Truffle Hound finds the niche lists your buyers are on, then reads every company’s website to check they fit. So you only message people worth messaging.
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Seventy seconds. One sentence goes in. A ranked shortlist of leads and a week of messages come out.
Specific companies and specific people you can find on LinkedIn.
Broad networking or vague searches.
You buy 5,000 names or scroll LinkedIn for an evening. Half have the wrong job. Plenty left last year. Loads have 16 followers and haven’t posted since 2021. Nobody’s home. You message them anyway. Three reply.
You don't need more names. You need a better nose.
Lead databases sell everyone the same list. The hound goes where they don’t look.
Say you sell glass bottles to breweries. A database gives you every company with “brewery” in its name. The hound finds the regional brewers’ association list, opens every brewery’s website, checks which ones sell bottled beer, and only then finds the person who buys the bottles. A database can’t do that.
Fewer names. Every one worth a message.
Five jobs that eat your week. It does four of them.
Tell it who you’re after. "UK manufacturers with 50 to 500 staff." It hunts in the places lead databases miss, like trade associations, industry directories and award lists, as well as Google and LinkedIn.
Our own system
This is the bit nobody else does. The hound reads each company’s website, plus LinkedIn and public filings, then the person’s profile. It keeps the best fits for what you asked for and drops the rest.
Every lead gets a sniff score and the reason behind it. Only the best make the list, ranked best first.
Connection note, first message, chaser and sign-off. Written for each person and scheduled across your week.
Our browser sidebar sits next to LinkedIn. It shows who they are, why they fit and the message ready to go. You send it yourself, one click each, at a daily limit you set. Nothing goes out on autopilot.
Other tools hand you names. Truffle Hound hands you a ranked shortlist, and shows its working.
An example, not a real person.
Our own AI hunts specialist sources and reads each company’s website. Not a database we bought. It looks for the best fits, not the most names.
If the hound can't say why someone fits, they don't make the list.
Ranked high to low, so your first ten messages go to your ten best chances.
Swipe sideways to compare every tool.
| Truffle Hound | Apollo and list tools | Dripify, Linked Helper | Sales Navigator | ChatGPT on its own | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finds the people who fit | Yes, the best fits first | Thousands of names, mostly wrong for you | You bring the list | Good filters, you do the digging | Guesses from memory, often out of date |
| Vets each one with its own system | Yes, every lead | No | No | No | If you ask, one at a time |
| Ranks them out of 100 | Yes, the sniff score | Rules you set up yourself | No | No | No |
| Writes and schedules your messages | Yes, note to sign-off | Email templates | Templates, sent in bulk | You write them | You paste each one |
| Safe for your account | You press send, at a daily limit you set | Mostly email. Some LinkedIn steps can run automatically | Runs on autopilot, your account carries the risk | Safe, but slow | Sends nothing |
Finding very specific companies and the decision makers inside them, or very specific people you can find on LinkedIn by role, location, company or what's in their headline. It isn't built for broad networking or vague searches. The more specific you are, the better your leads.
Very. Say the sector, location, company size and the exact roles you want. "Purchasing decision makers at independent UK pet retailers" works. "People in the pet industry" doesn't.
Search for the people instead. Don't ask for "university incubators". Ask for "people at UK universities with startup incubator or enterprise manager in their headline".
Yes, and you should. If you know a good directory or list (award winners, recently funded startups, Product Hunt launches), open it in Chrome and click "Add to source" in the sidebar before you start. Big lists of hundreds or thousands go in as a source. Short lists of under 50 can be pasted straight into your chat.
Yes. Look at the search terms your AI picks before you approve them. If they look wrong, say so and it'll change them.
Yes, but use a separate chat for each one. Mixing campaigns in one chat gets confusing.
If fewer than 1 in 10 companies from a source qualify, the hound will tell you. Change the source or tighten your brief rather than pushing on.
You choose. The default is 20 to 25 a day. We recommend around 150 a week at most, depending on how active you are on LinkedIn and how many days a week you send. If you're very active you can go a little higher, but err on the side of caution. You press send on every one, so nothing goes out on autopilot.
Three that work well:
The risky tools are the ones that send on autopilot, all day, from servers you don't control. Truffle Hound doesn't. You press send on every connection, from your own browser, and you set your own daily limit. It looks like you because it is you.
Wherever your best customers are listed. The hound finds specialist sources, like trade associations, industry directories and award lists, as well as Google and LinkedIn searches. It reads each company's website to check the fit, then finds the right people on LinkedIn. It doesn't sell you a database.
Yes. Search for companies first, by sector, size or location, and the hound finds the right person inside each one. Or search for people directly, by role, seniority or what they post about.
How well the company and the person fit what you asked for, whether they're in a position to say yes, any signs they need you now, and how easy they are to reach. It adds up to 100, and every score comes with the reasons in plain words. Around 70 and above counts as qualified.
Yes. It's built for LinkedIn.
We're in beta and haven't set a price yet. Early access users help us set it.
We needed more leads, and every tool we tried gave us thousands of names and no idea who was worth messaging. So we built our own hound to find the right people, check them, and line up the messages. We used it every day. Then we told a few friends about it, and they asked if they could use it too. So we're opening it up.
It's still the tool we use ourselves. Built in London.
Truffle Hound is invite-only while we’re in early access. Apply and we’ll be in touch.
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