{"id":94693,"title":"Leadbay AI: 3x more SMBs than Linkedin. Qualify the 99% you miss with Clay.","tagline":"Leadbay discovers and qualifies leads that couldn't be found before. ","body":"Hey everyone 🤘🏻\n\nWe’re[ Ludo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovic-granger/) and[ Milan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanstankovic/) - co-founders of Leadbay.\n\n**TL;DR:** You might think that Linkedin, Clay, ZoomInfo have you covered. They don’t. They miss 70% of US companies, and cover only 0.001% of digital signals/intent. Leadbay discovers and qualifies SMB leads others can’t find. Our customers 5X prospecting efficiency by simply unlocking untapped opportunities in the most data-scarce, fragmented markets.\n\n👉🏼 [Try it.](https://wow.leadbay.ai/) Get 50 free leads, qualified for you.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/IYD5HXaBGY4\n\n**HOW DOES IT WORK?**\n\n1. Start with your company email address. \n2. That’s it.\n3. (Optional) Upload a list of won/lost leads.\n\n**RESULTS - SALES REPS GET HOOKED !**\n\nWe closed small-to-enterprise deals with companies targeting SMBs in construction, hotels \u0026 restaurants, startups and retail.\n\n→ Our customers 5X their prospecting efficiency,\n\n→ 55% of their closed deals come from companies that were never on their radar,\n\n(One client even told us they sometimes used Leadbay while on the toilet—which inspired our first viral campaign 🚽).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94693\u0026key=user_uploads/1301517/c818b899-6a77-4cb8-a3a9-82f1fb7156b6)\n\n**OUR VISION:**\n\n3X our customers’ Total Addressable Market by making invisible companies visible.\n\n**ORIGIN STORY:**\n\nMilan (CTO), is a PhD to make AI work with limited data.\n\nIn 2023, he joined Ludo (CEO), who had brought a **community of 300 sales reps** from his family and VC background — the perfect playground to iterate on underserved use cases.\n\nTogether, they set out to tackle what every sales team wants: **discover and qualify untapped opportunities.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94693\u0026key=user_uploads/1301517/0e4c2040-2165-41b5-86a9-02472cf4f9b5)\n\n**READY TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH LEADBAY?**\n\n1. [Try it](https://wow.leadbay.ai/). Get 50 free leads, qualified for you.\n2. Intro me ([ludo@leadbay.ai](mailto:ludo@leadbay.ai)) to Enterprise sales teams prospecting SMBs (Kimball Midwest, Core-Mark International, Reece USA, Owens Corning, PPG Industries, Deel, Rippling…).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94693\u0026key=user_uploads/1301517/e96861bf-f41e-4f46-92e2-03565b3a7cf7)\n\n","slug":"OdJ-leadbay-ai-3x-more-smbs-than-linkedin-qualify-the-99-you-miss-with-clay","created_at":"2025-10-16T14:45:45.603Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:59:56.023Z","total_vote_count":291,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OdJ-leadbay-ai-3x-more-smbs-than-linkedin-qualify-the-99-you-miss-with-clay","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94693\u0026key=user_uploads/1301517/e96861bf-f41e-4f46-92e2-03565b3a7cf7","company":{"id":30932,"name":"Leadbay","slug":"leadbay","url":"https://leadbay.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/37ac409b36b40159c5b6860f03b4e792466ac32c.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["B2B","Sales","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30932"}}