Proposal for Engage Your Stage
A pipeline that finds speaking opportunities, checks the budget before anyone gets a message, matches each event to the right speakers on your roster, and starts the conversation in your voice.
From your call with Santi on October 26.
You represent mid-tier keynote speakers ($5K–$50K) in human performance and soft skills, and earn a commission on each booking.
Outbound with Clay and Apollo a few years ago read as automated, and many of the leads couldn't afford a speaker.
Corporate events with real budgets are often private, so they never show up in an event directory.
Eight steps from a public signal to a conversation in your inbox. Budget is checked before outreach, not after.
Steps where you or your team are involved
The titles we search for at each kind of event, and what we filter out before a message is written.
What the system reads every day, and what it pulls out of each one.
Sample data · every name, event and number on this page is made up"What a room. Thank you to the Northwind Credit Union Association for having me open this year's Leadership Summit. 600 leaders talking honestly about change fatigue."
"2027 Annual Conference, June 9–11. Keynote speakers will be announced in February. 1,200 members expected."
"Kestrel Medical will bring its full sales team of 800 together in Scottsdale this January for its first in-person kickoff in three years."
"1,500 HR leaders, April 2027. Paid keynote slots; proposals for main stage close December 15."
Five parts, set up in your own accounts so you own the data and the system. Here is what each one looks like.
Every event we find, the budget evidence behind it, the speakers it fits, and how many bookers we found. Events that fail the budget check stay visible, with the reason.
| Event | When | Budget evidence | Speaker match | Bookers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwind CUA Leadership Summit600 credit union execs | Mar 2027 | Peer speaker $10–20K$4.2M revenue | Maya Reed · 92 Lena Brooks · 81 | 3 |
| Kestrel Medical Sales Kickoff800 sales staff | Jan 2027 | 5,000+ employees | Tom Alvarez · 88 | 2 |
| Summit State CPAs Annual Conference1,200 members | Jun 2027 | $1.1M conf. revenue | Maya Reed · 77 | 4 |
| Lakeshore HR Leaders Forum1,500 HR leaders | Apr 2027 | Paid keynotes | Lena Brooks · 85 | 3 |
| Riverside Young Professionals Meetup80 attendees | Feb 2027 | Skipped: free event, no paid speakers | - | - |
One versioned prompt for each job. New versions are tested against the current one on real sends, and anything that does worse is rolled back.
| Prompt | Channel | Version | Status | Reply rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First touch · associations | v3 | Active | 4.8% | |
| First touch · companies | v2 vs v1 | Testing | 3.9% vs 3.1% | |
| Opener | v1 | Active | - | |
| Connection note | v1 | Active | - | |
| Speaker matcher | Internal | v4 | Active | - |
| Budget check | Internal | v2 | Active | - |
| First touch · associations | v2 | Retired | 2.6% |
Reads every reply, sorts it, and drafts the answer. Interested buyers are handed to your main inbox. It starts in review mode: you approve its first replies before it runs on its own.
"Good timing. We pick 2027 keynotes in January. Can you send a clip and her fee range?"
"I don't handle the kickoff. That's Priya Shah, our VP of Sales Enablement."
"Please remove me."
Failed steps retry, stuck work is picked back up every hour, a broken data source raises an alert and is skipped, and sending pauses if bounces rise.
Contact data, email verification and a HubSpot cross-check, laid out in the review sheet you approve from. Anyone you've worked with before goes to the top.
| Booker | Event | HubSpot | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan PriceDirector of Education | Northwind CUA Summit | Verified | Found | Found | Booked Lena in 2023 |
| Priya ShahVP Sales Enablement | Kestrel Medical SKO | Verified | - | Found | New |
| Chris LowellConference Manager | Summit State CPAs | Verified | - | Found | New |
| Alex MorenoProgram Chair | Lakeshore HR Forum | Catch-all, held out | - | Found | New |
The same booker reached three ways, each written for its channel. Every line comes from the signal, the event and the speaker match, not a template with a first name dropped in.
Sample data · made-up namesNorthwind's 2027 summit
Hi Jordan,
Saw Dana Whitfield's post about opening your Leadership Summit. Sounds like the session on change fatigue landed.
If you're starting on the 2027 lineup, I represent Maya Reed. Her keynote is about staying sharp under pressure, and she's spoken to two state credit union leagues this year.
Want me to send a 2-minute clip and her fee range?
Shelley
Engage Your Stage
Email. Sent automatically after you approve the copy.
Instagram. Queued for your team to send by hand from your account.
LinkedIn. Queued for your team to send by hand from your account.
Go live in 2 weeks. We set up your domains and infrastructure in those 2 weeks, and sending starts low while the new inboxes finish warming, so your domains stay out of spam. Dates assume we start this week.
Onboarding call. We buy your sending domains and start warming the inboxes the same day.
About 7 domains and 20 inboxes, the database, the scheduled jobs and your speaker profiles, all set up for you. The first 300 events are pulled, budget-checked and matched. You approve the copy.
Email starts at low volume. The Instagram and LinkedIn queue goes to your team. The reply assistant runs in review mode.
Inboxes reach full volume, about 200 emails a day. Training session on running the system. The reply assistant goes on its own once you've approved its first replies.
~800 bookers contacted in NovemberNew events every week, message versions tested against each other, new bookers added as replies point us to them.
~1,500 bookers contactedWhat's getting replies and bookings, what to change, which speakers to add. Your included consulting hours run through January 27.
~1,500 bookers contactedAbout 1,200 qualified events and 4,000 bookers contacted by email, plus Instagram and LinkedIn wherever we find them.
One payment for the build, setup and training.
Build and launch
Optional
Monthly consulting calls once the included hours are used, for new campaigns, new speakers, or tuning what's working.
Paid directly to each tool, in your name. Estimates at the volume above; they rise and fall with volume.
| Tool | What it does | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Instantly (Hypergrowth) | Sends and tracks email, up to 25,000 contacts | $97 |
| Supabase (Pro) | The database behind everything | $25 |
| Trigger.dev | Runs the jobs on a schedule and retries failures | $10–50 |
| Claude | Reads signals, matches speakers, writes drafts | ~$30–60 |
| OpenRouter | Low-cost AI for bulk sorting | ~$5–10 |
| LinkedIn post data | Public posts from speakers about their bookings | ~$20–40 |
| Sending inboxes | About 20 inboxes across about 7 domains | ~$60–170 |
| Total | ~$250–450 |
Plus the sending domains, renewed once a year. Sending from separate domains protects engageyourstage.com's email reputation.
To start this week.