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Automate personalized follow-up to inbound leads

Instantly enrich and analyze inbound leads, then auto-generate personalized follow-up emails sent through your sales engagement platform.

Overview

Sona transforms your inbound lead response by automatically enriching every form submission with company data, analyzing context and intent signals, then generating personalized follow-up emails within minutes. This workflow ensures faster response times, higher relevance, and better conversion rates from your inbound marketing efforts.

How it works:

Step 1: Configure inbound lead capture

Under Workflows, select Inbound Follow-up. Set up triggers for form submissions including demo requests, content downloads, and contact forms. Sona immediately captures form data and begins enriching leads with company information, technographics, and contact details.

Step 2: Analyze context and buying intent

AI Agents analyzes multiple signals to understand lead context including which content or pages drove conversion, company stage, recent funding, competitive landscape and solution gaps, and urgency indicators from form responses and website behavior.

Step 3: Generate personalized outreach content

Based on analysis, Sona creates tailored follow-up emails featuring specific references to conversion-driving content, value propositions matched to company profile, relevant social proof from similar organizations, and next steps aligned with their buying stage.

Step 4: Execute automated sequence

Personalized emails can be queued for review or they can be automatically sent through your sales engagement platform with follow-up sequences customized by industry pain points, company size and growth stage, engagement patterns and response behavior, and preferred communication channels.

What you'll get:

  • 40–60% higher response rates
    Personalization significantly boosts open and reply rates, with tailored experiences driving stronger engagement and conversion (McKinsey, 2021 – Next in Personalization Report)
  • Sub-5 minute lead response time
    Responding to inbound leads within 5 minutes makes you 21× more likely to qualify them (Harvard Business Review, 2011 – The Short Life of Online Sales Leads)
  • Improved lead qualification rates
    AI-driven prioritization of high-potential prospects improves pipeline efficiency and sales productivity (Forrester, 2023 – B2B Buyer Expectations Study)
  • Consistent messaging quality
    Automated, personalized follow-ups ensure every inbound lead receives relevant outreach without variance in rep effort (Salesforce, 2022 – Marketing Email Personalization Guide)

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