When we first launched Autobound's insight API, our focus was coverage. Could we surface unique, conversation-worthy insights that sellers wouldn't find elsewhere? We succeeded—pulling from 10-K filings, podcast transcripts, social media, news, and dozens of other sources.

But as our data coverage expanded, a new challenge emerged. For enterprise prospects, we might surface 100+ potential insights.

Which ones should a cybersecurity vendor prioritize versus a marketing automation platform? How do you ensure a junior SDR at a cyber-security startup gets different insights than an enterprise AE at Oracle—even when targeting the same prospect?

For product teams building sales automation & engagement tools for b2b sales and marketers, this is many hit a wall.

The Hidden Cost of Building Intelligence Infrastructure

(Hint: it's balancing coverage and quality)

Only 0.5% of companies raise funding in any given six-month period. So if your sales intelligence only tracks funding events, you'll have relevant insights for just 1 in 200 prospects.

So what's next? You'll add in job title, industry, product launches, company description as inputs... but the content your AI writer generates is incredibly generic and never converts.

Companies embedding sales intelligence into their products face two equally daunting challenges:

1. The Coverage Trap

‍To consistently find something relevant on any prospect, you need hundreds of insight categories. LinkedIn posts, podcast appearances, 10-K analyses, hiring trends, partnership announcements, competitive movements... the list goes on.

2. The Relevance Problem

‍Even if you can surface 65 insights on a given prospect, you're only halfway there. A financial services AE needs different insights than a MarTech SDR—even when targeting the same CFO.

Building this relevance layer means understanding both parties at depth:

• What products does the seller's company offer?
• Which buyer personas do they target?
• Which insights are most relevant to the prospect, given their pain points, and the user's value proposition?
• What are the prospect's strategic initiatives?
• Which pain points align with the seller's solution?

Without this bilateral context, you're left with two bad options: surface everything (overwhelming users) or rely on complex product functionality requiring users to specify which insight categories they find salient (killing adoption).

The Autobound Infrastructure Advantage

Our latest v1.4 release marks a significant evolution: Autobound's generate-insights API now includes a sophisticated, AI-powered ranking engine. Here's why this matters:

Automated Relevance

The API now dynamically prioritizes insights based on context derived from the specific user (seller) leveraging the insights. By simply passing userEmail, userCompanyUrl, or userLinkedinUrl, the API instantly adapts its rankings to what's relevant for that seller—dramatically reducing or even eliminating the need for manual filtering.

Context-Aware Results

The new system evaluates around 100 data points from both the prospect and the user's perspectives. It considers job titles, product offerings, industry trends, company growth signals, and more to surface exactly which insights resonate most with the seller’s target persona and product, as well as the prospect.

Accelerated Time to Market

‍For OEMs and product builders, this dramatically reduces the overhead of creating your own filtering logic. You no longer need to manually configure complex rules or continuously manage insight relevance settings. Autobound’s API handles this complexity seamlessly, allowing you to focus on your core user experience.

Proven Results: TechTarget and AI SDR

Companies like TechTarget and AI SDR have already leveraged this advanced insight-ranking technology to enhance their embedded sales offerings:

TechTarget: Uses Autobound’s ranking engine to personalize outreach for thousands of users on their IntentMail AI product (at many different companies), enabling more targeted, effective messaging that resonates with their audiences. (case study)

AI SDR: Relies on Autobound’s ranked insights to deliver precision targeting for outbound sales reps, ensuring every interaction is backed by the most contextually relevant insights possible. (case study)

These companies have eliminated months of development overhead, and saved millions of dollars by leveraging Autobound’s ready-to-go insight ranking infrastructure to swiftly deliver value to their customers.

Enter v1.4: User-Aware Intelligence

The breakthrough with v1.4 is simple: we've made our entire relevance engine accessible through user context parameters

{
  "contactEmail": "cto@target-company.com",
  "userEmail": "rep@your-customer.com",
  "userCompanyUrl": "your-customer.com"
}

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By understanding who's reaching out, our models can now:

• Surface insights that align with the seller's value proposition
• Prioritize signals relevant to their industry and sales motion
• Highlight connections through our relationship graph
• Rank everything by likelihood to resonate

Simple user-level parameters enables intelligent ranking that adapts to each unique seller-prospect combination.

Bottom Line: Less Work, More Relevance

Autobound’s new user-aware insight-ranking capability represents a foundational shift in how sales insights are leveraged within OEM and embedded solutions. It short-circuits the traditional development-heavy approach to relevance, providing immediately actionable, context-aware insights that dramatically enhance outbound messaging.

Ready to see how Autobound can elevate your sales product with AI-driven insight relevance?

Contact us or visit our API documentation to explore how easy it is to get started.

Autobound provides AI-powered sales intelligence infrastructure for B2B platforms. Our API powers personalized outreach for companies like TechTarget, AI SDR, and dozens of sales automation platforms.