Hygge Lead Generation: One Platform for the Whole Outbound Funnel
Hygge's lead generation team runs targeting, LinkedIn outreach and lead handoff in one system it owns. The platform replaced Pipedrive, LinkedIn Helper, a remote server, a desktop app and Excel reporting, and it enforces the team's outreach rules in software.
An Outbound Platform Shaped Around Your Hypotheses
We fit ICPs, sequences, approval rules and sending limits to how your team prospects today. The first step is a written map of your current outreach stack and the rules it depends on.
What Outbound Looked Like Before One Platform
The funnel from targeting to a qualified lead ran across several tools, and the rules connecting them lived in people's heads.
Five Tools for One Funnel
Pipedrive, LinkedIn Helper, a remote server, a desktop app and Excel reports each held a part of the outbound process.
Hypotheses in Google Docs
Targeting statements, roles and materials lived in documents, apart from the campaigns built on them.
Rules Kept by Memory
No outreach before an approved ICP and material was a team rule that relied on everyone remembering it.
Targeting That Shifted Under Running Campaigns
A refined profile or script could change what a running campaign was built on, with no record of the version that ran.
Account Safety Left to Habit
Daily volumes and pacing depended on how each person used their LinkedIn account.
Duplicate Contacts Across Sources
The same person could appear under different spellings and URLs, and a do-not-contact decision did not travel with them.
The Challenge
Lead generation at Hygge ran on Pipedrive, LinkedIn Helper, a remote server, a desktop app and Excel reporting, with hypotheses kept in Google Docs. Rules such as no outreach before an approved ICP and material depended on people remembering them, and tracing a lead back to the targeting behind it took manual digging.
The outbound funnel ran across five tools, and the team's targeting rules lived in documents and memory.
Our Solution
Hygge built one platform for the outbound funnel: tiered ICPs, hypotheses with an approval flow, LinkedIn and email sequences, people and company search, campaigns with a launch review, sender accounts with limits, a unified inbox, a lead pipeline, reporting and a shared directory of organizations and contacts. Only approved hypotheses can run campaigns, every campaign snapshots the versions it runs on, replies from both channels land in one inbox and stop the sequence, and qualified leads move from MQL to SQL and on to a presale deal.
One platform the team owns, built around approved hypotheses and rules enforced in software.
What Hygge Lead Generation Does
Each card is a working module of the platform Hygge's lead generation team uses for targeting and outreach.
Versioned and Tiered ICPs
Three profiles per niche at the person level, for decision-makers, technical specialists and influencers, and every change creates a version that hypotheses pin to.
Hypotheses With an Approval Flow
Draft, in review and approved, with change requests along the way. Only approved hypotheses receive leads or run campaigns.
Materials Next to the Targeting
Each hypothesis carries its statement, locations, target roles, default sequence, team comments and a shareable one-pager, deck or video.
Sequences Across LinkedIn and Email
Profile views, invites, LinkedIn messages, email steps and relative waits, with personalisation placeholders and steps that depend on an accepted invite.
Checks Before a Script Is Published
Publishing validates the 300-character invite limit, known placeholders, message text and waits, and every step gets a fallback: end, continue or retry up to five times.
People and Company Search
A Sales Navigator URL runs through a connected account, or a niche and location lead to companies and everyone who works there. Saved searches stay linked to a hypothesis.
Campaign Launch Review
Do-not-contact records, people in another running campaign and open leads are excluded, and customers, partners and old-base contacts need an acknowledgement.
Per-Person Tracking
Every campaign member shows when they were invited, connected and replied, and why their sequence stopped.
Rehearsal Before Launch
Test mode runs a whole campaign with simulated accepts and replies before a real message goes out.
Sender Accounts With Limits
Every LinkedIn profile and mailbox has an owner, named operators, daily and weekly caps and a working-hour sending window.
One Directory of Companies and People
Multi-channel contacts with position history, duplicate detection and merge, and a standing that campaigns respect.
Leads and Handoff to Presale
A reply opens a lead linked to its hypothesis, and qualified leads move to a presale deal through an API with a guard against duplicates.
