AI-assisted new business for established B2B service firms

Stop outsourcing your pipeline.
Own the relationships.
Automate the work.

Product preview Acquire
ClientNorthstar SearchSpecialist SEO agency
ProspectAtlas AnalyticsB2B analytics consultancy
Today
Accounts awaiting approval6
Follow-ups scheduled3
Replies requiring attention2
Meeting brief ready1
Account brief
Why it fitsAtlas sells complex analytics services to enterprise teams, matching Northstar's target market.
Research signalAtlas recently launched a dedicated financial-services analytics offering.
Visibility opportunityThe new service pages sit outside the website's main industry structure, making the offering harder to discover through sector-specific organic and AI searches.
Suggested angleShow Atlas how its new financial-services offering could be better integrated into its search architecture.
Message preview
Hi Sarah,

I noticed Atlas has launched a financial-services analytics practice. The new pages sit outside the main industry structure, so buyers searching by sector may miss them.

We help B2B consultancies build search architecture around new verticals. Worth sharing the gap we spotted?

Illustrative preview. Every initial message is approved by you before it sends.

Acquire gives founder-led B2B service firms a consistent process for finding, researching, contacting and following up with the right prospects.

You own the data, inboxes and relationships. QFD maintains the automation.

Five category-protected founding places for South African firms.
Six-week implementation starting 19 October 2026.
Applications close 9 October or when all five places are filled.
Six-week launch
From ad hoc to a live process
50 researched accounts
Every month
Up to 100 decision-makers
Relevant, per month
You approve outreach
Initial message, before it sends
The problem

Referral-led growth works until it doesn't.

Referrals may have built your business. But they cannot tell you where the next client is coming from, support a growth target or replace an anchor client when they leave.

Outsourced lead-generation agencies offer volume, but rarely understand a complex service well enough to represent it properly.

So new business remains the founder's problem, squeezed between delivery, team management and everything else.

Referral dependence

You cannot control when the next introduction arrives.

Founder bottleneck

Sales only happens when the founder finds time to do it.

Outsourced dependency

The lists, systems and relationships often sit with an external provider.

How Acquire works

Acquire builds the operating layer between choosing a market and closing the deal.

1
Define

Acquire learns your offer, ideal customer, proof, positioning and voice.

2
Find

The system identifies suitable companies and relevant decision-makers.

3
Research

Each account is researched before a message is written. Acquire identifies why the company fits, relevant commercial signals and a credible reason to start a conversation.

4
Approve

Review a short daily queue of AI-researched accounts, see why each company fits and approve the initial message from one dashboard. Once approved, Acquire manages the pre-approved follow-up sequence automatically. Any reply pauses outreach to the entire company.

5
Follow through

Acquire manages follow-ups, classifies replies, prepares meeting briefs and keeps every opportunity moving.

The line that matters

Acquire prepares the work.

You retain the judgement, relationships and responsibility for closing.

Your dashboard

Your new-business work, in one place.

Today
Accounts awaiting approval6
Follow-ups scheduled3
Replies requiring attention2
Meetings requiring preparation1
Opportunities without a next action1
Pipeline
Researching18
Awaiting approval6
Contacted41
Replied5
Meeting booked2
Opportunity3
Won1

Illustrative interface. Figures shown are examples, not results.

What Acquire is

Not another lead-generation service.

Lead-generation agency

You rent someone else's lists, process and outreach team.

Course

You receive information and are left to implement it yourself.

Sending tool

You receive software, but still have to research accounts, write messages and manage the pipeline.

Acquire

A working new-business operating system is configured around your company, launched with real prospects and maintained by QFD.

The Acquire Launch Sprint

From ad hoc new business to a live operating process in six weeks.

Week 1
Commercial foundation

Define the offer, ICP, proof and messaging boundaries.

Week 2
Targeting

Build the account criteria and initial target market.

Week 3
Configuration

Train the business context, research workflow, messaging and approvals.

Week 4
Controlled launch

Approve and launch the first live accounts.

Week 5
Stress-testing

Test follow-ups, replies, exceptions and opportunity routing.

Week 6
Operating rhythm

Finalise the dashboard, responsibilities and weekly routine.

What gets built

A functioning system, not a strategy document.

One defined offer
One priority ICP
Business Context Pack
Account qualification rules
50 researched target companies
Up to 100 relevant contacts
Three-touch outreach sequence
AI-assisted research
Message preparation
Founder approval workflow
Company-level outreach suppression
Reply classification
Meeting preparation briefs
Follow-up automation
HighLevel opportunity pipeline
Weekly operating dashboard
Who Acquire is for

Built for established firms at a founder-led growth ceiling.

