Prospect extraction
Researches candidate companies that match your industry, region, and criteria.
An AI sales agent, built in Kyoto
Outbound prospecting,
run by an AI sales
employee.
Building target lists, researching companies, drafting outreach, sending email and contact-form messages, organizing replies, and reporting improvements. Kanae, our AI sales agent, continuously runs the early-stage outbound work that human teams keep putting off.
The intro is free, with no commitment. See what Kanae can do for you first.
- From ¥100K setup
- From ¥50K/month
- 2–4 week pilot
- Human approval before send
The 6 steps Kanae runs for outbound prospecting
- 01List building
- 02Research
- 03Drafting
- 04Outreach
- 05Reply triage
- 06Improve
The problem
The revenue is there—
but outbound never gets done.
Most SMBs don't lack drive or a good product. The problem is that they don't have the execution capacity to keep outbound prospecting running consistently.
- No time to build prospect lists
- Per-company research stays shallow
- Email and form sending is all manual
- Replies and follow-ups get deprioritized
- Existing accounts crowd out new business
- No visibility into results, so nothing improves
What you need isn't just another AI tool—it's a system that keeps sales running.
The solution
Kanae, our AI sales agent, runs
the first moves of outbound end to end.
Kanae is an AI sales employee that handles everything from prospect research and first contact to reply triage and improvement reports. You focus on the initial setup and reviewing key replies, while the AI and CosmoSketch handle the day-to-day execution.
1
Research
Steps 01·02 of 6 (list building & company research)
Kanae surfaces candidate companies that match your industry, region, and criteria, then organizes the details on each one. You decide where and why to reach out based on data, not gut feel.
Integrations & tech
- Google Places API
- Cross-web research
- Fit scoring (matcher)
2
Make contact
Steps 03·04 of 6 (drafting & outreach)
Kanae writes outreach tailored to each company and reaches out by email or contact form. Not a bulk template blast—a first touch built around each company's context.
Integrations & tech
- LLM per-company drafting
- Gmail API
- Postmark delivery
- Playwright form submission
3
Improve
Steps 05·06 of 6 (reply triage & improvement)
Kanae organizes replies and responses, then refines the next round of targets, messaging, and positioning. It's not a one-off—sales precision compounds month over month.
Integrations & tech
- Reply classification (reply-classify)
- Slack API approvals & daily reports
- Google Sheets reporting
- Audit logs
Capabilities
From prospect research to a triaged pipeline—handled together.
Company research & hypotheses
Reviews each company's web presence and frames why it's worth reaching out.
Tailored message drafting
Writes outreach to fit each company's context—not one-size-fits-all template blasts.
Outreach execution
Handles first contact via email, contact form, and more.
Reply triage & pipeline support
Sorts replies into interested, considering, or not a fit, and surfaces the ones to act on first.
Reporting & improvement
Proposes next-round improvements based on touches, replies, and response patterns.
PRODUCT DEMO
Kanae is working right now.
Growing the list, writing outreach, reporting in Slack—shown with real screen mockups. * Company names and numbers are samples.
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Kanae_Sales_List
Google Sheets
Researching 34 / 40 companies
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| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Company | Industry | Location | Fit score | Status |
| 2 | Kitayama Precision | Manufacturing | Kyoto | 92 | Contacted |
| 3 | Rakunan Metals Trading | Specialty trading | Kyoto | 88 | Pending approval |
Auto-added research note: Kitayama Precision: public job posting for production engineers suggests a ramp-up phase
* Demo screen (sample data)
M
Gmail
0 drafted today
New message▢ ✕
To Kitayama Precision
Subject: One idea for your inspection process
Apologies for reaching out unannounced. We saw your job posting and noticed you're investing in production engineering, so we wanted to share one idea on automating your inspection process.
Send
Human approves before send
Sent ✓
* Demo screen (sample)
CosmoSketch ▾
# kanae-sales-daily ｜ auto-posted
K
Kanae APP 17:30
Started today's research.
Message #kanae-sales-daily
* Demo screen (sample)
Use cases
Built for outbound—and a range of sales scenarios.
