About Surfacer
We're building the lead tool we wished existed.
Most lead tools hand you a snapshot. The snapshot ages the second you export it. Surfacer watches the same companies every day and tells you what changed, because the deltas are where the deals live.
Justus & Lukas · Mannheim, 2026How cool would it be if I had a tool that told me whether a company actually has intent for my services before I reach out?The founder of a SAP consulting firm. In discussion, late 2025.
The shift
Everyone gets the same list. Few people watch what happens after.
Public registries, job boards, news feeds, regional sources, every lead-gen tool reads the same data. So your competitor's list and your list look nearly identical on day one. The edge isn't finding companies. It's noticing the moment something about one of them changes.
The snapshot way
Export a 5,000-row CSV.
Work the list top to bottom.
Re-export next quarter.
Wonder why nobody replies.
The watching way
Track the companies you actually want.
Get pinged when something changes.
Call the ones with momentum.
Let the model learn what you keep.
How we think
No black box. No dark patterns. Four lines we won't cross.
Every score has a why.
Open any company and you'll see exactly which signals fired and how each one weighted into the intent score. We don't ship magic numbers, we ship reasoning you can argue with on a sales call.
Source-transparent.
Every fact links back to where we read it. A hiring signal points at the job posting. A funding signal points at the press release. You can verify our work in two clicks.
You own your ratings.
Export your call list, your ratings, your monitoring slots whenever you want. Nothing about how you use Surfacer should be locked into our database.
Built in Germany. Hosted in the EU.
Our team writes from Mannheim. The data lives in Frankfurt. GDPR is the floor we start from, not a checkbox we ticked.
The team
Two co-founders. Mannheim, Germany.
Before Surfacer we ran a B2B lead-generation operation, shipping qualified company data to outreach agencies and their end clients. Every list we delivered started ageing the moment it left our desk. Surfacer is the tool we kept wishing existed.
Years building B2B data infrastructure, web scraping at scale, and applied LLM systems. Owns the platform end to end.
Years running B2B sales operations and key-account delivery. Owns customer development and the product feedback loop.