
WeSoftYou
Rebuilt inbound from scratch — 100% YoY SQL growth, 207% more traffic, domain rating from 12 to 45, and 141 articles shipped.
- 100% YoY SQL growth
- 207% traffic increase
Most B2B podcasts die at episode eight because they were launched as a content checkbox, not a go-to-market asset. We build the show concept, the guest strategy that turns invitations into warm relationships with your exact target accounts, the narrative that makes each episode worth an hour, and the short-form repurposing engine that does most of the actual work. Built for technical and executive buyers, measured against CRM-tracked revenue, not download counts.
We map your ICP and buying committee, the shows and formats your buyers already give attention to, and the accounts and partners worth a relationship. We audit your founder's appetite for being on mic, your current pipeline sources, and whether a podcast is genuinely the right asset — or whether the constraint is somewhere else entirely. The point is to build a show with a job, not a show for its own sake.
We hold your situation against the content and distribution systems we've run for 60-plus B2B tech companies. Magnetic technical founder and a developer audience? We know which formats and clips travel. Selling complex services to skeptical execs who need to trust you first? Different concept, different guest list. This pattern-matching lets us skip the expensive trial-and-error and start from approaches that have already produced tracked revenue.
We commit to one configuration and the channels that fit it — own show versus guest tour, video-first versus audio-first, the guest profile that opens the right doors, and the two or three surfaces we'll concentrate repurposing on. We deliberately leave the rest out. A focused show that compounds beats a podcast scattered thin across every platform and guest type at once.
We stand up the production engine: the concept and narrative arc, the guest pipeline wired to your target accounts, outreach and booking, recording support, and the short-form repurposing pipeline that turns each episode into weeks of distribution — plus the CRM instrumentation. The goal is a machine that ships every week without depending on the founder finding spare hours between recordings.
Every month we read guest, episode and clip engagement against the CRM, sit with what sales is hearing on calls, and adjust: which guest profiles convert to pipeline, which episode topics pre-handle objections, which clip formats actually travel. The podcast is a compounding asset, not a campaign — we tune the concept, guest list and distribution relentlessly toward tracked relationships and revenue.
We've built content and distribution systems for 60-plus B2B tech companies across 9-plus years marketing to technical and executive buyers, so we don't start a show by guessing at a format. We already know which episode concepts a CTO will finish versus skip, which guest profiles open doors at the accounts you actually sell to, and which short-form cuts get reposted by the people who sign contracts. You're not paying us to relearn that engineers tune out scripted thought-leadership — we begin from a pattern library, so your first season sounds like most agencies' third.
Before we record anything we diagnose whether a podcast is even the right asset for you, and which job it should do. For some companies the highest-value version is a guest-led show built as an ABM door-opener into named accounts; for others it's a narrative show that builds category authority; for a few, the honest answer is that a podcast is the wrong lift right now and a newsletter or webinar gets there faster. We pressure-test that in weeks, so you don't sink a quarter into a format that was never going to pay back.
A podcast is not one decision — it's a stack of them, and most of the value is in getting them right. Own show or guest tour on shows your buyers already trust? Video-first for LinkedIn and YouTube, or audio-first for reach? Interview format, narrative format, or internal-expert format? We choose the configuration that fits your buyer, your founder's appetite, and your sales motion, then concentrate the repurposing on the two or three surfaces where your market actually is — instead of spraying every clip onto six platforms that compound nowhere.
A podcast that never talks to sales becomes an expensive hobby. We review sales calls and lost-deal notes for the exact objections and language buyers use, then turn them into episode topics and the questions we ask guests on air — so a recording quietly pre-handles the doubts your reps hit on every call. We also feed the guest pipeline directly from your target-account list, so booking a guest and warming a deal become the same motion rather than two disconnected workstreams.
We instrument the show against your CRM from episode one, not against a download chart. We track which guests and their companies move into pipeline, which accounts engaged with episodes or clips before they raised a hand, and how 'I heard you on the podcast' maps to closed deals. Across our book this discipline is how we've tracked $30M-plus in marketing-led revenue — and it's how we tell you honestly when the show is sourcing relationships and revenue versus when it's just making noise in a feed.
Strategy first, channels second, sales feedback always. We measure by the qualified demand and revenue we can trace back inside the CRM.