New-customer prospecting
Research prospects across manufacturing, specialty trading, and B2B services, then support first contact.
Contact-form outreach
Reach companies, shops, and organizations even when no email address is published.
Refining existing lists
Re-research business cards, trade-show contacts, and past-deal lists, then prioritize them.
Overseas sales & market entry
Research overseas buyers, distributor candidates, and procurement leads, and reach out in English.
Referral & partner development
Research buyer, procurement, and partner candidates, and create introductions worth making.
Government & industry promotion
Support market development for regional firms, inbound-investment outreach, and industry-promotion programs.
How we're different
Easier to delegate than an AI tool, and you keep the know-how a sales agency takes with it.
| Criteria | Typical AI tool | Sales outsourcing | SaaS AI agent | Kanae |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A tool only | Execution outsourced | Automation software | AI sales employee + hands-on support |
| Your effort | High (you run it) | Low (fully handed off) | Medium (you set up & operate) | Low to medium (initial setup & key-reply review) |
| Workflow design | × You | △ Agency-led | × You | ◎ Designed together |
| Execution | × You | ◎ Agency runs it | △ Semi-automated | ◎ AI + CosmoSketch support |
| Improvement | △ Up to you | △ Often opaque | △ Metrics visible | ◎ Data & hypotheses compound monthly |
| Best fit | Teams with capacity to operate | Teams that want to hand it off | Teams that can run it in-house | Teams with no in-house bandwidth that still want to keep their sales know-how |
For teams who want hands-on support while building their own sales assets—not just to hand sales off entirely.
Early results
Even a small pilot produced replies and a meeting.
Results from an early test run within our own related business (an ad-media operation).
3.5%
Reply rate
6 replies ÷ 173 valid sends
200
Emails sent
173
Valid sends
6
Replies
3
Interested replies
1
Meeting booked
Small pilot
— indicative only
An early test within our own related business. Results vary by industry, offering, and sending conditions.
This service does not guarantee revenue or booked meetings; it increases your volume of sales execution and your speed of improvement.
The impact
Spend less time on busywork, explore more new opportunities.
Less manual work
Cut the time spent on list building, company research, and drafting.
More opportunities
Increase companies contacted, replies, and pipeline candidates.
Compounding know-how
Accumulate response data by industry and angle to sharpen sales hypotheses.
Ongoing operation
Not a one-off—run an improvement loop every month.
For ¥50K–200K/month, if you land even one qualified meeting a month, a few new deals a year, real time savings for your reps, or validated sales hypotheses, it's well worth a look.
* The above is one way to think about the investment, not a guarantee of results. Outcomes vary by industry, offering, and operating setup.
How it starts
Start with a 2–4 week pilot.
- 01
Free consult
We review your sales challenges, target industry, offering, and whether you have existing lists.
- 02
Set the theme
Decide the first test theme—new-customer prospecting, list refinement, overseas sales, and so on.
- 03
List building & research
Surface candidate companies and prioritize them for outreach.
- 04
Drafting & first contact
After your review before send, reach out by email and contact form.
- 05
Reply triage & report
Report on replies, interest levels, pipeline candidates, and next-round improvements.
- 06
Decide to continue
Look at the results and decide whether to move into monthly operation.
Pricing
Setup fee plus a monthly fee—start small.
List Audit
From ¥100K
Setup only / no monthly fee
Refine an existing list, prioritize prospects, and shape an outreach approach.
Get in touchLite
From ¥50K/mo
+ ¥100K–300K setup
Email sending: 10/business day
Test one focused theme—list building, first contact, and reply triage.
Start with this planPro
From ¥120K/mo
+ ¥200K–500K setup
Email sending: 30/business day
Run outbound continuously each month, with expanded volume, scope, and reporting.
Get in touchEnterprise
Custom quote
Email sending: 50+/business day
For overseas sales, government support, referral development, and multi-theme operation.
Request a quotePricing varies by scope, send volume, research depth, and operating setup. Quotes are free.
We recommend confirming results and operating load with a small pilot first. Beyond the setup fee and monthly fee, there are no success fees or hidden charges.
