Claude Code + Clay Makes Lead Generation Actually Fun
Claim 2,000 FREE Clay credits here: https://bit.ly/4gzSl9L My playbook for growing a $1M AI agency: https://app.aiautomationsociety.ai/opaa-ads-optin My FREE resources: https://www.skool.com/ai-automation-society/about?el=claude-code-clay&hcategory=youtube-videos&utm_campaign=free-group My Tools💻 FREE MONTH voice to text: https://get.glaido.com/nate Code NATEHERK for 10% off VPS (annual plan): https://www.hostinger.com/vps/claude-code-hosting Finding leads is the thing that blocks most people from landing their first client, so in this video I connect Claude Code to Clay and build a lead generation machine you run entirely in plain English. Claude Code is the orchestrator and Clay handles the data, sourcing real businesses, enriching them with verified emails and phone numbers through its waterfall, and writing a personalized email for every single lead. I run a real HVAC example that pulled 50 fully enriched leads with custom subject lines and bodies for about 12 dollars in credits, then take the whole list into Clay to buy domains, warm them up, and launch the campaign. If you have been putting off cold outreach because the data and the tools felt like too much to manage, this is the easiest way I have found to do it. Sponsorship Inquiries: 📧 nate@smoothmedia.co Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nateherkelman/ https://x.com/nateherk https://www.instagram.com/nateherk/ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 What We're Building 0:58 The Data Problem vs The Tool Problem 3:01 Why Clay and the Waterfall 4:25 Setting Up Clay and the Plugin 6:06 Connecting Your Account 7:26 The Goal Prompt 9:37 How It Runs and What It Cost 11:40 The Enriched Data and Email Copy 13:32 Launching the Campaign in Clay 17:02 Final Thoughts