Product & Growth at Bardeen.ai ($15M Series A from HubSpot, Insight, & 468Cap) I share automations you can use for work & life

3 reasons you should read my LinkedIn profile & connect:

1. I enjoy helping others 
2. I love to collaborate and discussing fresh ideas around GTM, AI, and CLAY!
3. I’ve helped 500+ businesses implement AI, nocode, and Clay.

I consider myself a lifelong student and SHARE what I learn.

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I love to chat all things tech, social media, fitness, or AI. 
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Chris Viglietta

Yesterday's AI GTM Workshop at Clay wasn't what I expected

It was BETTER - here are some insights I gathered from teaching:

1. Improvisation - the wifi went down for 45 min before we started. Normally, people might panic in this situation BUT this created an opportunity for us to openly talk about what each person THOUGHT they wanted to build during the workshop. HOWEVER, their ideas transformed as we asked more questions. This is a beautiful result of being curious, empathetic, and inquisitive. 

2. Every artist has a medium. We deeply believe this at Clay. So, we brought in a sketch artist (Saki- she's amazing!) to recreate each student's favorite photos and bring THEM into her artistic process. The result? People were beaming with joy when they say the finished art. Every artist has a medium. Saki has sketching. Now they (the students) have Clay.

3. Beginners prefer to be GIVEN 1-2 workflows to build. This is contrary to Intermediates who already know what they want to build but just need a little gut check before starting. Next time, we'll let beginners choose from a set of pre-determined usecases (ex: inbound, outbound, crm, etc...)

4. Don't let students "chase the rabbit". Clay is powerful, but with great power comes great responsibility. Just because you CAN do (almost) anything doesn't mean you should - especially given time constraints. During open build, it makes sense to checkin with students every 10 min to ensure they're not going down rabbit holes and coming back empty-handed.

This is only the beginning.

AI GTM Workshops are coming back to SF and NYC next month (in Feb).

Thank you to EVERYBODY that came to learn, build, & create art (literally!) 🎨🖌️

Lindsey Newman, David Ronen, Brandon Ward, Alex Diaz-Casos, MS, MRED Margy Shomaker, Hakeem Oloritun, Lili Cook, Arthur Julio Nelson Matthew Iles, Sungmoon Lim, Kelvin Sims Katherine Shiff, Emily Limoncelli Carolyn Philip, Dan Sunchu, Joseph Rosenfield 

SPECIAL shoutout to our AMAZING Claymates that helped make it all possible! Katherine Dao Sarah Xu Sayli Godse Natalie Ho, Luda Zhao

Things in 2025 I'm taking into 2026. 

🎵Music I fell in love with in 2025
1. Buena Vista Social Club
2. Bad Bunny salsa 
3. Hamilton 
4. In the Heights


📦 Products I felt were worth the buy
1. Espresso Machine + Coffee Grinder (making coffee is relaxing)
2. Piano (trying to learn 1 song this year)
3. Longboard Surfboard (9.6ft rides smooooth in Malibu)
4. Salsa private lessons (not a product, but worth every $1)
5. Tennis lessons (same thing)
6. Truck - less mess when surfing
8. Physical books (tactile things bring me joy)
9. Whiteboard 
10. Pocket notebooks (i found ones that I enjoy carrying and using to write ideas)
11. Big A$$ calendar by Jesse Itzler
12. Nintendo Switch (I flew a lot this year and it was nostalgic to play Pokemon!)


🧰 Tools I really adopted this year
1. Clay (crazy to reflect on my journey)
2. Wispr Flow (feels like magic!)
3. Claude (reusing projects for convos around life)
4. Lovable (vibe-coded quite a few apps at work and personal)
5. Raycast AI (leveling up my productivity when I use a computer)
6. HotKey (doubling down on using keyboard shortcuts)
7. beehiiv (powers my newsletter)
8. Riverside (started filming B2B interviews with GTM leaders)


📕Best Books I got a lot out of
1. Navalmanack (reread it again)
2. Feel Good Productivity 
3. The Inner Game of Tennis
4. Poison at Breakfast
5. All about Love
6. Barbarian Days
7. Storyworthy


🎰Bets I would take again
1. Invest in community (spent thousands to travel with my core group and created mems)
2. Launch a newsletter (2k, so much to do here)
3. Build in public, permissionlessley 
4. Creating a video series - filming V4V changed my life
5. Work at Clay (I got no's for 5 months, but eventually, it all worked out)
6. Be a friend to have friends (always show up for my friends)


