The prospect discovery workflow is where Ciro provides the most value.
Instead of starting with a blank list and manually figuring out where to find the right accounts, Ciro helps turn an ICP into a more actionable prospecting process.
The ability to define the target audience, discover relevant companies, and enrich the results in one workflow can save a lot of time during the early stages of outbound.
The biggest advantage is not simply finding more contacts, but reducing the manual effort required to find the right ones.
The product has a lot of flexibility, but new users may need more guidance when creating searches and defining their ICP.
More examples for different industries, roles, and sales motions would help teams understand how to get the best results from the platform.
Overall, Ciro is solving an important part of outbound: helping teams spend less time building lists and more time reaching the right prospects.
The alternatives are usually a mix of tools like Apollo, Clay, spreadsheets, and different data providers.
Those tools are useful, but getting the right filters, search criteria, and workflow setup often requires a lot of manual effort.
Ciro feels more focused on helping teams move from identifying their ideal customer profile to building a usable prospect list faster.
👋 Hey Product Hunt!
I’m Richard (@mezrlee), CEO of Ciro, and today we’re excited to launch Ciro Autopilot — an AI agent that builds, scores, and enriches your perfect prospect list in under five minutes so you can spend time selling, not searching.
How it works:
Understands your ICP – scans your site to learn who you sell to.
Tests dozens of search strategies across 500M+ profiles to find the sweet-spot filters.
Ranks every contact for fit, then grabs verified emails & mobile numbers from 15+ sources.
One-click push to your CRM or CSV.
No more spreadsheets, no more manual checking LinkedIn profiles — just the right people, ready for outreach.
Why we built it
Cold callers (like me 🙋♂️) waste ~40 % of their week prospecting. Outsourced contractors are slow and pricey, and ICPs change too fast for static lists. We wanted access to an AI Agent that thinks through the search and does it — so we built it.
PH-exclusive perk 🚀
- 30% off for two months (use code PRODUCTHUNT)
We’d love your feedback
- Does Autopilot nail the “who should I target?” for your business?
- What data sources or workflows should we plug in next?
- Any other workflows or integrations you’d like to see?
Hit us with your toughest use-case — the team and I will be here all day answering questions, jumping in to support user searches live, and shipping fixes on the fly.
Big thanks to Garry Tan (@garrytan) for hunting us, and to Brad Flora (@bradflora) and the entire Y Combinator crew for cheering us on + the tough love that shaped Autopilot. 🙌
Thanks for checking us out and for all the PH wisdom that helped shape this launch. Can’t wait to hear what you think!
@mezrlee @garrytan @bradflora Wow... although I'm in the 2C business... feeling lucky for the 2B companies already! Congratulations :)))
understand why you'd build this but the question in my mind is - how effective will this be?
we already get so many cold emails/messages that frontloading more research/personalisation feels like a weak use case.
that's my two cents anyway
@taniabell It's a good question. Our customers with the best performing campaigns see that hyper personalized and targeted outreach works way better than spray and pray. With Ciro we're trying to make it easier to reach out to ONLY the prospects that would actually be a good fit for your product in a hyper personalized and targeted way.
@davidjwiner all your competitors talk about personalisation and I'm sure everyone in my inbox/spam thinks they're sending personalised messages. but not a single cold email I've received has been helpful or useful to me.
all power to you and your team. I'm curious how the product does over time.
@davidjwiner @taniabell I see your point and your feedback Tania, but I can see a lot of use in the modern sales process for B2B with having a way to build these sorts of lists for SMEs and later on for enterprises.
Sales is an art and this tool seems to have the potential to enable sales representatives to learn more about prospects (IE doing the data scraping that might take a few hours or so to get a decent list together) nearly instantly. I agree with you if the tool is just used to spam inboxes it is likely not providing the most value for anyone involved in the sales process. But for people looking to hone in on relationship building which in my opinion one of the only real successful ways to conduct business, then this tool can help a ton.
But that is just my $.02
@taniabell it's possible that the cold outreaches you get are really bad precisely because they were poorly targeted ("spray and pray" campaigns)....I also get spammed with too many irrelevant software sale pitches myself. Now if everyone will move to Ciro I'd probably be dropped from the prospect list a lot more!
