AirOps' $15M ARR Tech Stack: From $2M to $15M in 11 Months

AirOps scaled from $2M to $15M ARR in 11 months using a lean tech stack of 15 tools focused on content visibility, intent-based outbound, and self-serve analytics.
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Michel Lieben
January 16, 2026
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AirOps' $15M ARR Tech Stack: From $2M to $15M in 11 Months

AirOps scaled from $2M to $15M ARR in 11 months.

Their Co-Founder, Matt Hammel, and Head of Growth, Eoin Clancy, broke down their entire GTM tech stack. The result is a lean, efficient setup of roughly 15 tools that most B2B teams can replicate.

AirOps' focus is simple: they help brands increase visibility in AI search and LLMs. That means they practice what they preach, and their stack reflects that operational reality.

Here's the complete tech stack behind their rapid scale.

1. Content & Ads: Building Visibility in AI Search

AirOps' entire growth motion starts with content. Their platform helps brands optimize for AI search, so they run their own content engine to demonstrate results and build authority.

Video & Community

Descript handles their video editing with transcript-based workflows. This tool transforms webinar recordings and content interviews into polished video assets. The team can edit video by editing text, making production faster and more accessible.

Circle manages their Content Engineer community and cohort programs. This platform combines course hosting, discussion forums, and member management in one place.

AirOps uses it to build a community around content engineering practices, turning customers into advocates and creating a feedback loop for product development.

Figma powers their design work, including graphics, infographics, and visual assets for content distribution. 

AI Search Optimization

AirOps uses their own platform to track brand visibility across AI search engines and LLMs. This gives them real-time data on how their content appears in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI tools.

The platform helps them prioritize which content to create, refresh, or amplify based on actual citation performance.

LinkedIn Ads & Engagement Tracking

Fibbler tracks which companies view and engage with their LinkedIn thought leadership content. When a target account engages with a post from team members, Fibbler surfaces that signal so the sales team can follow up with context.

This turns organic content into a lead-generation asset that feeds their outbound motion.

2. Outbound: A Lean Tech Stack

AirOps runs outbound with just a handful of tools, each chosen for specific capabilities that complement the others.

Multi-Channel Orchestration

lemlist orchestrates their multichannel outbound campaigns across email and LinkedIn. The platform enables personalized sequences that adapt based on prospect behavior, combining cold email with LinkedIn touchpoints in unified workflows. 

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This means a prospect might receive an email, see a LinkedIn message, and get a connection request, all triggered by a single campaign.

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Data & Enrichment

Clay serves as their data operations center. They use it to map target accounts, enrich contacts through multiple data providers, and trigger advanced workflows based on specific conditions.

Clay's flexibility lets them build custom data operations that standard platforms can't handle.

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Intent Signal Aggregation

Common Room aggregates buying signals across multiple channels. When a prospect engages with content, visits the website, or shows up in product usage data, it scores that activity and surfaces high-intent contacts.  

This intent-based activation ensures outbound focuses on warm prospects rather than cold lists.

Trigify tracks ICP-relevant social signals and trends across key networks. When someone at a target account posts about challenges AirOps solves, Trigify surfaces that signal for immediate follow-up.

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Intent Signals Finder

Email Sending

Smartlead handles bulk email outreach while maintaining high deliverability. The platform rotates sender addresses, warms up domains automatically, and monitors inbox placement to ensure emails land in the primary inbox rather than spam folders.

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Sales Call Intelligence

Attention records sales calls and extracts insights automatically. The platform transcribes conversations, identifies key moments, and surfaces patterns across multiple calls.

AirOps uses this to extract insights from happy customers, turning qualitative feedback into actionable intelligence for product and marketing.

3. Product: Analytics & Data Infrastructure

AirOps runs a modern analytics stack designed for speed and self-service.

Data Exploration & Analysis

Hex provides an AI-enabled analytics workspace for exploring production data. Data teams use Hex notebooks to run queries, build dashboards, and launch analysis without constantly waiting on engineering resources.

The AI assistance helps write SQL faster and catch errors before they cause problems.

Amplitude tracks deep product analytics, specifically focused on user onboarding and activation.

The platform shows exactly where new users drop off, which features drive retention, and how different cohorts behave over time. This granular insight helps AirOps optimize their product experience.

Metabase serves as their self-serve business intelligence tool. Non-technical team members can build dashboards, run reports, and answer questions without SQL knowledge. This democratizes data access across the company.

