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Every Tool Explorium Uses to Run a $127M-Funded Company

Explorium has raised $127,000,000. Their CEO Omer Har shared the full stack, stage by stage. Intent signals run ahead of the list, an AI agent qualifies every visitor, and no human touches a lead until it is routed. The pattern worth copying is consolidation: Claude appears in five of the seven stages.

Michel Lieben
Michel Lieben
AUG 17 2026
Every Tool Explorium Uses to Run a $127M-Funded Company

Explorium has raised $127,000,000 to date. Their CEO, Omer Har, walked us through the entire stack that runs the company, from the ads that bring people in to the dashboards that tell them whether any of it worked.

What makes this stack worth studying is not the tool count. It is how few humans touch a lead before it reaches a rep, and how consistently one layer shows up in every single stage.

Here is the whole thing, stage by stage.

Explorium 7-layer GTM system infographic: inbound, outbound, lead capture, lead processing, deal closing, delivery and business intelligence with every tool named

1. Inbound Marketing

Their paid campaigns run on Reddit, Google and LinkedIn Ads, with Claude generating the ad creatives. That last detail matters more than it looks. Creative production is usually the bottleneck that caps how many angles a paid team can test in a quarter.

Where they are further ahead than the rest of the category is GEO, the practice of optimising for the sources AI engines pull answers from.

Instead of chasing rankings alone, they target the places that get cited: G2, ColdIQ, Trustpilot, GitHub, LinkedIn, YouTube and Reddit. Claude Code produces that content at scale, which is what makes covering seven surfaces at once realistic for one team.

They also list their product on AI assistants directly through MCP listings on Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Manus AI. When a buyer asks an assistant to find them data, the product is a candidate answer rather than a search result they have to click through to.

Their influencer and affiliate programs cover TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.

2. Cold Outreach

Their outbound starts with an intent layer rather than a list.

RB2B identifies who is on the website. Bombora spots which accounts are in-market before they arrive. Between them, the team knows both who showed up and who is researching the category quietly somewhere else.

The data itself comes from Explorium, and Vibe Prospecting is the chat interface their team runs campaigns from. lemlist powers the multichannel sequences, and Claude Code orchestrates the whole motion.

The detail worth stealing here has nothing to do with tooling. Every list they build gets built with the engine they sell, which makes their outbound a live demo of the product. The campaign and the proof are the same artifact.

We built our own version of that intent layer after running these signals for clients across hundreds of campaigns.

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3. Lead Capture

The capture layer is deliberately unexotic. HubSpot forms sit on a WordPress site, with HubSpot handling attribution.

The part that is not standard: an AI agent qualifies every visitor before a rep ever sees them. The form is the same form everyone has. What happens in the ninety seconds after submission is where the difference sits.

4. Lead Processing

This is where the bulk of their engineering hours go, and it is the strongest section of the stack.

A lead arrives → Explorium enriches it → n8n and a Claude agent score it and set the MQL → Salesforce and LeanData route it → a Slack bot pings the rep.

Explorium then maps the rest of the account for ABM expansion, so a single inbound lead turns into a picture of the whole buying committee rather than one contact record.

No human touches a lead until it is ready. That is the actual output of those engineering hours, and it is why the rest of the stack can stay simple.

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5. Deal Closing

An inbound agent built on Claude and lemlist handles first contact. Calendly takes scheduling. Gong records the calls.

Three tools for the entire sales stage. Compare that to the lead processing layer above and the priorities become obvious: they spent their complexity budget on getting the right lead to the right rep, then kept the closing motion light.

6. Delivery

Stripe handles payments and Databricks handles data delivery. For a company whose product is data, delivery is a product surface rather than an afterthought.

7. Business Intelligence

GA4, Mixpanel and PostHog cover analytics. Datadog handles monitoring. Microsoft Clarity records sessions. Peec AI tracks their visibility inside AI search, which closes the loop on the GEO work from stage one.

Claude Code queries all of it. That is the fourth stage where the same layer appears, after content production, campaign orchestration and lead scoring.

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8. What This Stack Gets Right

Read the seven stages together and three decisions stand out.

The first is that intent comes before volume. RB2B and Bombora run ahead of the sequences, so the list is a consequence of the signal rather than the starting point.

The second is that the heavy engineering sits in the middle of the funnel. Capture and closing are ordinary. Processing is not. Routing a lead correctly compounds across every campaign, while a fancier booking page does not.

The third is consolidation. Claude and Claude Code appear in content, outbound, scoring, closing and BI. One capability spread across five stages beats five point solutions that each solve a slice, and it is a large part of why a stack this broad stays operable.

The uncomfortable question for anyone auditing their own stack is which layer of theirs appears in five stages, and whether any layer earns that.

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Michel Lieben
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.

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Explorium's outbound starts with an intent layer rather than a static list. RB2B identifies the companies visiting their website, and Bombora surfaces accounts researching the category elsewhere. The prospect data itself comes from Explorium's own platform, and Vibe Prospecting is the chat interface their team uses to run campaigns. lemlist powers the multichannel sequences across email and LinkedIn, while Claude Code orchestrates the wider motion. The structural choice worth noting is that every list gets built with the product they sell, which turns each campaign into a working demonstration of the platform rather than a separate marketing exercise.

The lead processing stage is where the majority of their engineering hours go. When a lead arrives, Explorium enriches the record automatically, then n8n and a Claude agent score it and set the MQL status. Salesforce and LeanData handle routing from there, and a Slack bot notifies the assigned rep. Explorium then maps the remaining contacts at that account so the team can expand into the full buying committee rather than working a single contact. No human touches the lead until it is qualified and routed, which is what allows their capture and closing stages to stay comparatively simple.

GEO is the practice of optimising for the sources that AI answer engines cite, rather than optimising only for classic search rankings. Explorium targets the specific surfaces that get pulled into AI answers, including G2, ColdIQ, Trustpilot, GitHub, LinkedIn, YouTube and Reddit, and uses Claude Code to produce that content at the volume covering seven surfaces requires. They also list their product directly on AI assistants through MCP listings on Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Manus AI, so the product can be returned as an answer instead of a link. They close the loop with Peec AI, which tracks how visible they are inside AI search over time.

The stack spans roughly twenty five named tools across seven stages, but the count is less informative than the distribution. The lead processing layer carries the most complexity, with enrichment, AI scoring, Salesforce, LeanData and Slack alerting all working in sequence. The deal closing stage runs on only three tools: an inbound agent built on Claude and lemlist, Calendly for scheduling, and Gong for call recording. Delivery uses Stripe and Databricks. Business intelligence is the widest single stage, covering GA4, Mixpanel, PostHog, Datadog, Microsoft Clarity and Peec AI, all of which Claude Code queries directly.

Three decisions transfer regardless of budget. Put intent ahead of volume, so the list is a consequence of a signal rather than the starting point, which RB2B and Bombora do for them and which any de-anonymization plus intent pairing can approximate. Spend the engineering effort in the middle of the funnel, because correct routing compounds across every campaign while a better booking page does not. Consolidate on one layer that spans multiple stages: Claude and Claude Code appear in their content production, campaign orchestration, lead scoring, first contact and business intelligence, and that overlap is what keeps a stack this wide manageable for a single team.

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