Congrats on the launch of Ciro!
Ciro's AI Autopilot seems to hit the pain point of wasted prospecting time. How does your AI test and select the "sweet spot" filters? Is there a way for users to customize this further?
Thank you @pranay12 for the support!! I'm so glad to hear that Ciro seems to hit directly on solving wasted prospecting time. That's the goal!
Great questions on both. Sharing quick answers to both here:
How does your AI test and select the "sweet spot" filters?
The AI seeks to find this sweet spot today in two ways: Parallel Search Strategies & Chain-of-Thought. When you run a search in Ciro, the AI will attempt multiple strategies in parallel to find the filters that work best for your search. Relatedly, the Chain-of-Thought means that the AI self-reviews its work, and uses that self-critique to find better filters if it can.
Is there a way for users to customize this further?
Yes! While you can always hop-in and edit your filters manually, I also recommend using the Scoring Criteria to further dial-in your search. Within your filters, the Scoring Criteria tell the AI the specific leads you want sorted at the top of your list. The AI will then review the entire contact's and company's profile to check whether they fit your criteria. This can be helpful for customizing further, and sorting leads with attributes that wouldn't be possible using filters.
Let me know if that doesn't cover what you're looking for - and more than happy to jump on live.
Also ... sending some good luck with your upcoming launch! 🚀 Excited to see what you've been building as well!
Amazing product @mezrlee , Can you tell me one thing, how is your platform different from LeadLoft?
@mezrlee @deepanshu_chittoria Great question! The biggest differentiators for Ciro are:
Agentic search strategies: Other platforms are hooked up to one (or several) lead databases but the problem is that the AI knows one way to search through the database (e.g., boolean search on job titles / industry). We've built an agentic loop that allows the AI to try several different search strategies and evaluate each strategy as it goes to find the best way to target your ICP.
Fine-grained criteria: Every prospect gets analyzed not just for overall fit with your ICP, but that fit is broken down into custom criteria that you can configure and filter on.
Highest quality emails / mobiles: Ciro started actually as a pure data enrichment provider so we've spent years building up the best data waterfall for emails and mobile numbers. We are connected to 15+ 3P data sources and consistently hear we have the highest quality mobile numbers and emails vs. competitors.
Congrats on the Launch!
Could you share how to make an interactive feature intro slide in your carousel?
@jinyu_rao yes! We used @Arcade . They made it SUPER easy. I would highly recommend checking them out!
cc @caroline_clark (founder of Arcade)
Invofox is a very happy customer!
I believe that growing the pipeline is the single most impactful action a company can take to achieve consistent growth. To accomplish this, we’ve devoted significant attention to refining our processes, testing various products, and continuously iterating throughout the company’s lifetime.
We started working with Ciro a few months ago, and thanks to their product, we’ve been able to simplify our sales operations and prospecting processes, reducing the workload from four people to just one, while simultaneously accelerating sales and more than doubling our revenue. Ciro has become an essential part of our sales stack, and their monthly bill is one I’m more than happy to pay.
As a bonus, working with @Richard Lee @Ross Geiger and @David Winer has been fantastic.
They are super responsive and clearly passionate about what they do.
10/10 – love the product!
Interesting, @mezrlee, cool launch. Out of curiosity:
How do you ensure data quality in your approach?
Do you have any prompt engineering recommendations on how to use Ciro Autopilot most effectively?
@chanfest22 Thanks! Great questions.
How do you ensure data quality in your approach? For data quality, we cross-reference 15+ sources in real time and use a custom scoring model to prioritize the most reliable contacts. We also run live validations on emails and numbers to reduce bounces and dead ends. It's definitely not perfect, but it seems to already outperform a lot of legacy players
Do you have any prompt engineering recommendations on how to use Ciro Autopilot most effectively?
The best results come from being specific about your ICP. For example: “Find me Series A fintechs in New York who likely hold crypto or web3 holdings.” The more context you give, the better Autopilot can tailor the results and do it's research for you.
Happy to share more if you’re exploring a use case!
Wow — this made my day. So cool to see how you’re using Ciro in such a high-impact, global way. The vision behind Bantu Stall is inspiring, and we’re thrilled Ciro could help unlock those next-tier partnerships 🚀