Partnership Outreach Tracker for B2B Solo Founders

Problem and target customer

Why this exists

Customer problem

Solo B2B founders manage partnership outreach across disconnected spreadsheets and email clients, losing track of reply status, follow-up timing, and deal stage — making it hard to close even a handful of co-marketing or integration deals per quarter.

Who pays

One-person B2B SaaS founders running targeted partnership campaigns of 20-50 prospects at a time, who need a structured pipeline without the overhead of a full CRM.

Business model

Monthly SaaS subscription with usage-based add-ons tied to the number of relationship records updated per month.

Editorial note

A solo B2B founder running partnership outreach typically juggles a spreadsheet of prospects, a Gmail inbox, and a sticky note of follow-up dates. The result is missed replies, forgotten nudges, and deals that stall before a co-marketing agreement or integration is signed.

This tracker collapses that workflow into one workspace. A founder imports 30 prospects, drafts personalized outreach with LLM assistance, sends through a transactional email layer, and advances each prospect through a visible pipeline. Follow-up reminders surface automatically so no prospect goes cold.

The MVP deliberately excludes multi-user collaboration, automated drip sequences, and revenue attribution. The goal is to help one person close three partnership deals from a 30-prospect campaign — not to replicate a full CRM.

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What would it take to run?

Directional infrastructure estimates for the current 1,500 relationship records assumption. Open the full calculator when you are ready to change it.

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ManagedSelected

$25-$65/ month

Managed app hosting, database, backups, and basic observability for the crm workflow.

Lowest operating effort

Lean self-hosted

$8-$28/ month

One small VPS running the app, database, media volume, and backup job.

Lowest baseline cost

More control

$45-$125/ month

Separate app, data, storage, and worker capacity for cleaner operations.

Most separation and control

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Product goal

Who it serves and what it must change

Target user: Solo B2B SaaS founder managing 20-50 partnership prospects per campaign
Problem: Partnership outreach is scattered across spreadsheets and email with no structured follow-up, causing missed replies and stalled deals
Measurable outcome: A founder completes a 30-prospect outreach cycle and closes at least 3 partnership deals tracked entirely within the workspace

MVP scope

What ships now and what waits

Included

Campaign creation and CSV prospect import
Pipeline table with stage transitions and expandable rows
LLM-assisted outreach email drafting
Transactional email send and reply logging
Follow-up reminder queue
Deal document attachment on close

Excluded

Multi-user collaboration
Automated drip sequences
Revenue attribution analytics
Calendar auto-scheduling
Public partner marketplace

UX and user flow

Screens, actions, and states

Campaign Dashboard

Shows active campaigns with prospect counts, stage distribution, and overdue follow-up alerts

Create campaignSelect campaign to open pipelineView overdue follow-ups

Prospect Pipeline

Compact table of prospects within a campaign with expandable rows showing email thread, stage, and next action

Update prospect stageOpen reply logTrigger LLM draftSend outreach email

Email Draft Editor

Modal showing LLM-generated outreach draft with editable body and subject before sending via transactional email

Edit draftRegenerate with different toneSend email

Deal Close Panel

Form to mark a prospect as Closed-Won, attach a deal document, and record partnership type

Set deal stageUpload documentConfirm close

Primary flow

Open Campaign Dashboard
Select or create campaign
Import prospects via CSV
Draft and send outreach emails
Log replies and advance stages
Schedule follow-ups
Close deals with attachments

Loading, empty, and error states

Drafted
Sent
Replied
Follow-up Scheduled
Closed-Won
Closed-Lost

Core entity outline

Entities and business rules

Campaign

Groups prospects under a partnership outreach initiative

Fields: id, workspace_id, name, partnership_type, created_at
Relations: Has many Prospects

Prospect

Represents a single partner target within a campaign

Fields: id, campaign_id, company_name, contact_email, stage, follow_up_date, created_at
Relations: Belongs to Campaign, Has many Emails, Has one Deal

