Lead gen, sales and client acquisition

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"Harvey" is an open-source Claude Code agent (GitHub ethanplusai/harvey) that finds leads, researches them, writes personalised cold emails, tracks replies and pipeline, running 24/7 locally on your existing Claude subscription.

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Name: Harvey. Open source and free.
You tell it what you sell and who your ideal customer is.
Harvey finds leads, researches them, identifies best fits (screens show terminal output: "Harvey is online. Always Be Closing." "Checking pipeline state..." "Decision: prospect (only 3 new prospects; pipeline needs...)", "discover: 41 businesses in Portland, OR", "profile: 41 sites read, 288 observations", "scout: 12 scored against your ICP", "Decision: write_campaign (12 new prospects with no drafts)", "writer: 3-email sequence for Cascade Landscaping", "outbox: 12 emails waiting for your approval", "Cycle complete. Sleeping for 15 minutes.").
Claude turns the research into personalised cold emails (flow shown: research -> Claude -> cold email, then an Outbox UI at localhost:5555 with a draft email).
Tracks replies ("Reply received - tracked, classified"), manages sales pipeline stages (Outreach, Engage, Qualify, Presenting, Negotiation, Closing, Won), works toward booking meetings.
Runs 24/7 on your computer via a heartbeat loop every 15 minutes (wake, sleep, budget, log, decide, act cycle graphic).
Uses your existing Claude subscription; README table "What this costs you": Claude Pro or Max (already pay), finding businesses $0 on default source (or $0.37 per 1,000 on cheapest paid one), reading websites $0 (plain HTTP requests), writing and sending "your subscription + a mailbox (~$7/mo Google Workspace)", prospecting tools none (no Apollo, Zoominfo, Clearbit, Clay). Comparison text: tools Harvey replaces cost $250-500/month; strongest for small local businesses with 5-50 people.
Repo "About" text on screen: "Autonomous AI sales agent powered by Claude Code. Finds prospects, writes cold emails, sends campaigns, handles replies, books meetings. No API keys needed - runs on your Claude Max subscription."
Quick start (screen): install note python3.13 (not python3; macOS system python 3.9 is too old), venv + pip install, configure .env and $EDITOR, harvey train https://your-company.com ("learn your product from your website"), harvey discover ("find businesses, free source, no account needed"), harvey dashboard (http://localhost:5555), harvey run.
Live dashboard for whole pipeline (screen "A live dashboard for the whole pipeline", shows "Today", approvals waiting).
CTA: comment "Harvey" for the GitHub repo.

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Agencies and freelancers: An open-source sales agent can discover local businesses, read their websites, score them against your ideal customer, and draft a personalised three-email sequence. Test it as a lead-gen experiment.
Agencies and freelancers: Keep a human approval step on every email. The tool in the reel holds drafts in an outbox for review. Keep that, and do not switch to fully automatic sending.
Cold emailers: Watch the risks. Autonomous cold email carries spam and deliverability problems, CAN-SPAM and GDPR obligations, and sending limits that can get a mailbox flagged. Use a separate sending domain.
Everyone: Check the terms of your AI subscription before you use it for automation, and treat the repo as untrusted code until you have read it.
Brands: The best fit is outreach to small local businesses, such as retailers and stockists. Lead data for other regions may be weaker.
Creators: The "someone built X, free and open source" angle with a comment keyword is a proven format.

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