An ideal client profile for software
Software can usually serve many industries. The first campaign should not.
- Use case
- The one job your product does best, described in the client's words, not in feature names.
- Industry and size
- Where that job hurts most and where you already have references. Company size decides who owns the problem.
- The role
- Who feels the problem every day and who signs. In smaller companies it is often the same person.
- What they use today
- A spreadsheet, an older tool or a manual process. If it is visible from the outside, on their website or in job ads, it can be part of the profile.
- Market and language
- Where you can sell, support and invoice. Time zone overlap matters for demos.
Timing signals worth watching
Hiring
A job ad for a role your product supports or replaces.
Growth
A new office, a new market or a new service line announced on their site.
A visible gap
A broken booking form, a manual quote process, an outdated client portal.
A change of tools
A job ad that mentions a migration or a new system.
What the first contact says
Not the feature list. One observation about the recipient's business, one sentence on how similar companies handle it and a question whether a short walkthrough would be useful.
The demo is the second step. People agree to it when the first message proves you looked at their company, not at a list.
For software houses and IT service firms
A software house sells projects, not licences, so trust and references carry more weight. A narrow profile helps here too: an industry where you have finished projects, a company size where an outside team makes sense and a market with enough overlap in working hours.
Kouryer covers the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Western Europe and Poland. The market and the language of outreach are agreed before launch.
From a reply to a demo on your calendar
- 01
Reply
Your manager answers within your plan's window, in the tone agreed with you.
- 02
Questions
Pricing, integrations or security questions outside the agreed scope are flagged for you.
- 03
Time
We agree the slot, send the invite and a reminder before the call.
- 04
Context
You get the company card and the whole thread, so the demo starts from their problem.