An advisor engine, not a search engine

Most tools tell you a company exists. Fundz tells you what just changed — and what to do about it.

Signal Intelligence is the layer above your contact database. Fundz watches funding rounds, executive moves, M&A, hiring surges, SEC 8-K leadership changes and more in real time — verified and broad — then shows you the right person to reach at each company and drafts the outreach from the signal itself.Built for the individual seller who wants an edge, not another database to search.

Anyone can show you a signal. Only Fundz gives you this much real-time, verified signal in one view — and lets you act before the window closes, in one click (even by voice).

Act in the window. First. Before it closes.

The Seller's Edge

Everyone has the same database. Almost nobody has the timing.

The reps who win aren't the ones with the biggest list — everyone buys the same lists. They're the ones who reach out the day a company raises, the week a new VP of Sales starts, the moment a budget unlocks. That timing is invisible in a static database. Fundz makes it the first thing you see each morning, with the right contact and a ready opener already attached.

The old playbook is broken

Your list and your competitor's list are the same export — nothing tells you who to call today
Manual research eats 15–20 minutes a prospect; ten prospects is a lost morning
Generic openers — "I noticed you're at [company]…" — get ignored
By the time a raise hits the news everyone's mailbox, the window's already closing
Contact tools give you people with no timing; alert tools give you timing with no people
Enterprise intelligence costs more than your whole tool budget

What a seller actually needs

Real-time, verified signals so you know WHEN to reach out — not just who
The right contacts attached to every signal, ranked to what you sell — unlimited verified email reveals on every plan, mobile via credits or 200/mo bundled on Strategic
Something specific to say — "Saw you just raised a Series B and are hiring a VP of Sales"
Outreach drafted from the signal, sent from your own inbox — that runs while you're in meetings
One platform that detects, scores, and drafts — not five subscriptions stitched together
A price an individual can expense without procurement — $79/mo, not an enterprise contract
Every LinkedIn DM you ignore

"Hey John, I noticed you're the founder of Fundz. I help companies like yours with growth strategy. Would love to connect and explore synergies. Free for a quick call?"

No signal. No timing. No value. Delete.

WITH FUNDZ
The DM that gets a reply

"Hey John — saw Fundz just closed a funding round and you're hiring a VP Sales. I helped DataSignal build their sales org after their Series A — went from 2 reps to 12 in 6 months. Happy to share what worked if useful."

Real signal. Perfect timing. Genuine value. Reply.

This is the difference between a search engine and an advisor engine. A search engine hands you a list. Fundz hands you the moment, the person, and the message — so you move on the right account, with the right person, at the right time.

The Old World vs. Signal Intelligence

Four generations of go-to-market data — and why only the fourth delivers outcomes.

Fundz doesn't replace these tools. It makes them useful.

Sales Intelligence
ZoomInfo, Apollo

"Here are 10,000 companies that match your filters."

Static databases. No timing. No context.

Intent Data
Bombora, 6sense

"Someone at Company X visited a page about CRM."

Anonymous. Noisy. Expensive.

Business Alerts
Crunchbase, Google Alerts

"Company X just raised $20M."

Single signal. No synthesis. Same alert to everyone.

The New Standard
Signal Intelligence
Fundz

"Company X raised $20M, hired 4 sellers, changed pricing, and matches your ICP at 87% — here's the VP Sales to call, with verified email and mobile on demand."

Multi-signal, verified, ICP-scored — with the contact and a drafted opener attached. Mobile reveals bundled on Strategic.

The math the data proves

No Signal. One Signal. Multiple Signals. In Real Time.

The same outreach gets dramatically different results depending on what you know — and when you act. Every step on this ladder is independently measured.

No signal
~3%reply rate

Generic cold email averages a 3.43% reply (Instantly 2026). Same list everyone else bought.

One signal
~5×more replies

Signal-based personalization lifts replies to 18% — 5.2× generic (Instantly 2026). Our own signal-based LinkedIn campaigns: 30–35% accepted the connection.

Multiple signals
25–40%reply rate

Stacking 2–3 signals (funding + a new exec + hiring) reaches 25–40% replies; +142% vs blasts (Instantly/Martal/Landbase).

