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How Aquaflex built $3.7M in pipeline across four ICPs with cold email and re-engagement

A commercial building-materials manufacturer turned cold email into a $3.7M pipeline engine by mapping four parallel ICPs and reaching the spec writers who actually shape buying decisions.

Market
Commercial building materials for contractors, architects, developers, and distributors
Window
Feb to Oct 2025, 7 months of sending
Client
Benny DickensFounder and CEO, Aquaflex

The spec writer who influences 40 projects a year is worth 40 contractors bidding on one.

From our Aquaflex strategy review
Pipeline at a $5K average per opportunity
$3.7M
Interested conversations
743
Re-engagement interested rate, 10x the cold rate
3.39%
Aquaflex campaign dashboard: 231,836 emails sent, 4,161 replies, 743 interested at a 17.86% positive reply rate

Aquaflex needed a way to break into a niche B2B market where standard targeting couldn't find their buyers.

Aquaflex sells a commercial building-materials solution priced per square foot. Their ICP spans four distinct buyer types (general contractors, architects and specification writers, commercial developers, and regional distributors), each with different purchase triggers, decision cycles, and information sources.

The deeper challenge was the sales cycle itself. Commercial building materials get specified: written into construction documents by an architect 6–18 months before a project breaks ground.

The spec cycle was where their pipeline was quietly disappearing. That's where we went to work.

What we built.

We instrument the spec cycle, where the decision actually happens.

  • ScaledMail
  • EmailBison
  • Clay
  • Apollo
  • Instant Data Scraper
  • LeadMagic
  • Prospeo
  • Icypeas
  • OutboundSync
  • HubSpot

  1. TAM mapping

    Four ICPs, one integrated pipeline.

  2. Offer construction

    The number does the selling.

  3. Data and enrichment

    A multi-source enrichment pipeline for a fragmented TAM.

  4. Messaging

    Short, specific, built around the unit buyers actually measure.

  5. Spec-cycle pipeline

    Meet the buyer where the decision actually happens.

  6. Deliverability

    Infrastructure that stays healthy at volume.

  7. Next-layer expansion

    From email-only to multi-channel signal-driven outbound.

Four buyer types in, a spec-ready pipeline out.

Each buyer type gets its own list, its own offer and its own two-step email. Every qualified conversation reaches the sales team sorted by buyer type and project stage, ready for spec submission, bid and close.

The Aquaflex playbook, mapped end to end
100%

Aquaflex built a $3.7M pipeline engine without bolting on complexity.

Since partnering with Revgrowth, Aquaflex has moved from fragmented outbound effort to a structured, specification-first pipeline engine built on a simple, disciplined stack: outbound fundamentals (good offer, clean data, proven infrastructure) executed at volume across four coordinated ICPs. Its re-engagement campaign, sent to architects who had already shown interest, drew 52 interested replies from 1,532 emails: 3.39%, ten times the cold rate.

Pipeline at $5K per opportunity
$3.7M
Interested conversations
743
Positive reply rate on 4,161 replies
17.86%
Interested rate on re-engagement, 10x cold
3.39%
Parallel segments coordinated
4 ICPs
Messaging angles tested before scale
7–8

More client results.

Different markets, the same system underneath.

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How Zuper built $120K+ in pipeline in 60 days from a TAM scraped from scratch

Pipeline in 60 days
$120K+
Of Zuper's total new pipeline
~25%
Reply-to-interested rate (113 of 171)
66.08%
  • Cold email
Chris RiesHead of Growth Marketing, Zuper