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The group chat where pipeline gets built.
GTM engineers, sellers and AI operators trade the tools, plays and models that work. This page shows what they're on this week, counted from the conversation with no one named or quoted.
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First named 21 July 2024
Clay named this group early
Clay co-founder Varun Anand went looking for agency owners in WhatsApp groups and named SaaS Yacht Club on Pavilion (21 July 2024). He told the story again on Operators Only (15 September 2024) and First Round's In Depth (23 January 2025).
Read the transcripts“There's one great one started by the owner, who's awesome, and it's called the SaaS Yacht Club.”
Tools the chat is for
Pick a lane. Counts are archive mentions; the rate is mentions per 1,000 messages versus the prior year.
Counted Oct 31
Emails, phones and company data, usually tried as a waterfall until a field is filled.
Clay leads this lane, with 2,263 archive mentions. Varun Anand named the group on Pavilion, 21 July 2024. Read the Clay mention
This week
This week in the club
Picked by the editors from the club's public counts and the week's launches.
Updated Nov 1, 2:15 AM EST
- Rising toolGrok2.8 mentions per 1,000 messages lately, up from 0.5.Club data Oct 31
- Topic picking upBenchmarks and frontier trackingMembers scrutinize benchmark results and frontier capability claims to judge which models are usefulClub data Oct 31
- Most-asked problemFinding leads & building lists15% of a sample of 409 recent questions.Club data Oct 31
- New modelParticle AI: Particle-11M context · $0.05/M in · $0.50/M outCatalog Nov 1
- Thread worth readingAnthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone saysHacker News · news.ycombinator.comWeb Nov 1
Trending
What's moving in the club
Tools and topics gaining share of the conversation versus the prior year, per 1,000 messages.
Counted Oct 31
- DeepSeek↑ 2.7 → 11.1
- Claude / Anthropic↑ 13.6 → 18.6
- GitHub↑ 2.3 → 5.9
- OpenRouter↑ 1.6 → 5
- Grok↑ 0.5 → 2.8
- Prospeo↑ 0.7 → 2.3
- AI Model↑ 0.4 → 1.3
- Trigify↑ 0.4 → 1.1
- Open-weight models on the rise15.3 → 31.8Members increasingly compare and run open-weight models as daily drivers, weighing Chinese labs against frontier options
- Model routing and cost control10.8 → 17.5Members debate routing work across providers and managing credits and token spend for agent workloads
- Benchmarks and frontier tracking3 → 17Members scrutinize benchmark results and frontier capability claims to judge which models are useful
- Agentic task automation16.6 → 25.9Members run agents on real tasks and talk about what code and context they need to work reliably
- Model evaluation debates5.6 → 12.5Members debate model quality, human versus machine judgment, and what counts as genuinely useful output
- Open coding and repos14.9 → 25.5Members work with open coding tools and repositories, and discuss what gets added or removed from them
- Knowledge and self-serve resources5.6 → 10.9Members lean on shared knowledge, taught habits, and self-serve material to get productive with tools
Topics the club goes deep on
Numbers, tools, launches and outside research, one page per topic.
- 01GTM engineeringBuilding outbound as a system: data, enrichment, signals and the automation that ties them together.
- 02AI engineering & agentsCoding agents, harnesses, routing and the economics of running models in production.
- 03Email deliverabilityAuthentication, sender rules, warm-up and inbox placement for outbound email.
- 04Data & enrichmentFinding and verifying emails, phones and company data, and keeping it accurate.
Tools the club swears by
The 98 tools mentioned most since 2021.
Counted Oct 31
| # | Tool | What it does | Mentioned by | Archive mentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | OpenAILLMs, routing & AI builders | AI lab offering GPT models through ChatGPT and a usage-priced developer API. | 308 | 2,348 |
| 02 | ClayData & enrichment | Spreadsheet-style workspace that chains many data providers and AI research steps into enrichment and outbound workflows. | 339 | 2,263 |
| 03 | SmartleadCold email & sequencing | Cold email platform built for high-volume outbound with unlimited mailboxes, warmup and inbox rotation. | 322 | 1,934 |
| 04 | LeadMagicData & enrichment | Enrichment platform and API for finding and verifying work emails, mobile numbers and company data, billed only on valid results. | 254 | 1,757 |
| 05 | Apollo.ioData & enrichment | All-in-one sales platform combining a B2B contact database with sequencing, dialing and pipeline tools. | 335 | 1,581 |
| 06 | Claude / Anthropic↑LLMs, routing & AI builders | AI lab behind the Claude models, available via chat apps, Claude Code and a developer API. | 145 | 994 |
| 07 | n8nWorkflow automation | Workflow automation platform that combines AI steps with integrations, available as cloud or self-hosted. | 171 | 828 |
| 08 | HubSpotCRM | CRM platform with marketing, sales, service and content hubs, plus free foundational tools. | 174 | 731 |
| 09 | InstantlyCold email & sequencing | Cold email and sales engagement platform with unlimited sending accounts, warmup, a lead database and CRM. | 147 | 450 |
| 10 | Stripe | Payments platform and API for billing, subscriptions and checkout. | 97 | 400 |
| 11 | ZoomInfoData & enrichment | Enterprise B2B data and go-to-market intelligence platform with contact data, intent signals and AI prioritization. | 123 | 387 |
| 12 | GitHub↑ | Code hosting and collaboration platform for Git repositories. | 75 | 387 |
| 13 | SalesloftSales engagement platforms | Enterprise sales engagement platform that turns buyer signals into cadences and pipeline actions. | 76 | 376 |
| 14 | SalesforceCRM | Enterprise CRM platform for sales, service and marketing with AI agent capabilities. | 102 | 353 |
| 15 | Smartwriter | AI tool that writes personalised cold email lines from prospect data. | 107 | 336 |
| 16 | FindymailEmail finding & verification | Email and phone finder that verifies contacts in the same step and keeps CRM records enriched. | 62 | 331 |
| 17 | DeepSeek↑LLMs, routing & AI builders | Chinese AI lab releasing open-weight models with a low-cost API. | 42 | 320 |
| 18 | Cloudflare | DNS, CDN, security and serverless platform for websites and apps. | 96 | 314 |
| 19 | Supabase | Open-source Postgres backend with auth, storage and instant APIs. | 60 | 311 |
| 20 | Zoho | Suite of business apps including Zoho CRM, Mail and Books. | 84 | 308 |
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