The Outbound Build · Cohort 2 · Applications open

6 weeks to outbound that runs on real buying signals

Twelve live sessions, two hours each, taught by Ishan Vats. You do not learn tools. You build one multichannel system across email, LinkedIn and voice, triggered by signals you can defend, then run it live against a real account in the final two weeks. Recordings go up the same day if you miss one.

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12 live sessions 24 live hours Recordings included Live account in weeks 5 and 6
Clay
Signal detected in Clay Head of Sales joined Northwind
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SmartleadLemlist Email Day 0
HeyReach LinkedIn Day 2
Retell AI Voice Day 5
Suppression on · one account, never two channels at once
Meeting booked HubSpot written back
Also in the estate Prosp Apify n8n Claude
6
weeks from first session to a system running live
12
live sessions, two hours each, all recorded
24
hours of live teaching, not pre recorded video
1
real account you run the system against in weeks 5 and 6

Most outbound fails for a reason no course covers.

It is not the copy. It is that the list had no reason to be contacted this week, the enrichment quietly cost more than the meeting was worth, the domains were never built as infrastructure, and four channels hit the same account in two days because nothing was suppressing anything.

Every one of those is an engineering problem. The Outbound Build teaches them as engineering problems, in the order you actually hit them, and makes you run the result against a live account before you are allowed to call it finished. That is the whole intent: you leave with a system in production, not notes about one.

Four things, all of them real.

A system in production Signal triggered, multichannel, sending to real prospects on a real account. Not a sandbox.
A runbook Every failure mode named, with the recovery step next to it, so the system survives you being on holiday.
A cost model Your measured cost per verified contact and per meeting booked. The number that decides whether to scale it.
A recorded defence Twenty minutes walking through what you built and what the numbers said. More useful than a certificate.

Taught by Ishan Vats.

Ishan Vats · IV Consulting

Ishan Vats

Clay and outbound systems expert

Founder of IV Consulting, an AI and automation consultancy in Delhi serving clients worldwide. Ten years and 150 plus clients. I build the GTM and AI systems teams run on, which means the failure modes in this curriculum are ones I have had to fix in production, on someone's real pipeline, with their money on the line. I teach every session myself.

Twelve sessions. Two phases. One system.

0112 sessionsTwo a week, two hours each, every one live and recorded.
022 phasesFour weeks building it, then two weeks running it on a real account.
031 systemEvery session ships a component that feeds the next one.

Two live sessions a week, two hours each, for six weeks. Every session ships a working component that feeds the next one. Sessions are recorded and posted the same day, so a missed session costs you the live question time, not the build.

PHASE 1BuildWeeks 1 to 4 · Sessions 01 to 08
S01

The ICP contract and the account universe

Every broken outbound system is a broken ICP wearing automation. We write the ICP down as a contract with exclusion rules, not a persona slide, then build the universe it implies.

You shipAn ICP contract plus a 500 account scored universe from three independent sources, with a deduplication log.
ClayProspICP Contract
S02

Signal taxonomy: what earns the word pinpoint

Most teams collect the signals that are easy to get, then wonder why replies do not move. We rank signal families by correlation to revenue, then attach source, freshness window and decay to each. A funding round is a different asset on day 3 and day 60.

You shipA signal register: 12 signals, each with source, freshness window, decay, and the one message that signal entitles you to send.
Signal RankingComposite Scoring
S03

Signal capture I: people

Job changes, hiring patterns, promotions and role gaps. The highest intent signals in B2B are about humans moving, not companies announcing. We instrument them on a schedule so they arrive fresh.

You shipTwo production watchers, job change and hiring, running on a scheduler and writing into Clay with timestamps.
Clayn8nHeyReachPeople MovementHiring Intent
S04

Signal capture II: company, stack and web

Funding, tech stack changes, competitor moves, site visitors and content engagement. Then the part everyone skips: composite scoring with decay, so one account with four weak signals does not outrank one with a single strong fresh one.

You shipTwo more watchers plus a composite score with decay, and a suppression table so an account cannot re-enter inside a set window.
Clay HTTPApifyFunding and Stack Shifts
S05

Enrichment that survives an audit

The session nobody else teaches. Waterfalls, validation gates, bounce ceilings, and the number that decides whether this is a business or a hobby: cost per verified contact. We set a spend ceiling and make the table respect it.

You shipA cost capped enrichment waterfall with a validation gate, and a measured cost per verified contact for your own universe.
Clay waterfallsProspData Hygiene
S06

From a signal to a sentence you can defend

Above the line versus below the line messaging, the six personalisation buckets, and one test applied to every generated line: would you say this out loud on a call? AI writes the variants. A human keeps the veto.

