B2B Lead Generation for PR Agencies

Nobody Wants to Hire a PR Agency. Everybody Wants to Be in Forbes.

Founders and CMOs are pitched by PR firms constantly, and every pitch sounds the same: "strategic communications," "elevating your brand," "thought leadership." None of it lands. What lands is the outcome itself: "Can we get you featured in TechCrunch?" OutboundPilot is built for PR agencies: a specific, publication-led offer, timed to a moment the company has a story to tell, sent to the people who want the coverage most.

Example results

across a typical PR agency campaign

Accounts mapped8,140
Buying signals identified78
Qualified meetings booked20
Pipeline opened$215K

Example leads we've generated

Founder & CEO, AI compliance startup

Trigger: Series A announced last week

"We announced and got zero coverage. Let's talk."

Meeting booked

CMO, consumer health brand

Trigger: Competitor featured in a national business outlet

"We've been trying to get into Fast Company for a year. Let's talk."

Meeting booked

VP of Marketing, B2B payments company

Trigger: Major product launch in six weeks

"Launch is locked for the 14th. What would you pitch?"

Meeting booked

Illustrative examples from campaigns in this industry. Names and companies withheld.

AI-powered

Signal-scored TAM

Pricing model

Simple, transparent pricing

Built by

Will Cannon from UpLead ($30MM+)

The Real Problem

Founders don't buy PR. They buy the headline.

A founder of a fast-growing company gets cold emails from PR agencies every week. Almost all of them describe services: "We help innovative brands build awareness through earned media." It's abstract, it's unprovable, and it gets deleted.

The emails that get a reply name the result. A specific publication. A specific story angle. And they arrive when the company actually has news: a funding round, a launch, a new executive or a milestone worth talking about.

Our approach

The fastest way into a founder's calendar is to show them the headline they've been picturing. OutboundPilot tracks the moments companies have a story to tell and leads with a concrete offer: "Can we get \[Company\] featured in \[Publication\]?" Your agency starts the conversation with the outcome, not the retainer.

In-Market Signals We Track

Real-time buying signals that prioritize your TAM

We don't just target companies that fit your ICP on paper. We overlay real-time buying signals to find the accounts most likely to want coverage right now.

Recent funding rounds

freshly funded companies want credibility with customers, recruits and future investors, fast

Product launches and major announcements

launches need press, and there's a hard deadline

New CMO, Head of Communications or VP Marketing hired

incoming marketing leaders audit agencies and look for quick wins

Founders building a personal brand

executives posting regularly on LinkedIn and podcasts are primed for bylines and features

Competitors getting press coverage

nothing motivates a founder like seeing a rival in the publication they wanted

Pain Points & How We Fix Them

Every PR agency brings us the same five problems

Without OutboundPilot

With

PR is seen as expensive and hard to measure

We lead with a specific publication and story angle, making the value tangible before the first call

New business depends on referrals and the founder's network

We build a predictable flow of new-client conversations every week, independent of who you happen to know

Every agency pitch sounds identical

Each message names the outlet, the angle and why the prospect's story fits, so it reads like a pitch to an editor, not a sales email

You miss companies in the window right after funding or launch

We track funding, launches and leadership changes so you're in their inbox while the news is fresh

The buyer could be the founder, CMO or comms lead

We map and sequence every stakeholder at once: Founder, CEO, CMO, VP Marketing and Head of Communications

Why It Works

Why OutboundPilot works for PR agencies

Every founder has a publication they'd love to be featured in. Most have never been asked which one, and nobody has made it sound achievable. The moment a PR pitch names that outlet and an angle that fits their story, it stops being a vendor email and becomes an opportunity.

OutboundPilot's copy is written the way great publicists pitch: specific outlets, newsworthy angles and a clear reason why now. That's why PR campaigns are among the easiest for us to turn into booked calls.

What's Included

Everything in every engagement

Full TAM build

filtered by industry, funding stage, growth rate and geography

Signal scoring

by funding, launches, leadership hires and competitor coverage

Verified contacts

Founder, CEO, CMO, VP Marketing, Head of Communications

Multi-stakeholder sequences

across founders and marketing leadership

Outcome-led copy

built around target publications and story angles

Deliverability management

across dedicated sending domains

Qualified meetings

with companies actively seeking press on your calendar

Quotes - OutboundPilot
“Within 6 weeks, OutboundPilot booked 47 qualified meetings, the highest-quality meetings we’ve seen from any agency.”
Peter Ribeiro Founder & CEO at Capital Gurus
Peter Ribeiro
Founder & CEO at Capital Gurus

Companies with a story to tell are looking for coverage right now. Be the agency that offers the headline.

Book a call and we'll show you which companies in your market have active PR triggers, and exactly how we'd pitch your agency to the people who want the feature.