Start More Conversations With
Your Next Customers.
DemandSwarm finds businesses that could buy what you sell, writes each one a personal note from you, and hands you the replies.
Office Lunches
Offices of 12 to 40 people that eat lunch together, within 2 miles.
"Can you cover two gluten-free and one vegetarian?"Reply drafted
"We run a members lunch monthly. Who do I talk to?"Reply drafted
Monday lunch for 14, every weekIn your inbox
Written to this morningSent
"We have two staff who are gluten-free and one vegetarian. Can you cover that?"
- Payments handled securely by Stripe
- No contracts. Cancel any month
- Your name, address and an opt-out on every email
- Sent from separate domains, never your own inbox
- You approve every reply before it goes out
Put Your Business In Front Of Hundreds Of Potential Customers Every Month.
Pay-per-click ads stop the day you stop paying. DemandSwarm puts your business in front of hundreds of potential customers every month, each with a note written just for them. It's marketing, done for you.
- 6.5xMore Businesses Reached Per Dollar Than Search Ads
- 85%Less Per Business Reached Than Per Ad Click
- 2.4xMore Conversations Per Dollar Than Paid Leads
- 58%Less Per Conversation Than A Paid Lead
Compared with 2026 search ad averages: $5.42 a click and $66.69 a lead (LocaliQ). DemandSwarm figures use Giant Hive pricing ($999 for 1,200 businesses) and a conservative 3% reply rate.
You Bring The Idea. The Swarm Does The Legwork.
Every business gets its own research, its own note and its own follow-ups. Here is each step, from your idea to the reply.
Tell Us What You Sell
Describe what you offer and who you think might buy it, in your own words.
We Research Each Business
The swarm finds businesses that fit, learns what each one does, and works out who decides.
- About 30 members most days
- Full kitchen on site
- No lunch option in the building
- Decides: Eli, Community Manager
One Note, Written For Them
A short, personal email about their business, sent under your name.
Harbor has a full kitchen and about 30 members most days, but no lunch option in the building.
We cater office lunches nearby, set up by 11:45, $14 a head. Would a members lunch be worth trying once?
If this is not for you, reply "no thanks" and I will not write again.
We Follow Up
Two short follow-ups in the same thread. Then the swarm stops.
Replies Come To You
The businesses that want to talk come back to you, with your answer already drafted.
"We run a members lunch monthly. Who do I talk to?"
"Sounds good, please send a menu."
We Stop When Asked
Anyone who says “no thanks” is never written to again.
"No thanks."
Find Out Who Really Wants What You Sell.
Each swarm tests one idea about who might buy. The replies show you where the demand is, within weeks.
Offices, event planners, coworking spaces. Each keeps its own results.
Who wrote back, which kinds of company and which job titles.
Pause a quiet swarm and try a new idea in its place.
One Good Conversation Can Change Your Year.
Here is what a single reply can turn into.
“Can you do lunch for 14 on Mondays?”
Office Manager, law firmFifty-two lunches a year from one office.
“Our contract is up in March. Send us a quote.”
Facilities Lead, clinic groupA contract that comes back every year.
“Our clients ask for this all the time. Can we send them your way?”
Owner, design studioTheir customers, introduced by someone they trust.
“Not this quarter, but keep us in mind.”
Operations Director, manufacturerWhen their supplier slips, you’re already in their inbox.
Tap Into The Wisdom Of Every Swarm Before You.
Every swarm before yours learned something from each reply, and from each silence. Yours starts with all of it on day one, and what it learns helps the swarms that follow.
The kinds of businesses that answer sellers like you.
The offers and first lines that have earned replies.
The role most likely to answer, and to decide.
The days and hours when replies come in.
Your swarm learns patterns, never other customers’ contacts or notes. What’s in your Hive stays in your Hive.
Put What The Swarm Learns To Work.
Beekeeper reads every reply and suggests your next move.
Across every swarm you run.
With the replies that prove it.
One click tells the swarm.
+$99 a month on Small and Big Hive. Included with Giant Hive.
Coworking spaces write back faster than anyone else you reach.
- 1 of 1coworking spaces reached wrote back within a day
- 30members at Harbor Coworking, the biggest lead on your board
- 14more coworking spaces sit inside your 2 mile limit
Your Good Name, Protected In Every Inbox.
Built in. Always on.
Emails go from separate domains we set up and look after. Your everyday email is never touched.
A new sending address starts small and builds up over about a month, the way inboxes expect.
When anyone there replies or says no thanks, nobody else at that company is written to.
Every email says who you are, where you are, and how to opt out.
Start With One Idea. Grow What Works.
No contracts. Finding, writing, sending and your Hive included in every plan.
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Spending on search ads? See what the same budget could reach.
Small Hive
One idea at a time.
- 1 swarm
- Up to 200 businesses a month
- Private sending network, built and managed for you
- Reply board with drafted answers
Big Hive
Three ideas side by side, to find out which one works.
- 3 swarms
- Up to 600 businesses a month
- A larger sending network across several domains
- Help shaping your first offer
Giant Hive
Six at once, with Beekeeper included.
- 6 swarms
- Up to 1,200 businesses a month
- Our largest sending network
- Beekeeper included
Add Beekeeper to Small or Big Hive for $99 a month. Giant Hive includes it.
First emails go out the morning after you set up. A new sending network starts small and builds to full pace over about a month, which is how it earns the trust of inboxes.
Who it goes after, and why they might want what you sell.
A different kind of business, or a different offer to the same one.
People who could send you customers again and again.
Trying a few different businesses? Use the full swarm idea tool.
Questions We Get.
Is It Okay To Email Businesses I Do Not Know?
In the United States, writing to a business about something relevant to their work is generally permitted as long as you say who you are, include your real address, and honor requests to stop. Every email does all three. We work with US businesses only for now. This is general information, not legal advice.
Could This Hurt My Normal Email?
No. Your everyday email and main domain are never used for outreach. We build a separate sending network for you, with its own domains, authentication and warm-up, and we keep it healthy.
Why Would I Want More Than One Swarm?
Because each swarm tests one idea, with its own results. Two swarms let you compare two ideas about who might buy, and put more behind the one that turns out to be right.
How Soon Will I Hear From Anyone?
First emails go out within days: a handful a day at first, building over about a month. Expect a steady trickle of replies rather than a flood. How many write back depends mostly on the offer, so we help you shape a clear one.
Why Does My First Month Start Smaller?
New sending addresses have to earn trust with inboxes, so your swarm starts gently: about 3 businesses a day per address in the first week, building to 7 or 8 a day by week four. From month two, the swarm runs at full steam and reaches your plan's full count every month.
I Sell To Households. Will It Work For Me?
Only if a business could buy from you too: a standing order, a service contract, a wholesale account or a referral relationship. The swarm reaches people at their work email.
How Much Of My Time Does It Take?
About five minutes to set up a swarm. After that, nothing: your time goes only to businesses that have already shown interest, each with a draft answer ready.
How Do I Find Business Customers For A Small Business?
Start with the kind of business that would buy from you, not a list of names: offices that order lunch, hotels that stock local products, firms that refer clients your way. Then get a short, specific note in front of the person who decides at each one. That is the whole method, and it is what DemandSwarm does for you every weekday.
Does Cold Email Still Work For Small Businesses?
It works when it is small and specific: one person, one true thing about their business, one easy question, and a couple of short follow-ups. Blasts do not work and get domains blocked, which is why DemandSwarm sends a few emails a day from separate domains and stops the moment someone replies.
Ask Us First.
Four questions. We write back within two business days, and if it is not a fit we will say so plainly.