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Telescope â Find the right people in seconds
Telescope is an AI tool for anyone needing to quickly generate a targeted list of B2B leads. Trusted by thousands of companies, it is invaluable for acquiring new clients, conducting market research, and scheduling customer development calls.
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Reza Javan
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Hello,
I am thrilled to announce that Telescope is officially launching today on Product Hunt!
For anyone needing to generate a targeted list of B2B leads, Telescope is not just an AI tool - itâs a game-changer. Once you experience it, you wonât look back.
Trusted by thousands of companies, it is invaluable for acquiring new clients, conducting market research, and scheduling customer development calls
How does it work? 3 simple steps:
Tell it who you are looking for: itâs not just a keyword search. You actually talk to it in your own words, and it will understand the context behind your request.
Fine tune the AI by swiping a few times. As you interact with it, the model will quickly get more accurate. There is also an AI live chat all the time, which you can continuously talk to as needed to give it more feedback.
Generate a large list. Once the AI getâs enough understanding of who youâre looking (typically after ~5 swipes), you can press a button to get a large list of your highly target leads with all their contact info.
To celebrate, weâre offering a 20% discount on all our paid plans to the Product Hunt community. To redeem, simply sign up for Telescope and enter the promotional code âLAUNCH20â at the checkout page.
A heartfelt thank you to anyone who made this happen, our team, investors and especially the thousands of wonderful users who provided us with daily feedback.
Thank you for trying Telescope. We would be delighted to have you join our community. We are keen to receive your feedback.
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@reza_javan
Congratulations on the release of Telescopeđ
Useful and needed idea - AI-based lead generation!
Clear site, easy to customize search.đ
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@antonikozelski Thank you so much for your kind feedback, Antoni. Delighted to hear that.
@reza_javan same question here. I think you should provide some extra information about where those leads come from
Also consider adding it to FAQs question a consider too moving FAQs to bottom of the landing page, since is only visible in pricing and not all questions are about pricing
@reza_javan congratulations on the launch!
It really looks good to provide tons of value with minimum effort. I liked the idea of using a swapping on the fine tunning step, it really could provide a great user experience.
Is it implemented or do you consider adding a LinedIn integration? I mean, to connect with those emails not only by email, but also by LinkedIn contact and chat
Maker
@junqueror Fantastic feedback! Many thanks. Agree with you. We should explain this better in our landing page, and bring the F&Q to the bottom of the landing page đ We will do that đ
To answer your question regarding where our data comes from, Telescope augments data from over 75 different data providers, which includes data from LinkedIn as well as numerous other sources. We do ensure that each lead we recommended to a user comes with their LinkedIn profile. We also use a "waterfall system" for finding email addresses, which means we call countless different APIs until we find someone's valid email. In other words, if Telescope cannot find someone's email, no one else has that email either, and it is extremely unlikely you can find their email using any other platform. Hope this helps.
Maker
@sentry_co Telescope augmentes data from over 75 different data providers, which includes data from LinkedIn as well as numerous other sources. Having said that, we ensure each lead we recommended to a user comes with their LinkedIn profile
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@sentry_co Telescope already comes with email automation features. Once you create a campaign, you can click on "Enable outreach" from inside of the campaign where you can set up automated email sequences with custom variables and cadences. Our email automation feature also has sophisticated protection in place so that your email domain is protected at all times. For instance, it randomises the time each email is sent (like every 5-10 minutes, rather than sending 50 all at once) and it will not send more than ~50 emails a day so that your emails do not end up in spam folder). If you add more than 50 emails in your campaign, it just puts them in a queue for you and will send them later at an appropriate time.
Maker
@sentry_co Alternatively, you can easily connect Telescope with other tools, such as ActiveCampaign as well as most CRMs (Hubspot, Salesforce etc), so you can find leads on Telescope but send the outreach with other tools that you may already be using.. Another option is to just download the list of leads you find on Telescope into a CSV file, and then upload into any other automation tool. Hope this helps
@reza_javan Nice. Yeah. Automation is very sensitive these days. Once you get into the black books of email providers. Its hard to get out of it again đ
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@sentry_co Yes, completely agree. My advice is always best to be laser focused and only reaching out to people who are the right fit. Quality over quantity every time... Hopefully with Telescope, our users can now have both quality and quantity.