Thanks to XQL Group's efforts, we've seen a 207% increase in web traffic and an improvement in domain rating from 12 to 45. The team has successfully optimized our SEO strategy and gained around 160 backlinks. Overall, they're responsive and thorough in their project management.
Since working with XQL Group, our domain rating has improved from 27 to 44. In addition, we've seen a 15% increase in monthly traffic within nine months. The team completes work on time and within the agreed budget. Moreover, their subject matter expertise is highly impressive.
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Most fail because the podcast is treated as the deliverable. A founder records a few episodes, publishes them, sees flat downloads, and quits by episode ten. We treat the recording as raw material and put the marketing around it: a concept worth subscribing to, a guest list chosen for relationships rather than reach, and a repurposing engine that turns each hour into weeks of clips, written pieces and newsletter sends. We also wire it to your CRM from the start, so you can see it sourcing relationships and pipeline instead of guessing from a download chart that was never the point.
Often both, in the right order — but it depends on the job. A guest tour on shows your buyers already trust borrows established audiences and pays back fastest, so it's frequently where we start. Your own show is the higher-ceiling asset: it's an owned audience, a back catalogue that keeps earning, and a standing reason to invite anyone you want a relationship with onto the mic. We diagnose your founder's appetite, your sales motion and your buyers' listening habits, then commit to one configuration rather than half-heartedly doing both.
Because 'will you come on our show?' is the warmest, least salesy reason in existence to get an hour with someone you want to know. We source guests from your target-account list, your would-be partners, and the analysts and influencers who shape your category — so each invitation opens a warm, no-pitch door with a decision-maker a cold rep would never reach. The episode is the relationship's beginning; the conversation, the follow-up, and the co-promotion are where pipeline and partnerships quietly start. Booking a guest and warming a deal become the same motion.
This is the part most podcast vendors dodge. Downloads tell you almost nothing about revenue, so we instrument differently: we track which guests and their companies move into pipeline, which target accounts engaged with episodes or clips before they raised a hand, and how 'I heard you on the show' self-reported attribution maps to closed deals in your CRM. We won't claim a clip caused a contract — but across our book this discipline is how we've tracked $30M-plus in marketing-led revenue, and it's how we tell you honestly which part of the show is earning its keep.
Because most of your audience will never open the podcast app — they'll see a 90-second clip on LinkedIn, read the companion piece, or get the highlight in a newsletter. The episode is the input; the dozen short-form assets it produces are where the reach and the pipeline actually come from. We cut each recording into LinkedIn video, audiograms, quote cards, a written article and newsletter segments, and concentrate them on the two or three surfaces your buyers actually use. One hour of your founder's time fuels weeks of distribution — that ratio is the whole reason a podcast is worth doing.
We design the show to survive a busy founder. Expect to show up for the recordings themselves and a short prep beforehand — we handle the concept, guest sourcing and outreach, scheduling, run-of-show, editing, repurposing, distribution and measurement. A program that only works when the founder finds spare hours to book guests and cut clips will die by episode ten, so we build it not to depend on that. For most clients the founder's job is to be sharp on the mic; everything around it is ours.
A podcast is a compounding asset, not a campaign, so be honest about the horizon. The relationship side moves fastest — guest invitations to target accounts and partners can open warm conversations within the first few episodes, sometimes before the show has any meaningful audience at all. Audience-driven, demand-touched pipeline usually becomes visible in the CRM around months three to six as the back catalogue, clips and subscriptions build. The companies that win treat the show as always-on; the ones who quit at episode eight were usually the ones who needed it most.
Niche is an advantage here, not a problem. You don't need a mass audience — you need the few hundred right people, and a sharply technical show earns the trust of exactly the engineers and executives you sell to, where a broad one would bore them. On guests, narrow categories are easier to book than you'd expect: a well-framed invitation to talk about a specific, hard problem is flattering and low-effort to accept, and the more specialised your show, the more a relevant guest wants the association. We build the concept and the outreach so the right guests say yes and the right listeners subscribe.
Bring your offer, channels, and revenue goals. We'll show you where the biggest growth constraint is and what to build next.
For B2B tech companies selling complex expertise to serious buyers.

I’m Danylo, founder of XQL. For 9+ years I’ve helped B2B tech companies turn technical expertise into pipeline — 60+ clients and $30M+ in CRM-tracked revenue.
30 minutes, no deck. Bring your offer, channels, and revenue goals — I’ll come with a read on where your biggest growth constraint is and what to build next.