Email

Stores sent outreach emails and logged replies for a prospect

Fields: id, prospect_id, direction, subject, body, sent_at
Relations: Belongs to Prospect

Deal

Records a closed partnership agreement with attached document

Fields: id, prospect_id, deal_type, document_url, closed_at
Relations: Belongs to Prospect

Reminder

Surfaces overdue follow-ups on the dashboard

Fields: id, prospect_id, due_date, status, created_at
Relations: Belongs to Prospect

Business rules

A prospect cannot move to Closed-Won without at least one logged reply email
Follow-up reminders are generated when a prospect in Sent stage has no reply after the configured interval (default 5 business days)
LLM draft generation requires company_name and partnership_type to be populated on the prospect record
Only one active campaign per workspace in the MVP to keep scope narrow

Architecture and data flow

Components, integrations, and controls

Lovable Frontend

Renders campaign dashboard, pipeline table, draft editor, and deal panel; calls Supabase directly

Supabase Database

Stores campaigns, prospects, emails, deals, and reminders with row-level security

Resend Email Service

Sends outbound outreach emails and fires reply webhooks

OpenAI API

Generates personalized outreach email drafts from prospect context

Railway Cron Service

Daily job that queries prospects past follow-up interval and creates reminder records

Make Scenario

Maps Resend reply webhooks to prospect stage updates in Supabase

Integrations

Resend transactional email API with reply webhook
OpenAI completions API for draft generation
Supabase Postgres for all persistent data

Data flow

Founder triggers draft in Lovable UI → Lovable calls OpenAI with prospect context → draft returned to editor → founder sends → Lovable calls Resend API → email sent and Email record created in Supabase → prospect stage set to Sent → Railway cron checks daily for overdue follow-ups → reminder created → Resend reply webhook → Make updates prospect to Replied

Failure handling

If OpenAI call fails, show error and allow manual draft entry
If Resend send fails, mark email as Failed and allow retry
If Make webhook is delayed, founder can manually log reply in UI
If Railway cron misses a run, reminders are recalculated on next dashboard load

Security

Supabase row-level security scoped to workspace_id
Resend API key stored in environment variables
OpenAI API key stored in environment variables
Only authenticated workspace owner can access prospect data

Rate limits

OpenAI: max 30 draft requests per hour per workspace
Resend: respect provider rate limits for outbound email
Supabase: standard connection pool limits

Deliverables and acceptance

Definition of done for the MVP

Deliverables

Deployed Lovable app with campaign dashboard and pipeline table
Supabase schema with campaigns, prospects, emails, deals, and reminders tables
Resend integration for outbound email and reply webhooks
OpenAI draft generation endpoint
Railway cron for follow-up reminders
Make scenario for reply webhook mapping

Acceptance criteria

Founder can create a campaign, import 30 prospects via CSV, and see all 30 in the pipeline table with stage Drafted
Founder can generate an LLM draft for a prospect, edit it, send via Resend, and the prospect stage advances to Sent with an Email record logged
When a prospect reply webhook fires, the prospect stage updates to Replied within 60 seconds and the reply appears in the expandable row
After 5 business days with no reply, a Reminder record appears on the dashboard for the prospect
Founder can move a prospect to Closed-Won, attach a deal document, and the Deal record is created with a downloadable document URL

Recommended stack

Enough technology for the first version

Frontend and Backend

Lovable

Rapidly builds the React frontend with Supabase auth, dark sidebar layout, and pipeline table UI from a single prompt.

Database and Auth

Supabase

Provides PostgreSQL tables for campaigns, prospects, deals, and reminders plus row-level security for the solo founder workspace.

Transactional Email

Resend

Developer-friendly API for sending outreach emails and receiving reply webhooks to update prospect status.

LLM Drafting

OpenAI API

Generates personalized outreach email drafts from prospect context with a single completion call per draft request.

Automation Glue

Make

Optional webhook handler that maps inbound email reply events from Resend to prospect record updates in Supabase.

