B2B manufacturing and industrial operations
CASE STUDY 03 / B2B OUTREACH AUTOMATION

PETRA — CONTRACT
MANUFACTURING

How we engineered a fully autonomous B2B outreach system — Clay enrichment, Instantly sequencing, and n8n automation — that runs 24/7 and delivers qualified conversations to the inbox without a human touching anything.

Industry
B2B Contract Manufacturing
Services
AI Automation, Cold Outreach
Stack
Clay · Instantly · n8n
Key Contacts
Greg, Stephen
THE CHALLENGE

B2B SALES THAT
DOESN'T SCALE.

Petra had a compelling offer — contract manufacturing for enterprise buyers — but their outreach was entirely manual. Sales reps were spending hours researching companies, writing individual emails, and manually logging responses into a CRM that rarely got updated.

The problem wasn't the product. It was the pipeline. Every qualified conversation was costing disproportionate time, and the process couldn't scale without headcount. They needed a system that did the research, wrote the outreach, sent it intelligently, and handled the backend — automatically.

Additionally, their leads came from Pipedrive — a CRM that needed to be the starting point for every enrichment and outreach trigger, not an afterthought at the end.

THE SYSTEM WE BUILT

FULL AUTONOMOUS
PIPELINE

01
Pipedrive → Clay via n8n webhook

New leads added to Pipedrive automatically trigger an n8n webhook that pushes data to Clay for enrichment — pulling LinkedIn profiles, company size, tech stack, and buying signals.

02
Clay enrichment + personalisation

Clay enriches each lead with company intelligence and generates a personalised first line using AI — so every email reads like it was written specifically for that prospect, not a template.

03
Instantly sequences + warm domain

Enriched leads feed into Instantly via a secondary warm-up domain — separate from the primary domain to protect deliverability. Emails go out staggered across sending windows timed to the prospect's timezone.

04
Replies routed back to Pipedrive

Positive replies trigger another n8n webhook that creates a qualified deal in Pipedrive automatically — so the sales team only touches the pipeline when there's a genuine conversation to pick up.

THE OUTCOME

OUTREACH THAT
NEVER SLEEPS

100%
Automated — zero manual
steps in the send pipeline
24/7
System running without
human intervention
3-tool
Stack: Clay · n8n · Instantly
all connected and in sync
KEY LEARNING

"The best sales system is one your sales team doesn't have to run. When enrichment, personalisation, sending, and CRM logging are all automated — the human only enters when there's a conversation worth having."

— Amrit, Workflow AI Advisors
FAQ

COMMON
QUESTIONS

WANT THIS FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

YOUR OUTREACH SHOULD
RUN WHILE YOU SLEEP.

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