coldstart
For founders with no connections

Your first 50 leads, 2 clicks away.

One sentence about your business. Coldstart searches the live web and pulls verified contacts — or wires straight into Claude.

Then you take off

Every first email,
already written.

Claude drafts the outreach for each lead.
Review, hit send, done.

Every business starts cold.

Two minutes from now you could be looking at your first twenty leads.

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The problem

Bought lists go stale the day you buy them.

Apollo and Clay are built for sales teams, priced for sales teams.

Manually finding and emailing leads doesn't scale past a handful a day.

How it works
01

Describe your business

One sentence. Who you help and how.

02

Coldstart searches the live web

Real companies that fit, right now — not a stale export.

03

Review drafted emails, send

Each lead gets a first-person draft. Nothing sends until you approve it.

Coldstart vs. Apollo / Clay

If you have a sales team, genuinely — go use Apollo.

ColdstartApollo / Clay
Built forOne person, no sales teamSales teams
Data sourceLive web search, every timeStatic purchased database
Outreach draftsWritten per lead automaticallyYou write your own
Setup timeOne sentenceSequences, lists, integrations
Price$0–19/mo$50–1000s/mo, seat-based

It’s better at that job — bigger lists, seat management, CRM sync. Coldstart does one thing: get a solo founder from “no leads” to “drafted emails ready to send” in one sitting.

Pricing

Priced for people who don’t have customers yet

Free
$0

Everything you need to send your first emails.

  • ✓ 10 live web searches / month
  • ✓ Verified emails on every lead
  • ✓ Drafted first emails included
  • ✓ No card required
Start free
Pro
$50/mo

7-day free trial. For when outreach becomes the job.

  • ✓ 500 searches / month
  • ✓ API key + MCP server
  • ✓ Full Claude integration
  • ✓ Bulk Gmail sending
Start 7-day free trial

Cancel anytime. Leads don’t expire. No seat pricing, ever.

API & MCP

Everything the dashboard does, callable directly.

Pro subscribers get an API key and a small MCP server, so lead search runs inside Claude (or any MCP client) with no dashboard round-trip.

curl https://coldstart.app/api/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COLDSTART_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "SEO for dental clinics in Texas"}'

One line to add it to Claude

claude mcp add coldstart -e COLDSTART_API_KEY=cs_live_... -- npx -y coldstart-mcp
From the founder

I built Coldstart because I needed leads and couldn’t justify $500/month sales tooling for a list of one. It searches the live web for companies that fit what you do, and drafts the first email so the blank page isn’t the reason you don’t send it. If you have a sales team, genuinely — go use Apollo. It’s better at that job.

FAQ

A live web search runs every time you search — not a static purchased database. Results reflect what's actually on the web today.

Your first 500 leads are free.

Start free