Bonx
🇮🇹 How Bonx cracked Italian manufacturing outbound — when Clay alone couldn't find the buyers.
MaloGTM Engineer, Bonx- Industry
- Software — AI-native manufacturing ERP
- HQ
- Paris, France
- Size
- 50
- Website
- bonx.com ↗
Before. After.
Bonx didn't replace Clay — they bolted Pronto on next to it. Clay keeps the workflows it does well; Pronto layers on the niche sourcing and phone enrichment Clay couldn't deliver on Italian manufacturers.
ClaySourcing (~$800/mo)
ZeliqPhone enrichment
Clay kept for what it's good at — Pronto bolted on for niche sourcing + waterfall phone enrichmentDatagma
Apollo
- + 100 providers
Where Bonx got stuck.
- Bonx sells an AI-native ERP into manufacturing — a niche, offline-heavy buyer base.
- Italian expansion meant cold-calling industrial leaders Clay's database barely indexed: 0 to 1 contact per target company.
- Even when Clay surfaced a name, Zeliq's phone hit rate sat around 40% — not enough to sustain a calling motion.
- The result: SDRs burning hours per list, Italy stuck as a market on paper only.
Clay would return one contact for a target account — sometimes zero. And half the time, Zeliq couldn't find a phone for the contact we did get. Italy wasn't a market, it was a wall.
How Pronto unlocked it.
- Niche sourcing where Clay falls flat — Pronto returns 3 to 5 contacts per company on Italian manufacturing ICPs, the same searches that gave Clay 0 or 1.
- Waterfall phone enrichment built for cold calling — Pronto's waterfall lifts mobile coverage from 40% to 80% on the same lists, doubling the dialable base without changing SDR effort.
- Plays alongside Clay, not against it — Bonx kept Clay for the workflows where it shines, and bolted Pronto on for the niche sourcing + phone layer Clay couldn't deliver.
- Outcome on the ground: +6 meetings per sales rep in Italy — a market that was effectively closed before.
Malo fuels the BDRs. Italy moves.
Malo builds Italian manufacturing lists in Pronto upstream — sourcing the contacts Clay misses, running them through Pronto's waterfall for verified mobiles. Dial-ready lists land in the BDRs' queue every morning. The BDRs call. No list-building in the rep workflow, no ad-hoc enrichment requests in the middle of the day.
GTM EngineerMaloBuilds Italian manufacturing lists in Pronto — niche sourcing where Clay falls flat, plus waterfall phone enrichment for verified mobiles3 ways Bonx uses Pronto.
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Niche sourcing where Clay falls flat
Italian manufacturers — industrial, offline-heavy buyers — barely register in Clay's database. Pronto returns 3 to 5 contacts per company on the exact same ICP searches that gave Clay 0 or 1.
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Waterfall phone enrichment for cold calling
Pronto's waterfall (Datagma, Dropcontact, 100+ providers) lifts mobile coverage from 40% to 80% on Italian lists. Same accounts, same SDRs — twice the dialable base.
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Side by side with Clay, not instead of it
Bonx kept Clay for the workflows where it shines. Pronto fills the niche sourcing and phone layer Clay couldn't deliver. Two tools, one motion, no overlap.
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