn't a separate step from the copywriting. It IS the copywriting.

Every email we send references something specific to that prospect's situation. Not their company name. Their actual business.

PROSPECT · DATA LAYERS
OPERATIONS7 locations
CUSTOMERSB2B mid-market
TEAM+12 hired Q2
STACKSalesforce, Outreach
SIGNALSNew compliance role
REGULATORYSOC2 deadline Q3
→ THE EMAIL WRITES ITSELF
03 TESTING

Multiple angles, one answer.

We test systematically, starting with what matters most. The first thing we validate is list targeting: are we reaching the right companies? Once that's dialed in, we test the offer itself, the value proposition that earns a reply. Then we work backwards through the email: the angle, the framing, the opener, down to the smallest details.

We rotate value props across the email sequence. Email 1 might lead with revenue. Email 2 shifts to time savings. Email 3 opens a fresh thread with a different approach. If the first angle didn't land, the second one might, because the prospect's problem didn't change, but the framing did.

TEST · ANGLE FORK
YOUR ICP ANGLE A ANGLE B ANGLE C DATA DECIDES CUT SCALE CUT
04 TIMING

Timing, not just targeting.

Finding the right companies isn't enough. We track specific events that tell us a company is likely ready to have a conversation right now. A new hire in a role that didn't exist last quarter. A competitor's customer whose contract is up. A public commitment with a deadline they can't meet without help.

These signals are ranked by intent level: some indicate an active, urgent problem; others tell us someone is starting to pay attention. The outreach adapts to the signal.

SIGNAL · INTENT TIERS
T1 ACTIVE PROBLEM · NEAR-TERM DECISION
T2 KNOWN PROBLEM · BUILDING URGENCY
T3 AWARENESS · RELEVANT, NOT URGENT

Why NerasVenture

Six things you get from day one that you can't get from a single in-house hire or an AI tool.

Custom strategy for every company

Every client gets a full outbound playbook built from their market, their customers, and their competitive landscape. Segment prioritization, persona mapping, targeting criteria, campaign angles. Built from scratch for how you sell and who you sell to.

A fraction of the cost of building in-house

Hiring an SDR means $80-120K/year in salary, tools, and overhead, plus 3-6 months of ramp. With us, campaigns launch in weeks and we typically see meetings in the first week. Full team output at a fraction of the cost.

40+ databases and custom research

We pull from over 40 data sources, plus web research and manual digging from places traditional databases can't reach. Company filings, project pages, supplier relationships, team changes, regulatory exposure.

We handle everything. You just close.

From building the playbook to researching prospects to writing emails to managing replies to booking meetings on your calendar. The only thing you do is show up to the call and close.

Month-to-month after setup

Monthly fee covers infrastructure, strategy, and ongoing optimization. After that, we only charge when we book a meeting and the prospect shows up. Walk away anytime after the initial setup period. We earn your business every month.

Years of cold email expertise, built in

We've spent years testing what works across industries, offers, and audiences. What converts, what gets ignored, what lands in spam, what earns a reply. You get all of that from day one.

05  /  CASE STUDIES VERIFIED CAMPAIGN DATA

Three clients. Three markets. The same system.

Every number on this page comes from real campaign dashboards. The depth of one, the breadth of three.

CASE 01 PR FIRM · CLIENT SINCE APRIL 2024
$3.84M
in client revenue generated
64
deals closed
0
outbound before we started

Before us, they weren't running outbound. Referrals and LinkedIn DMs, that was it. We built the outbound channel from zero.

Low volume. Narrow targeting. Every prospect researched, every email written to land like a person sent it, not a sequence.

Since April 2024, our campaigns have sourced 64 paying clients. That's $3.84M in generated revenue off a channel that didn't exist before we showed up.

Three campaigns. Same approach. Three audiences.

CAMPAIGN 01ACTIVE
Contacted1,527
Replied250
Opportunities80
CAMPAIGN 02ACTIVE
Contacted837
Replied112
Opportunities34
CAMPAIGN 03ACTIVE
Contacted369
Replied71
Opportunities28
Across three campaigns: 2,733 leads contacted. 433 replies. 142 qualified opportunities booked to their calendar.

What the reply quality actually looks like.

A positive reply is someone raising their hand for a meeting. Industry benchmark: roughly 1 positive per 350 leads. Our campaigns for this client land between 1 in 7 and 1 in 26.

SET 01+43.0%
Leads1,042
Reply rate22.74%
Positive102
POSITIVE43.04%
SET 02+54.1%
Leads487
Reply rate15.20%
Positive40
POSITIVE54.05%
SET 03+59.3%
Leads140
Reply rate31.03%
Positive16
POSITIVE59.26%
SET 04+38.8%
Leads510
Reply rate15.69%
Positive31
POSITIVE38.75%
SET 05+28.2%
Leads866
Reply rate18.01%
Positive44
POSITIVE28.21%
Two years. Still running. Still booking meetings every week. That's what happens when targeting is narrow, research is real, and the emails sound like they came from someone who actually read their website.
CASE 02 DIGITAL AGENCY
2
clients closed in 65 days
6 figures
in combined revenue
0
outbound before we started

They weren't running cold outbound. We built campaigns across multiple verticals, targeting different audiences for their services. Two deals closed within the first 65 days, bringing in six figures of combined revenue from a channel that didn't exist before.

