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Subject: Quick question, {first_name}
Hi {first_name}, I noticed {company} is growing fast. We help companies like {company} hit their targets. Do you have 15 minutes this week?
Account research for B2B sales teams
Applied IQ researches your prospects, builds the sales intelligence report, and writes the outreach.
Add your product
Deep account research
Ask anything
Who can sign this off at Ramp?
Send the outreach
Add your product and Applied IQ builds a product profile. Add an account and it researches the company against your product and writes the report. Then ask it questions and send the outreach it drafted: an email, a LinkedIn message and a call script for the decision maker. Example: Who can sign this off at Ramp? The SVP of Sales decides. The Head of Strategic Sales is your champion.
10 hrs
time back per rep, per week
77%
more revenue per rep
3.7x
more likely to hit quota
The problem
Research decides whether you win or lose a deal. Still, most reps do not have the time to do it properly. Most reps spend only 10 minutes per account before a call, which leads to lost sales, missed opportunities, or time wasted on deals that were never going to close. We change that.
The one thing buyers value most is the one thing your team has no time to do.
67%
of B2B buyers chose the vendor that showed the best understanding of their company and needs.
DemandGen Report, 2023
78%
of sellers missed their quota in 2025, up from 69% the year before.
Ebsta, 2025 GTM Benchmarks Report
01
Paste the URL of your product. Applied IQ builds a product profile: who it is for, the problems it solves, and how it beats the competition. Every account you research from then on starts from your product.
Who it is for
The companies that buy it, and the roles that sign off.
Problems it solves
The pains it removes, mapped to each buyer.
Competitive advantage
Where it beats the alternatives, and why that matters to the buyer.
Add your product URL. Applied IQ builds a product profile: who it is for, the problems it solves, and its competitive advantage.
02
Paste the URL of a company you want to sell to. Applied IQ researches the company and writes the intelligence report. It covers:
Opportunity
Strategic reps self-source pipeline and carry 25 to 30 deals each. Research is by hand, per account.
Strategic AE posting · Aug 2026
Why now
$750M Series F, AWS Marketplace live, sales headcount up 60% in a year.
Series F announcement
Who to contact
The SVP of Sales decides. The Head of Strategic Sales is the champion.
Leadership page
What to say
Lead with research hours per opportunity. Answer build-versus-buy before it is asked.
Hypothesis · high confidence
Add the account URL. Applied IQ researches the company and writes the report: the opportunity, why now, who to contact, and what to say.
03
Our report is not a document you read once. Something unexpected always happens mid-deal: a competitor comes up on a call, a new stakeholder appears, the CFO asks for numbers. You just ask Agent Chat.
You can also feed it more information. Drop in your call notes or a new piece of information and have the report refine itself. Ask for more contacts, more detail on a persona, or a fresh email for the new stakeholder.
Agent Chat · Ramp report
Who can sign this off at Ramp? The SVP of Sales makes the call. He started at Ramp as its first SDR, so he likes tools built in-house. Your champion is the Head of Strategic Sales: his reps carry 25 to 30 deals each and have to find their own pipeline, so they feel the research load most. The VP of Data is the gate. If the report does not land in Salesforce, he will treat it as optional. Sources: Ramp leadership page · Strategic AE job posting, Aug 2026 · GTM Systems Engineer posting, Aug 2026
What will they push back with? “We could build this ourselves.” Ramp’s co-CEO said it in public: “if we need a better tool, we build it.” They also have an engineering team just for sales tools. So bring it up first. An in-house build can pull data and draft emails. It does not give you a sourced account report. Sources: Karim Atiyeh on X, 2026-08-26 · Ramp careers, GTM Platform roles
A new SDR manager was just hired. Does that matter? Yes. On 2026-09-07 Ramp posted a Manager, Sales Development for its mid-market team. Part of the job is to build a library of prospecting research by hand. That is the problem you solve, and a brand-new team has no old habits to protect. Start the pilot there. Sources: Ramp job posting, 2026-09-07 · Ramp Series F announcement
ChatGPT in one tab, LinkedIn in another, a spreadsheet, and outdated CRM logs. No wonder most reps hate research. It doesn’t have to be this difficult.
