Vivameda is founder-led. Oli runs sales himself, with deals landing around $10K. With sales run that lean, there is no team of reps to absorb a bad list. Every name is either time spent or time wasted, so the quality of the list is the whole game.
On paper the stack was finished. Apollo gave Oli volume, Clay filled in the missing emails and details from one source after another. The problem was underneath it. The data decayed the moment it was exported, and Oli spent more time stitching the two tools together than talking to prospects. On one list he had built, half the contacts had bounced or moved roles, and he only found out after the outreach had already gone cold. The real cost was research time: hours spent qualifying names that should have been filtered out before they ever reached the list.
Clean came by recommendation. Oli tried it for one reason: he wanted live prospect data instead of a snapshot that decayed the moment he exported it. He had something useful the same day, with his first working search within a couple of hours.
Clean does the prospecting. The companies come from dated records. Oli gets a shortlist he trusts, with the people sourced live from LinkedIn rather than from an export that had already gone stale, and his own historical data layered on top. From there the selling is his: the walk-ins and the emails he writes himself. Clean finds and ranks the names. Oli closes them.
Within two weeks, Oli had $60K in signed contracts, with another $120K in pipeline behind it. The change was list quality. It got sharp enough that he could go straight to walk-ins with confidence, instead of burning the first week cleaning data. As the targeting tightened, reply rate climbed from around 4% to around 19%, and research per account dropped from about 40 minutes to under 5. That gave him back 8 to 10 hours a week to spend in conversations instead of spreadsheets.
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“Fresher data mattered more than more data. I didn’t need a bigger list, I needed a list that was true today.”
Clean is for founders doing careful, low-volume outreach where every name counts.
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