Stop depending on trade shows and referrals. We put your team in front of the operations, engineering, and procurement leaders who buy what you make, across the country.
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Most manufacturing companies don't need another list of cold leads to chase. They need meetings on the calendar. Our reps run calls, email and LinkedIn as one program, so you talk to the operations, engineering, and procurement leaders who have a real project and the budget for it.
Matches your ICP. No bottom-of-market noise.
The actual decision-maker, not a gatekeeper.
Active intent, budget approved, project underway.
These are the problems we hear most from companies like yours, and what we do about each one.
Pipeline depends on a few trade shows a year.
We add a year-round outbound engine so growth isn't tied to event season.
Long sales cycles make forecasting hard.
We keep the top of the funnel full and multi-threaded so pipeline stays predictable.
Your engineers are selling instead of engineering.
We book qualified meetings so technical staff focus on the work.
You can't reach the right plant or procurement contact.
We map and reach the full buying group across channels.
Every program is built around your highest-value offerings, the service lines we put in front of qualified buyers so your team spends its time quoting real work.
Qualified meetings with net-new accounts.
Reaching distributors and channel partners.
Timed outreach around sourcing changes.
Meetings for high-value equipment and systems.
The best accounts for a manufacturer are companies that already buy what you make from someone else, on a recurring basis. Outbound does not create the need. It finds buyers whose current source is late, short on capacity or about to be re-quoted, and gets you onto the approved supplier list first.
We build this profile with you before a single call goes out. Our guide to building a B2B ideal customer profile walks through the method we use.
Most manufacturing purchases have three hands on them: the engineer who specifies it, the operations leader who lives with it on the floor, and procurement who places the order. Start where the pain is, usually engineering or operations, and bring procurement in once there is a reason to add a supplier.
Controls: Throughput targets, capital requests, and which supplier problems get escalated.
Cares about: Uptime, on-time delivery, scrap and rework.
When involved: When a supplier is stopping the line, and when a new line or plant is being planned.
Controls: The specification, approved materials and first-article approval.
Cares about: Tolerance, repeatability, and a supplier who answers technical questions quickly.
When involved: New product introductions, design changes and cost-down projects. Often the most receptive first call.
Controls: The approved supplier list, RFQs and contract terms.
Cares about: Price, lead time, supply risk and payment terms.
When involved: Annual sourcing reviews, rebids and dual-sourcing decisions. Rarely starts a supplier switch, always finishes it.
Controls: Supplier qualification, audits and corrective actions.
Cares about: Certifications, first-article or PPAP documentation, and defect history.
When involved: Before any new supplier ships production parts, and after an incumbent fails an audit.
A dedicated SDR works several of these people at the same account, so a stalled conversation with procurement does not end the opportunity.
Something breaking in their supply chain or changing in their product. Qualifying a new supplier is work, so a buyer who is happy with the incumbent will not take it on. Time your outreach to the moments when they have to.
Slowly, and in stages. A manufacturer cannot switch suppliers on a phone call. The new source has to be quoted, surveyed, approved and usually tested on a first-article or trial order before production volume moves. The first meeting starts that process. It does not finish it.
Expect a sequence like this: a technical conversation, a drawing package or RFQ, a quote, a supplier survey or plant visit, a sample or first-article order, then a share of volume. Many buyers split volume before they move all of it, so the first award is often small. That is a foothold, not a failure.
Budget follows the customer's fiscal year. Capital equipment is approved well ahead of the purchase; production parts are re-sourced when pricing agreements renew or the incumbent fails.
Incumbents are rarely displaced in one move. You win the part family they struggle with, their overflow or the backup position, then earn the rest.
Most buyers you call already have a supplier, so "not now" usually means "not until something changes." A good first call records the incumbent, what the buyer would change, when pricing is next reviewed and who else touches the decision. That turns a no into a dated follow-up. National Outbound BDR keeps those accounts in a phone, email, LinkedIn and direct mail cadence, with nurture for up to 18 months on Growth.
Most objections tell you about timing, who owns the decision or how the buyer measures cost. Record the answer and let it set the next step.
What it tells you: No active pain, and possibly a single-source risk they have not thought about.
Next step: Ask whether they have a second source for that part family and when pricing is reviewed. Offer to be the quoted backup.
What it tells you: Interested enough to keep the door open, not yet enough to spend time.
Next step: Send it with one specific question about a part family or process, and ask for a drawing you can quote.
What it tells you: You reached an influencer, not the owner of the supplier list.
Next step: Ask what procurement needs to add a supplier and whether engineering would want to see capability first. Get procurement's name.
What it tells you: They are comparing piece price, not landed cost, lead time, inventory or quality escapes.
Next step: Ask about lead times, freight and quality issues on the current source. If piece price is the only measure, qualify out.
What it tells you: Exactly when the next window opens.
Next step: Record the end date, ask what would trigger an earlier review, and schedule contact well before expiration.
