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Lead generation system

Sales Engine

One Notion page turns a city and a job title into 50 booked calls a month.

A Notion-native lead generation system. Apify and Google Maps and Apollo feed Clay for enrichment, n8n orchestrates, Lemlist and Smartlead and Expandi run the sequences, HubSpot and Notion share the CRM layer, Cal.com books the call. The dashboard is one Notion page your head of sales opens every Monday.

Inside NotionConnected toolsLeads DBEnrichment runsSequence trackerBooked callsPipeline dashboardApifyGoogle Maps scraperApolloLinkedIn Sales NavClayHunterDropcontactn8nZapierMakeLemlistSmartleadExpandiInstantlyGoHighLevelHubSpotPipedriveCal.comChili PiperClaudeSales EngineScrape, enrich, sequence, book. One Notion page owns the pipeline.n8n engine3 workflows moving data
Manual vs automated

Totals across every stage of this system. Manual numbers reflect what a real team does by hand today. Automated numbers reflect the same work running through this Notion build.

Metric
Manual version
Automated
Delta
Hours / week
44 h
3.75 h
40.25 h back
Spend / month
$8,800
$820
$7,980 saved
Stage by stage

Every stage opens its own tools and Notion artifact. Nothing is auto-expanded. Tap what you want to read.

01 · Sources

Scrape the right rooms

Apify scrapers pull job titles, city, and industry. Google Maps scraper grabs local businesses. Apollo filters on funding and headcount. Everything writes to Notion Leads DB with the source stamped on the row.

Manual version · 12 h/wk · $2,400/moAutomated · 0.5 h/wk · $180/mo
02 · Enrichment

Find the email, verify, score

Clay waterfalls emails through Apollo, Hunter, Dropcontact, and BetterContact until one verifies. Claude scores fit against ICP criteria. Rows that hit score 7 or higher get flagged ready-to-sequence.

Manual version · 8 h/wk · $1,600/moAutomated · 0.5 h/wk · $240/mo
03 · Orchestration

The engine that moves data

n8n is the primary engine for the hot path because you control the tenant and the rate limits. Zapier and Make act as bridges to SaaS that n8n does not speak natively.

Manual version · 0 h/wk · $0/moAutomated · 0 h/wk · $80/mo
04 · Sequencing

Send the sequence that books calls

Each enriched lead drops into the right sequencer by channel. Lemlist for email, Expandi for LinkedIn, Smartlead for cold email at scale. Copy gets personalized by Claude using the enrichment payload.

Manual version · 14 h/wk · $2,800/moAutomated · 2 h/wk · $320/mo
05 · Handoff

Lead handler + CRM handover

Replied leads route to the right AE in HubSpot. Slack DMs the AE with a 3-sentence context brief (source, pain signal, the reply). Notion mirrors the HubSpot deal so ops sees pipeline in one place.

Manual version · 6 h/wk · $1,200/moAutomated · 0.5 h/wk · $0/mo
06 · Reporting

What worked and why

Notion dashboard shows reply rate by source, cost per booked call by sequence, and ICP-fit vs close rate. Claude writes a Monday-morning digest in plain English and drops it in Slack.

Manual version · 4 h/wk · $800/moAutomated · 0.25 h/wk · $0/mo
Sub-systems inside Sales Engine

lead-handler

Lead Handler

Routing rules, SLA timers, Slack digests, round-robin. The 10-minute gap between a reply and an AE response is where deals die. This sub-system closes it.

crm-handover

Internal Handovers + CRM

The Notion to HubSpot mirror. Every deal has an ops handover log, an activity timeline, and a 3-sentence context brief an AE can read in one breath.

pipeline-reporting

Pipeline Reporting

One Notion page with 5 charts. Claude writes a Monday-morning digest in plain English. Leadership stops asking "how is the pipeline".

Time saved

~44 hours/week of manual BDR work (scrape, enrich, sequence, handover, report) collapses to ~3.75 hours/week of review. For a 3-person BDR team at $75/hr blended cost, that is ~$12,000/month back.

ROI

Swaps a $12,000/mo BDR line for a ~$820/mo tooling stack plus a 0.5 FTE ops review loop. Payback typically lands inside month 1 on a single booked call from an outbound source that was not running before.

Who actually runs this

Industries where this automation earns its keep.

We build to industry, not to headcount. If your world looks like any of these, this one works as-is.

B2B SaaS
Pipelines, PQL scoring, in-app and out-app ops in one layer.
Marketing agencies
Campaigns, creative, clients in parallel. One shared backbone.
Professional services firms
Proposals, retainers, status decks, resource allocation under one roof.
Recruiting and staffing
Source, screen, schedule, submit. Candidate + client sides of one loop.

Want this wired up for your team?

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