How to Get Started with Account Intelligence

Sales teams spend hours researching potential leads before writing a single outbound message. The problem isn’t access to company information — it’s understanding how that information connects to your product, positioning, and sales strategy.

SalesPort Account Intelligence helps you generate contextual company research tailored to what you actually sell. By combining your product description, target companies, and strategic research questions, SalesPort uncovers relevant pain points, qualification signals, and outreach opportunities in minutes.

Goal

Transition from raw company data to actionable account intelligence tailored to your product and sales strategy in just a few minutes.

Who it’s for

B2B sales, SDR, business development, and go-to-market teams that want to research target companies faster, personalize outreach at scale, and identify stronger opportunities.

What you get

You’ll understand how your product fits a target company, uncover relevant pain points and buying signals, and get actionable insights for qualification, personalization, and outbound.

TL;DR

  • Describe your product or service
  • Add strategic research questions
  • Create your target company list
  • Launch Account Intelligence research
  • Review company-specific insights and buying signals
  • Identify personalization and qualification opportunities
  • Export results or move directly into outreach

Step 1: Start a new Account Intelligence research

Open Account Intelligence in SalesPort and click Start research.

Step 2: Create or select your product

Select an existing product profile or click Add product. The product profile gives SalesPort context so research is tailored to your offering instead of generic company summaries.

Step 3: Configure product context

Define what the product does, which problems it solves, key capabilities, what makes it unique, and strategic research questions.

Step 4: Add strategic research questions

Example questions:

  • Is the company actively growing its sales team headcount?
  • Has the company announced new office openings or market expansions recently?
  • Is the company hiring for data or analytics roles that suggest a need for better reporting infrastructure?

These questions help SalesPort connect company activity to your value proposition.

Step 5: Review the product configuration

Preview the product description and research questions. Name the research by goal, segment, or source so projects stay organized.

Step 6: Create your account list

Add companies manually or upload a CSV. CSV files need exactly two columns: company_name and domain. Account Intelligence currently supports up to 200 companies per research.

Step 7: Review validation status and credits

SalesPort validates uploaded companies, highlights input errors, and calculates required credits. Fix invalid records before launching.

Step 8: Launch the research

Click Run research. Each company is processed against your product profile, research questions, and public business signals. Statuses update in real time.

Step 9: Review the results

Open individual company reports. Each report answers your strategic questions using company data, hiring signals, growth activity, operational indicators, and linked public sources.

Step 10: Analyze the insights

Use summarized insights, detailed explanations, and sources to decide whether the company fits, where complexity may exist, and how your product could create value.

Step 11: Use the research for outreach and qualification

Move into account prioritization, SDR qualification, meeting preparation, or deeper prospecting. Export selected companies for CRM enrichment or internal planning.

Final note

Instead of spending hours manually researching companies one by one, Account Intelligence turns product context and target lists into actionable, comparable insights you can use immediately.