Keylem Collier

Founder of @Versaunt_ai 2× Founder. Apple. Techstars. Antler.

[Keylem Collier @Keylemx]

2 years ago I was building my first startup out of my dorm at Georgia Tech. Crazy how time flies.

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@Raghav_b11 @fdotinc Legend!!

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I BUILT AN APP TO FIND CRACKED DEVELOPERS IN SECONDS

6 weeks ago I moved to SF and have been heads down building the fastest & the most reliable way to find 100x engineers. I'll be showcasing GitHired at the @fdotinc Festival tomorrow. If you're in SF, rsvp link below👇

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@Raghav_b11 Since it’s optional, that’s not honestly bad at all

[Harpreet Singh @hrprtsingh9]

@Keylemx Relationships before software is the part most founders skip. Then they wonder why their cold launch did 4 signups.

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@hrprtsingh9 exactly. cultivating top-tier relationships genuinely is the best hack tbh

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Versaunt just hit 136.5% MoM MRR growth.

Here's exactly how we acquired every single customer, step by step.

STEP 1: We didn't start with software. We started with relationships.
Every early customer came from someone who already trusted us. A warm intro. A conversation at an event. A founder who saw us building in public and reached out.

Tools can't manufacture that. You have to earn it before you need it.

STEP 2: We let SEO work in the background while we worked the phones.
We wrote content for our ICP months before we needed it to convert. By the time we were ready to close, people were already finding us. Inbound from SEO doesn't happen fast. That's the point. You plant it early and it compounds.

STEP 3: LinkedIn outbound; but not how most people do it.
No connection request spam. No "I came across your profile" openers.
We used Trigify for audience signals, HeyReach for sequencing, and Origami for enrichment. But the message still had to sound like a human wrote it for one specific person. Because it did.

The tool handles volume. You handle the voice.

STEP 4: We hosted the room.
Last week, 100 founders signed up for a fireside chat we hosted at Antler. A few dozen showed up in person. We gave away our entire playbook for free.
That one event converted more trust than 1 month of cold outreach.

Generosity is a GTM strategy.

STEP 5: We measured what actually mattered.
Not impressions. Not open rates. Pipeline and MRR. Every week, our standup started with one number. If it went up, keep going. If it didn't, change something.

136.5% in 4 weeks is the result of that discipline. Not a hack.

I put everything we know about early-stage B2B customer acquisition into a free Notion doc. The exact workflows, the stack, the outbound scripts, all of it.

Comment GUIDE and I'll DM it to you.

The best sales motion is the one you can actually execute every day. Everything else is theory.

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30 days ago we posted that we flew 2,169 miles from ATL to SF to chase our dreams.

Here's what happened next.
We can barely keep up with demand.

Customers are coming in faster than we can onboard them. MRR is growing at a rate we've never seen before. And the thing that's driving all of it isn't a clever growth hack or a viral ad.

It's been conversations.

Genuine ones. With real people. At events, in offices, over coffee, in Slack threads. Showing up, being honest about what we're building, and caring about the person across the table more than the pitch.

That's it. That's the whole strategy.

I also want to say something about Greg publicly, because he deserves it.

Greg is one of the most quietly impressive people I've ever built with. While I'm out talking to customers, he is in the code.

Every single day. Building autonomous AI agents — some of the most technically complex software being written right now — with a level of focus that genuinely humbles me.

My respect for him grows every week.

Six weeks ago we didn't know if SF was the right call. We left a lot behind to find out.

It was the right call.

If you're sitting on the fence about taking the leap, building somewhere new, or betting on yourself, I'll say what I wish someone had told me earlier:

The conditions will never be perfect. Go anyway.

And if you're thinking about applying to Antler, reach out. Happy to give you a referral and tell you exactly what to expect.

The next 30 days are going to be something else.

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Over 100 founders signed up for the 'First 10 Sales Playbook' at Antler.

Because this wasn't your high-level regular talk.

You know the one: "Get out there and talk to people." "Believe in your product." "The right customers will find you."

Last night at the Antler SF office, Sidhdharth Sivasubramanian and I did the opposite.

We put our actual GTM stacks on a slide and walked through every tool, every sequence, and every workflow we use to find and close customers today.

My stack: Trigify for audience signals. Origami for prospecting and enrichment. SmartLead for automated email. HeyReach for LinkedIn outreach.
Sid's stack was a completely different architecture built around intent signals, SEO, and orchestration through n8n and Claude.

Two founders. Two completely different approaches. Both working.
That contrast is the whole point.

There is no single right GTM motion. There's only the one you understand well enough to execute every single day and honest enough to know when to change.

The one line from our slides that hit the hardest:
"These tools will not replace authenticity, transparency, and generosity."
Dropping the full Notion doc in the comments for anyone who wants the exact workflows and tool breakdowns. Free. No form.

Thank you Ryan Green for giving us the room and the stage. And to every founder who showed up; the questions from the crowd were better than anything we prepared.

If you couldn't make it, the doc has everything. In the comments below.

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