Founder of Galadon.io | Sell More With AI

I built a 7-figure agency, successfully scaled 5+ SaaS companies, authored a bestselling book on cold emailing, and grew a YouTube channel to over 100K subscribers. Married with 1 son (and counting).

Cold email only works if you have enough leads to test markets fast. I use ScraperCity's B2B database - millions of contacts, filter by title, industry, location, company size, unlimited downloads for $149/month flat.

If you're ready to stop overpaying for leads and start scaling your outreach, try ScraperCity today. Free trial. Hit that link in my bio 🤫

Alex Berman

Alex Berman®

When I first started cold emailing I could send 20 cold emails a WEEK and book 18 meetings... Just sit down, no fancy tools, no lead generation methods, no hyper focused AI driven content, no infrastructure. Just a boy and his gmail account... And we would PRINT

We took our first lead generation company to a million dollars a month this way

And generated almost a million in annual revenue for our marketing agency just a couple months later

Now, it's different - the State of Cold Email in 2026 is wild

We're talking about custom SMTP sending 2 emails per day per inbox and playing it super safe...

All to get the same results we used to get back with just a couple well crafted emails

And it's necessary:

The game is more complicated than ever before and the thing that we fought against FOREVER (the rise of the spammers) has happened

So now you're not just competing against some Nigerian prince scammers blasting everyone on Earth...

But also the latest funded startup using the same tactics.

It's wild and unprecedented

This is exactly why the data matters more than ever

When you can only send 2 emails per inbox per day, every single one has to land

You can't afford to waste a send on a bounced email or a contact who left that company 3 years ago

That's what the  ScraperCity Lead Database is built for - 3 million+ verified B2B contacts so every email you send actually reaches a real person.

Are you ready to win? Try it now.

-Alex

P.S. This reminds me so much of what happened in SEO in 2010 and afterward with Google. We're fighting a cold email war now, and without clean data, you will get lost to the spambox and forgotten forever. Start now.

For a while I fell into this ego trap of thinking that we needed to charge more and more for our services. This is the feedback that got me - let me know if you've seen the same thing: "Alex this is too valuable, you should raise your prices!!" The OLD me would have heard that and then actually listened (lol). What happens then is:

If you raise your prices less people buy

Then you raise your prices more and an even smaller number of people buy

The theory being that you will make more from each person...

And so that makes it worth it

What I missed is this:

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RAISE YOUR PRICE

Sure, if you're charging multibillion dollar brands 2k a month for technology implementation sure, go to 25k

But if you're running an offer like ours?

It's an opportunity

Instead of RAISING prices - you want to add to the offer

Because when your customers are begging you to increase your prices...

That is your opportunity to STUN them with value

(Assuming you can do it profitably of course)

That's why we keep adding to ScraperCity...

Because before, it was just one scraper

Now it's a full Lead Database with 4 million+ contacts, plus email verification, plus people finder, plus everything else you need to fill a pipeline

Same price. Way more value.

And now our deal is undefeated

Literally - hold us next to anybody offering similar:

* We'll beat any data provider on contact quality

* Any lead gen tool on pricing and freshness

* And any scraping platform on ease of use

And we beat EVERYONE on the "do they care?" factor

So if you're not on the ScraperCity Lead Database yet, try it right now because you'd be crazy not to

And think about your offer -

If customers have been begging you to raise prices...

before you do that...

Think about how you can create an even crazier offer instead.

I'll talk to you soon,
-Alex

I build B2B GTM (Go-To-Market) Systems on Clay

#1 GTM Engineering Advisor in the world with 900+ students, consulting the fastest growing B2B companies and the highest number of testimonials in the entire GTME ecosystem:

1) Clay Consultant Program: Land a Client in 60 Days Guaranteed
2) Fractional GTM Engineering (mid-market companies)
3) The 80/20 GTME Course (99$)

Author of 'The GTM Engineer', Available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FGLVG5HL

I am working with companies like: Appcue, Teramind, Vidyard, Procore, HeyReach, Isendu (Exited, now Sendcloud), Single Grain 

What people think about my Clay Consultant Program:

'Through the GTME Training program, we now deliver advanced workflows and measurable results for mid-market and enterprise clients, even securing retainers up to $12,000 per month'.

