{"id":74210,"title":"Double 🔍 Background research on sales prospects by searching the web with LLMs","tagline":"Sales teams use Double to do background research on prospects. Instead of googling prospects one by one, Double uses language models to search the web and compile an answer, with citations.","body":"# **TL;DR**\n\nIf you’re looking to answer questions about your sales prospects using information that’s on the web (news articles, LinkedIn profiles, company websites, financial filings, press releases), Double can look it up for you and use it to answer your questions in bulk.\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEMBCSZnYc\u003e\n\n# **Researching and qualifying your sales prospects takes forever**\n\n* The information you need to qualify your leads lives in news articles, job posts, LinkedIn profiles, company websites, OpenCorporate, Crunchbase and other aggregators\n* Most of this can be manually Google’d, but doing so, plus reading it and formatting it the way you want it, takes time\n\n# **Background research your sales prospects by searching the web with LLMs**\n\n* Double searches the web using LLMs to compile verifiable answers. Every answer includes citations to reputable sources\n\n# **Companies use Double to answer hyper-focused qualifying questions**\n\n* Let’s say you’re selling tools for remote work, and you’re targeting remote-first companies.\n* Crunchbase/Linkedin/etc don’t have filters for “Remote-First?”, so you either:\n  * Broadly target companies and hope they do _some_ remote work – leads to poor conversion 🤞\n  * Or, google each company one by one and look at their job openings – tedious 😔\n* Instead, Double can search the web with language models and compile a verifiable answer with **citations**! 🔥\n\n# **Repeat Founders from Waterloo**\n\nBefore Double, we:\n\n* studied engineering at Waterloo\n* worked on autonomous vehicles at Waymo and Tesla, and\n* built Ninja, Canada’s first 10-minute delivery service. Ninja raised $2M and offered deliveries in 2 cities with a team of 80+ couriers before it was acquired in 2022.\n\n# **Let us automate your manual prospecting processes!**\n\n* Got a question you want answered about your prospects, or looking to save time in your prospecting process? Book a product tour with us!\n* Tell us about the most manual, time-consuming part of your sales process","slug":"JIw-double-background-research-on-sales-prospects-by-searching-the-web-with-llms","created_at":"2023-08-18T05:51:59.351Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T02:45:30.431Z","total_vote_count":12,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JIw-double-background-research-on-sales-prospects-by-searching-the-web-with-llms","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27763,"name":"Double – Coding Copilot","slug":"double-coding-copilot","url":"https://double.bot","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/50e5a1022a2437ff5f516fa3afe9ed74fb7be3f4.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","SaaS","Chatbot","Enterprise"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27763"}}