You shipA message matrix, four signals by two seniorities by three touches, generated through a Claude skill and reviewed line by line.
Claude CodeClay AI columnsPersonalisation BucketsExecutive and IC Split
S07

Deliverability as an engineering problem

Domains, mailbox estate, warmup schedules, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, inbox rotation, reply routing and volume maths against a stated bounce ceiling. Treated as infrastructure with failure modes, not as a list of tips.

You shipA provisioned sending estate with a warmup schedule and a volume plan that hits a target at a declared bounce ceiling.
SmartleadLemlist
S08

Multichannel orchestration: one account, many doors

The spine of the programme. Email, LinkedIn, voice and retargeting sequenced off a single signal, with cross channel suppression so the channels never collide on one account, and CRM writeback so the system has a memory.

You shipA five touch multichannel play wired end to end, signal triggered, with suppression rules and CRM writeback. This is the system that goes live in phase 2.
LemlistHeyReachRetell AIAttioThe Play Library
PHASE 2Live accountWeeks 5 and 6 · Sessions 09 to 12
S09

Intake, baseline and the compliance gate

Your account is scoped and signed off. Baseline numbers are recorded before anything sends, because a system with no baseline can claim anything. Consent, suppression lists and jurisdiction checks are cleared here or you do not send.

You shipA signed one page scope, a baseline metric sheet, and a cleared compliance checklist.
S10

Production, at small volume

The system goes live. Low volume on purpose, real prospects, real replies. Session 10 is a desk review, not a lecture: your tables and workflows reviewed against a published rubric. Most people find their session 8 build breaks on contact with reality. That is the point of having two weeks left.

You shipA live system with real sends, plus a defect log of everything that broke in the first week of production.
S11

Read the instrument, then kill something

Reply rate segmented by signal, meetings per thousand touches, cost per meeting, deliverability drift. Then the discipline: kill one signal that is not earning its enrichment cost, and double down on one that is.

You shipA one page performance read naming one killed signal and one scaled signal, each with the number that justified the call.
S12

Handover and defence

Documentation, runbook, named failure modes with recovery steps, and a cost model the account owner can read. Then a twenty minute live defence to the cohort and one invited guest, who asks the hard question.

You shipA production system, a runbook, a cost model and a recorded walkthrough. That recording is your portfolio.
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Ten tools in the estate.

Working access is included for the six weeks. Smartlead and Lemlist are both here on purpose: Smartlead is the sending infrastructure, Lemlist is the multichannel orchestration.

01 Clay Clay Orchestration, waterfall enrichment, AI columns.
02 Smartlead Smartlead Sending estate, deliverability and volume.
03 Lemlist Lemlist Multichannel sequencing and personalisation.
04 Prosp Prosp Contact and phone discovery in the waterfall.
05 n8n n8n Schedulers, glue, retries and error handling.
06 Claude Code Claude Code Skills, MCP servers, research and copy agents.
07 HeyReach HeyReach LinkedIn signal capture and compliant sending.
08 Apify Apify Scraping for signals that have no API.
09 HubSpot HubSpot CRM writeback, so the system has a memory.
10 Retell AI Retell AI Signal triggered voice, a channel nobody else teaches.

This is what you get, prebuilt.

Ten skills you run rather than reinvent, each tied to the session that teaches it. They stay yours after the cohort ends.

ICP ContractTurns a fuzzy persona into a written contract with exclusion rules.
S01
Signal RankingRanks signal families by correlation to revenue, not by how easy they are to get.
S02
Composite ScoringCombines signals with decay into one score. The core of pinpoint.
S02-04
People MovementJob changes and promotions, the highest intent signal in B2B.
S03
Hiring IntentReads growth and priorities out of open roles and headcount shape.
S03
Funding and Stack ShiftsInvestment rounds and tooling changes as company level triggers.
S04
Data HygieneValidation, deduplication and the spend ceiling that keeps cost per contact honest.
S05
Personalisation BucketsSix repeatable angles that still sound human at volume.
S06
Executive and IC SplitTwo different messages off the same signal, by seniority.
S06
The Play LibraryEleven end to end plays. You pick one and run it live in phase 2.
S08

Eight tools, built for this programme.

Not a swipe file. Each one is the working artifact from the session that teaches it, so you leave with the thing itself rather than notes about it. Yours to keep and reuse on every account after.

