Tool Stack Check-up: What’s in Your Proprietary Sourcing Kit?

June 19, 2025

by a searcher from Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City, UT, USA

I’m building my first serious proprietary-sourcing workflow and want to sanity-check my tool stack. What I’ve lined up so far: • Lead lists – Inven • Email – Instantly • CRM – Clay + Hub Spot • Enrichment – Clearbit/Breeze (testing) For anyone deep in the trenches: What’s saved you the most time or unearthed the best owners that’s NOT on this list? (Bonus: why you picked it.) Thanks!

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from City University of New York, Brooklyn College in New York, NY, USA

If you're using Clay, it can also be used for data enrichment. However, it costs you a lot of credits. I recently enriched data on Clay by having only the company names. From company names, it gives me the company LinkedIn page, company website, owner LinkedIn ID, owner name, and if it can find the owner, it returns founder, CEO, co-founder names with their LinkedIn IDs. From there, we can enrich their emails using tools or use any other tools for email to save credits. I would say without a doubt, it's the best enrichment tool out there. The only con is it's too expensive.

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from INSEAD in San Francisco, CA, USA

I use Zoominfo for lead gen but a big part was just convenience: I already knew how to use it, was able to get a license cheaply, and my VA also was already trained up on it.

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