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Most tools do one link of the chain. You're paying for four.
The usual stack is a job-board subscription, a contact database, a signals tool and a sequencer, joined up by hand, in a spreadsheet, at 7am.
| Capability | Job-ad aggregators | Contact databases | Intent & signal tools | Sequencers & AI SDRs | OutputX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finds live vacancies on your patch | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Names the client behind an agency-posted ad | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Discards what it can't verify | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Hiring intent before the advert exists | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Decision makers chosen for the specific role | No | Generic | Sometimes | No | Yes |
| Work email included, not metered | n/a | Per credit | Per credit | n/a | Free |
| Matches your own candidate database in | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Writes the approach in your voice | No | No | No | Templates | Yes |
| Cold-call script with objection handling | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Sends on your behalf | n/a | n/a | n/a | Yes, that's the risk | Never |
| Priced per seat | Usually | Usually | Usually | Usually | No. Seats are free |
Categories, not named products. Hold any specific tool up against these rows rather than taking our word for its column. Wondering about ChatGPT or Claude? See the Scout comparison.
"Sends on your behalf" is a risk column, not a feature column
An AI mailing your future clients from a shared domain, unread, is a reputation bet on a business built on relationships. OutputX drafts and stops. You read it, you send it, and the reply lands in your own inbox.
The hard part is the subtraction
Anyone can buy a job feed and hand you six thousand adverts. The work is deciding who posted each one, tracing the anonymous ones, verifying the company, finding real people, and throwing away everything that fails. Which is most of it.