Multi-signal + real time
~80%win the deal

The first vendor to act on a trigger wins ~80% (Forrester 2024) — 5× more likely to win (Growth List). The premium only exists if you are first.

The first-mover premium evaporates if you're late — and "late" is hours, not days.

Speed is the multiplier. Respond within 5 minutes = 21× more likely to convert (HBR/MIT, Oldroyd — 100K leads); act on a funding or leadership-change signal within 48 hours = 4× higher conversion (Salesmotion). But the universal bottleneck is signal→action latency: the signal fires Tuesday, the rep acts Thursday, the window's closed. Every signal tool shows you the signal. Almost none deliver it in real time and hand you the verified contact plus a drafted, grounded email so you act first.

Fundz = real-time × multi-signal × verified × act-in-one-click (even by voice) = you capture the first-mover premium the data proves is real.

47% / 43% / 38%

Signal-qualified leads convert 47% better, land 43% larger deals, and close 38% more often (Landbase).

75%

of 2025 B2B sales engagements originated from signal-based triggers (Growth List). Signal selling is now the norm, not the edge case.

~2× spend, 60–90 days

Newly funded firms spend ~2× more and hire ~2× faster; 71% finalize vendors within 90 days of the announcement (Jolly Marketer).

The Evolution From Alerts to Autonomous Intelligence

Five stages of signal sophistication — and where Fundz stands today.

1

Stage 1: Single-Signal Alerts

LIVE TODAY

"Company X raised $20M."

Where Fundz started in 2015. Raw events delivered as they happen.

2

Stage 2: Multi-Signal Correlation

LIVE TODAY

"Company X raised $20M AND hired a CRO AND posted 5 SDR roles."

Detecting patterns across signal types to surface compound events.

3

Stage 3: ICP-Mapped Scoring

LIVE TODAY

"Company X matches your ICP with a score of 87."

AI lead scoring tuned to each customer's ideal client profile.

4

Stage 4: WorkVibz™

LIVE TODAY

"WorkVibz score dropped 25%. CFO departure likely within 60 days."

AI-scored employee satisfaction from multiple leading employer review platforms — the inside-out signal that predicts exec departures, layoffs, and acquisition vulnerability.

5

Stage 5: Predictive Intelligence

LIVE TODAY (STRATEGIC)

"This company's next likely move is a funding round in the next 30–90 days."

Using years of structured event data to forecast a company's next move.

6

Stage 6: Autonomous GTM

VISION

"We identified, scored, enriched, and engaged 12 opportunities this week."

Full-cycle automation — from signal detection to outreach.

PATTERN DETECTED
How Sentiment Predicts Major Events
DAY 0
Employee sentiment drops to 4.2
3 WEEKS LATER
CFO departs
5 WEEKS LATER
8-K filing: material event
3 MONTHS LATER
Acquisition announced
WorkVibz culture decline, an 8-K leadership change, and an acquisition often line up — Fundz is the only stack that watches all three together

Why Signal Intelligence Requires a Decade, Not a Sprint

Four compounding moats that widen every day.

The Multi-Signal Event Graph

funding · exec moves · M&A · contracts · product launches · SEC 8-K · WorkVibz culture · hiring intent (incl. vacancy aging, exec backfill, role-reposted) · office-expansion and pre-launch trademark signals where available

A company raising a Series B is noise. A company raising a Series B while a CFO role has been open 87 days, a CRO just departed, and WorkVibz is declining is a signal cluster that predicts expansion — and vulnerability — with high confidence. The hiring-intent layer (vacancy aging, exec backfill, reposted-role detection across 6 ATS sources) is unique to Fundz — no competitor surfaces these signals.

Why AI alone cannot replicate this

AI can process data but cannot create a proprietary, structured event graph spanning a decade of real-time business activity. WorkVibz aggregates employee satisfaction from multiple leading review platforms into a proprietary culture health signal no competitor can replicate. The Hiring Intel layer derives signals from harvesting 6 public ATS sources nightly + cross-referencing them with funding and exec-change data — an integration nobody else builds.