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Telescope is a must-have AI-powered B2B lead list generator for anyone in sales, marketing, or customer development.
Excited to hunt it today! Congrats @reza_javan @vit_patkunan @olivier_ramier @pedronunogoncalves and @aravind3sundar :)
Congrats on the launc @reza_javan and team. 3 years is a long time. Is this your first public release post beta or just your first time coming to PH?
How well does it do do for searching smaller companies/people from them? It looks like you are scraping data too? Sometimes AI hallucinates when the data is not sufficient for the prompting.
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@ty_robb Thank you, Tyrone. First time doing a public release :)
Telescope works exceptionally well especially when you are targeting SMBs. Would love for you to try it and let us know what you think.
We do not scrap any data ourselves. We work with +75 different data providers and augment data from multiple different sources.
Launching soon!
@reza_javan really interesting idea! I am curious where you're getting this data from? Are you combing email signatures? knocking on doors? I guess how does this compare to a tool like Zoominfo?
Congrats on the launch either way!
Wow Reza! It actually blowed my mind. Loved the way on how you tell the AI what are you looking for. It's especially useful for B2b founders and all of those are gonna be more than happy with Telescope. Keep up on that way!
Maker
@german_merlo1 Thank you so much for your kind words, German. Means a tremendous amount. Delighted to hear that you are finding Telescope useful. Welcome to the community!
Congrats on getting 2nd ranked! I just signed up for a free trial and got 50 free credits. Also, the UX is amazing. Best of the for the future update.
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@andreas_sohns Thank you so much, Andreas. Glad to hear your positive feedback. Welcome to the community!
Great job! I've been looking for a tool like this.
Unfortunately, I hit an error, and reported it to the team. Hope it is resolved quickly đ.
Would be great to have something like this for Prosummer-level apps too, with more credits
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@michael_yagudaev Hi Michael, appreciate you trying Telescope and sorry for the issue. It should be fixed now. Can you please try again?
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@michael_yagudaev Also thanks for your feedback regarding the live chat. We'll look into Crisp/ Intercome. It is indeed annoying that you can't upload screenshots right now.
Really loved the idea, just signed up to test it. Congratulations with the launch @reza_javan and team
UPDATE: just tried, really helpful. Kudos to team!
Maker
@narminablb Thank you so much, Narmina. Glad to hear that. Welcome to the community!
Hey, congrats on the launch! This looks very useful, I'll give it a try with altshiftstudio.com... How do often do you expand your data network. Do you have processes in place to keep the datapoints up to date?
Maker
@martinmaricak We keep our database updated constantly at all times, up to 125M employee profile and 45M companies are refreshed every single month, and the emails are refreshed and validated every single time a user accepts a lead.
Maker
@ivan_ilin Many thanks, Ivan. Delighted to hear that. Please do not hesitate to reach out to me at anytime if there is anything I can help with.
I can see a future where recruiters and sales are just swiping left and right all day! And they can tell their boss they are working lol.
Seriously though, this is pretty interesting take on generating leads for outbound folks. I love how simple the flow is and you explain that super well with visuals on the landing page.
Congrats @reza_javan and team!
Maker
@tonyhanded Thank you so much, Tony. Appreciate the kind feedback. We hope that within the next few months, Telescope's AI becomes so much smarter that even swiping will no longer be needed :) Exciting times ahead!
Great app, I tried it and the platform generating the best outcome across all similar products, especially containing emails which simplified the outreach. Congrats on the launch ?makers!
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@alexnikityuk Thank you so much, Alex! Your positive feedback means a tremendous amount. Welcome to the community!
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@rrhoover Thank you so much, Ryan. A comment from the legend himself đĽ Truly appreciate your support.
