Triple Threat: Automate Outbound Like a Pro, AI That Solves Production Bottlenecks, The Fastest Way to Personalize Cold Emails

What you’ll find in this week’s Triple Threat:

• 💥 Power: Build an outbound super agent that writes, sends, and schedules for you

• 🎯 Precision: How Lagor used AI + digital twins to eliminate bottlenecks

• 🚀 Momentum: ICP Message Crafter writes relevant outreach in seconds

💥 Power: Build an Outbound Super Agent That Writes, Sends, and Schedules for You

The Stack: Clay + Octave + lemlist = High-performance outbound, on autopilot

What it is: This trio, Clay for contact sourcing, Octave for persona-based personalization, and Lemlist for sending and follow-up—builds a complete outbound system that runs itself.

Clay finds the right contacts and enriches their data. Octave maps that data to detailed buyer personas, then writes highly tailored messages based on each person’s role and pain points. Lemlist sends those messages, manages follow-ups, and connects to your CRM for seamless tracking.

Why it’s worth trying: I use this exact stack for speaking engagements and prospecting—and it outperforms everything I’ve tried, including manual outreach and paid outbound consultants.

Right now, I’m seeing 65% open rates and 36% reply or meeting booking rates, compared to the 10–12% I had before. It’s faster, more personal, and requires zero ongoing effort once it’s set up.

How it stacks up:

• vs. Doing it yourself → Automates the whole workflow—from research to reply

• vs. Hiring an outbound expert → No expensive retainers or ghostwriters

• vs. Most outreach tools → Combines deep personalization, automation, and CRM sync

• vs. Hiring an SDR or VA → Less expensive, no management—just results

Business impact:

• 5× your response rate

• Save hours of manual work every week

• Plug into your CRM to keep everything connected

• Clone your system across new campaigns or teams

How to do it (at a high level):

1. Source leads with Clay → Add target companies or roles

2. Enrich with Octave → Clay sends data to Octave, which builds ICPs and custom messages

3. Send via Lemlist → Lemlist personalizes and delivers the messages, then follows up automatically

4. Track everything → Lemlist syncs engagement back to your CRM

5. Repeat and scale → Save the workflow as a Clay template

First step: Pick a target segment, load in 10 contacts, and run your first campaign. You can test the full stack with 14-day free trials on each platform. After that, it’s about $350/month total, far cheaper than hiring someone, and way more scalable than doing it all yourself.

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🎯Precision: A real-world case where the strategy clicked—and what it means for growth, trust, and traction

How Lagor Used AI + Digital Twins to Eliminate Bottlenecks

The Case: Lagor, a European leader in transformer core manufacturing, used AI-driven simulation to transform its production floor, from reactive and rigid to adaptive, predictive, and self-optimizing.

Company Background: Lagor builds high-precision magnetic cores for electrical transformers, massive, customized components that flow through multi-stage manufacturing lines. Every process is time-sensitive. Every block costs money. And as demand scaled, their old system couldn’t keep up.

Problem: Manual scheduling led to frequent bottlenecks. When a transformer core got stuck mid-line, production halted. Teams had to call in cranes, reset entire workflows, and lose hours of uptime. It wasn’t just inefficient, it was expensive, unpredictable, and unsustainable.

Solution: Lagor built an AI-powered digital twin: a live, virtual replica of their production floor.

• Simulation layer: Using AnyLogic, they modeled stations, cycles, machines, and product flows

• Live data layer: Integrated SCADA data fed real-time conditions into the twin

• AI control layer: A reinforcement learning agent learned to optimize core movement, resource allocation, and task sequencing dynamically

Instead of using fixed rules, the AI ran thousands of simulated production runs. It learned the most efficient ways to move material, resolve conflicts, and prioritize throughput, anticipating problems before they occurred.

Why it worked: This wasn’t just automation, it was adaptive intelligence. The AI learned what worked, adjusted in real time, and optimized the line moment-to-moment, not week-to-week. Lagor didn’t just simulate production. They gave it a brain.

Results:

• Drastically fewer production blockages and crane resets

• Reduced downtime across core manufacturing lines

• Faster experimentation with layout and flow—no risk, no real-world disruption

• Higher throughput, lower per-unit cost

• A future-proof line manager that improves every day

What it signals: AI + simulation isn’t a future trend, it’s a now advantage. You can build a system that doesn’t just mirror reality but thinks ahead. Whether you’re in manufacturing, logistics, or even service ops, AI agents trained on real workflows can uncover optimizations no human planner will see.

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🚀 Momentum — A custom GPT I create to help you take action today

ICP Message Crafter: The Fastest Way to Personalize Cold Outreach

Tired of spending hours researching a company and writing intros from scratch? ICP Message Crafter gives you a fast, focused way to write cold emails that feel personal—and actually get replies.

Who it’s for: Founders, marketers, and outbound teams who want to move fast without sending generic outreach.

What it does: You give it a company domain and a job title. It pulls together a basic profile of who you’re reaching out to, then writes a full outbound sequence that’s tailored to their role and company context. Think: cold emails, LinkedIn messages, soft intros. All in your tone.

Why it’s worth using:

• Cuts research + copy time from 30 minutes to 2

• Helps you say something relevant, not robotic

• Great for warming up leads, booking intros, or testing new markets

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If you’re not ready to dive into the full Clay + Octave + Lemlist setup, this is the easiest way to get started with better outbound, without touching a spreadsheet.

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