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Outbound Engine for Brand Sponsorships

Created by
Cristoforo Perrone & Niek Huggers
Node AI
Prepared for
Michele Scatamacchia
AB6
Date
6 May 2026
Expires 20 May 2026 (14 days)

The Overview

This proposal builds the brand sponsor outreach system you described on the call — high-volume, personalized outbound to the right brand decision-makers, sent from infrastructure that protects your real domain, at a fraction of the per-lead cost of the platforms you'd normally use. Designed for the Red Rocks October sponsorship cycle, reusable for every campaign after. We've structured it as three operating models.

The flow we described on the call

Eight steps. We implement all of them.

  • 1. Identify brand decision-makers tied to sponsorship and partnership budgets
  • 2. Research each prospect for the personalization angle
  • 3. Generate a personalized opener per lead, reviewed in batch before send
  • 4. Send from infrastructure isolated from your real AB6 domain
  • 5. Sequence follow-ups across email and LinkedIn
  • 6. Detect replies and pause sequences automatically
  • 7. Route real conversations to your team within hours
  • 8. Tune week-over-week based on what's actually replying

Brand-side sponsorship cycles take 6-12 weeks from first touch to verbal commitment. The system shortens the per-touch labor and lifts the volume you can sustain — what changes is the volume at the same reply rate, without burning your domain or your team's hours.

Built once, calibrated for Red Rocks, reusable for every campaign that comes after.

The Situation

AB6 has the artist credibility and the venue (Red Rocks) to land real brand sponsors. The roster's audience overlaps directly with the demographics brand sponsors actually target. The foundation is strong.

Strengths

But the outreach engine is the bottleneck.

Limitations

Opportunities

The Solution

A brand sponsor outreach system purpose-built for AB6, not a generic SaaS sales tool. Three operating models on the same engine — the choice is how much of the campaign work your team owns versus hands to us.

Brand Sponsor Outreach Engine

Layer 1 · Sourcing & Research

Find the right names, with the right context

  • Decision-maker identification tied to sponsorship and partnership budgets — heads of brand marketing, VPs of partnerships, festival sponsorship leads at brands actively buying in music-adjacent categories.
  • Per-prospect research that surfaces the personalization angle: their last festival sponsorship, recent campaigns, partnership patterns, agency of record. The research feeds the opener directly.
  • Cost economics that compound. The same upstream data the expensive platforms charge per-lead premium for, run through infrastructure under AB6's own accounts. The longer the engine runs, the wider the gap between what AB6 spends and what a per-lead-priced setup would cost.
Layer 2 · Personalization & Sending

Reach them at volume without burning the brand

  • AI-grounded openers built from real research, reviewable in batch before send. You approve the framing once; the system applies it across the campaign — consistent voice, specific to each prospect. Per-email labor drops from ~10-15 minutes of manual research and writing to under 1 minute of review.
  • Multi-channel sequencing across email and LinkedIn, with reply detection and automatic sequence-pause when someone responds. Follow-up cadence built for B2B partnership cycles, not generic SaaS sales.
  • Brand-domain protection. Outreach sends from isolated infrastructure — warmed-up secondary domains, dedicated accounts. Your real AB6 domain stays untouchable. If a campaign spikes spam complaints, it spikes on infrastructure built to absorb that risk — not on the domain you use to talk to your artists.

The Outcome

The reply rate doesn't change — that's set by the offer, not the tool. What changes is the volume you can sustain at that rate without burning your domain or your team's hours. Same conversation rate, multiples more conversations on the calendar, at lower per-lead cost. Replies routed to your team within hours, not days. A reusable engine that runs the same way for every campaign after Red Rocks — tour sponsors, brand partnerships, the next cycle and the one after that.

How It Runs The Loop

End-to-end pipeline for outbound. Four stages, all configurable, all tunable. We come pre-loaded with the sources and patterns that work for B2B brand-partnership outreach.

Source & scrape

Pre-built integrations · same sources the expensive platforms use

B2B contact data, executive-tier prospecting, venue/location-based scraping (relevant for tour-cycle outreach), and warm-signal targeting from public social activity. We connect to the same exact upstream sources the expensive platforms charge premium for — you just don't pay platform markup.

Research & enrich

AI research profiles tailored to AB6's outreach

For each lead, the system runs a configurable research profile — their company's recent press, their Spotify presence (if any), their recent campaigns, their music partnerships. For sponsorship outreach specifically: which festivals they've sponsored before, what their partnership pattern looks like, who their agency of record is. The output feeds directly into the personalization layer.

Cost: ~$0.05 to $0.01 per lead enriched — about 5x cheaper than the equivalent Hunter-tier pipeline. With our Claude MCP integration enabled, enrichment can run on your existing Claude tokens at near-zero marginal cost.

Personalize per lead

AI-generated openers grounded in research, not templates

Each email gets a personalized opening line built from the research output — a real specific observation tied to a real signal. For Red Rocks sponsorship: their last festival sponsorship, their music marketing posture, a recent campaign that connects to AB6's audience.

The openers are reviewable in batch before send. You approve the framing once; the system applies it across the campaign.

Send & sequence

Multi-channel, isolated infrastructure

Email and LinkedIn outbound from dedicated sending infrastructure — warmed-up secondary domains for email, dedicated LinkedIn accounts for messaging. Multi-step sequences with reply detection, auto-pause on response, follow-up cadence built around B2B partnership-cycle norms (not generic SaaS sequences).

