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What Is ListKit and How Does It Work?

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Written by Said Jrad
Updated over a week ago

ListKit is a cold email growth platform designed to help businesses generate outbound pipeline in a predictable, scalable way.

At its core, ListKit helps you:

  • find the right people

  • contact them via cold email

  • and turn conversations into revenue

Depending on how hands-on or hands-off you want to be, ListKit offers different ways and subscriptions to use the platform.


First, what is cold email?

Cold email is the process of sending targeted emails to people who don’t yet know you, with the goal of starting a business conversation.

Unlike ads or social media:

  • you don’t need an audience

  • you don’t rely on algorithms

  • you’re speaking directly to decision-makers

When done correctly, cold email is:

  • cost-efficient

  • scalable

  • repeatable over time

ListKit exists to remove the friction, guesswork, and technical complexity from this process.


ListKit’s Core Offerings

ListKit offers different services, depending on how much you want to handle yourself.


1. Leads Only Subscriptions - PLG

This is ListKit’s product-led growth (PLG) offering.

What this is

You subscribe to the ListKit app, which gives you access to our lead database and tools.

Each subscription plan includes a set number of credits.

  • Credits are used when you export leads

  • The number of leads you can export depends on:

    • how many credits you have

    • what data you choose to export

How it works

  1. You subscribe to a ListKit plan

  2. You receive credits based on that plan

  3. You search and filter for your ideal prospects

  4. You export leads using your credits

  5. You use those leads however you want

ListKit provides the leads only, outreach is handled by you.

Best for

  • Teams that already have sending infrastructure

  • Agencies or SDR teams

  • Users who only need high-quality, verified leads


2. DFY (Done-For-You) – Infrastructure + Sending Tool

This is ListKit’s standard DFY subscription (Base DFY and above).

What this includes

In addition to access to the ListKit app, we:

  • build your cold email infrastructure

  • set up domains and inboxes

  • configure deliverability and warmup

  • give you access to our sending tool

You get everything needed to run cold email campaigns yourself, without dealing with technical setup.

What you do

  • choose how you want to message prospects

  • manage replies

  • book calls

What ListKit does

  • infrastructure setup

  • sending system configuration

  • deliverability protection

  • platform access

This is a self-managed outreach system, but technically done-for-you.


3. DFY Managed – Fully Managed Cold Email

This is ListKit’s highest-touch offering.

It includes everything in DFY, plus full campaign management by a ListKit expert.

What ListKit handles

  • lead sourcing (ongoing)

  • campaign creation

  • messaging and scripts

  • sending and deliverability

  • performance monitoring

  • campaign optimization and iteration

What you handle

  • responding to positive replies

  • booking and running sales calls

That’s it.

This is a true hands-off outbound system where ListKit manages the entire cold email operation for you.


How the offerings compare (high level)

Service

Leads

Sending Tool

Campaign Management

ListKit App (PLG)

DFY

DFY Managed


Final takeaway

ListKit is not just a leads database.

It’s a cold email system, offered at different levels depending on how involved you want to be:

  • PLG (Leads Only): You get the data

  • DFY: You get the system

  • DFY Managed: You get the system and the operator

No matter which path you choose, the goal is the same:

build a predictable outbound pipeline that compounds over time.

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