{"id":94200,"title":"OpenFunnel: Search Engine for GTM","tagline":"We monitor your TAM and surface companies when custom triggers fire.","body":"### The Problem:\n\n**GTM search is broken.**\n\n**LLMs over commoditized GTM Databases won’t fix it.**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9OZ5_KJN5A\n\n**\"B2B SaaS, 501-1000 employees, uses Salesforce\"** is just targeted spam.\n\nNo insights. No buying signals. No understanding of pain. Plus, data for growing markets aren't even present in these databases.\n\nOne-time snapshots. No timing. No triggers when pain surfaces. Your competitors have the same database. Everyone's spamming the same channels.\n\nYou need 24×7 searches capturing insights as they happen - not after they're stale.\n\nTraditional Intent data is a blackbox and unreliable.\n\nOnly Inbound dependence is a reactive approach and prospects are already evaluating competitors by that time.\n\nOpenFunnel automates finding unique, timely insights that get you \"ins.\"\n\nWe unlock net new pipeline across GTM functions in Marketing, RevOps, SDRs, and BDRs that were unreachable before.\n\n### **ENTER OPENFUNNEL:**\n\nOpenFunnel is your search engine for inferred pain: you describe the activities that reveal potential pain-points, we find the companies with those pain points, identify the right people, and produce outreach-ready messaging.\n\n**Find companies WHERE Activity happening = \\[abc\\] AND TimeRange = \\[m..n months\\]**\n\nSome examples that you can search for:\n\n* Companies implementing usage-based billing in the past 3-6 months - then monitor daily for new ones\n* Companies moving from OpenAI to self-hosted Llama in the last 2 months - then track all ongoing migrations\n* Companies that are looking to build out their government facing sales motions - then surface all such build outs.\n* B2C fintechs attending RSAC Conference in Las Vegas\n\nLive search agents continuously monitor time-based activities and changes across your ICP that matter to your GTM.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94200\u0026key=user_uploads/858828/07397e96-6b5e-4d21-a265-2961783af3bf)\n\n### **LIFE OF CUSTOMERS after Openfunnel:**\n\nGTM teams setup custom insights they want to search and monitor for, in natural language.\n\nOpenFunnel auto-surfaces new and existing accounts with deep actionable insights and sync to CRM, autonomously.\n\nWe work with the fastest-moving companies who understand the value of acting quick on insights - including Central, Mintlify, Everest Systems, Fini, and Numi.\n\nOur self-serve platform has 1000+ users.\n\n### **Why We're Building ThiS:**\n\nDuring F24 batch, we built GTM tools for developer-focused companies with zero knowledge of the GTM toolkit and stack.\n\nCustomers loved our first-principles approach - we built what we'd actually want: relevant outreach with real context at the right time.\n\nThen we discovered existing that GTM tools are built on flawed, pre-LLM assumptions and this generalizes across industries.\n\nGTM is timing, insights, and reasoning - exactly what LLMs excel at. As software shifts to agent-first, it becomes a search and discovery problem.\n\nTraditional indexing lacks the temporal + contextual depth for GTM.\n\nSo, we're building a time-aware search engine for GTM.\n\n### **🦄 COME Say hi:**\n\nAditya \u0026 Fenil were dorm mates at BITS Pilani \u0026 friends for 8 years.\n\nAditya built AI Agents at scale at Appfolio and Fenil built cloud-scale vector databases at Oracle.\n\nWe've talked to 200+ GTM teams across sizes, industries, and AI adoption levels.\n\nWe’ve embedded these insights deep into OpenFunnel.\n\nWe are in SF at 128 Kings St. next to Oracle Park. Need help with anything GTM? Come say hi.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94200\u0026key=user_uploads/858828/074961ff-899f-4306-a87e-4498d6aa2dea)\n\n### **ASK:**\n\nJoin a 1000+ users already using pain-first search to discover their prospects!\n\nGet started for free at - [app.openfunnel.dev](http://app.openfunnel.dev) !\n\nWe also have a YC deal loved by customers, Book a time for a personalized walkthrough - https://deals.ycombinator.com/deals/2816","slug":"OVM-openfunnel-search-engine-for-gtm","created_at":"2025-09-29T22:29:20.375Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:38:50.143Z","total_vote_count":28,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OVM-openfunnel-search-engine-for-gtm","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":30033,"name":"OpenFunnel","slug":"openfunnel","url":"https://openfunnel.dev","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/828abce88fc3773d5c6973ac36dd47b70ebb191e.png","batch":"Fall 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["SaaS","B2B","Sales Enablement","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30033"}}