J
Jeff M.
Business Development

"I work in business development at a growing digital agency. Neras has been our cold email partner for more than six months, and we've been consistently impressed with their efforts. They are always exploring new technology and tactics, and they listen carefully to feedback, adjusting their style and approach accordingly."

"Neras has built large, but highly curated, prospect lists of relevant companies across multiple target industries, many of which we likely would not have identified on our own. We're continuing to connect with these prospects through thoughtful, highly personalized outreach that feels genuinely handwritten."

CASE 03 HEALTHCARE SAAS
18
physicians raised their hand
2,239
physicians contacted
1-5%
industry response rate (we beat it)

18 physicians raised their hand. In the market everyone says can't be cold emailed.

The industry average response rate for cold outreach to physicians is 1-5%. Most agencies won't even attempt it. The company had never run outbound before and had no presence in the US market. We built campaigns targeting practicing physicians across the US. 2,239 contacted. 18 responded with interest. Their first outbound channel, in the hardest market to crack, from another country.

06  /  SOCIAL PROOF UNEDITED REPLIES

What prospects actually say when they reply.

No hand-picked testimonials. These are real replies from real prospects, pulled from real campaigns.

RE: COLD OUTREACHREPLY
"I receive 10+ pitches every day... I like yours because 1) you've spent time understanding what I do, 2) you are thoughtful about my options, and 3) you are upfront about the results you obtain."
RE: QUICK QUESTIONREPLY
"this was a really good email, as you can see, I saved it. Which I don't normally do."
— Anne
RE: YOUR FILMREPLY
"I don't normally respond to cold call emails out of the blue but your detailed message intrigued me, certainly enough to send a thank you for taking the time to be accurate and thoughtful."
RE: YOUR BOOKREPLY
"I almost invariably delete random marketing pitches. Yours caught my eye b/c you at least give the impression of having perused one of my books."
— Mark
RE: A QUICK NOTEREPLY
"I generally delete these pitches, but have to say, this is well done."
— Dave
RE: YOUR MOVEMENTREPLY
"Thank you for the email and for getting the name of our film and movement right. That attention to detail caught my eye."
RE: PITCHREPLY
"My absolute favorite pitch, ever. You win."
RE: OUTREACHREPLY
"This was the most thoughtful pitch I've gotten in a long time."
— Mark
RE: SALES NOTEREPLY
"I rarely have time to respond to sales emails such as yours but certainly appreciate the creative time you took."
RE: COLD EMAILREPLY
"This is a pretty good cold outreach and I'm intrigued."
— Wayne
07  /  PROCESS WEEK BY WEEK

How it works once we start.

Three weeks to launch. Most clients see their first qualified meeting in week three.

WEEK 01

Deep dive and infrastructure.

We study your business, customers, market, and competitors. We start building your outbound playbook. At the same time, we set up your email infrastructure, dedicated domains, inboxes, warmup, and deliverability so everything is ready to send.

WEEK 02

Strategy review and build.

We schedule a strategy review call. You see the full plan, the targeting, the angles, the messaging. If something doesn't align, we adjust. Once approved, we build the campaigns and finalize everything for launch.

WEEK 03

Campaigns go live.

First replies start coming in. We handle responses and book qualified meetings directly to your calendar. You show up to the call.

WEEK 04+

Test, optimize, scale.

New angles, new segments, more volume on what's working. We don't stop optimizing because the campaign is live. That's when the real work starts.

08  /  FAQ PREEMPTIVE OBJECTIONS

Questions we usually get on the call.

Six things prospects ask before they sign. Answered up front so you don't have to.

It usually comes down to one of two things. Either the targeting was off, meaning you were reaching people who weren't in a buying window, or the messaging was generic enough that prospects had no reason to reply. We approach both differently. We track real-time signals that tell us when a company is likely ready to buy, and every email references something specific to that prospect's business.
There's a monthly fee that covers infrastructure, strategy, campaign builds, and ongoing optimization. After that, we only charge when we book a meeting and the prospect actually shows up. No long-term lock-in. After the first three months you can leave anytime. We earn your business every month.
Yes, for specific parts of the research and writing. Short, targeted tasks. But everything runs through our process and gets reviewed. We don't just hand it off to a machine and hope for the best. AI is a tool in our system, not the system itself.
Campaigns typically launch in week 3 after onboarding. Most clients see their first qualified meetings that same week.
Minimal. We handle everything from strategy to list building to copywriting to reply management to booking. You show up to the meeting and close. The only time we need you is the initial deep dive and the strategy review call in week 2. After that, you get weekly reporting on campaign performance and pipeline.
A prospect who matches the targeting criteria we agreed on during the strategy phase, responded positively to the outreach, and showed up to the call with a meaningful conversation. We don't count no-shows, and we don't book people who aren't a fit just to hit a number.
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