Acquire is built for
  • South African digital, performance, SEO, CRO, analytics and specialist technology firms
  • Teams of approximately 2 to 10 people
  • Businesses that still depend heavily on referrals and founder-led sales
  • Firms with a proven specialist offer
  • Founders who have personally closed at least five similar clients
  • Firms whose typical client relationship is worth at least R150,000 over 12 months

Firms with client values above R250,000 are the strongest commercial fit, but this is not a hard requirement for the founding cohort.

Not a fit
  • Businesses without a proven offer
  • Founders looking to avoid sales completely
  • Companies with less than 60 days of cash runway
  • Low-value, high-volume services
  • Firms unable to provide proof or case studies
  • Anyone expecting guaranteed appointments or revenue
Built to reduce founder workload, not create another project.

Expect four to five hours of focused work during Weeks 1 and 2. Once Acquire is configured, most activity happens through a short daily approval queue and a weekly review of replies and opportunities. Total ongoing commitment is approximately two hours per week.

Founding offer

Acquire Founding Cohort

Launch Sprint
R15,000 plus VAT

Includes the complete six-week implementation and controlled launch.

From Week 7
R1,950 plus VAT / month
Three-month initial OS commitment
Founding subscription rate protected for 12 months while continuously subscribed
Limited to five category-protected firms
Apply for a founding place

Applications close 9 October 2026 or when all five places are filled.

Included in Acquire OS
  • HighLevel workspace and opportunity pipeline
  • Make automation
  • Firecrawl account research
  • OpenAI processing
  • Workflow maintenance
  • Technical support
  • Usage for up to 50 researched accounts and 100 contacts per month
  • Monthly group optimisation clinic
Paid directly by the client
  • Apollo subscription
  • One dedicated sending domain
  • One connected business inbox

Budget approximately R1,000 per month for the client-funded infrastructure.

Launch guarantee

Your system will launch.

If you complete the required inputs and approvals but your campaign is not operational by the end of Week 6, QFD will continue the implementation at no additional cost until the first campaign launches.

The guarantee applies to system implementation and launch. It does not guarantee a particular number of replies, meetings, clients or revenue.

Ownership

Your relationships remain yours.

You own
  • Contacts and company data
  • Correspondence and campaign results
  • Your offer and ICP information
  • Approved messaging
  • Your Business Context Pack
QFD owns and maintains
  • Automation logic
  • System prompts
  • Agent configuration
  • Workflow templates
  • Acquire schemas

Your Acquire OS subscription licenses the functioning automation. If you leave, your data and Business Context Pack remain portable. QFD's automation and agent configuration remain QFD intellectual property.

Built by QFD

Built by an operator, not an appointment-setting agency.

Acquire is led by Aubrey Turner, founder of Quantumflux Digital and an acquisition leader with more than 15 years of experience across agency, consulting and in-house growth roles.

It is being built from the practical systems required to run new business consistently, without adding a full internal sales team.

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

No. Acquire guarantees that the agreed system will be configured and launched. Market response and sales outcomes depend on your offer, targeting, reputation and ability to close.

You approve every contact's initial outreach before it sends. Follow-ups use the sequence approved during implementation and run automatically unless the prospect replies, unsubscribes or bounces.

No. You approve the initial outreach and follow-up strategy during implementation. Acquire then manages the pre-approved follow-up sequence automatically. If anyone replies, unsubscribes or bounces, outreach pauses immediately for the entire company.

Outreach to the entire company pauses. Acquire classifies the reply, prepares a recommended response, updates the opportunity and creates the appropriate next action for your approval.

No. Acquire handles research, preparation, follow-up and pipeline administration. You remain responsible for relationships, discovery calls and closing.

Each founding firm receives a protected category based on its primary service offering and target market. Before confirming a place, QFD checks whether another accepted firm competes for materially the same work from the same buyers. If there is meaningful overlap, the later application is waitlisted. For example, the cohort would include only one pure-play SEO agency or one HubSpot implementation consultancy targeting the same market.

Yes. These services operate within QFD's infrastructure and are included in the Acquire OS subscription, subject to the monthly account and contact limits.

Acquire OS continues running and maintaining the research, approval, follow-up and opportunity workflows. The initial OS commitment is three months from Week 7.

Your contacts, correspondence, results and Business Context Pack remain yours. QFD's automation logic, system prompts and agent configuration remain QFD intellectual property.

Founding cohort

Apply for a founding place.

Five category-protected places for established South African B2B service firms. The six-week cohort starts Monday, 19 October 2026. Applications close Friday, 9 October 2026 or when all five places are filled.

R15,000 plus VAT for the Launch Sprint. Acquire OS begins from Week 7 at R1,950 plus VAT per month. Aubrey reviews every application personally and replies within one business day.