ScaleUp Works — Cold Outreach That Works On You
Cold Outreach · Gen 3

Your customers
keep saying it.
Your ads never do.

The email that brought you here didn't guess. It opened on something your customers actually said — pulled from their reviews, Reddit threads, and forum conversations — and named the gap between that and your ads. Below: how it works, and what we'd surface for your brand.

The offer
Done-for-you outbound
The proof
You just experienced it
The next step
A free Gap Report on your brand
01 — The proof

The email you replied to is the demo.

Every agency shows you slides about what they could do. We just did it. If our opener made you stop and read — that's the mechanism working, in real time, on someone whose attention is usually impossible to get. That's the product being sold.

"First email I have stopped and read like this. You got my pain point right."
— Captira · replying to a cold email from our engine

Most cold outreach fails because it opens with a guess. Ours opens with research. Before the email landed in your inbox, our engine pulled live data on your brand — your ads, your reviews, your customer conversations across Reddit and forums — and found the gap between what your ads claim and what your customers actually say.

The opening line is written from that gap. It's why you're on this page instead of trashing another cold email.

What we'd do for you is exactly what we just did to you — pointed at your prospects instead of ours.

What just happened

The engine that reached you

  • 150+live ads scraped
  • 40+reviews mined
  • 1gap surfaced, opener written from it
02 — The mechanism

We find the gap between what companies claim and what customers actually say.

Then we write the email from that gap. No AI slop, no generic openers, no big-number claims. Just one specific, checkable observation the reader can't dismiss.

Step 01
Scrape the ads
Every live Meta & Google ad. The full public story your prospect tells about themselves.
Step 02
Mine the reviews
Reddit, Trustpilot, G2, Capterra. What actual customers say, unfiltered — in their own words.
Step 03
Find the gap
AI surfaces the sharpest disconnect between what the ads claim and what the reviews reveal.
Step 04
Open on it
The cold email leads with the gap. One observation, one CTA. That's how it lands.
Three brands. Three Gap Reports. All real leads from a live campaign.
Every quote below was pulled from live public data by the engine — not written by us.
DTC · Refillable home care

Bower Collective

176
live ads scanned
40
Trustpilot reviews
11
Reddit threads
The gap we surfaced
"Every ad leads with scent — lavender, yuzu, fragrance stories. Customers on Trustpilot say the opposite: they're 'fed up of the numerous bottles' and want proof the refill model actually saves money. The value story is never told."
DTC · Kombucha

GT's Living Foods

173
live ads scanned
40
Trustpilot reviews
15
Reddit threads
The gap we surfaced
"Loyalists repeat one line: '30-day fermentation is why I trust them over the commercial stuff.' The ads never mention the process. The trust signal customers actually use is completely absent from the advertising."
B2B · Sales CRM

Pipedrive

126
live ads scanned
40
G2 reviews
4.4
average rating
The gap we surfaced
"Every ad runs hard on 'close deals faster' — the same claim every CRM makes. But G2 reviewers credit something else: 'a clear picture of where every deal is,' 'nothing gets missed.' Users stay for the calm, not the speed. That trust angle is nowhere in the ads."
03 — What we run for you

Cold email is the anchor. DMs are the amplifier.

Every stack starts with cold email — the only channel that reaches truly cold decision-makers at scale, with intent verification behind it. DMs layer on top based on where your buyers actually reply.

If you sell to

B2B

Cold Email LinkedIn DM

Business decision-makers live in their inbox and on LinkedIn. Cold email opens the door; LinkedIn keeps you top-of-mind through the buying cycle without feeling intrusive.

Target reply rate
5–15% positive replies from verified decision-makers
If you sell to

DTC

Cold Email Instagram DM

Consumer conversations happen on Instagram. Cold email reaches founders and buyers; IG DMs reach the audience the brand is trying to grow. Together they compound.

Target reply rate
5–15% positive replies across both channels
If you sell to

Both

Cold Email LinkedIn DM Instagram DM X DM · Sep '26

Hybrid businesses (DTC that also wholesales, agencies with mixed clientele) need full-channel coverage. We anchor with cold email and amplify across every DM channel your prospects use.

Target reply rate
5–15% blended across all live channels
04 — Our guarantee

If it doesn't work, you don't pay.

Two ways to engage. Pick the one that fits your appetite for risk. Both include the same engine, the same execution, the same support.

Option A · Performance

You only pay per positive reply.

Zero monthly. Zero risk. A single per-reply rate applies to every genuine engagement — email or DM — that lands in your inbox from a verified decision-maker.

Ideal when volume is unknown or you're testing the channel. If we don't produce replies, you don't produce cheques.

Option B · Hybrid

Flat monthly + lower per-reply rate.

Predictable spend, dramatically lower blended cost at scale. Reduced per-reply pricing rewards clients who commit to sustained volume.

Ideal when you're confident in the mechanism and want the lowest cost-per-conversation at scale.

The Hybrid guarantee
If your first 60 days on the Hybrid plan don't produce a 5% positive reply rate — or 50 positive replies, whichever comes first — we refund your first two months of retainer in full.

The Performance option carries no such guarantee because it doesn't need one. You literally cannot pay for replies we don't deliver — the plan itself is the guarantee.

05 — Your Gap Report

See what our engine finds
for your brand.

We'll prepare your Gap Report — a live analysis using the same engine that wrote the email you replied to — and walk you through it on a 30-minute call. No pitch. Just the research.

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Andre Johnson
Founder & Growth Strategist · ScaleUp Works
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