4. Website & Attribution

Site Hosting & Content Management

Webflow hosts their website with a visual builder and integrated CMS. The platform gives marketing full control over the site without requiring developer involvement for every change.

Webflow integrates seamlessly with AirOps' own platform and their broader content stack, enabling them to publish and update content quickly.

Marketing Attribution

HockeyStack handles their marketing attribution and analytics. The platform connects data across ads, website visits, content engagement, and closed deals to show which channels actually drive revenue. 

This visibility allows the team to allocate budget based on what works rather than vanity metrics.

5. Hiring & Communication

Talent Acquisition

Juicebox powers their AI recruiting platform for leadership-led sourcing and candidate engagement. The tool helps founders and executives stay involved in hiring without spending hours manually reviewing applications.

Async Communication

Loom enables async video communication across the team. Rather than scheduling meetings for every update, team members record quick Loom videos to share project walkthrough, provide feedback, or explain complex concepts. This keeps teams aligned without meeting overload.

6. The Efficiency Advantage

AirOps runs on roughly 15 GTM tools to reach 8-figure ARR. That's remarkably lean compared to most B2B companies at similar scale.

Their stack proves that rapid scaling doesn't require massive tool sprawl.

Their success comes from:

Practicing what they preach with content and AI search optimization and focusing on intent signals and warm outreach rather than spray-and-pray tactics.

They’d rather use specialized tools that excel at specific jobs rather than all-in-one platforms while maintaining lean operations through self-serve analytics and async communication.

The stack works because each tool feeds the next. Content generates engagement. Engagement creates intent signals. Intent signals trigger personalized outbound. Outbound converts into pipeline. The system compounds over time.

You can see exactly how we drove $7.83M in pipeline for AirOps using ABM tactics here.

For B2B teams looking to scale efficiently, AirOps provides a roadmap. Start with fewer, better tools. Integrate them properly. Focus on what actually drives revenue rather than collecting platforms that sound good in theory.

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Michel Lieben
Founder, CEO
Michel Lieben is the Founder & CEO of ColdIQ, a B2B sales prospecting agency trusted by 100+ organizations. He’s launched hundreds of outbound campaigns, mastered tools like Clay and Lemlist, and shares sharp, actionable insights on scaling sales with AI, automation, and strategy.

FAQ

What tools does AirOps use for multichannel outbound?

AirOps uses lemlist for orchestrating email and LinkedIn sequences, Clay for data enrichment and workflow automation, Common Room and Trigify for intent signal tracking, and Smartlead for high-volume email deliverability. They combine these tools to run personalized outreach to warm prospects rather than cold lists. The key is integration: each tool feeds data to the next, creating a system where content engagement triggers intent signals, which then activate personalized outbound sequences.

How does AirOps track their visibility in AI search engines?

AirOps uses their own platform to monitor brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI search engines in real-time. The platform shows citation performance and helps them prioritize which content to create, refresh, or amplify based on actual data. This is how they practice what they preach: by optimizing their own content for AI search, they demonstrate the value their platform provides to customers. The data drives decisions about content investment, showing exactly which topics and formats generate the most AI citations.

What's AirOps' approach to content creation and distribution?
AirOps runs a content engine using Descript for video editing, Circle for community management, and Figma for design. They track LinkedIn engagement with Fibbler to identify which target accounts interact with their thought leadership, turning organic content into lead-generation signals for their sales team. The content isn't just for awareness, it's directly tied to pipeline. When a target account engages with a post, that signal goes to sales for immediate follow-up, creating a tight loop between content performance and revenue generation.

How many tools does AirOps use to run their GTM motion?

AirOps runs their entire GTM operation with roughly 15 tools, significantly leaner than most B2B companies at similar scale. They focus on specialized tools that excel at specific jobs rather than overlapping all-in-one platforms that create redundancy. This efficiency is intentional: more tools don't equal better results. Each tool in their stack has a specific purpose and integrates cleanly with the others. The lesson isn't to copy their exact stack, but to understand how they selected tools that complement each other without creating unnecessary complexity.

What analytics tools does AirOps use for product and marketing data?

AirOps uses Hex for AI-enabled data exploration, Amplitude for product analytics focused on onboarding and activation, Metabase for self-serve business intelligence, and HockeyStack for marketing attribution. This stack enables self-service analytics without constantly requiring engineering resources. The combination gives both technical and non-technical team members access to data: data teams use Hex for complex queries, product teams use Amplitude for user behavior insights, and marketing uses Metabase and HockeyStack to track campaign performance and revenue attribution. This democratizes data access across the entire organization.
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