Who it's forInroads Agency · Updated 2026

Outsourced prospecting for consultants who sell expertise on sales calls.

You are the product and the salesperson. Delivery wins the calendar, prospecting loses, and the pipeline swings. This is the fix that doesn't require you to prospect.

A consultant's calendar has one boss: delivery. Prospecting happens in the gaps, which means it happens when a project ends and the gaps appear, which is precisely the worst time to start. Fractional CMOs, CFOs, and CROs live this most acutely: two or three clients at a time, each one ending, and the next one has to already be in conversation or there's a hole.

Who this is for

Independent consultants, fractional executives, and small expertise firms with a proven offer, a clear buyer, and engagements worth $15,000 or more. If you close on a conversation and your problem is getting to the conversation, this is for you.

The reasons we reach out, so it never reads like a template

We don't message people because they match a title. We message them because something changed. For consultants, the signals we watch:

Each message names the reason. That is the entire difference between a message that gets ignored and one that gets a reply.

What we do, and what you keep

A custom AI connected to LinkedIn builds the list from the profile we agree on, with hard filters. It drafts every message from the prospect's real posts and activity. A person reads every message before it sends. We work the replies the way a person would and hand you the ones that are real, with the thread and the reason they said yes. You keep the highest-value work: the sales conversation.

Consultants sell judgment. Nothing damages that faster than a templated message under your name. Every message we send names the specific reason we reached out this week, and a person reads it first. Your prospects should feel like the message could only have been sent to them, because it could only have been sent to them.

The numbers, measured

Across 65,000+ connection requests: 46.6 percent accepted against a 26.4 percent industry figure. 28.4 percent of those replied against 9.4 percent. 78.5 percent of replies were positive, measured by a blind read of 1,000 of them. 37.5 percent of replies became a conversation.

The Conversation Engine is $4,000 a month on a 90-day initial term, then month to month. See it before we send it: you approve targeting and sample messages before launch.

I don't want to look like I'm chasing work.

Then don't chase. Every message we send opens a conversation about their situation, not your availability. The offer comes third, if it comes at all, and only after they've named the problem.

My market is small. Won't you burn through it?

We run about 100 to 150 carefully selected prospects a month, inside LinkedIn's limits. In a small market that is a year of runway, and we'd rather send 100 messages a person would answer than 1,000 nobody reads.

What do I actually have to do?

A five-minute onboarding on your offer and voice, approve the targeting and the sample messages, and take the conversations we hand you within a business day.

See what we'd send

Give us 3 to 5 people you would genuinely like to meet. We'll show you the outreach we'd write for them before you pay a dollar.

JD
Jonathan DickeyFounder, Inroads Agency. $20M+ closed, self-sourced. Runs this system on his own pipeline daily.
See what we'd send

Give us 3 to 5 people you'd genuinely like to meet.

We'll show you the LinkedIn outreach we'd write for them, and why, before you pay a dollar. A person reads every message before it sends.

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