Leads arrive incomplete, champions move on quietly, and CRMs slowly fall out of sync with reality. After fixing the same issues a few too many times, teams stop thinking in terms of one-off enrichment and start building systems that can handle change on their own.
This post walks through five GTM automation plays revenue teams end up building once they stop assuming their CRM tells the full story, and start designing data to move, update, and trigger action continuously.
Nobody starts a GTM role thinking, “I can’t wait to spend my time fixing data.”
It usually sneaks up on you.
At first, things mostly work. Leads come in, reps follow up, dashboards look reasonable. Then you notice small things that are easy to dismiss. A rep complains that half their new leads bounce. Someone mentions a champion who left months ago and no one caught it. Marketing swears the form is performing well, while sales quietly avoids the leads coming from it.
Eventually, you reach a point where you realize the problem is not one broken workflow or one missing field. The problem is that the system you rely on assumes the world stands still, and it very clearly does not.
That is usually when teams stop thinking about enrichment as a task and start thinking about data as something that needs to keep moving, updating itself, and triggering action without someone standing over it.
The five plays below are not theoretical. They are the kinds of workflows teams end up building after they have patched the same issues one too many times and decided they want something that holds up longer than a quarter.
1. Keep the form simple and move the complexity downstream
Forms are where this conversation almost always begins.
Marketing wants fewer fields because conversion drops with every extra question. Sales wants more context because chasing incomplete leads wastes time and credibility. RevOps gets stuck in the middle trying to make everyone happy.
What usually breaks the stalemate is the realization that the form itself is the wrong place to solve the problem.
So teams let the form do what it does best. Capture intent with minimal friction. Name, email, company, maybe one qualifying question. Nothing more.
Everything else happens after the submit.
Once the lead enters the system, enrichment runs automatically. Lusha fills in the missing context. If the enrichment comes back solid, the lead keeps moving. If the data is weak or incomplete, the workflow can either try a fallback provider, pause for review, or route the lead somewhere else entirely.
For higher value leads, teams often add a manual approval step. Not because they enjoy adding friction, but because it gives them control at the point where mistakes are expensive. For high volume inbound, the same logic can run fully automatically.
The important part is that by the time a lead reaches sales, someone or something has already decided that it is worth their time.
This pattern removes a lot of background noise. Marketing keeps its conversion rates. Sales stops feeling like it is cleaning up after someone else. RevOps no longer has to retroactively explain why half the leads never should have made it through.
See this play in action
Typeform → HubSpot → Salesloft (Zapier)
Enrich inbound form leads with Lusha, apply optional fallback, require approval, then route approved leads into Salesloft.
→ https://zapier.com/webintent/create-zap?template=255683180
2. Treat chat and demo requests as data events, not notifications
Inbound chat feels urgent in a way that few other channels do. Someone is literally raising their hand, and the expectation is that you respond immediately.
The problem is that chat requests often arrive with almost no usable context. A name, an email, maybe a vague company name. Reps respond quickly but blind, and routing decisions are made on incomplete information.
Teams that fix this stop treating chat as something humans need to react to first. Instead, they treat it as a data event.
The moment a chat or demo request happens, enrichment runs in the background. The contact is filled out with role, seniority, company details, and whatever else is available. The CRM record is created or updated automatically. Campaigns, routing rules, and ownership logic all run on enriched data, not on the raw input from the chat widget.
None of this slows down the response. In fact, it usually makes responses better, because the rep answering already has context instead of having to ask basic questions or make assumptions.
Once this is in place, teams stop thinking about chat as chaotic or hard to manage. It becomes just another inbound motion that behaves predictably.
See this play in action
Intercom → Salesforce enrichment (Zapier)
Enrich chat or demo requests in real time and automatically create or update Salesforce leads and campaigns.
→ https://zapier.com/webintent/create-zap?template=255683467
3. Lead scoring starts working when you score data quality first
Most teams have a lead scoring model. Fewer teams actually trust it.
One reason is that scoring often happens before anyone verifies whether the lead is even reachable. A lead can rack up points through behavior and engagement and still be impossible to contact.
A quieter approach that tends to work better is to let enrichment run first, then decide what the lead is worth.
In practice, this means checking things like email confidence, role relevance, and company fit before assigning any real priority. Leads with solid data move forward automatically. Leads with weak data are filtered out, deprioritized, or sent through a different path.
This does not make the scoring model more complex. It usually makes it simpler, because you are no longer trying to compensate for bad input with clever math.
Over time, this kind of scoring ages better. You still adjust thresholds and rules, but you are not constantly fighting the feeling that the system is lying to you.
See this play in action
HubSpot lead scoring with Lusha enrichment (Zapier)
Enrich new contacts, score based on data quality, add qualified leads to lists, and notify sales in Slack.
