90% AI.
10% you.
100% better.
The AI that runs your link building, outreach, and digital PR — while you stay in the driver's seat. Discovers prospects. Writes outreach. Classifies replies. Tracks rank impact.
Built by an operator running ranked sites in
Four modules. One closed loop.
Each module is a specialist at one part of the authority-building pipeline. Together they replace the 6-tool Frankenstein stack most SEO teams duct-tape together.
Prospecting Engine
AI-ranked backlink targets with reasoning you can defend to clients.
- 30 ranked prospects in 5 seconds — target domain + vertical is all you enter
- Every prospect scored 0-100 on topical fit + authority + editorial credibility
- One-line 'why pitch this' hook per prospect — use it as the email opener
- Filter by DR range, traffic floor, language, country, anchor intent
| Score | Domain | DR | Traffic | Why pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | leafly.com | 88 | 8.2M | Top-authority cannabis directory; accepts sponsored articles quarterly |
| 87 | hightimes.com | 84 | 2.4M | Editorial team actively reviews guest pitches for product roundups |
| 74 | ganjapreneur.com | 68 | 120K | Business-side cannabis focus — resource-page add is plausible |
| 71 | cannabisculture.com | 71 | 180K | Culture-side; best for lifestyle-angled content, not product pitches |
AI Outreach Drafter
Claude Sonnet writes 3 email variants per prospect. You approve before anything sends.
- Three variants across six angles: resource / broken-link / competitor-gap / skyscraper / data-share / guest-post
- Specific opener lines — no 'I hope this finds you well' template-speak
- First-name greetings where available; signs off as you, not a title
- Campaign brief textarea tunes the voice and pitch-angle to your launch
Hi Sarah, Your 2026 dispensary roundup is the most-linked cannabis directory piece I pulled this quarter. Noticed you haven't added Ontario coverage since 2024. I run Mohawk Medibles (ON craft cannabis). Happy to share our product data + Q1 sales breakdown if it'd strengthen the province section. Data's free; no pitch.
Hi Sarah, Hit a dead 404 on the 'Best 2024 CBD suppliers' link in your main guide (third paragraph). Broken at original source — their domain expired. If useful, our directory at mohawkmedibles.ca/cbd is a drop-in replacement. Same taxonomy. Updated monthly.
Hi Sarah, We compiled anonymized Q1 purchase patterns across 3 ON dispensaries — 40K transactions. Three findings stood out: • CBD tincture AOV up 31% YoY • Pre-roll share dropping vs vape • Terpene-tagged products outsell strain-tagged 2.1× Happy to share the full dataset for citation.
AI Reply Classifier
Reads inbound replies, understands intent, routes the response. The 30-second demo every prospect asks to see.
- 7 labels: warm_lead · price_objection · not_now · negative · auto_reply · bounce · uncategorized
- Warm leads surface immediately for you to close
- Not-now auto-schedules Day 7 / 21 / 60 followup based on tone of decline
- Negatives auto-unsubscribe. Bounces mark failed. Auto-replies retry.
- You only ever read the replies worth reading.
Link Placement + Rank Impact
Did the outreach actually move your rankings? Stop guessing. Prove it.
- Every placed link verified daily — HEAD checks detect nofollow-flip, removal, 404s
- Keyword ranks tracked with 30-day sparklines + delta display
- Correlates link events to rank deltas: 'Link live Mar 5 → rank #8 → #4 on Mar 12'
- Makes the ROI story defensible to clients or internal stakeholders
A best-in-class stack, so you don't have to assemble one.
We wrap the APIs worth wrapping — backlink data, deliverability, AI, billing. You get one integrated surface. We take the vendor-management hit.
From blank slate to proven ROI in one platform.
Five steps. One login. Zero Google-Sheets duct tape.
- 1Point at your target
Enter the domain you want to rank, pick your vertical from 14 options, drop in 1-3 competitor URLs. That's the only setup.
- 2AI surfaces the prospects worth pitching
CloutFoundry queries backlink data, scores every prospect 0-100 on relevance + authority + editorial fit, and gives you a 'why pitch this' reasoning string per target. 30 ranked prospects in 5 seconds.
- 3Claude drafts the emails
Save prospects to a campaign. Claude writes 3 personalized email variants per prospect — different angles, different hooks, different CTAs. You approve before anything leaves your mailbox.
- 4Replies classify themselves
When prospects respond, AI classifies warm leads (pages you immediately), not-now (auto-schedules Day 7/21/60 followup), bounces (marks failed), negatives (auto-unsubscribes). You only see the replies worth reading.
- 5Measure what actually moved rankings
Every placed link is verified daily. Keyword ranks overlay link events. Finally answer "did it work?" with a chart, not a shrug.
Not made by a team that thinks SEO is someone else's problem.
CloutFoundry is built by a solo operator who runs seven SEO-dependent brands across cannabis, vape, iGaming, kratom, and crypto. Every module exists because I needed it on a Monday morning and Pitchbox wouldn't take my money.
"I built CloutFoundry because I was tired of my SEO workflow being Google Sheets + five subscriptions + three Slack channels. This is the tool I open at 7am every day."
