Conrad Kwiatkowski

Conrad Kwiatkowski

Conrad Kwiatkowski is an outbound sales operator who has spent a decade turning cold lists into booked meetings — he writes about prospecting, deliverability, and the unglamorous mechanics of pipeline that works.

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Signal Stacking: Why One Trigger Is Never Enough in 2026 Outbound

One signal is a bored competitor, an analyst, or an intern doing research. Two signals cut the noise; three cut it again. Why signal stacking beats single-trigger outbound in 2026.

How to Find VC-Backed Companies Hiring in [Department] After Funding

Part 3 of a three-part series on funding-signal prospecting. Funding alone is the most over-indexed play in outbound; stacking a hiring signal on top is what tells you which product to pitch.

Seed to Series C: How to Prospect Newly Funded Companies by Stage

Part 2 of a three-part series on funding-signal prospecting. Seed and Series C are not the same ICP, and outreach that treats them as one is outreach that gets ignored at both ends.

How to Find Startups That Just Raised a Round (Before Your Competitors Do)

Part 1 of a three-part series on funding-signal prospecting. The list of recently funded startups is the same list every rep works on Monday; the only differentiator is being a week earlier.

How to Find Companies Where Your Former Customers Just Landed

Export closed-won contacts to CSV, hand it to a research agent, get back their new employers. The champion-tracking play without a $12k/year subscription.

How to find companies that just opened a new office

The other trigger event worth tracking, after a funding round lands, is the new office. Five free-or-cheap sources for catching it before competitors do.

How to Find Startups That Raised Funding in the Last 30 Days

Crunchbase gates funding-date filters. Four free public signals - Form D on EDGAR, investor portfolio pages, LinkedIn announcements, hiring deltas - get you there first.

How to find a VC's portfolio companies (and what to skip)

Four methods for finding any VC's portfolio companies: the firm's own page, Crunchbase, SEC EDGAR Form D, and PitchBook - ranked by cost and coverage.

How to find speakers at 2026 SaaS, AI, and fintech conferences

Static databases give you a contact row. Leadex extracts the context around it - session title, co-panelists, recent product launches. Here's the 2026 SaaS, AI, and fintech conference slate and the three queries we run.

How to Extract Sponsors and Exhibitors From Conference Websites

How to extract sponsor and exhibitor lists from any conference website, with a worked walkthrough on Web Summit's partners page - manual copy-paste, per-platform scrapers, and browser-agent extraction compared.