Lead engine + SK AI outreach
Lead generation for 3PLs, built around who actually ships
If you sell 3PL services, you already know who you want to talk to. Manufacturers with outbound freight. Distributors whose warehouse is full. Ecommerce brands that have outgrown a garage. Knowing the shape of a good account was never the problem. Getting a steady supply of them in front of somebody who can pick up the phone is the problem.
Most 3PL sales teams handle it one of three ways, and all three cost something. They buy a list once, work it hard for six weeks, and it goes stale. They ask the sales team to prospect between firefighting, which means it happens in the quiet weeks and not in the busy ones. Or they pay a freight lead vendor for contacts that every other buyer of that list is also calling.
Somykida runs a lead engine instead. It is a repeating job, not a one-off purchase. We build a buyer filter around your business, run it against Apollo, and hand back roughly 50 high- and medium-traffic companies per run. Then it runs again on the schedule you choose, as often as daily, so the list keeps arriving without anyone remembering to go hunting.
We are not guessing about this industry. Headwall Logistics, a Denver 3PL, put our engine to work. It produced the opportunities. Their own sales team closed them, and within three months they had landed a recurring contract worth over $3 million a year. That is one client's result and it is the only one we will cite. What it should tell you is narrower than it sounds: a filter aimed at shipper-side demand can produce accounts worth a real conversation.
What a 3PL filter has to get right
The mistake that ruins logistics lead lists is treating "logistics" as the target. Filter for that and most of what comes back is other 3PLs, freight brokers, courier companies and one-truck operations. It looks like a full list and it is worth nothing to you, because you cannot sell warehousing to your own competitors.
A working filter is built around who ships, not who works in freight. That means the industries that carry freight volume, the company sizes where outsourcing a warehouse or a lane actually gets decided, and the roles that sit next to that decision. Then the signals that make an account worth calling this month rather than next year. We build that with you from what you already know about your best accounts, and we adjust it as runs come back.
How a run works
First we build the filter around your business. You tell us who you sell to and who wastes your time; we turn that into the profile the engine runs on.
Then each run pulls roughly 50 qualified leads through Apollo, matched to that filter. Active companies, not dormant records.
Then it repeats on your schedule, as often as daily, with the filter tuned as your priorities move.
Optionally, our SK AI outreach system picks up each new run and works it for you: the first touch, the follow-up, and replies surfaced back to your team as real conversations.
Who it is for, and who it is not for
It is for a 3PL or brokerage with at least one person whose job includes selling, who can act on a list within days of receiving it and who knows what a good shipper account looks like.
It is not for a business with nobody to make the calls. The engine fills the pipeline. Closing is your side of it, and no lead engine can close for you. If sales capacity is your real constraint, fix that first. A list will not fix it.
What it costs
Two monthly retainers, published plainly.
The Lead Engine is $650 a month. Daily runs, up to ~50 leads per run, with the buyer filter tailored to your market.
Lead Engine plus SK AI Outreach is $1,950 a month. Everything above, plus SK AI opening every new lead automatically, following up, and surfacing the replies to you.
Both are monthly retainers. There is no per-lead rate. The cadence and volume in the line above are what the price covers.
FAQ
Will this close deals for me?
No. We sell pipeline, not closed revenue. Headwall's contract was closed by Headwall's sales team, not by us, and that part is always yours. What the engine does is make sure there are enough of the right companies in front of your team that closing becomes a volume question instead of a hope.
Can you filter out other 3PLs and brokers?
Yes, and we should. Excluding logistics providers, carriers and one-truck operations is one of the first things we set up for a freight client. If a filter is returning your competitors, it is the wrong filter and we fix it.
Do I need my own Apollo account?
No. The sourcing runs on our side. You receive the leads in the format your team already works in, a sheet or a CRM-ready file.
What if I want the outreach handled too?
That is the $1,950 a month tier. SK AI opens each new lead, keeps the follow-up going, and surfaces replies to you. It works on the output of the engine, so it sits on top of the runs rather than replacing them.
Other ways to look at this
If you want to know the filter we would build for your freight book, tell us what you sell and who buys it. You will get a real answer from a person: the filter, how often we would run it, and what it costs.
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