→ https://zapier.com/webintent/create-zap?template=255683478
4. Signals only matter when they change behavior
CRMs are full of information that is technically accurate and practically useless.
A contact got promoted months ago. A champion left an account last quarter. A company quietly doubled in size. The data is there, but nothing happens because no one is looking at it at the right moment.
Signals become valuable only when they stop being something you check and start being something that triggers action.
When a contact gets promoted, their role updates automatically and a follow up task appears. When a champion changes jobs, the account owner gets notified and a new opportunity workflow starts. When a company shows signs of growth, the system nudges the right team to pay attention.
There are no dashboards involved in these moments. No one logs in to browse signals. Work simply appears where it should, when it should.
This is often the point where a CRM stops feeling passive. It still needs maintenance, but it no longer feels asleep.
See this play in action
Real-time contact signals for HubSpot (Make)
Detect promotions and trigger upsell or expansion campaigns automatically.
→ https://www.make.com/en/integration/17836-track-contact-promotions-and-create-new-opportunities?templatePublicId=17903
Champion job change tracking in HubSpot (Zapier)
Run monthly enrichment with Lusha Signals and auto-enroll contacts into workflows.
→ https://zapier.com/webintent/create-zap?template=255686687
5. Closed won deals are instructions, not just outcomes
After a deal closes, most teams celebrate, log the win, and move on. The information inside that deal rarely gets reused in a systematic way.
Teams that take a different approach treat closed won deals as training data.
They enrich the account and key contacts, then use that information to generate similar companies or similar roles. Those recommendations are automatically turned into new records or exported into prospecting lists.
This is not about copying and pasting success. It is about recognizing patterns and letting the system do the repetitive work of finding them again.
Over time, prospecting starts to feel less like guessing and more like continuation. You are not starting from scratch every quarter. You are extending what already worked.
See this play in action
Generate lookalike companies in Pipedrive (Zapier)
Find similar companies when deals update and auto-create new organizations.
→ https://zapier.com/webintent/create-zap?template=255688458
Expand target accounts with recommendations (Make)
Enrich top customers, generate similar companies, and export an expanded list.
→ https://www.make.com/en/integration/17906-expand-your-target-account-list-with-recommendations?templatePublicId=17963
Contact recommendations from enriched records (Make)
Use Lusha IDs to generate contact recommendations and auto-create them in Salesforce.
→ https://www.make.com/en/integration/17907-get-contact-recommendations-from-lusha-enriched-records?templatePublicId=17964
What all of these plays have in common
None of these workflows are flashy. They do not promise instant growth or dramatic graphs.
What they do is remove entire categories of ongoing effort. Manual cleanup. Retroactive fixes. Long conversations about why something broke again.
They also share an assumption that is easy to miss. Data will change whether you plan for it or not. People move jobs. Companies evolve. Inputs decay.
Systems that assume stability quietly fail. Systems that expect change tend to hold up.
This is why Lusha’s API fits naturally into these kinds of setups. It is designed to be called repeatedly, not just once. Enrichment is not a milestone. Signals are not alerts. They are inputs into workflows that are meant to run continuously.
Where to start if this feels familiar
If any of this sounds uncomfortably close to your day to day reality, the instinct might be to redesign everything at once. That usually backfires.
A better place to start is the thing that annoys you most right now.
Maybe it is forms that convert well but frustrate sales.
Maybe it is chat leads that feel rushed and underqualified.
Maybe it is champions slipping away without warning.
Build one play. Let it run. Watch where it still breaks. Then build the next one.
That is how most of these systems actually come together. Not through a perfect plan, but through a refusal to keep fixing the same problem twice.
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FAQs
Because CRMs are built to store information, not to notice when that information becomes outdated. People change jobs, roles evolve, and companies grow or shrink, while the CRM quietly assumes everything stays the same. Without continuous enrichment and signals, accuracy decays even if the system looks healthy on the surface.
A GTM automation play is a repeatable workflow that turns data into action automatically. Instead of relying on one-time enrichment or manual updates, these plays use triggers like form submissions, chat requests, or real-world signals to keep systems accurate and responsive over time.
Lusha’s API is designed to run continuously inside workflows, not just as a one-off data pull. Teams use it to enrich contacts and companies, detect job changes or promotions, generate recommendations, and feed accurate data into CRMs, automation tools, and sales engagement platforms.
In most cases, enrichment works better after a lead enters the system but before it reaches sales. This allows teams to keep forms lightweight while still ensuring that only usable, verified records are routed to sales tools and reps.
Signal driven workflows react to change as it happens. Instead of relying on quarterly cleanup or manual checks, they automatically update records, create tasks, or trigger follow up when something meaningful changes in the real world, such as a promotion or job move.
They use closed won data as structured input instead of starting from scratch. By enriching successful accounts and contacts, then generating similar companies or roles, teams turn past success into a repeatable pipeline rather than relying on guesswork.