From First Reply to Qualified Lead
Once outreach is running, the same platform handles data, conversations, qualification and reporting.
Import, Export and Clean-Up
Excel and CSV import with a preview, duplicate resolution and retry-safe commits, CSV export, and leads outside the ICP labelled need to check or not relevant.
Enrichment on Demand
Email and phone enrichment when a lead needs it, and trigger-based scraping of the profile, posts and company ads saved as a structured note on the lead.
Unified Inbox
Email and LinkedIn conversations in one place, with needs-reply indicators and AI-suggested sentiment that a person can correct.
AI Message Drafts
Drafts built from the hypothesis, the lead type with internal expertise and external data about the lead, always editable, with prompt and draft versions kept.
Lead-Gen Pipeline
A configurable board from MQL to NOQL to SQL, with task badges, a Bluedot call recording required for SQL and bonus attribution to whoever moves a lead to NOQL.
My Day
Today's follow-ups, unanswered replies, a monthly goal widget and a watchlist on one home screen.
Reports That Reconcile
Contact-level reporting, a funnel from contacted to SQL, corrected reply-rate logic, period activity and breakdown filters with exports that match the screen.
Claude Through MCP
Claude assigns tiers, flags leads that fall outside the ICP and moves them to a hypothesis that fits better, within the platform's rules.
Every Marketing Touch per Lead
Ads, posts and landing pages from the marketing platform are linked to hypotheses, so the team sees every touch a lead has had.
What Runs Without Anyone Pressing a Button
The checks a lead generator used to run by hand now happen inside every campaign on their own.
Replies Stop the Sequence
An incoming reply ends automated steps for that person and opens a lead.
Sending Paces Itself
Daily and weekly limits, working-hour windows and randomised gaps apply to every action.
Every Run Is Reproducible
Hypothesis, ICP version, sequence version and senders are snapshotted when a campaign becomes ready.
Conflicting Outreach Is Blocked
One running campaign per contact, with do-not-contact and open-lead exclusions applied automatically.
What Changed for Hygge's Lead Generation Team
What the platform replaced, and what it holds on record for every lead.
Replaced by One Platform
Scripted Follow-Ups After a Reply
Traced to Its Hypothesis
Daily and Weekly Sending Limits
How the Platform Fits Together
Targeting
Search and Data
Sequences and Campaigns
Conversations
Qualification and Reporting
One Funnel With Presale
The Move Off Pipedrive
Track Record
Company-wide numbers, built from every project Hygge has delivered since 2019.
Industries We Serve
Industries where outbound prospecting and account research feed the sales pipeline.
Sales & Marketing Technology
Prospecting and outreach platforms where automation has to look human enough that the platform it runs on does not object.
Marketing & Creative
Turning agency method into software, with generative tools that sharpen a person's thinking.
More Products Hygge Has Shipped
Other systems Hygge built around the way a team already works, with the data in one place and the client owning the result.
Hygge Presale
Hygge's own presale workspace: a leads pipeline, smart intake, AI estimates anchored to past deals, pitch decks, a case library and client showcases in one system.
- 0Pipeline Stages Typed by Hand
- Every moduleAnchored to Evidence
- 5 formatsFrom One Approved Deck Version
- 3 modesOf Case Disclosure, Enforced
PlayFusionLabs CRM
A sales CRM with company research, an approval-based agent and finance in one database, built for a game development studio in about two months.
- ~2 monthsFrom First Call to Daily Use
- 150+Releases Since Launch
- 1 databaseFor Sales, Projects and Finance
- $0In Per-Seat Licences
Hygge HR
Hygge's own people platform: org structure, employee records, time off, hiring and project boards in one system, with balances, reminders and pay history that update themselves.
- 0Manual Balance Recalculations
- 3+ yearsTenure Bonus Added on Its Own
- 1 platformFor People, Time Off, Hiring and Projects
- Any dateRole and Pay History on Record
BoardsOnline
A founder had paid for a platform that reports said was finished. An audit showed what worked, and the rebuild started from there.
- 3 bucketsSorted features a status report called done
- ~6 monthsFrom that audit to a stable platform
- 1+ yearOf support past the original contract
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