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Revolutionizing B2B Sales: LeadIQ's Scribe - Powering Email Assistants with Generative AI

OVERVIEW

LeadIQ is a sales prospecting platform that streamlines lead generation for sales teams. It simplifies the process of finding, verifying, and organizing leads by providing a browser extension to capture contact information from sources like LinkedIn. This tool helps sales professionals save time, automate lead generation, and focus more on engaging potential customers.

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ROLE & DURATION

Senior Product Designer

Build a game-changing product to generate compelling and personalized emails for you in seconds.

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TEAM

Head of Product, Head of AI, Product Manager, Data Analyst, developers and I led the design efforts.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCT

Scribe is a personalized email generator designed for B2B sellers, and it will generate personalized cold emails based on the available insights about your prospect.

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PROBLEM SPACE & OPPORTUNITIES

Personalization is key!

Effective outbound strategies demand research and a personal touch. LeadIQ aims to empower sales teams by creating personalized, AI-driven sales emails tailored to precision

Nov 2021 - Jul 2022

Who are the users and what do they do?

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Sales Development Representatives (SDR's)

The Sales Development Representative (SDR) plays a critical role in the sales process, specializing in prospecting, qualifying leads, and initiating the sales cycle. SDRs act as a bridge between marketing and sales, focusing on generating and qualifying leads to create a healthy pipeline for the sales team. Their role requires strong communication skills, persistence, a proactive attitude, and the ability to build rapport with potential clients quickly.

Prospecting

Lead Qualification

Initial Outreach

Setting Appointments

Pipeline Nurturing

Collaboration

Data and Metrics Tracking

Cold Email is a powerful tool

Cold emails that don't get personal get deleted.

But the right kind of personalization gives you a VIP pass to your prospect 

How can we make it powerful?

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KNOW YOUR PROSPECT

Take the time to research your prospect’s company, their role, and their challenges.

Who are they?

What do they do?

What are their pain points?

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GET CREATIVE AND RELEVANT SUBJECT LINES

Your subject line should represent the content of your email. A relevant keyword in subject lines can increase open rates by 10% based on the stats.

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PERSONALIZE IT

Personalizing your outreach isn't only about making your prospects feel special. It's about showing them that you’ve done the homework and that you genuinely understand their pain points.

PROCESS

Following the Double Diamond design model we developed a custom plan which is divided into three stages:

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Discover & Define
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Design
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Validate & Evolve
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Discover & Define

Research, understand, uncover pain points, insights, formulate a hypothesis.

Generative AI Products in Market

Before I began, I checked out other products like this on the market. I researched to see what solutions they offer and how they solve the same problem. Here's what I found on similar Generative AI Products available.

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What are the key features of the competitor products?

Insights from different Categories

Generate multiple messages

Integration with sales apps

Chrome extension for different apps

Upload bulk prospect info from CSV

Integration with Gmail

Bulk message generation from google sheets

Setting Tone of Voice and Templates

What type of insights is important?

The sales representative, Product Manager, Tech team, AI Team and Myself had a brainstorming session to find out "What are features and insights could be useful to generate a personalized message about the prospect." Below are the important ideas flushed out at the end of the session.

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BIOGRAPHY

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FUN FACTS

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INTEREST

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SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITIES

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EDUCATION

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JOB POSTINGS

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COMPANY INFORMATION

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FINANCIALS

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NEWS

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CUSTOM TEXT INPUTS

" AI won't replace salespeople. "

But Generative AI will make them more productive. For example, Y Combinator strongly believes in the potential of Generative AI. There are 48 Generative AI startups (out of 270), in their Winter 2023 Batch. It's almost 18%. On the other hand, Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound messages from large organizations will be synthetically generated.

 

How do we get there?

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Remember, personalization doesn’t mean changing your message.

It means ensuring that your message is delivered in a way that's most relevant to your audience.

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Relevance

Tailored messages resonate. People engage with what feels relevant to them.

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Trust

Personalization builds trust. It shows you've done your homework.

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Efficiency

Engage quicker and more effectively with content that hits the mark.

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Feedback Loop

Always gather feedback. Refine your approach based on what's working and what’s not.

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Ideate and Visualize the solutions which can be validated and iterated.

Design

User Flow

Enter Prospect Email

Validate

Get Insights

Just enter the prospect's business email to get started

Verifies in the background, whether the entered information is valid or not

Pick the top 3 ideas from various categories based on what came up in the brainstorming meeting with stakeholders.

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Select Insights

Generate Massages

Pick the top 3 ideas from various categories based on what came up in the brainstorming meeting with stakeholders.

One click makes three personalized messages. If they're good, you can copy them. Or you can like or dislike to help the system improve.

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How and where to get the insights about the prospects

It's not always easy to learn personal details about a professional—like what they're interested in, their job, education, or recent news about their company. LeadIQ has a tool called "Identify," a LinkedIn Chrome extension. With just one click, you can use it to find and save LinkedIn info and add it to your CRM.

