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ColdIQ review: services, focus, and alternatives

ColdIQ appears in our GTM engineering agency landscape as a GTM engineering and outbound agency: Clay-focused B2B outbound agency running managed cold email and LinkedIn prospecting.

Facts below come from ColdIQ's website, checked October 2026. Something out of date? Email team@getaob.com.

What ColdIQ does

ColdIQ's website now presents a prospecting data product: search for leads, enrich contacts, and track buying signals from a chat interface, an API, or an MCP server for Claude Code.

  • Contact and company search and enrichment
  • Email and phone finding and verification
  • Tech stack, intent, and job change signals
  • Agent chat, REST API, and an MCP server
  • Slack integration and CSV enrichment

Who ColdIQ fits

B2B sales, marketing, and recruiting teams that want prospect data and signals inside their AI tools or workflows.

  • Its site lists 40+ data providers, including Apollo, Prospeo, FullEnrich, Findymail, and BuiltWith.
  • Pricing on its site is credit based, with a free tier of 300 credits at sign-up and paid plans starting at $99 a month.
  • Michel Lieben is named on the site.

How ColdIQ compares

GTM engineering and outbound agencies differ mostly in who owns the system afterward. Some run outbound for you as a managed service, others build the data, signal, and routing layer inside your own CRM and tools and hand it over. Ask which model you are buying, what you keep if you stop paying, and how results are measured.

If you are evaluating ColdIQ as an outbound agency, check what is currently offered as a service versus the self-serve data product, since its site now leads with the product.