Lead Engine - draft only lead discovery from public buying signals
Hey IH 👋
I built Lead Engine to solve a prospecting problem I kept running into.
Most outbound seems to fall into two bad buckets:
- manually digging through places like Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, and random corners of the internet looking for people who might need help
- jumping straight into spammy automation that hurts quality and trust
Lead Engine sits in the middle.
It monitors public conversations for signs of buying intent, qualifies likely opportunities, and turns them into human-reviewed outreach drafts.
The idea is simple:
- find public demand signals
- qualify likely opportunities
- generate drafts
- keep a human in control
No auto-posting.
No auto-DMs.
No pretending AI should handle the relationship for you.
Why I built it:
I kept seeing that a lot of demand is already visible in public conversations, but most people either find it too late or do not have a clean workflow for acting on it.
Right now I’m focused on improving signal quality, tightening the positioning, and making the workflow strong enough that more people want to keep using it.
Would love feedback from this community:
Does this feel more valuable as a signal + workflow tool, or do you think the bigger leverage only starts once outreach itself is automated?
This is sharp — especially the “no auto-DMs” stance. Most tools break trust right there.
Curious — what kind of signals are actually converting best so far?