Your real AB6 domain stays clean. Outreach runs through Node-managed sending infrastructure, isolated from your brand's primary mailboxes. If a campaign spikes spam complaints, it spikes on infrastructure that exists to absorb that risk — not on the domain you use to talk to artists, partners, and the press.

What It Replaces, And Why

Three things change when you move from your current stack to this system:

The reply rate doesn't change. What changes is the volume you can sustain at that reply rate without burning your domain or your team's hours. At multiples of the current outreach volume, the meeting-booked count goes from a trickle to a real pipeline.

The Claude MCP advantage

If you're already a Claude user, the system connects directly — enrichment runs on your existing tokens.

We recently shipped an MCP connector that lets you talk to the system through Claude itself. The practical effect: instead of paying per-lead enrichment fees, enrichment runs against your Claude membership tokens. For 500-emails-per-day campaigns, the per-lead cost approaches zero. We're using this on our own outbound — happy to demo on the kickoff call.

The Process

4-6 weeks from kickoff to live outreach. Each phase ends with something concrete — not a status update.

Engine aligned to your campaign

Week 1 · all tiers

What you have at the end of this week: a calibrated outreach engine that knows the brand sponsor segments you care about, the personalization angle for each, and a starter list of named contacts ready to enrich.

Sending infrastructure warmed

Weeks 1-2 · all tiers

What you have at the end of this phase: warmup complete on dedicated sending infrastructure, AB6's primary domain protected, sending capacity ready for real volume without deliverability risk.

First campaign live

Weeks 3-4 · all tiers

What you have at the end of this phase: outreach in market, replies routed to your team within hours, the first sponsor conversations on the calendar. The Red Rocks cycle moves from prep to active pipeline.

Tuned to what's replying

Weeks 5-6+ · all tiers

What you have at the end of this phase: openers refreshed based on what's actually getting replies, target list expanded into adjacent categories, the engine running on its own cadence — ready for the next campaign without rebuilding.

The Investment

One engine, three operating models. The choice is about how much of the campaign work AB6 owns versus hands to Node. Pricing in USD.

Tier 1 · One-Time · 4 weeks
You Own It
$5,500
Self-run after handover

We deploy the engine under AB6 accounts, configure it for the Red Rocks cycle, hand over the keys, and train your team to run it. Right if you have someone internally who'll own outbound and you want full infrastructure independence.

  • Engine deployed under AB6 accounts — you own the deployment forever
  • Pre-configured for the Red Rocks sponsorship use case (targets, research profiles, opener framework)
  • Sending infrastructure provisioned and warmed (~2-4 week ramp)
  • Starter list of 200-400 named brand sponsor contacts across your priority categories
  • Live training call + Loom walkthrough
  • 30 days of post-launch async support
Tier 3 · Setup + Monthly
We Run It Fully
$5,500 + $2,000/mo

An embedded outbound team. Node owns the campaigns end-to-end — research, personalization, sending, follow-up, reply triage. AB6 receives weekly summaries of meetings booked and conversations to handle. The Red Rocks cycle runs in the background while your team focuses on the artists, the show, and closing the deals we surface.

  • Campaign strategy and segment prioritization — what to push, when, in what sequence
  • Target list curation and refresh
  • Personalization across the full target list, reviewed and tuned by Cristoforo
  • Multi-channel sequencing with reply detection and auto-pause
  • Reply triage — auto-replies screened out, real responses routed to your team within 2 business hours
  • Weekly written summary — meetings booked, hot leads, what shifted in the campaign
  • Monthly strategic working session — reviewing the funnel, planning next month's push

Operating cost (pass-through, paid by AB6)

The system runs on infrastructure billed directly to AB6 by the providers — no markup. All under AB6 ownership.

Instantly subscription — cold-email platform (Growth or Hypergrowth)
$47–97/mo
Custom sending domain — keeps AB6's real domain protected
~$15/year
Google Workspace mailboxes — a few dedicated accounts
$6–8/account/mo
Per-prospect enrichment — research per lead
~$0.01–0.05/lead
We build it right, or we fix it.

30 days of post-launch support at no cost. If anything we built breaks, we fix it. No exceptions.

You approve every milestone.

Nothing moves forward without your written sign-off. If a deliverable doesn't match what we promised, we revise it until it does.

No surprises.

2 revision rounds per deliverable included. Timeline and scope locked once we start.

What we guarantee — and what we don't.

We guarantee the work: deliverability hygiene, personalization quality, and the meeting-volume math. We don't guarantee signed sponsorship deals — that depends on the offer, the cycle timing, and the relationship work that happens in the meeting itself. The system books the conversations; closing them stays with your team.

The Next Steps

Ready to move forward? Here's how we get started.

01
Review & reply

Look through this proposal. Reply with your tier preference. Questions, scope adjustments, pricing pushback — reply directly. We'd rather adjust now than ship the wrong system.

02
Deposit invoice

50% deposit on Tier 1 (Ownership). First month + setup on Tiers 2 and 3. Payment confirms the start date and locks in the timeline.

03
Account provisioning

We send a checklist for the infrastructure accounts — sending domains, enrichment, AI tokens. All under AB6 ownership, billed direct, you own everything.

04
Kickoff call

60 minutes within 48 hours of deposit. Red Rocks brief, sponsor target shape, categories already approached, off-limits brands. We come with a research-driven starter list; you sharpen it.

05
Build begins

Setup runs week 1; sending infrastructure warms weeks 1-2; first campaign goes live weeks 3-4. Weekly written updates Monday mornings. Final walkthrough before campaigns push to full volume.