01
Signal RegisterEvery signal you run, with its source, freshness window, decay and the message it entitles you to send.
S02
02
Composite Score SheetWeights and decay curves for combining signals, so one strong fresh signal outranks four stale weak ones.
S04
03
Enrichment Cost CeilingWorks out your cost per verified contact and sets the spend cap before a waterfall runs away with your budget.
S05
04
Message MatrixSignals by seniority by touch, with the Claude skill that drafts the variants and the review gate that keeps a human in it.
S06
05
Deliverability PreflightDomains, DNS, warmup and volume maths checked before a single send, with the bounce ceiling written down.
S07
06
Suppression MatrixThe cross channel rules that stop email, LinkedIn and voice landing on one account in the same 48 hours.
S08
07
Cost per Meeting ModelEnrichment, sending and tool cost against meetings booked, so you know whether to scale it or kill it.
S11
08
Runbook TemplateNamed failure modes with the recovery step beside each one, so the system survives you being away.
S12

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This is not for everyone, and we would rather say so now.

Apply if

  • You can point at a real account to run this against: your employer, your company, or a client.
  • You have tried outbound and watched it underperform, and you want to know why.
  • You can commit roughly eight hours a week: four live, four building.
  • You are a founder, GTM or sales lead, RevOps, agency owner, or a technical marketer.

Do not apply if

  • You want a job guarantee. There is not one, and anyone offering one is selling you something else.
  • You will not do the 90 minute bench test. It is the filter, and it is not optional.
  • You want to become an expert in every tool. This teaches a system, not a tool tour.
  • You cannot make the live sessions and will not watch recordings within 48 hours.

One price. Everything included.

$1,450
per seat, for the full six weeks
  • 12 live sessions, two hours each, with Ishan
  • Recordings posted the same day, yours to keep
  • Tool access for the programme window
  • The Signal Library, the eight tools, and every template used in class
  • Two one to one desk reviews on your live account
  • Your recorded week 6 defence, as a portfolio artifact

Before you apply.

What if I miss a live session?+
Recordings go up the same day and are yours to keep. You lose the live question time, not the build. If you know in advance, send your question ahead and it gets answered on the recording.
Six weeks sounds short. Is that enough?+
It is 24 hours of live teaching plus about 24 hours of your own build time, and it is all pointed at one system rather than a tour of every tool. The goal is not to make you an expert in Clay or Smartlead. It is to get one signal driven multichannel system live on a real account and measured. That fits in six weeks. Tool mastery does not, and is not the point.
Do I need to know how to code?+
No. You need to be comfortable with logic, conditions and data. We use n8n and Claude rather than writing software. If you can build a decent spreadsheet model you will be fine.
What exactly is the bench test?+
We send you 25 named companies. You find one non obvious buying signal for each from public sources, cite the source URL and the date it appeared, and write one 60 word message for the three strongest. It takes about 90 minutes. We score signal quality and citation discipline, not writing polish. An AI can draft the message. It cannot fake a dated, checkable source, which is why it ends most applications.
Why is the cohort so small?+
Because the desk reviews in weeks 5 and 6 are one to one, and there is a hard limit on how many live accounts one person can review properly in a fortnight. Most applications end at the bench test, and most of the rest end at the account question. Neither is a judgement on you, it is a capacity constraint we would rather be honest about than hide behind a waitlist.
Do I need to buy all the tools?+
Tool access is included for the programme window. After the cohort you keep whatever you choose to pay for. Nothing in the curriculum requires the top tier of anything.
What do I actually walk away with?+
A working multichannel system running against a real account, a runbook with named failure modes, a cost model showing your cost per meeting, and a recorded twenty minute walkthrough of the whole thing. That recording is the portfolio artifact, and it is considerably more useful in a conversation than a certificate.
Is there a certificate?+
No. There is a recorded defence of a system that sent real emails to real people and produced real numbers. If someone wants evidence you can do this work, that is the evidence.
What if I apply and get declined?+
You get a reply telling you why, and what would change the answer. Most declines are about the account requirement or the hours, both of which are fixable by the next cohort.

Cohort 2. Six weeks. One system.

If you have an account, a reason to contact the people on it, and eight hours a week, the application takes about eight minutes and tells you where you stand before you submit.

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1 What best describes you right now?
2 Which account would you run your system against in weeks 5 and 6?

This is the single most important answer on the form.

2a Can you get written permission to send on that client's behalf before week 5?
2a We can assign you a practice account, but it is a weaker six weeks than your own pipeline.
3 Where are you with Clay today?
4 What is already in your stack?

Select all that apply, or none. This one is not scored.

5 Roughly how much outbound does your team send a month?
6 Describe one outbound thing you have already tried that did not work, and your best theory for why.

Read by a human, not scored by a keyword. Specific beats polished. Minimum 120 characters.

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7 Can you commit about eight hours a week for six weeks? Four live, four building.
7a Recordings go up the same day. Can you watch them within 48 hours and still do the four hours of build work?
8 Where will you be joining from?

Session times are set once the cohort is picked, to fit the group.

9 Gate 2 is a 90 minute bench test on real companies. Are you in?
10 Who is paying for the seat?
11 Last one. How do we reach you?
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