SignalPipe is an agentic sales pipeline that monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and RSS feeds 24/7 for buying-intent signals. It uses AI to score each signal, draft a reply, and surface only real leads for human review and approval before anything is sent.

How does SignalPipe detect buying intent?

SignalPipe uses a three-stage pipeline: a keyword gate for cheap pre-filtering, OpenAI text-embedding-3-small for semantic similarity scoring against your anchor sentences, and a three-model LLM swarm (Optimist, Analyst, Skeptic) that evaluates each post independently. A hard skeptic veto suppresses any signal the most skeptical judge dismisses.

Does SignalPipe send messages automatically?

No. Every message requires human approval before it is sent. SignalPipe drafts the reply and queues it for your review — you approve, edit, or reject each one. Nothing is sent without your explicit sign-off.

What platforms does SignalPipe monitor?

SignalPipe monitors Reddit (via subreddit RSS feeds), Hacker News (via hnrss.org keyword feeds), and any RSS-compatible feed. You can add as many sources as you want per product.

How is SignalPipe different from Clay or Apollo?

Clay enriches contact lists you already have. Apollo is a cold email database. SignalPipe generates net-new leads by detecting live buying signals — finding people who are actively posting that they need what you sell, right now, in public communities.

SignalPipe has four tiers: BYOK ($19/mo — bring your own LLM key, 3 products, 50 leads/day, 1,000 prospects), Starter ($49/mo — 2 products, 25 leads/day, 500 prospects), Growth ($149/mo — 10 products, 250 leads/day, 5,000 prospects), and Scale ($499/mo — unlimited everything). Open Source is free for self-hosters. The first 100 waitlist members get 50% off for 3 months.

Does SignalPipe work with NVIDIA NeMoClaw?

Yes — fully compatible out of the box. NeMoClaw is NVIDIA's enterprise distribution of OpenClaw, so any OpenClaw plugin installs and runs on NeMoClaw without modification. For on-prem deployments, SignalPipe also supports local model inference: set COMPANION_LLM_PROVIDER=openai_compatible and point it at a locally running Nemotron or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Your leads, prospect data, and generated messages never leave your infrastructure.

Can I run SignalPipe fully on-premises?

Yes. Self-host the FastAPI backend on your own server, connect it to your own PostgreSQL database, and configure the companion message generation to use a local model via any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Nemotron via NeMoClaw, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM). The only external call that remains is the OpenAI embedding API for signal scoring — and that can be swapped for a local embedding model by request.

Reddit Monitoring

Find Clients and Buyers on r/freelance

r/freelance has 300,000+ freelancers discussing client acquisition, tools, and what's working. High-intent conversations for freelance service tools and client-finding software.

Station RSS URL

https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/.rss

Paste this when calling signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit"

What is r/freelance?

r/freelance is a community of independent contractors and consultants across design, development, writing, marketing, and other disciplines. Members frequently discuss finding clients, managing projects, and tools they use. Client acquisition is a persistent pain point — making this community high-intent for lead generation tools.

What do buying signals look like on r/freelance?

Freelancers frame lead gen as "finding clients" rather than "lead generation" — anchor sentences should mirror their language. Look for "how do you find new clients?", "what platforms work best for X freelancers?", "struggling to get consistent client flow". Budget and ease-of-use are primary filters.

Example high-intent posts from r/freelance

"How do experienced freelancers find consistent clients without relying on Upwork?"

Why it's a signal: Client acquisition problem. Open to tool recommendations outside existing platforms.

"Anyone using Reddit to find clients? What's the approach that works?"

Why it's a signal: Direct signal — exploring Reddit-based client acquisition. Exact product use case.

"Tired of cold pitching — what tools help you find people who are already looking for your services?"

Why it's a signal: Intent-based outreach need. Explicitly wants warm, not cold.

Ready-to-use anchor sentences for r/freelance

Anchor sentences are buyer phrases written from the buyer's perspective. SignalPipe uses them to score semantic similarity against posts. Add these when calling signalpipe_add_product.

1"freelancer looking for tools to find warm clients"

2"want to monitor Reddit for people asking for my freelance services"

3"tired of cold pitching, need inbound approach to finding clients"

4"looking for software to track potential clients across communities"

5"how to find clients on Reddit without being spammy"

How to start monitoring r/freelance with SignalPipe

Install SignalPipe

Run `openclaw plugins install signalpipe` inside OpenClaw. Takes under a minute.

Create a product profile

Call signalpipe_add_product. Paste the anchor sentences above into the anchor_sentences field. Add "finding clients", "looking for freelancer", "recommendation" to buy_signal_keywords.

Add r/freelance as a station

Call signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit" and rss_url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/freelance/.rss". Then call signalpipe_reload_products.

Run your first scan

Call signalpipe_scout_now to trigger an immediate scan. Then signalpipe_get_missions to see the first batch of scored leads.

Start monitoring r/freelance today

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