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Real campaigns, real numbers.

The summary covers every email campaign in the Hephaestus system from launch to today and is refreshed weekly (last updated: 10 August 2026). Below are detailed case studies of three highlighted campaigns (May 11 – Aug 7, 2026). We don't disclose the identity of the leads for privacy reasons.

4,524
Personalized outreach emails

Across all campaigns · since launch

224
Genuine replies

5.0% average reply rate

46
Positive replies

Interested or a concrete question

25
Hot leads

Meeting or quote request

6,507
Researched leads

Across active and completed campaigns

01 / 03
Business consulting · HU
Hungary · May 11 – Aug 7, 2026
Live campaign

Three company owners asked for a meeting

A business consultancy that wanted to reach decision-makers with the right profile — faster and more predictably than referrals and cold calls were delivering.

797
Outreach sent
6.4%
Reply rate
33.8%
Open rate
573
New target contacts
78.8/100 avg. quality
Daily activity
Outreach sent and replies received per day
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Sent Reply
What came of the replies?
Breakdown of the replies received
51 replies total13 positive
Interested9
Concrete question4
Not right now28
Other reply10
+ 34 out-of-office auto-replies (not counted)
What came of it

In one month, three hot leads came in: the owner of a multi-site manufacturing and trading company, the CEO of a large metalworking firm, and the decision-maker at a custom software company all sat down for a meeting — exactly the audience they had targeted.

Campaign background
How it started

A business consultancy reached out to us. They had been winning clients mainly through referrals and cold calls — it worked, but it was unpredictable: some months a big engagement landed, other months brought almost nothing.

The challenge

Their service is bought at the decision-maker level — they need to sit down with company owners and executives. Those people are hard to reach: they don't pick up unknown numbers, and they throw out mass, templated emails at a glance.

How we helped

We wrote every message one by one, tailored to the specific company — we didn't blast a list, we reached out person by person. We sent the emails at a controlled, human pace, kept separate from their own main email account so their existing correspondence stayed safe. We qualified the incoming replies and handed over only the genuine leads, ready to meet.

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02 / 03
Premium outdoor cover manufacturer · HU
Hungary · May 11 – Aug 7, 2026
Live campaign

Two concrete quote requests, complete with dimensions

A manufacturer of premium outdoor covers (stretch tents) that wanted to reach event venues and hotels — the kind of decision-makers who can actually place an order.

856
Outreach sent
8.2%
Reply rate
46.4%
Open rate
532
New target contacts
82.5/100 avg. quality
Daily activity
Outreach sent and replies received per day
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Sent Reply
What came of the replies?
Breakdown of the replies received
70 replies total16 positive
Interested9
Concrete question7
Not right now38
Other reply16
+ 11 out-of-office auto-replies (not counted)
What came of it

Three hot leads, two of which already requested a concrete quote: a wedding and event venue for a fixed 11×8 metre cover, and a countryside wellness hotel for a ~50–60 m² cover for a 100-guest wedding. The director of a four-star hotel in Budapest requested an on-site demo in person.

Campaign background
How it started

We worked with a manufacturer of premium outdoor covers (stretch tents). They had a strong, eye-catching product, but demand is seasonal and project-based — a single larger order makes a real difference.

The challenge

Their buyers are typically event venues and hotels, where a specific person makes the decision. The difficulty was reaching exactly those decision-makers, and doing so precisely when they had an open project or a renovation underway.

How we helped

We assembled the pool of relevant venues and hotels and tailored every message to the recipient's own profile. We sent the emails at a natural, human pace, and handed over the incoming questions — dimensions, capacity, location — pre-qualified, so the manufacturer could respond right away with a concrete quote.

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03 / 03
Our own campaign · HU
Hungary · May 11 – Aug 7, 2026
Live campaign

We win our own clients with this system too

We reached the clients above — and the rest — with the very same system we run for them. Here are our own campaign's numbers from the same period, fully transparent.

1,927
Outreach sent
3.7%
Reply rate
32.3%
Open rate
1,443
New target contacts
80.4/100 avg. quality
Daily activity
Outreach sent and replies received per day
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Sent Reply
What came of the replies?
Breakdown of the replies received
72 replies total9 positive
Interested5
Concrete question4
Not right now47
Other reply16
+ 14 out-of-office auto-replies (not counted)
What came of it

During the month, the sales director of a regional prefab-house manufacturer asked us for a quote, our outreach reached the leadership of a well-known Hungarian webshop-engine provider, and a Budapest event centre proposed a joint, success-fee-based partnership. The same controlled process we run for our clients.

Campaign background
How it started

This is our own campaign. We didn't buy ads and we didn't hire a salesperson — we ran exactly the same system on ourselves that we run for our clients, over the same period.

The challenge

For a client-acquisition service, the biggest question is credibility: does our own method work on our own business too? We believe that if we can't win clients with it for ourselves, we have no right to sell it to anyone else.

How we helped

We researched and reached out to the decision-makers of relevant companies one by one — at a controlled pace, with transparent numbers, kept separate from our own main account. We reached a good share of the clients featured above this way too; this campaign is the proof that the process works on itself.

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