(Daniel Monteverde Founder @ LeadField)

“A client of mine, a major tech company, was blown away by the results and even asked how I managed to deliver such exceptional outcomes. Not even the most renowned agencies had ever achieved anything close during their years of collaboration.”

(Alessandro Martinengo, Managing Partner @ Chattwin, Early Stage Startup Investor)

“Michael’s Clay Consultant Program helped me land four consulting clients in just 60 days. I started from zero and his process gave me clear structure, systems and lead generation strategies that actually work. No guesswork, no noise, just practical steps and real execution. If you want to get clients fast and know exactly what to focus on Michael is the coach you need.

"(Asher Chua, Founder @ Revenue Journey)

“Since joining, we build campaigns ten times faster and manage 12 clients with a small team. Before, I wasted time and money on tools that didn’t deliver. Now I know that just three or four well-integrated tools are enough to get strong results in most niches.”

(Pablo Beitman, Founder &amp; CEO @ Blumo.io)

You can read all testimonials at clayoperator.com

Michael Saruggia

Most companies don't know Clay
Most companies don't know Claude
Most companies don't know Outreach

It's crazy how everybody screams about saturation and replacement and they have absolutely no idea how the market thinks and works.

You live in a bubble of tech companies
You live in a bubble of content called GTM Engineering or AI in GTM

If you network with senior people in finance, RE or whatever other industry, you will realize how far they are from this kind of world.

We are like 0.1% of the evolution of the GTM world.

Saturation is just in your mind.

GTM Engineering | AI + Clay Consultant Program: Land a Client in 60 Days Guaranteed | Get My Free GTME Guide👇

State of GTM Engineering:

> 6-figures jobs
> Great company and compensation
> 40+ applications after over 1 WEEK

(Of those 40+ maybe 1-2 people are somewhat competent since pros simply run their own biz)

A similar application for an AE probably has 300+ applications in 24 hours.

If this isn't one of the craziest opportunities ever to upgrade your skill..

I don't know what it is.

> Get the skills
> Get the experience
> Build network + media

And I can guarantee you that this is the new golden era of GTM Consulting

Crazy if I think about some years ago

Here's how everything started

I was working with Alessandro Martinengo V. in a B2B SaaS in Italy

(by far the toughest thing to sell ever LOL)

Then we figured out about Clay, AI & GTM Engineering.

2 years later, together with Federico Costa:

> He built a 7-figure agency
> He hired a team and a co-founder
> He's on the path to becoming a leading GTM Agency & Data Broker in EU

(And some secret news we can't share yet aha)

I am emotionally involved since I've been following Alessandro's team from the beginning with my coaching and he's Italian too.

Super happy to become a Strategic Advisor for SalesMagic and get more hands-on work.

Claude will replace Smartlead
Claude will replace Loom
Claude will replace Clay

No it won't LOL.

1) Building and maintaining software is hard
2) The time/cost opportunity simply makes no sense
3) The problem is debugging, edge cases and security

If you are not selling a CRM, why did you spend 20 hours of your time building one and then you have to update it every X weeks because something breaks?

Unless your time is worth < $20 per hour it makes no sense

But sure my hacker friend, continue to vibecode a new Calendly competitor to save $10/month.

You smart.

The fact that you should doesn't mean you have to.

The real art is understand what to use and in what situation and quickly do a cost/time analysis. (Ex. many of my internal ops are run by Claude now).

This is so true

BUT I have 2 conflicting feelings:

From one side, it's clear that:

> Claude made people work 2X with less results
> Most people see Claude as a way to hide from real work
> Many outsourced their thinking to AI and got even dumber (decks, ads, outreach, projects)

While from the other side:

> Some people move way faster
> The 1M per year solo agency is now a reality
> You have to start learning it since it will evolve

My take:

Play with it but perform a cost/time analysis.

Does it make sense to replace a 10$/m app to work 20 hours?

