Origami

Founder @origamichat. Studied ai @stanford

Origami is a conversational prospecting tool that turns plain-English prompts into sales lead lists, aimed at outbound teams who've exhausted what traditional contact databases can surface. Backed by Y Combinator's F24 batch, it deploys AI research agents that scour the internet to surface insights that exist beyond structured databases, the kind of buying signals buried in product reviews, LinkedIn activity, and niche web sources rather than sitting in a CRM export. The product works as an AI-powered spreadsheet to find and enrich ideal customers, pulling from 100+ data sources to build lists, enrich a CSV, or identify decision makers. This launch matters because it reframes the category occupied by Clay, Apollo, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator: instead of querying a fixed database, users describe the customer they want and Origami assembles the list from unstructured signals across the open web, which is particularly useful for niche ICPs that don't map cleanly to firmographic filters. The company was founded by Finn Mallery (CEO), Kenson Chung (President), and Rahul Chandler (CTO), with Mallery previously working on GTM from launch at Fizz after studying Math/CS at Stanford, and having built custom automated outbound sales solutions for 20+ startups before starting Origami. For founders and operators evaluating outbound tooling, the launch is worth a look precisely because of the bet underneath it, that the highest-intent leads don't live in any database you can buy.

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