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Lead generation for consulting firms

Your best clients came through relationships.
Let's start more of them.

Consulting is bought on trust and a point of view. We run insight-led outreach to executives at mid-market companies, in the firm's voice, and build the search presence a C-suite buyer checks before the first call.

Stratechi: 33 meetings in 9 months with C-suite at mid-market companies.
50+ companies supported, including
ScoutLabGraham + JonesBay Leaf DigitalClear EstimatesDefendifyThe Employment Law SolutionComp AIBeacon TalentFlexbone AIEssiumDigeTekSDock 365StratechiSegMetricsSecondBody
33Meetings in 9 months, Stratechi
2.3%Reply rate with C-suite
$1.1MPipeline created
9Months to 33 meetings

Proof in consulting firms

Stratechi

33 meetings in 9 months with C-suite at mid-market companies

Executives reply to a point of view, not a services list. Stratechi's outbound led with one observation about the prospect's strategy and produced 33 C-suite meetings and $1.1M in pipeline.

Read the Stratechi case study →

Outbound for consulting firms

Lead with a point of view

A CEO replies to one sharp observation about their business, not a list of practice areas. We write that observation, send it from domains you own, and follow up the way a partner would.

  1. Trigger-based targetingCompanies at the moments they hire consultants: new leadership, funding, restructuring, expansion. Titles mapped per firm.
  2. Infrastructure you ownDedicated domains, warmed inboxes, low volume, placement tested.
  3. Insight-led copyOne observation, one implication, one question. No capabilities deck.
  4. Reply handling and reportingReplies handled with the tone of a partner, not an SDR. Weekly pipeline report.

Result: qualified meetings with C-suite and functional leaders at mid-market companies on your calendar.

How 13 programmes converted, 2022 to 2026
Contacts emailed~130,000decision-makers, verifiedHuman replies~4,3003.3% average reply ratePositive conversations~1,500interested, right personMeetings booked757on the client's calendarPipeline created$13.3Mclient-reported, qualified Read the full study →
Both channels feed one calendar
Outbound
Cold email
LinkedIn
Signal-based lists
Both channels feed one calendar. Outbound produces meetings in weeks. Inbound compounds and lowers the cost of every meeting after.
Inbound
Google
AI Overviews
ChatGPT & Perplexity

Inbound and AI search for consulting firms

Executives verify before they reply

A C-suite buyer searches the firm and the partner before taking a call. We build the thought-leadership pages and case studies they find, and measure whether AI engines name the firm.

  1. Technical floorSchema, structure, speed, partner profiles that show up in search.
  2. Point-of-view pagesOne page per problem you solve, written as the answer an executive is looking for.
  3. Case studies that get quotedNamed clients, real outcomes, structured for AI answers.
  4. AI visibility measuredEvery two weeks: who ChatGPT and Google name for your specialty.

Result: the buyer who gets your cold email searches your name and finds proof, not silence.

What we fix

Four consulting problems. One system.

What consulting founders tell us on the first call, and what we do about each.

01
Pipeline lives in the partners' network

It is the best pipeline there is, and it has a ceiling.

A weekly outbound engine that reaches beyond the partners' contacts, in the firm's voice.

02
Outbound has to match the brand

Template emails would cost more than they earn.

Insight-led copy, low volume, peer-to-peer tone. No blasts.

03
Executives search the firm before replying

Larger firms own the results for your specialty.

Point-of-view pages and case studies built to rank and be cited.

04
Engagements end, and the next one has not started

Feast and famine is the consulting rhythm.

Steady outbound so there is always a conversation in progress.

What is lead generation for consulting firms?

Lead generation for consulting firms is the process of identifying companies showing signals of an advisory need, reaching the senior buyer directly through cold email and LinkedIn, and booking qualified discovery calls. Because consulting sales cycles are longer and buyers more senior than most B2B categories, the targeting and copy have to earn credibility in the first line, not the fifth.

What we run it on

The stack, so you know what you are getting

Tool-agnostic, strategy first. We bring the infrastructure, the data and the sending platform. You own the domains and the lists.

InstantlyClayApolloApifyAI ArkHeyReachLinkedIn Sales NavigatorClaudeGoogle WorkspaceSearch ConsoleNetlifySupabase

Plus the sourcing, scoring and reply-handling pipelines we built in-house, because the off-the-shelf ones were not good enough.

FAQ

Questions consulting firms ask us

Yes, when it is framed as a point of view rather than a pitch. The email references a specific, verifiable signal about the prospect's business and offers a short, relevant observation, not a service list. Consulting buyers respond to demonstrated expertise, not volume.

Consulting engagements typically run lower volume and a more senior audience than product companies, so reply rates in the 2% to 3% range are realistic against C-suite and VP-level buyers. Our management consulting engagement ran at 2.3% and produced 33 meetings in 9 months.

Fewer than a SaaS company, and that is normal. Consulting sales cycles are longer and buyers are senior, so the realistic range is 3 to 5 qualified meetings per month, each with a larger potential engagement value than a typical SaaS demo.

Yes, provided there is a defined ICP and a named service line to sell against. A boutique practice with a clear point of view often gets stronger reply rates than a generalist firm, because the outreach can be specific.

Yes, same system, US buyers, reporting in your timezone. This applies to Indian advisory and consulting practices selling into the US the same way it applies to any other B2B company we work with.

No, it supplements them. Referrals stay the highest-converting source a consulting firm has. Outbound and inbound exist to fill the gap between referrals, so growth does not depend entirely on who happens to introduce you this quarter.

Let's build your consulting pipeline.

A 30-minute call. We look at what you have, tell you what we would run for consulting, and you decide.

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