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Selling by answering
How to find the people already asking for what you sell, tell them apart from the noise, and reply without reading as an advert.
How to find customers from Claude, using an MCP server
MCP lets an assistant call real tools. For go-to-market that means asking Claude who is publicly looking to buy what you sell — and getting named people back, not a summary.
How to find people already asking for your product on X
The complete guide: the six shapes of buying intent, the search operators that surface them, how to score what comes back, and how to reply without reading as an ad.
Every X search operator that matters for finding buyers
The full reference — content, users, time, filters, engagement — with the combinations that actually surface people in the market, and the ones that only look clever.
A mention is not a buyer
The eight kinds of false positive a keyword alert hands you, three questions that separate a buyer from a mention, and why intent beats sentiment.
Why the first useful reply usually wins
How short the window really is, the three parts of a reply that works, the tells that get you scrolled past, and which of three tones to use.
How to reply to a stranger on X without sounding like spam
Twelve real replies, side by side — the version that gets a conversation and the version that gets muted — and the rule behind each pair.
What a reply actually costs, next to every other way to get a lead
The arithmetic nobody publishes: cost per conversation on X against ads, cold email, SDRs and content — and where answering stops being the cheapest option.
X automation rules: what gets you suspended and what does not
What the platform rules actually say about replying at volume, where the line sits in practice, and how to work this channel without risking the account.
Three free tools
Score a post for buying intent, build an X search from your offer, or check a reply for spam tells. No account.
See who is asking in your category
Real posts, real dates, by category — or run it on your own offer.
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