Growth Installations https://growthinstallations.com/ Field reports from inside the work. Buy The Mailbox, Not The Marketing https://growthinstallations.com/reviews/buy-the-mailbox-not-the-marketing/ https://growthinstallations.com/reviews/buy-the-mailbox-not-the-marketing/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I cancelled Apollo. Replaced Clay with Python. Run our cold email pipeline on Claude for four bucks a day. The one thing in the stack I'd never DIY is the actual mailbox. You don't need Apollo. Replace it with Claude. https://growthinstallations.com/reviews/you-dont-need-apollo/ https://growthinstallations.com/reviews/you-dont-need-apollo/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Apollo wants $99 per seat per month. The same workflow runs on Claude for about $4. Here is the exact pattern. A Fortress-Backed $30M Form D Just Hit. The Cap Table Tells The Story. https://growthinstallations.com/wire/hadron-group-fortress-cap-table/ https://growthinstallations.com/wire/hadron-group-fortress-cap-table/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hadron Group filed Form D on June 23 for a $30M raise. The board reads like a Fortress family reunion with a Meta product exec attached. This isn't a normal Series A. Probook Just Raised $40M To Run Dispatch For The Trades https://growthinstallations.com/wire/probook-ben-cervantez/ https://growthinstallations.com/wire/probook-ben-cervantez/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 a16z and Sequoia bet on an AI operating system for home services. Now comes the AE-hiring binge that breaks the CRM. A 4-week cold email pipeline that runs on Claude, not Apollo https://growthinstallations.com/guides/cold-email-pipeline-with-claude/ https://growthinstallations.com/guides/cold-email-pipeline-with-claude/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The exact architecture we use to ship 50 personalized cold emails per day for $4 in compute. No Apollo. No Clay. No SDR team. Scout at the source. EDGAR Form D plus ATS feeds, no news scraping. https://growthinstallations.com/guides/edgar-ats-scout-stack/ https://growthinstallations.com/guides/edgar-ats-scout-stack/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A two-signal scout stack for B2B SaaS outbound. Funding from EDGAR, scale from Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby. TechCrunch demoted to enrichment. So You Want To Send 200,000 Cold Emails In The Next 6 Months https://growthinstallations.com/guides/so-you-want-to-send-200k-cold-emails/ https://growthinstallations.com/guides/so-you-want-to-send-200k-cold-emails/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The honest math on infrastructure, deliverability, list-building, and the part most operators don't budget for. Spoiler: it's not the tooling that breaks first.