From Signals to Sales:
Rebuilding Marketing-Sourced Pipeline

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Marketing teams are under growing pressure to do more than generate leads. They’re expected to drive pipeline, prove influence, and improve conversion rates across the funnel. Yet as organisations scale, the gap between marketing signals and sales action becomes harder to bridge. Signals live in different systems. Context is scattered across teams. And outreach decisions are often made without alignment, causing timing mismatches and lost opportunities.
Despite the increasing number of tools available to track buyer behaviour and capture intent, many teams still find themselves asking the same questions: Which accounts should we be prioritising? Has anyone followed up? What messaging should we lead with? These aren’t data problems. They’re coordination problems. And they persist even in well-funded, technically sophisticated companies.
At the heart of the issue is the difficulty of turning raw data into shared, interpretable context. Marketing knows when a company fills out a form or starts attending events. Sales might know the account has gone quiet for months. But without a common layer of intelligence that can interpret these signals and deliver them with structure and relevance, the insights rarely drive action.
Mailswift is designed to solve this problem, not by adding another dashboard or dataset, but by operationalising the link between signal and outreach. It works across your existing tools and systems, unifying structured and unstructured data to surface the right accounts, enrich them with contextual insight, and route them into the workflows your sales team already uses. It does this through two core components: Switchboard and Playbooks.
Switchboard acts as an AI operations agent that monitors changes across internal and external signals. This includes everything from job posts and tech stack updates to CRM status changes and product usage. Based on defined logic, it scores and tags accounts, routes them to the correct owners, and automatically initiates outbound sequences, internal alerts, or Playbook generation. It eliminates the need for manual triage, spreadsheet reviews, and fragmented handoffs. Sales can trust that what reaches them is timely, prioritised, and ready to action.
Playbooks provide the critical layer of context that most lead routing systems lack. For each account surfaced by Switchboard, Mailswift generates a living document that summarises the most relevant information: strategic priorities, organisational changes, recent hiring trends, funding activity, relevant stakeholders, and technical signals that align with your product. Instead of starting every outreach process with ad-hoc research, AEs begin with a concise, evidence-based brief that allows them to personalise messaging and progress the conversation meaningfully from the first touch.
The outcome is not simply faster outreach, but more confident prioritisation and better alignment between teams. Marketing can clearly show how signals are influencing sales activity. Sales gains the insight needed to convert attention into interest. And leadership sees a consistent, repeatable process for activating pipeline from intent.
Crucially, this is not about replacing judgment or removing human input. It’s about removing the coordination cost of acting on what marketing already knows. By embedding logic into the systems already in use, rather than forcing teams to learn a new interface or adopt a rigid process, Mailswift allows organisations to scale their GTM infrastructure without scaling operational complexity.
This shift is especially visible in how modern teams are rethinking their org structures. Traditional GTM models rely heavily on SDRs, RevOps, and GTM engineers to stitch systems together manually. As seen in the diagram above, newer teams are increasingly replacing these roles with embedded intelligence and automation. Instead of hiring more people to manage tools, they’re using systems like Switchboard to run core GTM workflows autonomously. Signals are no longer something teams react to; they become part of the operating system.
The transition from manual orchestration to embedded intelligence is already underway. For marketing teams tasked with driving measurable, efficient pipeline, this approach doesn’t just improve conversion rates. It changes the way go-to-market strategy is executed at every stage.
Mailswift is not a replacement for your GTM stack. It’s the connective tissue that makes it work the way it should.
Data-driven
growth strategy
In this new system, marketing becomes a pipeline partner, not just a lead generator—working hand-in-hand with sales through embedded intelligence and automation.
Run smarter campaigns
Design campaigns that generate clear, actionable signals (not just leads), and align with sales timing and ICP focus.
Define & Monitor Signals
Set up what “high intent” looks like across your data stack, and let Switchboard monitor for them.
Nurture by Need
Switchboard tracks intent signals and helps you activate or educate accounts with personalised nurture until they’re ready to buy.
Optimise Messaging and Segmentation
Refine campaign content and targeting based on which signals lead to real pipeline movement, not just clicks or form fills.
One system.
Two powerful parts.
Mailswift combines real-time automation and strategic context — so your team always knows who to focus on, and why.
Playbooks synthesizes your unconnected data about an account and its leads into a concise, actionable one-pager, while Switchboard automates lead routing, scoring, and trigger workflows. Together, they turn overwhelming data into prioritized, personalized action.

Bring GTM data to life with Switchboard
