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.

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Find Community Signals Buyers on r/startups

r/startups surfaces community signals discussions daily — evaluations, competitor complaints, and recommendation requests. SignalPipe monitors every post for genuine buying intent, 24/7.

Why monitor r/startups for Community Signals buyers?

r/startups is a community for early-stage founders, startup employees, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Members discuss fundraising, growth, hiring, and — crucially — the tools they use to run and grow their companies. Tool recommendation threads are common and high-quality. Community Signals buyers in this community post with specificity — they describe their current stack, their pain, and what they need next. These are not passive researchers. They are active buyers.

Station RSS URL for r/startups

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

Use this when calling signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit"

What do Community Signals buying signals look like on r/startups?

"I've been manually monitoring Reddit for leads — it works but it's not scalable"

Why it's a signal: Manual process buyer. Direct fit.

"Community-based lead gen has been our best channel — anyone automate this at scale?"

Why it's a signal: Channel validation + automation need.

"Ask HN: how do you systematically find people posting about problems your product solves?"

Why it's a signal: Signal methodology question. Core buyer.

"We respond to Reddit threads as a sales tactic — what tools make this more efficient?"

Why it's a signal: Direct SignalPipe use case. Highest intent.

Anchor sentences for Community Signals buyers on r/startups

Add these to signalpipe_add_product to score r/startups posts for Community Signals buying intent.

1"need to automate detection of buying signals in community posts"

2"looking for tool that monitors Reddit and HN for buying intent signals"

3"want to scale community-based lead generation with signal automation"

4"need systematic approach to finding buyers posting in online communities"

How to start monitoring r/startups for Community Signals buyers

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 r/startups as a station

Call signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit" and rss_url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/.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 Community Signals leads from r/startups.

Start finding Community Signals buyers on r/startups

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Full setup guide →

All 11 tools, anchor sentences, station types

All signals on r/startups →

Full subreddit monitoring guide

Community Signals buying signals →

All platforms and signal examples

How intent scoring works →

4-stage pipeline explained