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Sushmita (Sushi) J 🐸

I pasted 5 domains. Got verified contacts, ICP scores, sales triggers and a written outreach sequence in under a minute.

Introducing ContactOut's AI Prospector.

It's just 4 steps:
→ Analyse your ICP
→ Enrich target domains
→ AI research + scoring
→ Find decision makers + draft outreach

One tool. One place. Under a minute.

No complex AI workflows. 
No over-engineered prompts. 
No tab switching.
Just paste and go. 
Honestly, this is enough. 

Comment "AI Prospector" for 50 free ContactOut API credits.
🔗 Link in the comments.


Here's why we built it (a bit of backstory):

ContactOut grew 60% in 2025. To keep scaling, we needed more qualified leads hitting our sales team faster.
But after sometime it created a bottleneck, as managers spent all their time sourcing leads instead of coaching reps.

So we flipped it. Gave reps the tools to own their pipeline themselves.
It worked!

Reps started to add AI research in the workflow-  sharper angles, better outreach. 
But not every rep wanted to learn prompting, it's too time-consuming and too expensive to get wrong. Many times it becomes disappointing because the workflows are not easy to create.

So we took the prompts our top reps were already using and built them directly into the tool.

We built this for our team. It worked so well, we had to share it.

Big shoutout to Greg Hermo and Siren Li for building this with me 🙌

This is the beta, so all feedback is welcome. 


Also, thanks to ElevenLabs for helping me generate the AI voiceover for the demo video.

Sushmita (Sushi) Jadhav 🐸

Building Athena.vc | Growth Lead @ ContactOut | SEO → Traffic → Enrich → Deals

Premium Ghostwriter. I help busy people build their personal brand and online presence.

Hi! Welcome to my profile.

If you’re here, it means one of two things:

1/ You’re probably considering hiring a ghostwriter (in that case, welcome)
2/ You have no idea who I am and why you ended up here (but now that you’re here, maybe hear me out?)

Writing is my dream and I have been living it for the last ten years.

My first piece of writing was a blog I published on a ‘flower’.

I never had the chance to look back at it because of how cringe it was.

But today, I write for some of the most powerful people who run big companies that my mind can only fathom.

So maybe I do have to thank that ‘flower’ blog after all.

Once I realised the power writing has on personal and professional life (I mean I am making money off of pushing a few buttons on my keyboard), I realised how powerful this can be for others as well.

So I started writing for others and never looked back.

Today, I write for Founders and CEOs and help tell their story online.

I've written 4 books as a ghostwriter with some of the most talented founders and leaders I've met. 

I’ve helped my clients go on podcasts as guests, got them more business, and a better network of high-net individuals to name a few.

And I would love it if you would want to be next.

If not, I am always happy to just chat, pick your brain, and share a coffee and book.

If that sounds interesting, you can reach out to me at hi@tanishavenkani.com.

And if you reached there, it means my writing was bearable for you. Thank you for allowing me to live my dream of writing!

Tanisha Venkani

If you are a founder or CXO and someone tells you they have cracked the LinkedIn algorithm, please be a little suspicious.

One of our clients recently had two text-only posts.

One got 385 likes and around 40,000 impressions. The other got 335 likes and around 20,000 impressions.

Only 50 likes apart. And yet, a 20,000-impression gap.

That is exactly why I do not take LinkedIn “formulas” too seriously.

A post does not spread only because people liked it.

It spreads when it reaches the right people.

When the right people comment, when it feels relevant to your own community, when people save it, share it, or send it to someone quietly.

So let's not judge a post only by visible numbers.

So when someone says image posts work better, or carousels work better, or a particular template is viral, I would take that advice very lightly.

Because both of these were text-only posts and core related to subject matter expertise.

The question you should ask: Did the post actually speak to the people you wanted to reach?

That usually matters more than any algorithm theory.

And yes, I still back-text posts. The LinkedIn algorithm has commitment issues anyway.

Human Notetaker | LinkedIn Ghostwriter | 8M+ impressions | 4X Book Ghostwriter | My parents don’t understand what I do for a living

Happy Women's Day. Let's bring more women leaders' voices to LinkedIn!

Happy Women's Day to the most incredible women who have worked with us in the team, our clients who are some real badasses!

More to come!

"I'll write on LinkedIn using ChatGPT."

Sure!

A well-known founder from India’s stock market circles once told us that he did not think we could write for him.

Fair enough.

We took a bet. We said, “Let us write one piece for you. You give the topic. If you do not like it, we will step back.”

