Shaku AI: AI Lead Generation Software

Shaku AI is an autonomous B2B lead generation platform that finds companies showing real buying signals such as funding rounds, hiring surges, executive changes and tech stack changes, scores them against your ideal customer profile, and runs personalized outreach from your own mailbox.

Instead of buying static contact lists, sales teams use Shaku AI to catch companies at the moment something changes: a funding round closes, a hiring surge starts, a new executive arrives, the tech stack shifts, or buyer intent shows up on review sites. Every lead arrives scored from 0 to 100 against your ideal customer profile with plain language notes on why now and how to pitch.

Shaku AI is built for B2B sales teams who want an AI SDR style workflow without the manual research. It functions as a sales intelligence platform and buyer intent data source in one product: discovery, ICP scoring, contact verification and outreach automation, so a rep opens qualified, warm outbound leads instead of a spreadsheet of names to research.

How Shaku AI works

  1. Enter your website. Shaku AI reads it and drafts your ideal customer profile in about a minute. You review and approve it.
  2. The engine sources leads continuously, 24/7. It monitors live buying signals, verifies each contact on LinkedIn, and enriches work emails and phone numbers.
  3. AutoReach drafts personalized email sequences from each lead's signal and sends them from your own mailbox on your schedule. Replies are tracked with AI sentiment, and qualified leads push to your CRM.

What you get on every lead

Name, title and company. The buying signal that surfaced them with a source link. An ICP fit score from 0 to 100. Notes on why this company is worth a call this week and what to say first. A verified work email and phone number where enrichment can confirm one.

Buying signals Shaku AI tracks

Integrations

Email sending through Gmail and Outlook from your own address. CRM push to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zoho CRM with signal context attached and deduplication against existing records. Slack notifications when new qualified leads land. LinkedIn tasks for multi channel outreach.

Pricing

Shaku AI offers a 7 day free trial with full access. The Basic plan is $49 per month with signal led lead discovery, personalized outreach drafts, CRM push and 200 enrichment credits. The AutoReach plan is $69 per month and adds automated email sequences, follow ups, outreach analytics and 350 enrichment credits. Yearly billing saves 10 percent.

Security and privacy

Shaku AI asks for permission to send email only and can never read your inbox. Reply content is never stored, only the fact that a reply arrived. Workspaces are isolated per tenant, and you can export or permanently delete your data at any time from settings. Details are on the security page.

Frequently asked questions

How does Shaku AI find leads?

It watches live buying signals: hiring, funding, executive changes, LinkedIn posts and tech changes. Each match is scored 0 to 100 against your ICP, and the engine reruns every hour.

How is this different from buying a list?

A list tells you a company exists. Shaku AI tells you what changed this week, why that makes them worth a call now, and what to say first. Then it runs the outreach for you.

What do I get on each lead?

Name, title, company, the signal that surfaced them, an ICP score, the why now and how to pitch notes, plus a work email and phone number where our enrichment can verify one.

How does the outreach send?

From your own mailbox and LinkedIn, on a schedule you set. Every message is drafted from the lead's signal, and you can review drafts before anything goes out.

Why might connecting my mailbox show a warning?

Sequences send from your own address, so you connect your mailbox directly. Your email service may show a caution screen while our verification with them completes. We ask for permission to send only, never to read your inbox.

Does it work with my CRM?

Yes. Qualified leads can be pushed to your CRM with their signal context attached, deduplicated against what is already there.

How long does setup take?

A few minutes. Enter your website, review the ICP Shaku AI drafts, approve it, and sourcing starts. No credit card required to try it, and the demo above needs no signup at all.

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AI Lead Generation Alternatives

The best AI lead generation alternatives, compared

If you are evaluating tools for finding and reaching buyers, three names come up most often: Apollo, Clay, and ZoomInfo. Each one is built for a different kind of team and budget. This page gives you a fast, honest read on all three, plus how Shaku AI approaches the same problem with live buying signals instead of a database you have to search yourself.

How Shaku AI is different

Most tools on this page start from a database. You search it, filter it, and pull out the records you want. Shaku AI starts from a signal: it watches for funding rounds, hiring surges, executive moves, tech stack changes, and buyer intent across 20 signal types, then scores every match against your ideal customer profile from 0 to 100. Instead of a list of names to research, you get leads that arrive already explaining why now is the right time to reach out, with personalized outreach drafted from your own mailbox. Plans start at $49 per month with a 7 day free trial and no credit system for lead discovery.

The alternatives, briefly

Apollo

Free plan, then $49 to $119 per user per month, billed annually

A large searchable contact database with sequences and a dialer built in. Best for teams that want to search a database themselves and are comfortable with a credit system for phone numbers and enrichment.

See the full Shaku AI vs Apollo comparison

Clay

$185 to $495 per month, plus per record credit costs

A flexible workflow builder for enrichment across 100+ data providers. Best for teams with a dedicated operations person who wants full control over how data is combined.

See the full Shaku AI vs Clay comparison

ZoomInfo

About $14,995 to $39,995 or more per year, annual contract, 3 seat minimum

An enterprise sales intelligence platform with intent data, conversation intelligence, and account based marketing tooling. Best for large revenue teams with enterprise budgets.

See the full Shaku AI vs ZoomInfo comparison

How to choose

If you already know who you want to reach and just need a fast, affordable way to find verified contact details, Apollo’s database is a reasonable starting point. If you have a dedicated operations person and want full control over a custom enrichment pipeline, Clay gives you that flexibility. If you run a large enterprise revenue team with budget for a five figure annual contract, ZoomInfo’s platform is built for that scale.

If you want a small or mid size team to start finding leads that reflect what is happening at a company this week, without building workflows, searching a database, or paying an enterprise price, Shaku AI is built for that.

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