Built for independent creative professionals · v0 private beta

Research-backed leads for Freelance Creative Professionals who'd rather
be building.

Find real, verified prospects in industries that actually hire creatives. Write outreach that sounds like you. Send from your own inbox. No spammy templates, no “Hi {{firstname}}” tools.

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Vantage Hub-verified leads·AI drafts in your voice·Send from your own Gmail·LinkedIn copy-paste connector·Editorial pipeline·Activity timeline·Vantage Hub email enrichment·Multi-line signatures·Soft-CTA emails·
Vantage Hub-verified leads·AI drafts in your voice·Send from your own Gmail·LinkedIn copy-paste connector·Editorial pipeline·Activity timeline·Vantage Hub email enrichment·Multi-line signatures·Soft-CTA emails·
01 — The problem

Every CRM was built by sales people, for sales people. None of them sound like you.

Generic lead lists.

Apollo, ZoomInfo, HubSpot — built for B2B SaaS reps blasting CXOs. Not for finding the actual person at the Whitney who commissions installations.

Template-mail energy.

Mailshake / Lemlist / Apollo Email rely on merge-tag templates. Recipients smell it immediately. Open rates collapse.

UI built by engineers.

Aesthetically barren dashboards designed to make sales-ops happy. You'd rather not look at it. So you don't. So you don't follow up.

02 — How it works

Three honest steps.

No “AI-powered prospecting cloud platform.” Just three steps that respect your time and inbox reputation.

  1. 01
    We search the actual web.

    Vantage Hub reads live press releases, museum announcements, festival lineups, agency hires. You get real companies doing real projects this month — not a 12-month-stale database.

  2. 02
    We find the real human.

    Vantage Hub extracts only named decision-makers from the snippets and enriches them with the verified email. No fabricated names. No 'team at X' placeholders. Every lead carries source URLs you can click.

  3. 03
    You write it. We polish it. You send it.

    AI draft opens with your verbatim opener, weaves in one specific thing about their work, closes with a soft single-question CTA. You edit inline, hit Send Now — it ships from your own Gmail. No third-party send relays. No spam folder.

03 — Built for

Independent creative professionals.

The tool you wished existed when you were sending the third LinkedIn DM that month.

· Creative technologists
· Motion designers
· 3D / Real-time artists
· Brand consultants
· Sound designers
· Illustrators
· Interactive directors
· Indie product designers
· Web designers
· Type designers
· Boutique studios (2–10)
· Freelance directors
04 — Features

What's in the box.

Real-web discovery

Vantage Hub's two-pass research pipeline finds named decision-makers, not placeholders.

Verified emails

Email enrichment with confidence score and verification status badge per lead.

AI drafts in your voice

Verbatim opener + soft single-question CTA + your multi-line signature, preserved exactly.

Send from your Gmail

Native SMTP send. Your inbox reputation. Your replies. No third-party relay or footer.

LinkedIn deep-link

Generate a 250-char connect note, copy + open profile in one click. ToS-safe.

Editorial pipeline

Drag-and-drop kanban across seven stages. Activity timeline per prospect. No spreadsheet brain damage.

A tool by a freelancer · for freelancers
Outbound used to feel like writing into a void. Now it feels like sending letters to people whose work I've actually read about this morning.
— Early user · creative technologist
05 — About us

Built for creative professionals, by creative technologists.

We're a small team obsessed with one question: why does the business side of creative work feel so much worse than the work itself? We've all sat at the same desk — one tab open to a Houdini render, the other to a 17-column lead spreadsheet that drains the day. Vantage Hub is what we built so that tab can finally close.

Our manifesto
Creativity is a business decision before it is an aesthetic one.

We believe independent creative professionals deserve the same operational leverage that venture-funded studios get — without sacrificing the voice, taste and craft that made clients want to hire them in the first place.

So we build software that disappears behind the work. Tools that respect inbox reputations, honour personal voice, and surface the right prospect at the right moment — then get out of the way so you can go back to making the thing.

06 — Pricing

Honest, monthly, cancel-any-time.

First 50 waitlist members get 3 months free + a public spotlight on the studio site.

kick the tires
Free
$0/ mo
  • 5 verified leads / mo
  • AI drafts only
  • No sending
  • Vantage Hub verification badge
the freelancer plan
Solo
$29/ mo
  • 50 verified leads / mo
  • 500 sends via your Gmail
  • LinkedIn connector
  • Full pipeline + activity
small studios
Studio
$79/ mo
  • 200 verified leads / mo
  • Unlimited sends
  • Batch mode
  • CSV import / export
bring your own keys
BYOK
$19/ mo
  • Connect your own data + email keys
  • Pay only for the app + AI
  • Highest margin, no quota risk
07 — Quick answers
Are the leads actually real?+

Yes. Vantage Hub's two-pass research pipeline finds named people in live press, hires, and project announcements. Every lead in your pipeline carries source URLs you can click to verify. We drop any candidate that can't be tied to a real name in a real source.

Will my Gmail get flagged for spam?+

Not the way most tools get you flagged. We send through your own SMTP (not a relay), no merge-tag templates, no tracking pixels by default, hard cap on volume per day. You stay under Gmail's behavioral thresholds.

Do you store my contacts?+

Yes, encrypted, only in your account. You can wipe all leads from your settings whenever. GDPR data export and delete on request — single email reply to a human.

Does the BYOK plan really save money?+

If you'd hit our quotas, yes — you only pay for the Vantage Hub app + AI generations, and you control all third-party usage directly. We'll show you the math during onboarding.

08 — Join the waitlist

Be one of the first 50.

We're onboarding the first cohort manually. Tell us who you are; we'll send your invite + your 3-month free trial when your seat opens.

Your email
What do you do? (optional)

No spam. One email when your invite opens. Unsubscribe with one click.

09 — Contact

Something on your mind? Say hi.

Partnership, press, feedback, or just a hello from a fellow maker — we read every note personally.

Delivered to two humans · no auto-responder
Vantage Hub
A tool for people who'd rather be making the work.