Applied IQ researches each account against your product and gives you the reason to reach out, who to reach out to, and the first email or LinkedIn message written from it. No more generic templates that go straight to spam.
Template
Subject: Quick question, {first_name}
Hi {first_name}, I noticed {company} is growing fast. We help companies like {company} hit their targets. Do you have 15 minutes this week?
Written from the report
Research time on your strategic desk
Grounded in: Strategic AE job posting (Aug 2026) · Series F announcement · SDR manager posting (Sep 2026)
Max, your strategic AEs self-source pipeline and carry 25 to 30 opportunities each. Every one of those needs account research a rep does by hand today. Applied IQ turns the 8 to 10 hours per account into minutes, with every claim sourced. Worth 20 minutes before the next SDR cohort starts?
The report gives you the pain points, the opportunity, the buying group, what each person will push back on, and hypotheses to test in discovery. When the unexpected question comes up, get an instant answer from Agent Chat.
Buying group · Ramp
SVP of Sales
Economic buyer High influenceExpect Decides buy versus build. Every tool competes with an internal build.
Head of Strategic Sales
Champion High influenceExpect Reps carry 25 to 30 deals each. Research hours never show up in the forecast.
VP, Data / GTM Systems
Technical evaluator Medium influenceExpect Owns the CRM. Anything that does not write into Salesforce is optional.
Manage your team from one place. Get your whole team researching like your best rep. More reps hitting quota. Pipeline that grows without adding headcount.
Accounts · your team
2 of 5 reports ready
A new rep opens the same account research a ten-year veteran would have built, with the questions to ask and the objections to expect. Learning your product and your customers stops being the first three months of the job.
Agent Chat · new rep, day one
I start Monday. What should I know before my first call with Ramp? Three things. Ramp builds its own tools, so expect build-versus-buy early and lead with the hours a strategic rep spends per account. Your champion is the Head of Strategic Sales; the SVP of Sales decides. Ask how many hours a rep spends before the first meeting on a new Fortune 1000 logo, and who builds the stakeholder map today. Sources: Karim Atiyeh on X, 2026-08-26 · Strategic AE job posting, Aug 2026 · Ramp leadership page
What published research says about teams that prepare properly and put AI to work on it.
86%
of business buyers are more likely to buy when the vendor understands their objectives.
Salesforce, State of Sales, 2024
73%
of B2B buyers actively avoid or ignore vendor outreach they find irrelevant.
Gartner, 2025
82%
of top-performing salespeople always research before contacting a prospect. Under half of other sellers do.
LinkedIn, State of Sales, 2022
Jonathan Ouellet sold enterprise software at Oracle for ten years and managed hundreds of reps. The research gap between his best reps and the rest was the problem he could never train away. He co-founded Applied IQ to close it.
“After a decade at Oracle, we built the tool I wished I had.”
CEO & Co-Founder
The URL of your product and the URL of a company you want to sell to. We take it from there.
We help SDRs, AEs, sales managers and sales leaders who need to research accounts and contacts at scale and with high quality.
Applied IQ runs the research in the background. Your time on it is the reading, which is minutes, instead of the day a rep would spend doing the research by hand.
Yes. Reports live alongside the account, and messaging exports to email, LinkedIn and your CRM. A specific CRM integration is set up with you during onboarding.
You can ask ChatGPT or Claude about a company. You get an answer with no sources, no memory of your product, and nothing the next rep can open. Applied IQ builds the research once, keeps it with the account, and shows where every claim came from.
There is a free trial with no credit card required. Pricing is on the pricing page.
The research is done for you. Spend your time selling instead.
Add your product, add an account, read the report. If you would rather have us help you see the full potential of the technology, book a demo call.