Origami is a conversational prospecting tool that turns plain-English prompts into sales lead lists, aimed at outbound teams who've exhausted what traditional contact databases can surface. Backed by Y Combinator's F24 batch, it deploys AI research agents that scour the internet to surface insights that exist beyond structured databases, the kind of buying signals buried in product reviews, LinkedIn activity, and niche web sources rather than sitting in a CRM export.
The product works as an AI-powered spreadsheet to find and enrich ideal customers, pulling from 100+ data sources to build lists, enrich a CSV, or identify decision makers. This launch matters because it reframes the category occupied by Clay, Apollo, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator: instead of querying a fixed database, users describe the customer they want and Origami assembles the list from unstructured signals across the open web, which is particularly useful for niche ICPs that don't map cleanly to firmographic filters.
The company was founded by Finn Mallery (CEO), Kenson Chung (President), and Rahul Chandler (CTO), with Mallery previously working on GTM from launch at Fizz after studying Math/CS at Stanford, and having built custom automated outbound sales solutions for 20+ startups before starting Origami. For founders and operators evaluating outbound tooling, the launch is worth a look precisely because of the bet underneath it, that the highest-intent leads don't live in any database you can buy.
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Marcus ValeApr 21, 2026
"The world's first AI that finds you new customers" is a bold claim in a category with roughly 9,000 products that claim exactly that. At least commit to the bit and say second.
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Nikhil S.Apr 21, 2026
dumb question but if 1000+ companies already use it, why is this the launch? what was it before today?
Terry DistefanoApr 21, 2026
Where are these leads actually coming from. "No database has them" is either a scraping story you don't want to tell or a generative one I really don't want in my pipeline.
Olive GreenwayApr 21, 2026
ok wait the RT-and-reply-with-your-website trick is genuinely smart launch marketing, you get engagement AND a free dataset of people who want to try it. chef's kiss on the funnel.
Priya RamanApr 21, 2026
Stanford AI founder, outbound pain point, viral reply mechanic on launch day. I've seen worse term sheets written on less.
Dawit MengistuApr 21, 2026
The 5-leads-in-a-reply promise is fun until 800 people reply and someone's poor pipeline is manually QAing them at 2am. Curious how that actually gets fulfilled.
Kate RuessApr 21, 2026
Cool, now do enrichment, intent signals, and a Slack bot that pings me when the lead opens my site. I'll wait.
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Origami is a conversational prospecting tool that turns plain-English prompts into sales lead lists, aimed at outbound teams who've exhausted what traditional contact databases can surface. Backed by Y Combinator's F24 batch, it deploys AI research agents that scour the internet to surface insights that exist beyond structured databases, the kind of buying signals buried in product reviews, LinkedIn activity, and niche web sources rather than sitting in a CRM export. The product works as an AI-powered spreadsheet to find and enrich ideal customers, pulling from 100+ data sources to build lists, enrich a CSV, or identify decision makers. This launch matters because it reframes the category occupied by Clay, Apollo, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator: instead of querying a fixed database, users describe the customer they want and Origami assembles the list from unstructured signals across the open web, which is particularly useful for niche ICPs that don't map cleanly to firmographic filters. The company was founded by Finn Mallery (CEO), Kenson Chung (President), and Rahul Chandler (CTO), with Mallery previously working on GTM from launch at Fizz after studying Math/CS at Stanford, and having built custom automated outbound sales solutions for 20+ startups before starting Origami. For founders and operators evaluating outbound tooling, the launch is worth a look precisely because of the bet underneath it, that the highest-intent leads don't live in any database you can buy.
Comments (7)
"The world's first AI that finds you new customers" is a bold claim in a category with roughly 9,000 products that claim exactly that. At least commit to the bit and say second.
dumb question but if 1000+ companies already use it, why is this the launch? what was it before today?
Where are these leads actually coming from. "No database has them" is either a scraping story you don't want to tell or a generative one I really don't want in my pipeline.
ok wait the RT-and-reply-with-your-website trick is genuinely smart launch marketing, you get engagement AND a free dataset of people who want to try it. chef's kiss on the funnel.
Stanford AI founder, outbound pain point, viral reply mechanic on launch day. I've seen worse term sheets written on less.
The 5-leads-in-a-reply promise is fun until 800 people reply and someone's poor pipeline is manually QAing them at 2am. Curious how that actually gets fulfilled.
Cool, now do enrichment, intent signals, and a Slack bot that pings me when the lead opens my site. I'll wait.