How Customers Use Distill

Cold Outreach

Distill finds relevant companies and people, then handles personalized outreach and follow-up.

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Why it works for your role

Founders

Founders are the first SDRs. Keep customer, partner, investor, and potential acquirer conversations moving without doing every follow-up yourself.

Executives

Your credibility can open doors your team can’t. Let Distill manage the outreach and delegate replies while you focus on important conversations.

Investors

The founders you most want to meet may be more likely to respond to you personally. Distill handles the outreach and follow-up in your voice.

Sales

People who previously worked at customer companies give you a relevant reason to approach new accounts, even if they never used your product.

Marketing

Turn customer connections, shared schools, or programs into focused campaigns whose messages explain why you’re reaching out.

Recruiting

Reach candidates with the right experience and keep follow-up moving while you focus on evaluating interested people.

Warm Intros

Distill finds paths to relevant people through your network and asks mutual connections to share information or make introductions.

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Why it works for your role

Founders

Your network may already connect you to customers, investors, partners, or potential acquirers. Distill finds the paths and manages the asks.

Executives

Use trusted relationships to reach important people without personally coordinating every introduction request and follow-up.

Investors

Find paths to founders and co-investors, or help portfolio companies reach customers through your network.

Sales

A trusted introduction can open a target account. Distill finds mutual connections and handles the request.

Marketing

Find introductions to potential partners, event speakers, or customers through relationships your team already has.

Recruiting

Reach candidates through people they know, with Distill coordinating the introduction requests and follow-up.

Conference Outreach

Distill finds relevant attendees and coordinates outreach before, during, and after a conference to arrange meetings.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Turn one trip into conversations with customers, investors, and partners without spending the preceding weeks arranging every meeting.

Executives

Your conference time is limited. Let Distill arrange relevant meetings so you arrive with a purpose and a schedule.

Investors

Meet relevant founders while you’re in the same place, without spending hours researching attendees and coordinating outreach.

Sales

Build a meeting schedule before the conference and keep conversations moving afterward, even when you’re back working other deals.

Marketing

Give your attending team relevant meetings around a sponsorship, with coordinated invitations and follow-up.

Recruiting

Meet relevant talent at industry conferences, including people who may never respond to a job posting.

Inbound Interest

Distill screens signups and companies identified from website visits, then reaches out personally to relevant people.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Give promising signups personal attention without making yourself responsible for screening and following up with everyone.

Executives

Let promising prospects hear from a company leader without requiring you to manage every message and response.

Investors

Screen founder inquiries and relevant companies visiting your site so worthwhile conversations don’t depend on manually reviewing every lead.

Sales

A visiting company may fit your target market without submitting a form. Distill finds relevant buyers and starts the conversation.

Marketing

Website interest doesn’t always become a signup. Reach relevant people at identified companies without waiting for a form submission.

Triggered Outreach

Webhooks add people, companies, and context to Distill projects, triggering personalized messages or LinkedIn connection requests.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Connect with new customers or reach out at important milestones without remembering to initiate each message yourself.

Executives

Offer support when a deal reaches an important stage, using CRM context without personally watching every account.

Investors

Turn company signals into timely founder outreach without monitoring each company and preparing every message manually.

Sales

Bring an executive into a deal when their support matters, using CRM changes and notes to initiate relevant outreach.

Marketing

Turn campaign activity and lifecycle changes into personal conversations, using the context your tools already collect.

Recruiting

Keep candidate communication moving as statuses change, with messages informed by the role and next step.

Hosting Events

Distill finds relevant guests, sends personal invitations, and follows up until you reach your attendee limit.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Bring customers, prospects, or partners together without making guest research, invitations, and follow-up another job for you.

Executives

Create time for deeper customer and industry relationships while Distill handles finding guests and filling the room.

Investors

Build relationships with potential investments early by hosting founder dinners, without personally managing the invitation process.

Marketing

Fill your event with people who fit its purpose, using personal invitations and follow-up coordinated around your attendee limit.

Keep in Touch

You set how often to check in. Distill finds relevant reasons to reconnect and handles personalized outreach.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Keep customers, investors, and supporters close without relying on your memory to maintain every relationship.

Executives

Stay connected to important people with relevant check-ins, without tracking when each relationship needs attention.

Investors

Maintain founder relationships before a funding round becomes urgent, with regular outreach tailored to each relationship.

Sales

Keep conversations alive when a prospect’s timing isn’t right, without manually tracking every future follow-up.

Marketing

Keep relationships from campaigns and events active between announcements, with personal reasons to reconnect.

Recruiting

Maintain relationships with promising candidates so you have people to reconnect with when the right role opens.

Mass Updates

Turn impersonal one to many updates into personalized 1-1 messages from you that people will actually read. Delegate responding to Distill or your team.

Why it works for your role

Founders

Tell users, customers, or followers what’s new in a personal message, without making every reply another task for you.

Executives

Send company news in your own voice while Distill or your team manages responses that don’t need your attention.

Investors

Tailor the same news for founders, limited partners, and co-investors instead of sending everyone an identical update.

Sales

Give customers and prospects a reason to restart a conversation by relating your update to their needs.

Marketing

Turn an announcement into individual conversations, with personalized messages and delegated handling of replies.

Recruiting

Share hiring news with your candidate network in messages that explain why a particular opportunity is relevant.

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