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Architect leads for marketing agencies

Build your own list of architects, fill in missing emails and offer your marketing, advertising and growth services to them in small, personal batches.

  • Public sources for architects
  • Fields that fit the industry
  • No credits, no rented data
Audience overview in Riftjaw with daily audience, new contacts and most engaged people

Selling marketing, advertising and growth services to architects

Architecture practices are often small studios led by one or two directors, with larger firms organised by sector. They specify materials and products on projects, so suppliers want to be known to them long before a build starts.

Most marketing agencies win clients through referrals, a few directories and the odd cold email sent from a spreadsheet. A lead database of your own lets you build a list per niche and region, see who you already contacted and follow up without losing track.

The architects that need marketing, advertising and growth services are listed publicly. What most marketing agencies lack is a list they own, with the right fields, that shows who was already contacted.

What marketing agencies run into with architects

Prospect lists for each niche end up in separate spreadsheets that nobody keeps up to date.

Import every list into one lead database, split it with segments per niche or region and keep one status per company.

Local businesses often show a website but no email address.

Email from domain derives role addresses such as info@ and hello@ from the website, with no credits to spend.

Architects receive many supplier mails and ignore generic ones.

Placeholders and segments per sector let you send a relevant message instead of one blast.

Small studios often have only a studio@ address.

Add studio@ as your own prefix in email from domain.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of architects from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

List of imports and scrapes in Riftjaw
Imports and scrapes in Riftjaw, each with its source, lead file, date and number of rows.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, studio@, hello@ and office@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Contacts list in Riftjaw with company, phone, email, segment, campaigns and tags
The contacts list in Riftjaw: every company with its town, phone, email and segment.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your marketing, advertising and growth services to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Contact panel in Riftjaw with pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history
A contact in Riftjaw with its pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history.

Angles that work with architects

Pick one angle per campaign and write it once, with placeholders like {company|your team} for the details.

  • Refer to a recent project and suggest how your product fits similar work.
  • Offer technical data, samples or a short learning session, which architects value.
  • Keep visuals and specifications easy to find, because architects decide on detail.
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

Fields worth recording for architects

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for architects.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
SectorsResidential, commercial or public work each specify different products.
ArchitectsStudio size shows project scale.
SoftwareThe design package they use matters for any software offer or file exchange.
Recent projectA named project gives you a concrete, relevant opening.
DirectorThe person who approves suppliers and specifications.

Questions people ask

Add a field or tags for sectors such as residential or commercial. Save a filter per sector and write a campaign for each.

Public planning records often name the agent or architect. You collect those names yourself, save them as a CSV and import them. Riftjaw does not crawl those sites for you.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, studio@, hello@ and office@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

Build a database you own

Create your account, import your first list and see it turn into records you can work.

No credit card · cancel any time · your data stays yours