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Different Categories of Insights

Outcome of the working session we had brainstormed with all the stakeholders and decided have total of 8 different insight categories, which are

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Prospect's BIO

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News

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Twitter

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Job Postings

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LinkedIn

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Financial Snippets

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Company Facts

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Freeform

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ABOUT PROSPECT'S NAME & LOCATION

This section includes personal details about the prospect. Users can pick if they want to use the "Prospect's Name" or "Prospect's Location," or both, to create a message. The AI will then create messages using the prospect's name and any interesting facts about their location.

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TWITTER

AI pre-populate the Twitter handle and displays insights based on it. Users can change the handle, but we inform the user that the handles might not be accurate. They should verify insights before picking and creating messages.

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LINKEDIN

In the LinkedIn part, AI creates insights about the prospect's Bio, Interests, Education, Work Experience, and Recommendations.

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COMPANY FACTS

In this section, AI will generate insights regarding the prospect's company.

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NEWS

In this section, users can choose the news categories for insight generation, and insights will be generated accordingly.

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JOB POSTINGS

In the job postings section, AI creates insight cards for the company where the prospect worked. Users can refine the results by filtering with categories, job descriptions, and locations.

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FINANCIAL SNIPPETS

In the section, AI generates cards showing financial details for the company, such as 10-K data, financial reports, and additional information.

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FREEFORM TEXT

In the Freeform text box, users can add any personalized message to appear in the final generated message. AI will alert if any offensive content is entered and won't accept it.

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Generating Messages from the Selected Insights

We let users pick up to 3 insights to create messages because the AI suggests that more than 3 could confuse it and impact the message quality. That's why we set a limit of 3 insights. Additionally, we display up to 3 messages at once and let users like or dislike them. This feedback helps the AI learn and improve over time. Users can also regenerate the next set of messages.

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Validate & Evolve

Test, measure the results, constantly monitor and improve.

Testing the MVP with Internal Sales Team

I did multiple rounds of the design walk-through during our weekly design-sharing session, where leaders, engineers, and different product team members join in. I iterated the design based on their feedback. The front-end developers were speedy because they had all the needed back-end API and UX flow ready, so they implemented this design in one sprint.

Now that the MVP is ready, we promptly tested it with our internal senior account executives and SDRs. They used this MVP for sending real-time messages in cold emails. Additionally, this product is integrated with an analytics platform that has its own dashboard. This dashboard lets us track the number of messages generated, the insights used, and what worked well or didn't.

After a couple of days of using this MVP, we held another session to gather feedback and figure out what's missing and how we could enhance the experience. Here's what we found:

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Value Prop and Case study Template

SDRs want to utilize various case studies, achievements, and value propositions to personalize messages. They aim to save these as templates for future reuse.

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Auto Select Insights

Suggesting insights from past experiences because some SDRs prefer using similar insights related to the prospect's role. This helps them save time.

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Option to add Custom News

In the MVP, users can only choose insights from the provided list. However, they want to include custom URLs to get personalized insights.

Design Iterations

I did multiple rounds of the design walk-through during our weekly design-sharing session, where leaders, engineers, and different product team members join in. I iterated the design based on their feedback. The front-end developers were speedy because they had all the needed back-end API and UX flow ready, so they implemented this design in one sprint.

VALUE PROP AND CASE STUDY TEMPLATE

For the initial experience, users can't create messages until they set up company details and value propositions. Case studies are optional. Once set up, they can modify the value proposition or case studies to change the messaging approach and unlock all insights.

First time Configuration
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Setting Page
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Value Prop & Case Study Selection
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AUTO SELECT INSIGHTS

The "Auto Select Insights" button appears at the end of the insights. When clicked, it uses AI suggestions to automatically select insight cards based on the user's past behavior, writing style, and history.

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Auto-Selected Insights (AI Recommended)
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Generate Messages based on Auto-Selected Insights
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OPTION TO ADD CUSTOM NEWS

By default, the user can see the news related to all categories. Now, they can include custom URLs to get insights from specific websites, and AI will create insight cards from those sites.

Options to select categories & Enter custom URL
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Category Selection
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Custom News Insights
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Beta Release & Feedback

We got a great feedback from the internal customer and our customer advisory board member, it was time to release the beta version to the end user and get some feedback, before we start marketing this product or launching it as a freemium product of the general users. So we decided to release it to the existing LeadIQ customers, who were using the other LeadIQ products.

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Next Steps

Our beta customer gave excellent feedback, prompting us to plan a general release. We've begun collaborating with our marketing and strategy teams to shape our go-to-market strategy. Regarding user experience, I'll enhance the onboarding process and first-time user interaction for new customers. Additionally, on the product side, we're planning to expand this feature into a Google Chrome extension to integrate it with other sales applications such as Salesloft, Outreach, and Gmail.

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