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Inside Clay’s lead magnet playbook

How Clay built a personalized speed-to-lead report for 6,346 target accounts on PloyDB.

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Customer insight

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Content backbone

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Agentic research

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Personalization engine

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Interactive lead magnet

Break down Clay’s AI-native lead magnet strategy

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How Clay created the Speed-to-Lead report with Ploy

As over six thousand rows of data started rolling in, Alex had to turn that information into a report that would be fun to read and valuable for Clay’s audience. Here is how he built it all in Ploy.

01 · Build stage

Write the report first

Outline and draft the story before touching the design.

Speed to Lead report
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Speed to lead: what 6,346 form fills revealed

Most teams treat inbound follow-up as a routing problem. The benchmark shows a larger gap between speed, coverage, and relevance.

The businesses we tested each had varying results. Let's see how they did.

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Customer pain

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Method

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Findings

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What to do next

02 · Build stage

Build the skeleton in PloyDB

Turn the outline into a reusable page structure with data-ready modules.

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Northstarnorth.coMatched
Meridianmeridian.ioNo reply
Atlas Labsatlas.aiMatched
SignalWorkssignal.coPending
Arcwellarcwell.comMatched
Lattice Labslattice.testPending
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03 · Build stage

Create the lead magnet page in Ploy

Turn the finished narrative and benchmark into the interactive Speed to Lead experience.

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CLAY · GTM ENGINEERING BENCHMARK

Speed-to-Lead

The 2026 GTM Engineering Benchmark

6,346

FORMS TESTED WITH AGENTS. READ BELOW ↓

The first GTM Engineering Benchmark from Clay.

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Build a personalized lead magnet with Ploy

Bring a report, webinar, benchmark, or campaign idea. Ploy helps your team build the page, connect the data, capture the lead, and improve the experience after launch.

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