Contactwho for Startup Founders
Stop spending hours on manual prospect research. Find the right decision-makers in seconds and focus on what matters — closing deals and building your company.
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Step 1 — Describe what you offer
Dev tool monitoring SDK
Step 2 — Pick a company
Step 3 — Ranked contacts appear
Ananya Patel
94% matchDecision MakerVP Developer Experience
Owns developer tooling decisions and SDK adoption strategy
Ryan Kim
88% matchHead of Platform Engineering
Manages infrastructure that would integrate monitoring tools
The founder's prospecting problem
You're wearing ten hats. You know outbound matters, but you don't have time to spend 30 minutes per company researching who to email. And you definitely don't have budget for a full-time SDR or a $10,000/year data platform.
How simple is it?
Unlike Apollo, ZoomInfo, or Sales Navigator, there are no filters to configure, no boolean queries to learn, and no 45-minute onboarding sessions to sit through.
- Describe your product once — Tell Contactwho what you sell in plain English. "Dev tool monitoring SDK" or "Accounting automation for e-commerce." That's it.
- Paste a company domain — No filtering through massive databases or building complex search queries. Just type
stripe.com. - Get ranked contacts in seconds — AI identifies who owns the buying decision for your product, with clear reasoning you can trust.
- Enrich and reach out — Discover verified emails, generate personalized outreach, and start conversations immediately.
The entire workflow takes under 60 seconds. Most founders are productive within their first 5 minutes — no training required.
Why founders love it
- Speed over everything — Most searches complete in under 60 seconds. Go from "I should reach out to Stripe" to "here's the right person with a ready-to-send email" in minutes.
- Zero learning curve — If you can type a company name and describe what you sell, you can use Contactwho. No filters, no boolean strings, no training videos.
- AI does the thinking — The ranking explains why each contact matters. You get the confidence to email a VP without wondering if you're targeting the right person.
- Affordable for early-stage — Solo plan starts at $29/month. Compare that to $99+/month for tools that still make you do the filtering yourself.
How it compares to doing it the old way
| Contactwho | Manual research | Traditional databases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time per account | Under 60 seconds | 20–30 minutes | 5–10 minutes + filtering |
| Learning curve | None | N/A | Hours of onboarding |
| Contact quality | AI-ranked by relevance | Hit or miss | You decide (guessing) |
| Pricing | From $29/mo | Free but slow | $99–$500+/mo |
Real workflow example
You're selling dev tools to mid-market companies. You enter
datadog.comand describe your monitoring SDK. In 45 seconds, Contactwho returns the VP of Developer Experience (Decision Maker, 94% match), the Head of Platform Engineering (Influencer, 88%), and the Engineering Manager for Observability (Secondary, 76%) — each with a clear explanation of why they were chosen.
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