He said, “Okay. Show me what you’ve got.” That conversation happened in May 2025.

It is March 2026 now, and we are close to completing a year of working together.

I still think about that often, because it reminded me of something I tell every founder and CXO very openly: I am not the expert in your field.

You are.

My work begins somewhere else. My work is to understand how you think. To study your space seriously. To find the right facts, shape the argument properly, and then write in a way that feels like you said it, not me.

That trust was never a small thing to me.

Writing for someone was never about sounding smart after reading a few articles in their industry.

It was always about listening properly. Paying attention. Doing the work well enough to carry someone else’s voice with care.

Right now, I work across five different industries. And in many of them, there was a first time.

A first project. A first learning curve. A first founder deciding whether to trust us without seeing a long list of category-specific samples.

I have always been grateful for that.

Because the people who gave us a chance were not only looking at whether we had worked in their exact industry before.

They were looking at something deeper.

Can this person listen well? Can this person understand the thinking? Can this person do the research properly? Can this person write in a way that can hold the weight of my name?

I think that is where good writing in niche industries really begins.

So this post is really a thank you.

To the founders and CXOs who gave us a chance before we had “proof” in their category.

To the ones who looked at the seriousness of our craft before the case studies.
To the ones who let the work speak first.

Some of our best client relationships began with doubt. They stayed because the work held up.

And honestly, that is still one of my favourite ways to earn trust. Sometimes it begins with one simple line: “Alright. Show me.”

While I understand skill learning in the age of Ai this seemed like a good reminder.

Book: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz

'Thrilled' is old. It is now crying in public with bullet points.

The most difficult question as a founder of a ghostwriting agency I get on client calls is: “Can I see what you have written?”

And I always have to answer with a polite no.

That answer has never been easy.

When you are building any kind of service business, people want proof. They want samples, names, and visible work. Something they can hold and assess quickly.

I understand that.

But ghostwriting asks for a different kind of boundary.

A founder trusts you with their thoughts, their voice, their reputation, and often the parts of their thinking that are still taking shape. Once that trust is given, I do not believe it should be passed around to make the next sale easier.

So a lot of this work stays invisible.

I cannot always point at a post and say, we did that. I cannot always mention the client. I cannot always explain what sat behind the final version.

That is the nature of the work. And over time, I have come to respect that more deeply.

Some of the writing I am proudest of carries someone else’s name completely. Quietly. Fully. As it should.

It does make the business harder in certain moments. But there are a few lines that matter more than convenience. This has always been one of them.

The people who understand ghostwriting properly usually understand this too.
They are not only judging the visible output.

They are paying attention to how you listen, how you think, how carefully you handle someone else’s voice, and whether you know how to treat trust with discipline.

Some of our best relationships have started right after that polite no and maybe that is the strange beauty of this business.

A lot of the work you do well cannot be claimed loudly.Still, the right people know.

Bindu Balan - people working in education would be lucky to have her in your team.

K–12 Learning Content & Training | Instructional Design

Hi everyone! I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message or comment below. I’d love to reconnect. #OpenToWork

About me & what I’m looking for:
💼 I’m looking for Senior Editor and Training Specialist roles.
🌎 I’m open to roles in Bengaluru.
⭐ I’ve previously worked at Educational Initiatives.

Looking for Senior Editor, Training Specialist and Curriculum Specialist roles

How to stop being the most interesting person in the room and the most forgettable one on LinkedIn?

I came across a LinkedIn post from a mental health startup founder today. Although the post had decent engagement and ticked all the LinkedIn-formatting boxes,

Everything in the post could have been written by anyone.

And this is a Forbes 30 Under 30 founder. Someone who built a company from scratch because the system was broken. Someone with stories, opinions, and a point of view that could genuinely stop a scroll.

But none of that was in the post.

And that's not the founder's fault. It's the fault of the PROCESS being used to create content.

- it's probably a bad ghostwriting job
- or the founder decided to ChatGPT it and spit out the first draft

Such generic posts are costing you SOOOO much:

Investors who scroll past because nothing made them stop, or the customers who don't feel the conviction behind the product. A potential employee who chose someone else because that someone else sounded like they meant it. 

And WORST OF ALL - your reputation took a serious hit because everyone knows what AI-slop (internet's fav word of 2026) looks like.

You don't get those first impressions back.

There's some sort of cruel irony here because I am sure the founder has the opinions, stories, he could talk about the rage that built the company.

It just never made it into the brief. So it never made it into the post.

You cannot build a credible brand without credibility.

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