At the end of a pilot, we report the actual send and reply counts, response patterns, root-cause analysis, and next moves (the inputs for deciding to change theme, continue, or stop). This is not a service that guarantees revenue or booked meetings.
Risk management
Never fully hands-off—human review manages the risk.
Approval before send
Initial messaging and important sends are reviewed by a human before they go out.
No mass blasting
We cap send volume and vet target companies before reaching out.
No overclaiming
We define up front what may and may not be said.
Humans verify key info
Important details about a company or its situation are checked by a human.
Minimal data only
Data is isolated per customer, and we handle only what's needed.
Designed around human review, so you can delegate with confidence.
COMPLIANCE
Compliance and data handling
"Won't this be spam?" "Is personal data safe?" Here are the facts behind the questions we hear most.
Sending under Japan's anti-spam law
We disclose sender information, honor opt-outs, and exclude companies that display a "no solicitation" notice. Based on public information and consent, we don't send indiscriminately at scale (volume caps apply).
Protecting personal data
In line with Japan's personal data protection law, we use data only within its stated purpose. Data is tenant-isolated and encrypted, and actions and sends are recorded in audit logs. Subprocessors are properly supervised, and we never repurpose your data to train AI or for other clients.
AI's limits and human involvement
AI output can contain errors. Important sends go out only after a human reviews them (approval before send), operated in line with national guidelines for AI businesses. "AI does everything" is never the case here.
Sending overseas
For overseas sales, we design sending around the destination country's laws (e.g. GDPR) and business customs. Target countries and sending methods are agreed in advance.
* We do not currently hold third-party certifications (such as ISO/IEC 27001 or the Privacy Mark). Regardless of certification, we actually operate the safeguards described above (details).
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Q.Does the AI send emails on its own?+
No. Initial messaging and important sends are reviewed by a human before they go out (approval before send is our standard).
Q.Are results guaranteed?+
This service does not guarantee revenue or booked meetings. It uses touches, replies, pipeline candidates, and time saved as KPIs to increase your volume of sales execution and your speed of improvement.
Q.How is this different from sales outsourcing?+
Sales outsourcing hands execution to a third party. Kanae, as an AI sales employee, supports execution while leaving the response data and sales hypotheses with you.
Q.Can we start without an existing sales list?+
Yes. We can support you starting from list building, based on your industry, region, and target criteria.
Q.Can we use existing business-card or trade-show lists?+
Yes. You can start by re-researching an existing list and prioritizing it for outreach.
Q.Can it handle overseas sales?+
Yes. We can research overseas buyers, distributor candidates, and procurement leads, and draft English-language outreach.
Q.How quickly can we start?+
The first pilot typically runs about 2–4 weeks. If the scope is clear, it can sometimes start faster.
Q.Any concerns about spam or legal issues?+
Under Japan's anti-spam law, we disclose sender information, honor opt-outs, exclude companies that display a "no solicitation" notice, and cap send volume. Based on public information and consent, we don't send indiscriminately at scale. See our Terms of Service and Information Security for details.
Q.Is personal data and information handling safe?+
In line with Japan's personal data protection law, we use data only within its stated purpose. Data is tenant-isolated and encrypted, and actions and sends are recorded in audit logs. Subprocessors are properly supervised, and we never repurpose your data to train AI or for other clients. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Q.Is reaching out via contact forms a problem?+
Contacting a company through its form is not itself illegal, but we respect each company's "no solicitation" notice and vet recipients and frequency. We don't send at volumes that would disrupt the recipient's work, and we keep a human in the loop.
Ready to take outbound off the
"someday" list?
Start with a small pilot covering list building, first contact, reply triage, and improvement proposals. No big system rollout—decide whether to continue based on real-world results.
- First consult & list audit are free
- Reply within 2 business days
- Instant confirmation email
- Start small: from ¥100K setup and ¥50K/month
- Confirm results and operating load in 2–4 weeks
- Human approval before send, for peace of mind
We're a real company based in Karasuma, Kyoto. Kanae, our AI sales agent, is the very system we run for ourselves every day.
Contact
ttakino@cosmosketch.co.jp
Only Karasuma Bldg. S-34, 647-2 Nijohanjikicho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8412, Japan
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