Owned media for B2B operators · est. 2024

100K verified B2B subscribers — an owned audience that compounds.

We build the audience first — a verified ICP newsletter at scale you own outright. Then convert it three ways: subscribers, intent, and booked meetings. Monthly milestone guarantees from day one. Three ways in.

Three standalone programs on one owned-audience engine — engagement-led, milestone-guaranteed.

300K
ICP subscribers built · Walker Deibel · 12 mo
~48%
Open rate — reported with Apple-MPP / prefetch inflation in mind; not our core metric
$0
Paid acquisition · across that growth
25+
Active B2B clients on the infrastructure

The subscriber guarantee

Miss a milestone — we work free for up to 60 extra days, or refund that month's fee.

10K
Month 01
20K
Month 02
30K
Month 03 · ramp complete
100K
Year 01 · target

01Products

Three ways in.
One compounding asset.

02Thesis

Rented attention dies.
Owned audiences compound.

Most B2B growth stacks rent attention by the impression and stack four vendors to convert it. The result is four invoices, four attribution arguments, zero compounding. We do the opposite: build the owned asset first, then convert it — one motion, one ICP, one attribution rule.

01

Rented attention.

LinkedIn, Meta, Google deliver volume but no owned asset. The day you stop paying is the day the channel dies.

02

Pipeline starves.

Sales teams need leads now. Newsletters compound over years. The two operate on incompatible timelines, one always loses.

03

Plateau at 50K.

B2B newsletters reach 20–50K subscribers and plateau. Read but never activated. No way to convert intent into outcomes.

04

Vendor stacking.

Audience agency. Content agency. Lead-gen vendor. Meeting setter. Four invoices, zero compounding across them.

03How it works

Generation.
Intent.
Capture.

Every Optin product runs on the same owned-audience engine — generate the audience, surface intent, capture pipeline. Engage any layer standalone. The compounding only kicks in when they stack.

STAGE 01 · GENERATION

Audience build.
Selective Distribution.

Placement-driven acquisition across our pre-warmed infrastructure. Verified ICP, engagement-filtered, your domain, your asset.

Output: 30K verified ICP subscribers in 90 days. 100K in year one.
STAGE 02 · INTENT

Audience activation.
Signal from readers.

Branded sequenced outreach from the newsletter identity to your owned list. Gated reports, interest probes, calendar invites. Compliance-first.

Output: Quantified intent. High-engagement segment surfaced.
STAGE 03 · CAPTURE

Pipeline capture.
Subscribers + meetings.

Cold-to-Capture™ (sold standalone as Cold-to-Optin) captures verified subscribers and early intent. Audience-to-Interview turns the warmed segment into interview-led conversations that convert to booked meetings. Both run against the intent segment from Stage 2 and a parallel cold lane.

Output: Captured subscribers and intent into your CRM. Booked meetings via Audience-to-Interview.

04Proof

Walker Deibel.
0 to 300K. Twelve months.

Wealth Stack Weekly · M&A operator audience

The audience is the moat.
It compounds with you forever.

Walker Deibel — operator, M&A advisor, founder of Wealth Stack Weekly — built a 300K+ ICP newsletter from zero on Optin's Selective Distribution infrastructure. Zero paid acquisition. The audience is the moat every Optin engagement is built on.

300K
ICP subscribers built in 12 months
~48%
Open rate — Apple-MPP / prefetch inflation in mind; not our core metric
$0
Paid acquisition spend

05Team

Operators.
Empathizing with operators.

Optin is built by operators who have run growth, content, and pipeline inside B2B SaaS — and who got tired of stacking vendors that never compounded. We sell the asset we wish we'd been sold: a verified audience you own, and a pipeline motion that lives on top of it.

The full team — operators, engineers, and editorial — works on a small number of clients at a time. Prospects speak with the founder directly.

06 · Get started

Start the conversation.
Speak with the founder.

Every Optin engagement runs against a single ICP with monthly milestone guarantees. If you fit the criteria and meet none of the disqualifiers, we want to talk. For Selective Distribution, Cold-to-Optin, or Audience-to-Interview — email directly.