How we created for Syensqo a GTM infrastructure that generated 100 Sales Qualified Leads in just two months

The Client

Syensqo is a global leader in specialty materials and advanced polymers, serving automotive, aerospace, semiconductor, and industrial sectors worldwide. Spun off from Solvay in December 2023, the Belgian multinational brings 160 years of scientific heritage to breakthrough innovations, with 13,000 employees across 30 countries and approximately $7.5 billion in annual sales.

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The Dormant Asset Challenge

Syensqo runs hundreds of vertical newsletters. They're great, informative, educational. Their vast audience, accumulated over years, reads them. But engagement doesn't go beyond reading. Syensqo was sitting on a pile of valuable but fully dormant contacts.

Most outbound emails are ignored. Not because of poor copy, but because of commercial pollution. You need scale. You need truthful personalisation.

The Innovation Catalyst

Aside from being leaders in the polymer materials space, Syensqo has another superpower: a group of Executives who believe in the power of AI. And this is how GTM7 encountered Syensqo.

The Process

An Audit

Understand Syensqo's tech-stack and suggest a GTM re-engineered one.

The Setup

A tech-stack orchestrating multiple platforms to work in harmony.

The Execution

Running the tech stack to enrich data, categorise via AI, write personalised copies in bulk, send emails in waves, track and categorise replies using AI, push them back into the CRM, and notify the correct sales rep.

Sample GTM tech stack

Some of the GTM Tech Stack used for the Syensqo Project

Tools Orchestrated:

  • Clay:
    the orchestrator / enricher
  • Smartlead:
    the sequencer / warmer
  • Zapmail:
    the diligent sender
  • Claude:
    the AI-copywriter
  • Slack:
    the notifier
  • OutboundSync:
    the sync-master
  • Multiple enrichment tools
    in Clay

The Data & Scale

Coverage 3 macro time zones
AI agents deployed 9 sending agents
Peak email volume 2,500 emails sent per day
Open rates achieved 50% peak performance

System Design

Central dataset with geo/company/role attributes

AI-based matching layer pairing master messaging to product verticals

Copywriting waterfall adhering to Syensqo's technical voice

Modular prompts assembling tone and attributes dynamically per row

Every single message was personalised and technically correct

AI personalisation in action
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Clay interface showing AI-generated email personalisation

The Results

100
Sales Qualified Leads
(meeting or material requests)
2%
Reply rate from opens
Hundreds
Engaged replies
Email dashboard showing 50% open rates
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Email wave achieving 50% open rate

Enrico Zanini - Syensqo
"GTM7 didn't just deliver leads. They delivered a system infrastructure that transforms how we engage with prospects. The AI-powered personalisation at scale is remarkable, and the results speak for themselves."
Enrico Zanini
Digital Platforms and Network Director, Syensqo

Lessons Learned

The performance gain didn't come from writing better emails.

It came from context orchestration and personalisation.

Valuing the people reached, what they're working on, and what Syensqo can offer them in relation to that.

Once the system is in place, outbound stops being manual and unpredictable.

It becomes a repeatable GTM motion that improves with every iteration.

That's when Clay (and the satellite tools) stops being a tool and starts acting like GTM infrastructure.

The Syensqo GTM infrastructure.

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