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Supercharge Your Pipeline: How the Prospecting Agent Delivers Qualified Leads

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by: HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

As a Customer Success Manager, I’m constantly recommending the Prospecting Agent to customers looking to supercharge their prospecting efforts. Whether you’re dealing with time-consuming prospecting, inconsistent follow-up, or just having difficulty scaling personalized outreach, the prospecting agent can help! 

 

The Prospecting Agent is powered by HubSpot’s Breeze AI to craft and send highly personalized prospecting emails. These personalized emails are automatically crafted by the Prospecting Agent based on its research of recent engagement data, CRM information, and, when available, relevant public sources, ensuring each message aligns with your ideal customer profile and selling profile for maximum impact. 

 

Set up selling profiles:  

 

A selling profile helps you control and personalize how the Prospecting Agent communicates on your behalf, ensuring outreach is relevant, consistent, and effective. Depending on your business, you can have one selling profile or multiple profiles to align with your prospecting needs. 

 

Think of selling profiles as your automated playbooks for the Prospecting Agent—making sure the right message, tone, and value prop reach every segment of your audience, every time. Each selling profile could represent a specific product, audience, or call to action. Some of the more common reasons I recommend setting up multiple selling profiles include: 

  • Product-Specific Outreach 
  • Audience or Persona Segmentation 
  • Industry or Vertical Specific Messaging 
  • Geographic or Language Difference 
  • Campaign or Offer-Specific Messaging 

 

Enroll Leads:  

 

The Prospecting Agent offers Flexible Enrollment Options to meet your business needs. 

 

Choose how autonomous you want the agent to be:

  1. Semi-autonomous: The agent will research the contacts you select, write three outreach emails, and require you to review and edit them as needed. You'll then manually start the outreach process.
  2. Fully autonomous: The agent will research the contacts you select, write, and send three emails without your review. You can review the emails at any time. Emails sent in fully autonomous mode include a legal disclaimer in the footer that says: This email was written with the help of AI

 

Choose how you want leads enrolled: 

  1. Manually enroll a contact or company 
  2. Automatically enroll contacts using a workflow 
  3. Automatically enroll a contact using a ruleset 

 

If you’re looking to automate how leads are enrolled for proactive outreach, rulesets are a simple and powerful way to get started. Here’s a breakdown of your out-of-the-box ruleset options, along with best-practice use cases:

 

Trigger-based:

  • When page is viewed, email contract to the prospecting agent: Automatically enroll a contact in the Prospecting Agent when they visit a key webpage (like pricing, product, or contract pages)—making sure your team reaches out right when interest is high.
  • When form is submitted, email contract to the prospecting agent: Instantly trigger outreach when someone submits a form (such as a demo request or event signup), allowing your sales team to follow up while the lead is most engaged.

Criteria-based:

  • When days since last engagement is more than X, email contract to the prospecting agent: If a prospect hasn’t engaged for a set period, the Prospecting Agent re-initiates contact to help revive cold or inactive leads automatically.
  • When added to any list, email contract to the prospecting agent: Enroll contacts as they get added to key CRM lists (like “Hot MQLs” or “Webinar Attendees”), ensuring timely follow-up as soon as they fit a valuable segment.

 

Why the Prospecting Agent Works: 

 

  • Combines Human-Like Personalization with Automation: The Prospecting Agent researches recent engagement for each contact, delivering outreach that feels tailored and relevant at scale.
  • Prioritizes the Right Prospects: It focuses your efforts on leads most likely to convert by leveraging CRM data and ICP criteria, boosting pipeline quality.
  • Never Misses a Beat: Automated enrollment and smart scheduling guarantee every good lead gets timely follow-up, regardless of your team’s bandwidth.
  • Delivers Proven, Consistent Messaging: Outreach is always on-brand and strategically aligned, thanks to real-time selling profiles and product positioning.
  • Rapid, Data-Driven Feedback Loop: Built-in analytics give you instant insight into what drives results, so you can continuously optimize your outreach.
  • Frees Up Sales Teams for Higher-Value Activities: By automating prospecting tasks, your team has more time to qualify, engage, and close high-value customers.

 

The Prospecting Agent isn't just another tool; it's a strategic partner for any team looking to revolutionize their sales outreach. By automating personalized communication and ensuring no lead falls through the cracks, it empowers your sales force to focus on what they do best: building relationships and closing deals. Ready to see how the Prospecting Agent can transform your prospecting?


Get started today by following the steps in this knowledge base to set up the Prospecting Agent, your selling profile(s), and enrollment criteria to supercharge your prospecting efforts. You can also watch this academy video on Maximizing your HubSpot Prospect Agent!