For operators who can't afford to guess.
You're the only SEO at a Series B. Your wallet has Ahrefs already. You need outreach workflow + AI personalization without the Pitchbox price tag.
You serve 10-50 clients. You're tired of three tools, a Google Sheet, and three Slack channels per campaign. Swap it all for one platform with white-label reporting.
You build sites. You need backlinks. You can't spend $675/mo on Pitchbox. Get real workflow and AI drafts for under $200.
Google Ads banned. Meta on probation. SEO is your only growth channel. We serve you where Instantly and Pitchbox won't.
The verticals mainstream outreach tools ToS-ban. Apply for Regulated Industries access → Partner Network publishers + anonymous sender + crypto billing.
You're launching a product. You need backlinks to rank. You don't have an SEO team. Turn the AI on and go.
A full stack Pitchbox won't build. A workflow Ahrefs won't ship.
| Capability | CloutFoundry | Ahrefs / Semrush | Pitchbox | Instantly / Smartlead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backlink data | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| AI-written outreach | ✓ Claude Sonnet | — | Basic templates | Generic GPT |
| AI reply classifier | ✓ HEADLINE | — | — | — |
| Auto-followup routing by reply label | ✓ Day 7/21/60 | — | Manual only | Linear sequence |
| Link-to-rank causality view | ✓ Unified | Separate tools | — | — |
| Regulated verticals supported | ✓ Application tier | Tolerated | Tolerated | ✗ ToS-banned |
| Crypto / Interac billing | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Starting price | $149 | $129 | $165 | $37 |
| Full workflow at $400/mo or under | ✓ Growth tier | — | — | — (no workflow) |
Vice-premium honest. Built for operators.
7-day trial on every plan. Annual billing saves 20%. No freemium — we're not farming your data for a free-tier upsell.
- 1 tracked domain
- 500 prospect searches/mo
- 500 AI outreach drafts/mo
- 50 keywords tracked
- AI reply classifier
- Email support
- 3 tracked domains
- 3,000 prospects/mo
- 2,500 drafts/mo
- 250 keywords
- AI reply classifier
- Instantly/Smartlead seat
- Slack Connect support
- 10 tracked domains
- 15,000 prospects/mo
- 10,000 drafts/mo
- 1,500 keywords
- Public REST API
- 3 client sub-accounts
- Quarterly call
- Everything in Scale
- Partner Network publishers
- Anonymous sender mode
- Crypto / Interac billing
- Dedicated CSM
- 24-48h application review
Need more? Agency white-label at $1,999/mo · SSO/SOC2 on enterprise plans
Questions founders actually ask.
- How is this different from Pitchbox / BuzzStream / Respona?
- Three things. (1) We wrap Claude Sonnet 4.6 for personalization — the emails read like a smart human wrote them, not a template engine. (2) We classify inbound replies with AI so you only see the ones worth reading. (3) We unify placed links + rank deltas in one view so you can prove the outreach worked. Pitchbox has none of those three. It's been stuck at $26M ARR for 14 years for a reason.
- Do I need my own Ahrefs or Semrush subscription?
- No. CloutFoundry wraps DataForSEO for backlink + SERP data on the back end — included in your seat. You can connect your own Ahrefs if you already have one, but most customers drop it.
- I run a cannabis / iGaming / vape operation — are you actually going to serve me?
- Yes. That's the point. Apply for Regulated Industries access (24-48h review). Approval unlocks the Partner Network (~1,000 curated publishers that actively accept your vertical), anonymous-sender mode, and crypto/Interac billing. Instantly literally ToS-bans cannabis and iGaming. Pitchbox tolerates but doesn't support. We're purpose-built for it.
- What about deliverability? Aren't most outreach tools broken post-Gmail-DMARC-2024?
- Yes, and that's why we recommend your own warmed domain + Instantly or Smartlead for sending. CloutFoundry ships drafts; you send via your own deliverability stack. Native sending with built-in warmup is v2 (shipping Q3).
- Does CloutFoundry 'hack' Google? Are the links safe?
- We don't generate spam. Our AI drafts real outreach to real publishers that you manually approve. We're the workflow layer — you pitch, you get placed, you get credit. The only 'trick' is speed: what took your intern a week now takes 15 minutes.
- What happens if Anthropic / DataForSEO / Stripe goes down?
- Every external API we depend on has a kill-switch in the admin panel. If one goes down, we flip it off and your account returns a graceful 503 with a message — nothing silently breaks. Operator-grade infra, not hobbyist code.
- Can I cancel anytime?
- Yes. No contracts, no cancellation fees, no data-hostage 'export in 90 days' nonsense. Cancel from settings; you keep CSV access to everything for 30 days.
- Who's building this?
- A solo operator who runs 7 SEO-dependent ecommerce brands and got tired of duct-taping Pitchbox + Instantly + Google Sheets together. CloutFoundry is the tool I built for myself. You're seeing v1.
Stop duct-taping.
Start forging.
Sign in, create a campaign, and watch the AI do the 90% that used to eat your week.