Building an open, community-owned alternative to Apollo/Clay, contributors get revenue share based on lead quality.
Apollo charges $5k+/year for contact data. I’m building something different.
The idea: A B2B lead intelligence platform where the community owns the data supply chain.
Here’s how it works:
- Anyone can contribute leads/contacts to the platform
- Every lead gets scored transparently on quality (email validity, company existence, freshness, relevance)
- Revenue generated from selling access to this database gets split proportionally based on your contribution quality, not just quantity
- All stats are public: who contributed what, quality scores, revenue splits. Full transparency.
Think of it as Apollo or Clay, but community-built and contributor-rewarded and giving it at a fraction of price of current market price.
The model flips the script, instead of one company hoarding data and charging enterprises a fortune, contributors become stakeholders.
Where I’m at:
Platform is in active development. I’m looking to connect with:
- Developers who want to co-build this (backend, data validation, API)
- Sales/BD people who have lead lists or enterprise contacts and want to contribute from day one
- Anyone who thinks this is interesting and wants to poke holes in it
- Businesses who will help us in this at our early stage, we will help them out in lead generation for their ICP.
Revenue will be split as per the contribution as we grow.
PS: I am a full-stack developer with 4 YOE. Want a fair discussion or criticism around this.
Drop a comment or DM me if this resonates. Happy to share more details about the tech architecture and the quality scoring model.