Hosting

Railway

Deploys any custom backend service or scheduled cron for follow-up reminders alongside the Lovable-hosted frontend.

Why this is sufficient

Lovable handles the full-stack UI and Supabase connection for a solo founder who needs speed. Resend covers outbound email and reply webhooks. OpenAI powers draft generation only when the founder requests it. Make is optional glue for mapping reply webhooks to database updates. Railway hosts any cron or edge function for reminder scheduling.

Not required for the MVP

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Model the MVP operating cost

A technical run-cost estimate for the first production version. Team, acquisition, payment fees, and business COGS are excluded.

Estimated monthly total$25-$65

$13-$33 per 750 relationship records

Relationship records updated / month1,500 relationship records

Selected pathEasiest

Pricing checkedAug 2, 2026

Cost breakdown

$25-$65 per month

Low and high values allow for usage variance and plan headroom.

Managed infrastructure

Managed app hosting, database, backups, and basic observability for the crm workflow.

50K relationship records included, then $8-$20 per 100K relationship records

$25-$65

Transactional email

Transactional email is implied by the source workflow or feature list.

3K relationship records included

Included

Application hosting
Relational database
Basic backups
channel performance and content plans state
Transactional email

Not included

Paid acquisition
Founder or team time
Tax or legal review
Custom enterprise procurement

Pricing basis

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Managed app baseline Resend pricing

Deployment options

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EasiestRecommended

Railway

Fast Docker deployment for the app, database, worker, and preview workflow without managing a VPS.

$15-90/month before usage-heavy add-ons

Good fit

Fast setup
Low starting cost
Good preview workflow

Limitation

Usage billing needs active monitoring as traffic and jobs grow.

Open Railway

Cheapest

Vultr

Run the app, worker, and database on one small Vultr VPS with Docker Compose and explicit backups.

$8-60/month before managed add-ons

Good fit

Predictable baseline
Portable setup
Room for workers

Limitation

You own patching, backups, monitoring, and incident response.

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More control

DigitalOcean

Separate application, worker, data, storage, and backup responsibilities as the workload grows.

$10-120/month before managed add-ons

Good fit

Cloud VPS control
Global regions
Room for workers

Limitation

You own server setup, patching, backups, and operational monitoring.

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Prototype, automate, then deploy

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01Vibe-coding builderBuild the Partnership Pipeline UI

Prompt Lovable to generate a dark-sidebar React app with a campaign list, prospect pipeline table with expandable rows, reply log view, and deal attachment panel — all connected to Supabase tables.

Open Lovable 02AutomationWire Reply Webhooks to Prospect Records

Configure a Make scenario that listens for Resend reply webhooks, parses the sender email, matches it to a prospect record in Supabase, and updates the prospect stage to Replied with a timestamp.

Open Make 03DeployDeploy Follow-up Reminder Cron

Deploy a lightweight Node or Python service on Railway that runs a daily cron query against Supabase for prospects past their follow-up interval and writes reminder records for dashboard surfacing.

Open Railway

Partnership Outreach Tracker for B2B Solo Founders

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Why this exists

Customer problem

Who pays

Business model

What do you need next?

What would it take to run?

Build the first paid use case

Who it serves and what it must change

What ships now and what waits

Included

Excluded

Screens, actions, and states

Primary flow

Loading, empty, and error states

Entities and business rules

Business rules

Components, integrations, and controls

Integrations

Data flow

Failure handling

Security

Rate limits

Definition of done for the MVP

Deliverables

Acceptance criteria

Enough technology for the first version

Lovable

Supabase

Resend

OpenAI API

Make

Railway

Why this is sufficient

Not required for the MVP

Build, price, and deploy the MVP

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Usage assumptions

$25-$65 per month

Included

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Pricing basis

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Railway

Good fit

Limitation

Vultr

Good fit

Limitation

DigitalOcean

Good fit

Limitation

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