SaaS founders sourcing prospects
Find people explicitly describing the problem your tool solves — by industry, role, and recency.
SOCIAL LISTENING · INVESTIGATIVE
Find your crowd.
Real usernames. Real conversations. On every platform people complain, recommend, and look for solutions. We listened so you don't have to — turn social signal into a lead list in under five minutes.
No card. 3 free investigations. Results in < 5 min.
Live signal
See the signal decrypt.
A live sample of what an investigation surfaces — real usernames, real quotes, real timestamps. Streaming in as the index updates.
investigation_07412.log LIVE INDEX
u/notion_struggles Honestly the search in Notion is unusable. I have 4K notes and cannot find anything. r/Notion · 14h
@priya_b Anyone else looking for a Calendly replacement that actually works with 3 calendars? X · 2d
/in/marc-fellow HubSpot reporting is a black box. We are paying $4.8K/mo for charts I cannot trust. LinkedIn · 3d
u/saas_curious_pm Looking for an actually-cheap SOC2 vendor — Vanta quoted us $28K, that is a non-starter for a 6-person seed startup. r/SaaS · 6h
@dev_ana Vercel pricing is mental. Anyone moved away successfully without breaking ISR? X · 11h
u/growthhacks_throwaway Asana is so slow now I can hear my laptop fan when I open it. Need a replacement. r/SaaS · 1d
@founder_jess My CRO and I have spent 14 hours this week trying to make Marketo dashboards make sense. What do people actually use? X · 4h
u/nx_struggles
@priya_b
marc-fellow
u/saas_pm
@dev.ana
u/gh_throw
@founder_jess
a-l-orozco
u/ops_mira
@devon_w
@ramp_curious
u/hn_lurker_
m-takahashi
@n_castillo
412M
public posts indexed across 8 platforms
4.2 min
median time from query to first lead
94%
of users find their first real lead in the trial
11
sources cross-referenced per search
The premise
Stop guessing who needs what you sell.
Somewhere on Reddit, a product manager is writing a 1,200-word post about why Notion search is broken. On X, a founder is asking for SOC2 software recommendations. In a LinkedIn comment thread, a CMO is venting about HubSpot pricing. These people exist, they have names, and they are explicitly asking for what you built. Crowd Scope finds them — by problem, by platform, by exact phrase — and hands you a list.
See an investigation → example query · 2 min ago
$ crowdscope investigate
"product managers complaining about Notion search, last 30 days"
› scanning 8 platforms…
› reddit: 218 posts (r/Notion, r/SaaS, r/productivity)
› x: 94 posts
› linkedin: 67 public comments
› hn + indie hackers: 33 threads
→ 412 named individuals · CSV ready
Where we listen
Eight platforms. Native grammar. One index.
Hover a column to expand. Each platform is parsed the way its users actually post — Reddit threads stay threaded, X posts stay timestamped, LinkedIn comments stay attached to the post they reply to.
Before & after
What changes when you stop guessing.
The same growth lead, same week, same target audience. Hand-rolled outbound on the left. A Crowd Scope investigation on the right.
Before · the rotation
Hand-rolled list, hand-read sources, hand-curated rows
- Monday 9:00 — open 14 tabs: Reddit search, X advanced search, LinkedIn company filter, Indie Hackers, HN.
- Monday 11:30 — 22 promising posts found, 4 are 18 months old, 2 are bots, 6 are not actually the ICP.
- Tuesday — copy-paste usernames into a Notion doc. Manually find emails. 11 enriched of 22.
- Wednesday — write 11 cold emails referencing each person's quote.
- Thursday — pause for fires. Lose context. Restart Friday.
After · Crowd Scope
One natural-language query. 412 named individuals. CSV.
- Monday 9:00 — type the problem into Crowd Scope. Pick recency window. Hit go.
- Monday 9:06 — 412 rows. Username, quote, source URL, date, platform.
- Monday 9:30 — push to Clay. Enrich emails on the 412. ~340 valid.
- Monday afternoon — first 40 sequenced. Each references the exact quote each person wrote.
- Tuesday — 8 replies. 3 booked calls. Pipeline started.
Editorial
The most honest market research is already public.
People do not fill out surveys. They tweet. They post in r/SaaS at 2am. They leave one-star reviews on Product Hunt. They reply to a stranger's thread with "this is exactly my problem." Every founder, marketer, and PMM we know has the same instinct — go read what people are actually saying — but it does not scale past a few searches. Crowd Scope is what happens when you take that instinct and point a real index at it. Not "vibes." Not "trending." Five hundred named people, the exact post each one wrote, sorted by how recently they wrote it.
We found 218 product managers complaining about Notion search in 30 days. We sent 40 a Loom. Twelve booked a call. That was the first week. Anaïs L., Head of Growth, Reflect AI
Use cases
Six ways teams are using it.
Crowd Scope is not a category — it is a method. Here is how four different roles run investigations on the same index.
