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title: "ColdIQ Review: Services, Focus & Alternatives"
description: "ColdIQ review: what the GTM engineering and outbound agency does, who it fits, pricing and partner details where published, and alternatives to compare."
url: https://getaob.com/agencies/coldiq
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# ColdIQ review: services, focus, and alternatives

**ColdIQ** appears in our [GTM engineering agency landscape](https://getaob.com/gtm-engineering-agencies) 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](https://coldiq.com), checked October 2026. Something out of date? Email [team@getaob.com](mailto: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.

## ColdIQ alternatives

- [Frontal](https://getaob.com/agencies/frontal): GTM engineering agency building signal-triggered outbound systems inside your existing stack.
- [The Kiln](https://getaob.com/agencies/the-kiln): Clay-centric GTM engineering agency building AI-powered outbound, inbound, and RevOps systems.
- [Understory](https://getaob.com/agencies/understory): Allbound agency combining paid media, signal-based outbound, and RevOps for B2B SaaS.
- [OneGTM](https://getaob.com/): AI-forward GTM engineering agency that builds outbound, inbound, and RevOps systems you own.

See all GTM engineering and outbound agencies on the [full landscape](https://getaob.com/gtm-engineering-agencies) or browse every [agency profile](https://getaob.com/agencies/).