The Customer Targeting Graph

Every customer defines their ICP

A fractional CRO targeting mid-market SaaS cares about different signals than a PE firm looking for acquisition targets. Fundz knows the difference.

Why AI alone cannot replicate this

AI models are generic. Personalized ICP matching requires hundreds of real customer profiles refining the scoring engine over years.

Verified Contacts on Every Signal

ICP-scored people + on-demand mobile reveals — built into the signal, not a separate tool

Every real-time signal arrives with the right person to reach attached — verified email included, verified mobile on demand. Pro: unlimited email reveals + mobile credits from $0.50. Strategic: unlimited email reveals + 200 mobile reveals/mo bundled. No second subscription. No CSV export to a third tool. Right person, right time, right company — in one click.

Why AI alone cannot replicate this

Sales-intelligence databases ship contacts without timing. Alert tools ship timing without contacts. Wiring the two together — per-user ICP scoring on every contact, with on-demand mobile — is a product surface no incumbent ships in one place.

10 Years of Temporal Context

2015 → 2020 → 2026 — pattern recognition through a full economic cycle

A decade of structured event data plus years of per-user ICP refinement that a new entrant can't compress into a sprint — pattern recognition through a full economic cycle, from the 2020 zero-rate era to the 2026 AI restructuring.

Why AI alone cannot replicate this

Historical data cannot be synthesized or back-filled. It must be collected in real-time over years of continuous operation. The 2015 baseline gives Fundz pattern recognition through a full economic cycle — including the 2020 zero-rate-to-2022-rate-shock-to-2026-AI-restructuring transitions — that platforms launched after 2022 structurally cannot match.

The Signal Intelligence Flywheel

A self-reinforcing loop that rewards the first mover.

Cycle
Accelerates
More signal sources
richer profiles
Richer profiles + ICP
better scoring
Better leads
higher conversion
More customers
more ICP data
Higher retention
invest in signals

This flywheel is why signal intelligence rewards the first mover. A competitor starting now faces a decade of historical data and years of ICP refinement already compounding inside Fundz.

THE MISSING PIECE

Signals Are Useless Without Action

Every other tool stops at "here's a signal." Fundz takes the signal, finds the right person, and drafts the outreach — an email from your own inbox (SmartSend) or a warm LinkedIn touch (Engage) — ready before your morning coffee. Seeing the signal is table stakes; acting first, this easily, is the edge — and the first to act on a trigger wins ~80% (Forrester).

Signal Detected

"Acme Corp just raised a $15M Series B and hired a VP of Engineering."

Intelligence Applied

"You know Sarah Chen there — she's your 1st-degree connection. She just posted about their growth plans."

Fundz Drafts It

SmartSend writes an email built from that signal and the contact's role — from your own inbox, up to 3 touches, stops the moment they reply. Or Engage queues a warm LinkedIn touch in your voice. In your Slack by 7 AM.

This is what makes Signal Intelligence more than a dashboard. It's the only platform that completes the loop from detection to warm conversation.

The 2026 Stack

What's Shipped — The Operating Platform Today

Concrete capabilities live in production right now. Not roadmap, not vision — what a Fundz user can do this morning.

Hiring Intel feed

Org-grouped intent feed with 7 hiring-signal types — vacancy aging, exec backfill in motion, role reposted, hiring surge, key-role posted, dept expansion, tech-stack signal — across 6 ATS sources.

Search Brief Generator

Click-to-generate 1-page brief grounded in the company's actual signals — comp benchmark, why now, sourcing pools, talking points. Shareable URL. Print to PDF for client deliverables.

Comp Benchmark

Peer-percentile placement of any role's comp band against our own dataset — same canonical role + currency + size bucket. Fee math that runs on real currently-listed roles, not Levels.fyi anecdata.

Engage handoff DM drafter

One click on any signal generates a short LinkedIn DM grounded in the specific event. Copy or queue into Engage. No "I noticed you're hiring" boilerplate.

ML next-event predictions

P(funding), P(exec_hire), P(acquisition), P(contract) per company in the next 30-90 days. XGBoost + SHAP, trained on 3 years of news-detected events. Anchors timing, not just intent.