GTM teams running outbound
Replace cold-list scraping with high-intent named individuals. Every row has a quote you can reference in your first message.
PMMs doing competitor research
"People leaving Asana for…" "Frustrations with HubSpot…" — discover the real switching reasons, not the survey-curated ones.
Founders testing product hypotheses
Before building the feature, find the 50 people on Reddit and X who already asked for it. Validate, then ship.
Content marketers finding what to write
Index real frustrations to inform a 12-week editorial calendar. Every post is a real question a real person asked, on a real day.
Agencies pitching new accounts
Walk into the pitch with 80 named individuals from the prospect's target ICP, each posting publicly about the prospect's problem.
What it does
How an investigation works.
Not a keyword alert tool. Not a sentiment dashboard. A real research method, automated: define a problem, scan the public web, return verifiable conversations with usernames and timestamps.
Method
Built like an investigation, not a dashboard.
Every search starts with a person, not a metric. We surface the username, the platform, the day they posted — and the exact words they used. You read the case file before you write the first message.
Username · quote · source URL · date · platform.
01
Problem-first queries
You type the pain, not the product. "people complaining about slow Notion search," "founders looking for cold email tools" — the system builds the SQL on top.
02
Platform-native parsing
Reddit threads, X posts, LinkedIn comments, TikTok captions, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Product Hunt, Discord public servers. Each parsed in its native grammar — not flattened into a feed.
03
Username-level resolution
Every result is a person. u/notion_struggles, @priya_b, /in/marc-fellow — clickable, exportable, traceable back to the exact post in two clicks.
04
Recency-weighted ranking
Last 7 days, last 30 days, last quarter. We surface what is being said now — not a 2022 thread someone bumped. Velocity matters when you are building a pipeline.
05
CSV out, CRM in
Export 50, 500, or 5,000 leads per query. One-click to Clay, Apollo, HubSpot, Notion, or a flat CSV. No "request a demo" wall between you and your data.
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Built by people who used to do this manually
We come from a growth team where three of us spent every Monday morning reading Reddit. We are the team most likely to feel embarrassed if it does not work.
Process
Three steps. No SQL, no Boolean grammar.
01
Describe the problem
In plain language. "Marketing ops people frustrated with HubSpot reporting." "Indie devs who hate Vercel pricing." The system handles synonyms, slang, and platform-specific phrasing.
02
We scan the public web
Eight platforms. Last 7 to 365 days. We deduplicate cross-posts, filter bots, and rank by recency × engagement × specificity. Results land in 2 to 6 minutes.
03
Export and reach out
CSV, Clay, Apollo, HubSpot, Notion. Every row has a username, the exact quote, the source URL, and the date. You decide what happens next — DM, email, ad audience, or just read.
From the field
What people who used it said.
"It took our cold outbound reply rate from 1.4% to 6.2% in eight weeks. Same SDR, same product. Just better lists."
"I ran a search for 'people who built their own RAG and regret it' on a Sunday. Found 47. Booked 9 demos that week."
"We replaced our 'social listening tool' with this and saved $14K/year. The honest comparison is they are not the same product."
Pricing
Priced for the person doing the work.
No "contact sales" tier. Every plan unlocks every platform.
Notebook
Free
For trying it out.
- 3 investigations / month
- 500 results per investigation
- All 8 platforms
- CSV export
Field Kit
$49/mo
For weekly outbound rhythm.
- 50 investigations / month
- 5,000 results per investigation
- Clay + Apollo + HubSpot + Notion integrations
- Saved searches with weekly digest
- API access (read-only)
Newsroom
$199/mo
For teams running multiple plays.
- Unlimited investigations
- Up to 25,000 results per query
- 5 seats included
- Full API + webhooks
- Priority indexing on new platforms
- Slack + ICP coaching
FAQ
Things people ask.
Is this legal? You are scraping platforms.
We index publicly accessible posts — the kind any logged-out user can see. We respect platform robots, we never touch private groups, DMs, or gated content, and we do not enrich beyond the public username. If a post is deleted, it disappears from results within 24 hours.
How is this different from Brandwatch or Sprout?
Those tools are built for brand monitoring — alert me when someone mentions my company. Crowd Scope is built for the opposite — find me people who have never heard of my company but are explicitly describing my product's use case. Different job, different output.
Can I run a search on a competitor's name?
Yes — "people leaving Asana for something faster" is a valid query and one of our most popular templates. Just know that platforms moderate brand-related searches, and we filter out obvious complaint-farm accounts.
What does a typical investigation cost in credits?
A 30-day search across all platforms with up to 500 results is one investigation credit. The Notebook plan includes 3/mo, Field Kit 50/mo, Newsroom unlimited. Most users average 8 to 12 investigations a month.
About
For founders who'd rather read the conversation than guess at it.
Crowd Scope is a quieter way to do go-to-market. No spray-and-pray. No invented personas. You sit with the actual words your future customers wrote, the day they wrote them — and then you reply.
Slow research · fast outreach.
Your next 100 customers are already complaining about something.
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