Is it something that truly makes me better / faster / helps my clients?

Focus and time management is probably the #1 skill in 2026

Even more today than in the past.

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Click 'Visit My Website' for my Become A GTME guide in the profile

I just used Claude Code to build a set of ready-to-use agents that you can steal. You can connect them to Clay, Hubspot or wherever. And I made a full document guide for you.

> Google Ads Library Scraper
> Facebook Ads Library Scraper
> My LinkedIn Flow Agent (semi-automated)
> My Twitter Content Flow Agent (semi-automated)
> How to connect everything to Clay, Hubspot, Wherever
> General Strategy, Productivity, Locally vs Claude vs Github

Like + comment 'SCRAPERS' and I will send the doc to you

Follow Michael for more GTM Engineering tips

Click 'Visit My Website' for my Become A GTME guide in the profile

From a career in Sales

To 6-Figure GTM Engineer

It's crazy how fast you can reinvent yourself when:

> You put in 5–10 hours per week
> You follow a path someone else has already taken
> You choose a proven direction that's working

Justin Roux was working in sales just a few months ago.

He discovered Clay and realized how big the trend would become.

I coached him for weeks and couldn't be more proud.

> He now masters Clay and all the top AI sales tools
> He works at one of the best GTM agencies out there
> He leverages his sales skills and new tech skills to be dangerous

Let's go, man!

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Want to get into GTM Engineering? (close a client in 90 days or money back)

Check my 1-1 program here: clayoperator.com/program

The market is confused about the ROI of a GTME 

Here’s 27 VITAL problems that GTM Engineering solve

Data & CRM                                                                    

1. Dirty/duplicate CRM data slowing down sales teams                          
2. No standardized lead scoring or qualification framework                    
3. Missing or outdated contact/company data (enrichment)
4. Job Changes, Duplicates, Parent/Child accounts
5. Manual data entry eating up rep selling time

Outbound
 
6. Low reply rates on cold outreach (bad targeting, bad copy, bad timing)
7. No systematic way to identify and prioritize ideal prospects
8. Reps manually researching accounts instead of selling
9. No personalization at scale, every email feels generic
10. Deliverability issues, emails landing in spam

Inbound
  
11. Leads coming in but not routed to the right rep fast enough
12. No lead nurturing system, MQLs going cold
13. Website traffic but no conversion infrastructure
14. Form fills with no automated follow-up sequence
15. No visibility into which channels actually drive pipeline

Tool Stack & Integration

16. Disconnected tools, CRM, sequencer, enrichment
17. Paying for overlapping tools with redundant functionality
18. No automation between marketing and sales handoff
19. Manual reporting, pulling data from 5 different dashboards
20. New tools adopted but never properly configured or integrated

Pipeline & Revenue Operations

21. No pipeline visibility, leadership can't forecast accurately
22. Deals stalling in pipeline with no automated re-engagement
23. Job changes breaking CRM data and pipelines
24. Tech Stack consolidation: paying 5 providers when you need 1 
25. No systematic referral or partner intro process

Scaling

26. Processes that work for 2 reps but break at 10
27. Tribal knowledge, playbooks live in people's heads, not in systems

What else would you add?

More tips to become a GTME here: clayoperator.com/trainings

Jack Dorsey laid off 4000 people because of AI

This is 2026

On one side we have tens of thousands of tech workers (or knowledge workers) losing their jobs because a smaller team with AI can produce the same output as 10x more people.

All of us have 2 choices:

1) Scarcity mindset

Freaking out
Let scarcity mindset dominate us
Thinking we are lost, it's the worst time to be alive

or

2) Abundance mindset

Leverage the game to your advantage
It's never AI replacing people, it's 1 person + AI replacing people
It's  the best moment to be alive and build a $1M/year solo agency

One choice will attract other broke people

The other will attract opportunities

Choose wisely what content to consume and what you believe in

Because it has the biggest influence ever in your life

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Want to know how to jump into GTME?

I wrote a guide for you (FREE): https://lnkd.in/gw6g424X

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