We augments data from ~75 different data providers, which includes data from LinkedIn as well as numerous other sources. We do ensure that each lead we recommend to a user comes with their LinkedIn profile. For finding email addresses, we use a "waterfall systemâ, which essentially means we call numerous different APIs of different data providers until we find someone's valid email. Itâs somehow similar to Clay, except, we take all the complexity out of it for our users.
Congratulations on the launch @reza_javan @vit_patkunan1 @olivier_ramier @pedronunogoncalves @aravind3sundar đ
Does this tool take data from LinkedIn directly in real-time or is there a different way the data is taken in the back-end?
Congrats Reza! I actually checked out your product before the launch today. I've totally had the problem of wanting to create hyper niche high quality leads lists. I've used Hunter's database in the past, and it was not great.
One thought when I tried it out. The quality of the leads still needs some work. One pattern that I noticed was that some leads are just not good. There should be a button to filter that. Or you could check the website of the lead and see if it still works (actually gets a 200 HTTP response).
Cheers on the launch and best of luck!
Maker
@cameron_napoli Thank you for your feedback, Cameron. I am sorry you experienced an issue with the app. I will ask the team to investigate and will get back to you via email shortly.
Hi @reza_javan! Congrats on your launch!! I only have one question for now, but is Telescope have enough data for the French market for example? We are a SaaS company looking now on the French market, but will expand on the US market soon. You can check it out, and have your opinion on it if you want, it can actually help you to see in 1 click the impact of your marketing on your leads. It's called Mayze.io
Thanks for your response! Can't wait to hear from you!
Maker
@steffi_nicolaides Hi Steffi, yes, we have a great coverage for the french market, and many of our users are from France. I am sure you will find it helpful. Please give it a try and let us know what you think. Always here in case you have any questions or feedback. Welcome to the community! I will look at your website as well :)
@reza_javan thanks for your response!! I already shared your page and website with my freelance community as well, and some already tried and find great leads!
Ans thanks for your support! have a great day of launching đĽ
Maker
@steffi_nicolaides truly appreciate all the love and support we have received today on this page! â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸
The product is looking good! Any plans on expanding the functionality to be able to reach out to these leads (e.g., email campaigns)?
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@semanser Hi Andriy, thank you for comment. Telescope already comes with email automation features. Once you create a campaign, you can click on "Enable outreach" from inside of the campaign where you can set up automated email sequences with custom variables and cadences.
Maker
@semanser Our email automation feature also has sophisticated protection in place so that your email domain is protected at all times. For instance, it randomises the time each email is sent (like every 5-10 minutes, rather than sending 50 all at once) and it will not send more than ~50 emails a day so that your emails do not end up in spam folder). If you add more than 50 emails in your campaign, it just puts it in a queue for you and will send it at an appropriate time.
Maker
@semanser Alternatively, you can easily connect Telescope with other tools, such as ActiveCampaign as well as most CRMs (Hubspot, Salesforce etc), so you can find leads on Telescope but send the emails with other tools that you may already be using.. Another option is to just download the list of leads you find on Telescope into a CSV file, and then upload into any other automation tool. Hope this helps
Maker
@kehui_guo Thanks for your comment, Kehui. Telescope comes with email automation features already. Once you create a campaign, you can click on "Enable outreach" from inside of the campaign where you can set up automated email sequences with custom variables and cadences.
Congrats to the team at Telescope! It's really cool to see AI being used to create more targeted opportunities for outbound.
I particularly liked your onboarding - it felt very much like a concierge experience, with some thoughtful offramps. The automatically generated prompts for lead discovery were also surprisingly good right off the bat - it's clear there's a lot of work that's gone into this under the hood.
I'll definitely be using Telescope in the future for lead prospecting - this is really solid.
Well done!
Maker
@jian_reis Thank you so much for your kind feedback, Jian. I appreciate it. Would love to have you in our community. Please reach out to me at anytime if you have any questions or feedback. Always here to help. Speak soon.