Case studies / Otera AI
AI & cybersecurityLed by Haralds Gabrans ZukovsMar 2025 to Apr 2026DACH
A 7-figure pipeline in under a year, for a category with no name yet.
Otera (formerly DeepOpinion) sells agentic AI to insurance, banking and regulated finance. Gartner-recognised, but buyers did not yet know what to call the category, so nobody was searching for it.
Result 017-figurepipeline in under a year
Result 0230%webinar attendee-to-pipeline conversion
Result 033×the industry webinar benchmark
The challenge
Build demand from zero for a category enterprise buyers did not have a name for yet.
The approach
Built the whole demand motion from zero: inbound, account-based marketing, outbound, email sequences, conversion work on the site, a webinar programme.
The outcome
High-value enterprise sales qualified leads and a 7-figure pipeline in under a year.
What Haralds did
The work
- Built the whole demand motion from zero: inbound, account-based marketing, outbound, email sequences, conversion work on the site, a webinar programme.
- Designed the LinkedIn and email demand motions and built the lead nurturing infrastructure.
- Launched the company webinar programme.
- Rebuilt the website end to end and ran conversion tests on the live site.
Results
What it delivered
- High-value enterprise sales qualified leads and a 7-figure pipeline in under a year.
- Webinars converted 30% of attendees to pipeline, 3 times the benchmark.
- Conversations opened with Allianz Partners, Siemens, Hannover Re, SAAB and Bayer.
Why it matters: If your buyers do not know they need you yet, this is the playbook.
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