
News Monitoring Workflow
Outbound
Prospecting
Automation
Intent
Companies announce their own buying moments in public. This workflow catches them the same day and puts each one in front of the right rep.




What a news monitoring workflow watches, and what happens when something lands
Funding rounds, office moves and senior hires are all announced in public, and most teams read them months late. Here are the eleven steps that close that gap.
Companies announce their own buying moments in public through news articles or other types of online mentions. Things like funding rounds, office moves, senior hires, and product launches all get published somewhere, and each one means a company's priorities moved this week.
The problem here is timing and not access. Most teams or sales reps find out weeks or months later, usually from a list they bought, by which point the moment has passed, and the reason to call has gone with it.
What closes that gap is owning a workflow that automatically watches the sources directly and acting the same day.
The workflow reads each story, checks the company against the profile you sell to, finds the right people to talk to at the company, and routes the strongest matches to your rep while everything else gets a lighter touch.
Step 01: Agree what to watch and what counts as a signal
We write your ICP down properly with your team: size, industry, region, the signals that matter and the disqualifiers that rule a company out. Then we list the sources, subreddit by subreddit, and write the vocabulary that separates a buying moment from industry chatter. Nothing is automated until this exists on paper.
Step 02: Build the tables everything else will run on
The foundation gets built before any watching starts. One table holds every company with its score, its lane and its link to your CRM. Another holds contacts. Enrichment is set up to cascade across sources rather than fail on the first miss, and a dedupe key stops one company becoming two leads.
Step 03: Watch every source, around the clock
Every source on the list is checked on a schedule, around the clock. Subreddits, mainstream news, regional outlets, the trade press and public filings all feed the same place. Anything already seen is remembered, so nothing is processed twice, and a source that stops returning results raises an alert before anyone has to notice it went dark.
Step 04: Catch only the posts that read as a buying moment
Every new item is tested against the rules from step one. The obvious noise is dropped first, before any expensive work runs. What survives is scored on how many trigger terms it hits and how closely they sit together, and only items above the threshold travel further. Everything rejected is kept, so the rules can be tuned against real misses.
Step 05: Name the company behind the post
A post is not a lead until it has a company attached. The item is read and the company being written about is pulled out, along with the specific detail that made it worth catching, so the outreach can point at something real. Anything genuinely ambiguous gets flagged for a human decision.
Step 06: Check the company against the profile you sell to
Being in the news does not make a company worth your time. It is enriched with size, industry, region and funding, checked for the stack signals that matter to you, and scored against the profile from step one. Below threshold stops here and is logged, so you can see what you are turning down.
Step 07: Find the people who matter at the company
Only companies that cleared the check get contact work spent on them. We identify the roles that matter for this workflow instead of grabbing any reachable contact, and every address is verified before it goes near a sequence. Catch-all domains get handled on their own path so nothing is sent to them blind.
Step 08: Create the record and sort it into a lane
The record is created before any outreach starts, so nobody is contacted twice by two different people, with the score, trigger and source stamped on it. Existing customers and open opportunities drop out here. The score then decides which of the three lanes the company goes into.
Step 09: Tier 1: hand your best matches straight to a rep
Your best matches are never automated. Your rep gets an alert with the story, the company and the people already attached, linked to the record so nothing has to be looked up. They write it themselves, and anything left sitting past the agreed window escalates instead of going stale in a channel.
Step 10: Tier 2: run LinkedIn and email on one clock
Strong matches get a real sequence on two channels at once, on one clock, both pointing at the story that triggered them. A reply on either channel stops both immediately, so nobody keeps getting messaged after they have answered.
Step 11: Tier 3: email only, for everything else that fits
Everything else that still fits gets a lighter touch: email alone, off the same trigger, on a shorter sequence. Sending is throttled so this lane never competes with tier two for your sender reputation. Replies land in the same inbox and against the same record as every other lane.
The stack behind it
Something to watch the sources, something to read them, and somewhere to put the result.
n8n does the watching, Clay and the models do the reading, and your CRM receives the outcome. Every account it runs in stays yours.

n8n
Automation

Clay
Enrichment

Claude
AI

HubSpot
CRM

Instantly
Sending

Apollo
Data

ChatGPT
AI

LeadsFactory
Scraping

Slack
Notify

HeyReach




What teams want to know first
Mostly about noise, timing, and whether the accounts stay theirs