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Youno

How Youno runs five buying-signal motions in parallel — and turns every cold call into a warm one.

Kaio AraujoCo-founder, Youno
Industry
GTM Services — GenAI Outbound
HQ
Paris, France
Size
5–10
What we did
+0 → 40%Conversion-rate uplift across 40+ companies in Kaio's career
0Signal plays running in parallel
0 → 1Tools (sourcing + spreadsheets + Apps Script + Zapier + n8n → Pronto)
Cold → WarmEvery dial preceded by a LinkedIn rapport thread
0 platform · 5 signals · every call warmed up
The stack

Before. After.

Kaio is a former software engineer — he could (and did) build the plumbing himself. He still found it too painful. The old Youno stack was a duct-taped agency operating system: three data vendors, spreadsheets full of filter formulas, and four automation tools holding it all together. Pronto collapses the whole thing into one platform with the signal library built in.

Before8 moving parts, glued by hand
  • Sourcing toolFind companies1 contract
  • Contact-finding toolFind contacts inside the companies1 contract
  • Enrichment vendorEmail + phone (separate login)1 contract
  • SpreadsheetsManual ICP filter formulas
  • Apps Script + Zapier + n8n + custom codeGlue layer between everythingHours / week
Total tooling cost~$600/mo
Tools per campaign3 vendors + glue
Customer exclusionManual, partial
After1 platform · 1 contract · signal library built in
One platform replaces every job in the old stack.
All in one platform
  • Sourcing + contact finding
  • Auto-qualification
  • Customer exclusion
  • Waterfall enrichment
  • Signal library — 5 plays in parallel
Total tooling cost~$300/mo
Tools per campaign1 platform
Customer exclusionAutomatic, every search
The problem

Where Youno got stuck.

  • Youno is a 5-person GTM collective building go-to-market systems for clients — CRM enrichment, signal detection, AI-driven outreach at the right time. The work needs to be fast, repeatable, clean.
  • Sourcing in one tool, contacts in another, enrichment in a third. Every campaign meant logging into three vendors and reconciling the outputs.
  • Spreadsheets full of filter formulas to throw out non-ICP contacts — manual, brittle, never quite right.
  • Apps Script, Zapier, n8n, custom code holding the whole thing together. When something broke, the day was gone.
  • No way to systematically exclude existing customers across all clients — Youno occasionally prospected accounts a client was already selling to. Embarrassing for an agency.
Before Pronto, I had three tools, a spreadsheet full of formulas, and four automation platforms duct-taped together. The work I used to spend on plumbing, I now spend on actually winning my clients' markets.
Kaio Araujo, Co-founder, Youno
The solution

How Pronto unlocked it.

One platform, four jobs. Sourcing and qualification in one query — Pronto returns ICP-aligned companies and contacts, already filtered, no spreadsheet formulas. Customer exclusion is built in: every Youno client's customer list lives in Pronto, and every search auto-excludes them. Waterfall enrichment runs under the hood — best-in-class email and phone, no second vendor. And on top of all that sits the signal library — five plays running in parallel that powers Youno's edge.

  • Sourcing + qualification in one query — Pronto returns ICP-aligned companies and contacts already filtered. No spreadsheet formulas.
  • Customer exclusion built in — every Youno client's customer list lives in Pronto. Every search auto-excludes them.
  • Waterfall enrichment under the hood — best-in-class email + phone, no second contract.
  • A signal library: five plays running in parallel — new hires, job changes of past champions, LinkedIn posts, job openings, fundraising.
The one who wins is the one who built the rapport.
Kaio Araujo, Co-founder, Youno
How the team operates

A 5-person collective. Multiple clients. One operating system.

Every Youno client gets a workspace in Pronto. Customer-exclusion lists live there. Five signal streams run in parallel — new hires, job changes of past champions, LinkedIn posts, job openings, fundraising. When a signal fires inside a client's TAM, Pronto enriches the contact and drops it into the recipe Youno runs for that client. The team that was hand-stitching Apps Script and Zapier last year now runs agency-grade GTM motions across multiple clients on a single platform.

Co-founderKaio AraujoFormer software engineer, 6 years in GTM (employee → freelancer → founder). Helped 40+ companies lift conversion +10% to +40%. Started Youno to productize the playbook — built the signal library on Pronto so every cold call lands warm.
Sales teamYouno collective5 GTM operators running multiple client engagements off the same Pronto operating system. Plumbing time becomes market-winning time.
Use cases

3 ways Youno uses Pronto.

  1. 01

    The new-hire play — the signature recipe

    A newly-hired VP / Head / Director is in a 90-day trial. They have to ship ideas fast, demonstrate impact to their CEO, and they don't have time to build everything themselves — they're keen to delegate. Pronto detects the hire inside the client's TAM, enriches verified email + mobile, Youno opens with a soft LinkedIn message ("Saw your post, liked what you guys do"), a thread builds over a few exchanges, and the "cold" call isn't cold anymore. Conversion follows.

  2. 02

    Five signals, same warm-call payoff

    The same five-step recipe runs across every signal in the library. Past customer / champion changes job → free pipeline with new budget. Prospect publishes a LinkedIn post → native conversation starter. Company opens job listings → hiring = growth = budget. Company raises funding → fresh budget, ambitious roadmap. Different trigger, same warm call.

  3. 03

    Customer exclusion across every client

    Every Youno client's customer list lives inside Pronto. Every search across every signal auto-excludes them. Youno never again pitches an account a client is already selling to — agency-grade hygiene that used to be impossible without a manual reconciliation step.

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