Mobile reveal — 200/mo bundled

$149/mo Strategic includes 200 verified mobile numbers/month. No per-seat upcharge — others charge extra for it. Pack model on top for variable usage.

Saved Mandates + weekly digest

Pin any filter set as a Mandate ("Series B+ healthcare CFO open ≥60d, comp ≥$300k"). Optional email channel pulls it into a Monday-morning digest with top matches.

Watchlist aging alerts

Real-time email when a watchlist org's key role crosses a new aging threshold (45/60/90/120 days). Idempotent per (user, org, threshold) so no spam.

Eight production capabilities. One subscription. The full outreach loop, not just the alert.

DATA IS THE MOAT

But Can't I Just Build This With ChatGPT?

It's a fair question. LLMs are incredibly powerful. Perplexity can search the web. ChatGPT can analyze SEC filings. Clay can automate workflows.

But here's what they can't do:

Continuous Monitoring

An agent runs when you tell it to. Fundz monitors companies 24/7 and alerts you in real time when a trigger event fires.

Structured Event History

An agent has no memory of what happened last quarter. Fundz has 10 years of structured data that reveals patterns invisible to point-in-time searches.

ICP-Specific Scoring

An agent doesn't know what you sell or who your ideal customer is. Fundz scores every signal against YOUR specific customer profile built over hundreds of accounts.

Multi-Signal Correlation

An agent sees one thing at a time. Fundz correlates funding + hiring + sentiment + SEC + website changes into compound signals that predict buying intent.

Warm Relationship Activation

An agent can draft cold emails. Engage cross-references your actual LinkedIn network against live signals and writes DMs in your voice.

Generic AI Agent

Stale Crunchbase data
No ICP context
No event history
Single-signal only
Cold outreach templates

Fundz Signal Intelligence

Real-time from many direct sources
Mapped to your specific ICP
10 years of structured history
Every signal type cross-correlated
Warm Engage outreach in your voice

AI is the chef. Data is the ingredients. We grow our own.

Signal Intelligence Reframes the Landscape

Fundz does not compete with these tools. Fundz sits above them as the intelligence synthesis layer.

ZoomInfo / Apollo
Contact databases. Inputs to signal intelligence.
Crunchbase
Funding data. One signal type. We track many — funding, exec moves, M&A, hiring, SEC 8-K, WorkVibz culture, and more.
Bombora / 6sense
Anonymous intent. We track named, specific events.
PitchBook
Deep data at enterprise pricing. Comparable intelligence for a fraction of the price — and far below Crunchbase Business or PitchBook.
Clay / AI Agents
Workflow automation. We are the data layer agents need.
ChatGPT / LLMs
On-demand research. We provide continuous, structured monitoring.

Fundz does not compete with these tools. Fundz sits above them as the intelligence synthesis layer.

Who Uses Signal Intelligence

Every go-to-market professional benefits from better signals.

Everyone now has AI. Everyone has the same data. The edge goes to whoever knows what just changed and acts first — with the right person and the right message. That's the job Fundz does.

Fundz is the platform purpose-built for this moment — the unique combination of real-time signals, scalable warm networking, and market intelligence that no other platform offers.

Fundz is building the intelligence substrate that powers the next generation of go-to-market.

"The companies that define categories capture disproportionate value. HubSpot defined inbound marketing. Fundz is defining signal intelligence."

JD
John Dukes
Founder & CEO, Fundz

Priced for the individual seller, not procurement

Comparable intelligence to enterprise platforms — for a fraction of the price, and far below Crunchbase Business or PitchBook. Close one $10K deal and Fundz has paid for itself ~100×.

Pro
$59/mo
billed annually
or $79/mo month-to-month

Real-time multi-signal feed, ICP scoring, unlimited verified email reveals, SmartSend outreach from your own inbox, mobile reveals from $0.50.

Most popular
Strategic
$99/mo
billed annually
or $149/mo month-to-month

Everything in Pro plus predictive next-event intelligence and 200 verified mobile reveals/month bundled — no per-seat upcharge.

The Signal Intelligence Platform.

Since 2015.

No integrations required. No data imports. No training. Describe what you sell, and the intelligence starts flowing tomorrow morning.

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