Your buyers describe their problems in public, in their own words, every day. We use AI to read those conversations, score them, and hand you the set worth replying to. I run it on Reddit because that's where my buyers talk, but the same build can be applied to most public forums, review sites or industry groups.
A prospecting list tells you who someone is. It doesn't tell you whether they have a problem right now. Meanwhile people describe the exact problem you solve, unprompted, in public, and say more in a forum post than they'd say on a first call. The difficulty is volume. Nobody has time to read several hundred posts a day to find the four that matter.
The pipeline pulls posts daily from each of your selected communities and filters by intent before spending anything on analysis. What survives goes to two AI calls: the first scores the post from zero to ten on how closely it matches the problem you solve, the second drafts a reply that answers the question rather than pitching. What clears the bar lands in a spreadsheet with its score, a summary of the pain point, and the suggested response. The reply answers the question rather than pitching, because the credibility you build by being useful is what earns you the right to mention what you do later and have it read as help instead of a sales pitch.
Choosing where to listen is most of the work. Plenty of busy forums are full of people who do what you do rather than people who would hire you, and the broadest ones produce more posts than anyone can act on. A handful of places where your buyers describe real problems beats forty with traffic.
Every step filters before the next one runs. The volume gets cut down at each stage, so the work only goes into the posts that matter. No time or AI cost is spent on the ones that were never going anywhere.
Human in the loop. Every reply waits for a person to read it, edit it, and decide whether to send it at all. An automated reply in a community is spam, and communities are unforgiving about it.
Any business whose buyers talk in public about the problem it solves. Forums, review sites, industry groups. The same shape works for monitoring complaints about a competitor, tracking how a product is being discussed, or catching support issues before they reach your inbox.