🧠Habits I'll continue
1. Going for a walk first thing in the morning (feel happier)
2. Making a slow coffee in the morning 60-90 min after waking up (no crash)
3. no coffee after 1pm (sleep is terrible)
3. Reading before bed instead of Netflix (i feel more rested)
4. Weekly therapy sessions
5. Working out (Weightlifting 4x, Pilates 1-2x, Tennis 1-2x, Salsa 2x)
6. Use the Big Ass Calendar (it forced me to proactively plan a year of adventure)
7. Contrast Therapy (dry sauna with friends feels amazing for my body and soul)
8. Matcha Mornings with core group to just hang and chat once per week
9. Weekend Hikes (walking in nature feels so good)
10. Going for mid-day walks to change up my location (feels more creative and days are less blurred)

This year's themes for me are creating, thriving, and exploring. Last year was focused on community and expansiveness. Last year, I fractured my L1 vertabrae after getting violently thrown off a horse - was bedridden for 3 months. I'm motivated to feel strong, athletic, and explosive again. Bright side - 7 solo skydive jumps!

✏️ Tell me your best products, habits, music so my 2026 list is even better

s/o 🐰 Jen Igartua for the inspo to write this post

Certified Innovation Professional | Mentor | Business improvement is my strength.

We used to believe that growth came from reaching more people. We believed that if leads slowed, the fix was more content, more outreach, and more tools.

We no longer believe that. 

We now believe that buying attention is saturated. The bigger failure in B2B today is not a lack of reach, but a failure of timing. 

At any given moment, 95% of your market is not ready to buy. When you push "volume" at them, you create noise, burn out talent, and drive up acquisition costs. Meanwhile, your CRM decays into a "storage locker" that Sales can't trust. 

We build Revenue Systems that solve this by focusing on the 5% showing intent: 

Stop Guessing: We replace "hope strategy" with clear inclusion rules. 

Surface Intent: We identify the prospects actively showing buying signals. 

Evergreen Data: We automate the cleaning and enriching of your CRM so it becomes a working system, not an admin burden.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟮 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: 
𝐒̶𝐭̶𝐢̶𝐜̶𝐤̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚒̶𝚝̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚞̶𝚝̶𝚍̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚖̶𝚙̶𝚊̶𝚒̶𝚐̶𝚗̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚎̶𝚛̶𝚎̶ ̶𝟿̶5%̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚏̶ ̶𝚎̶𝚏̶𝚏̶𝚘̶𝚛̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚊̶𝚜̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚍̶.̶
Or...
𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙩𝙝 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚. Agentic, targeted, and built to win using modern marketing automation.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄?
👉 Learn how a Signal-Led Growth Strategy can transform your pipeline: www.intelligentresourcing.co

Ronan Leonard

If you’re an Australian business using AI as a core part of how you operate, there’s a bigger conversation you should be part of.

AI in Australia is shifting fast. We’re seeing organisations move beyond pilots and proofs of concept into real-world deployment – embedding AI into core processes, prioritising responsible and transparent use, and collaborating more closely across industry and research.

That’s why we’re pleased to share that we’re now listed on the National AI Centre’s AI Directory.

The directory brings visibility to organisations building and applying AI across industries, helping strengthen connections across the ecosystem and support the growth of Australia’s AI capability.

If AI is already business-critical for you, this is where that capability deserves to be seen.

#ArtificialIntelligence #AIAustralia #AIDirectory #ResponsibleAI #AIInnovation

Ronan  Leonard

Signal-Led Growth Strategy to help companies Identify and find only the ideal prospects who are actively showing buying intent.

Numbers don’t lie.

Here’s a  humblebrag as our team delivered a stunning 𝟱𝘅 𝗥𝗢𝗜 improvement for our client.

Successful marketing strategies require a combination of

So here’s what we did for a client’s sales team and what it improved:

𝟭. 𝗪𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵
No more reps spending prime selling hours stitching together scraps from LinkedIn, websites, and old notes.

𝟮. 𝗪𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝗯𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 (𝗦𝗢𝗠)
Not “the whole world” fantasy TAM from pitch decks but the actual slice they can win in the next 6–12 months, with clear account scoring.

𝟯. 𝗪𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿
The right firmographics + the right fit + the right timing removing the “spray and pray.”

𝟰. 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀
Across their industry verticals, it watches for intent: role changes, hiring bursts, expansion moves, tech changes, compliance triggers, tender activity… then routes it to the team.

Now the part every RevOps lead will care about:

The ROI wasn’t from doing “cool AI stuff.”

It came from removing spend that wasn’t paying its rent:

𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 (𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲) -  𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱
𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 -  𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱
𝗖𝗥𝗠 𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 - 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗹𝘆

So instead of paying for more noise…
they paid for a system that turns their CRM into something it was meant to be:

A place where sellers can act fast, on the right accounts, with a reason to reach out.

If your pipeline still depends on humans doing detective work, you don’t have a lead problem.

You have a research problem disguised as a revenue problem.

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