A qualified meeting is with someone who specifies, uses or buys what you make, at a company that buys it in volumes you can serve, with a reason to look at a new source in a timeframe your team can work with.
That is the standard behind every qualified appointment we book through our appointment setting service. Building it yourself instead? Read in-house SDRs vs. outsourced appointment setting.
A repeatable, transparent process, built and managed for you end to end.
We map your total addressable market, scoring accounts and 200+ buying-intent signals to find the ones most likely to need you now.
A U.S.-based SDR team runs the cold calls, backed by email, LinkedIn and customized direct mail.
Every interested contact is vetted against your ideal profile. Only real opportunities with real timing move forward.
The meeting lands with full context, and every touch is logged in your Results Portal.
Client testimonials and verified reviews from the companies we grow.
Plug in your revenue goal and average deal size, and we'll show you the qualified meetings per month you need to book. No form, no email, just the math.
Open the Business Growth FormulaWhere new manufacturing business comes from right now, built from our own talk tracks.
A quick call to see if your market is still open and whether we're the right fit. We'll walk you through how the program works, no long sales process, no obligation.
A quick 15-minute market & fit call.
The framework for reverse-engineering a revenue goal into the exact number of qualified meetings you need every week.
Read the ArticleWe publish a client result after the client approves it and the figure has a period. There is no approved manufacturing story yet, so we are not showing one. The Success library has approved stories from other industries, and a strategist can introduce you to a current client on request.
Set a monthly meeting goal and your own conversion rates. Green tags are Abstrakt history, yellow is a broader cross-industry benchmark, gray tags are your inputs. Value appears once you enter your own average.
Illustrative math from your inputs. It updates as you type.
Enter your average order value to see contract value. We do not fill in a number for you.
First-year order value from each month's new accounts
First-year order value from 12 months of new accounts
How this works: appointments x dials per appointment = outreach, spread over 21 working days. Appointments x your proposal rate x win rate = wins. Wins x your value = contract value: what signed work is worth, not revenue recognized. Fractions are monthly averages. Not a forecast, a quote or a promise.
Abstrakt at a Glance answers the five questions buyers ask before they sign: how it works, what clients got, what calls sound like, what reviewers say and what it costs.
Program commitments
Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement. Before launch we agree on what a qualified manufacturing meeting is, who we call and how results are reported.
Exclusive to your territory
One client per trade per territory: we will not run the same program for your direct competitor in your territory.
Pricing
Outbound BDR programs: starting at $5,000 per month. See what a program includes.
Our SDRs open the door. Our creative and inbound teams make sure what a buyer finds next, your website and the material your reps send, closes the gap.
Net-new customer conversations, distribution/channel growth, sourcing-driven opportunities, and capital-equipment sales.
Operations and plant leaders, procurement and sourcing, and engineering/quality managers who influence the buy.
Most agencies sell leads, names and emails you chase. We sell booked meetings with qualified buyers, each verified against three checks: Right Company, Right Contact, Right Timing.
Both. Whether you serve a single metro or operate across multiple states, we build the target list to match your footprint.
Usually engineering or operations. They feel the problem and influence the specification, while purchasing manages a supplier list it rarely wants to grow. We bring procurement into the conversation once someone with a technical or operational reason wants to evaluate you.
Yes. Almost every account worth calling already buys from someone. The first call learns who the incumbent is, what the buyer would change and when pricing is reviewed, so the account becomes a dated follow-up rather than a dead end.
Your best current accounts and why they are good ones, your processes and certifications, the run sizes and volumes you want more of, your shipping footprint, and the part families or equipment you most want to sell. That defines the list and the questions our SDRs ask.
We book the first meeting with the right person and record the trigger, incumbent and timing behind it. Accounts that are not ready stay in a nurture cadence, so the pipeline keeps feeding while quotes and qualifications run their course on your side.
Sales development is the core of what we do. Search and sales collateral support it, so the buyer hears the same story on the call, on your website and in the follow-up.
A BDR team that builds the target list for your trade and territory, runs phone, email, direct mail and LinkedIn as one campaign, and grades every meeting before you get it.
Pricing starting at $5,000 per month See Outbound BDRDedicated SDR/BDR teams for Fortune 1000 and large enterprise sales: named accounts, new markets and channel partner recruitment, backed by research from Abstrakt Intelligence.
Custom pricing See Enterprise SDR/BDRA website of up to 100 pages, local SEO and a new blog every business day, built to get you found on Google and cited in AI answers.
Packages starting at $1,000 per month See Inbound SDRSell sheets, case studies, pitch decks, trade show materials and video that tell the same story as the call.
Packages starting at $500 per month See Brand BoostGet Outbound BDR, Inbound SDR and Brand Boost together, starting at $6,500 per month
One team runs the outbound calls, the website and search, and the sales collateral, so every touch tells the same story. Enterprise SDR/BDR is priced custom, to the size of the dedicated team.
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