Factory hall against the light: evening sun falls through tall mullioned windows onto machines.

For machine builders and industrial SMEs · We take over your lead research

Lead research for machine builders. We search, your sales team sells.

Your sales team loses 17% of its time to research, and databases only tell you who exists. Kodo takes over the search and finds what no database shows: who is building a new hall, who is hiring for production, where an old machine from your competitor is still running.

Buying signals and B2B leads for industrial SMEs in the DACH region

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10 companies that fit you. Within 24 hours, no subscription.

From Kodo Leads · To M. Huber · Mon 06:00 Monday list · week 43
  1. A

    Bräckle Präzisionsteile GmbH Ulm

    Switching chanceMeasures with a competitor's coordinate measuring machine, built in 2012.

    Website, quality page

  2. A

    Kurzbeck Feinwerktechnik KG Langenau

    InvestmentNew production hall announced.

    Press release, 8 Oct 2026

  3. A

    Strohmaier Formenbau GmbH Ehingen

    Open jobLooking for two machinists for 5-axis milling.

    Careers page, 12 Oct 2026

Example, all companies invented
Office in the evening: a man sits alone at his desk in front of large windows while the sun sets outside.
A quarter past six.Tomorrow's call list still isn't done.

Your sales team searches instead of calling.

  • 15 minof preparation per call.Website, commercial register, job board. Then maybe the phone.
  • 17 %of working time goes into searching.According to Destatis. With 1,600 working hours a year, that is 272 hours.
  • AddressesDatabases deliver addresses, not reasons to call.They tell you who exists. Who is buying right now isn't in there. Kodo compared to lead databases
  • MondayTraining doesn't change the list.Your sales team gets more motivated. On Monday it still calls the same companies.

Because there are better things to do than research late into the night.

Kodo turns this around. The search runs at night. Your sales team only gets the result.

The solution

The best data. The easiest way.

There are plenty of lists. This one comes with proof, and your sales team doesn't have to learn anything.

The best data

Every company read layer by layer, not bought. From the outside in:

  • 01Website and newsWhat the company writes about itself, with a date.
  • 02Product and process pages, with PDFsData sheets, catalogues, references.
  • 03CertificatesISO 9001, IATF 16949, EN 1090, ISO 13485.
  • 04Machinery and depth of productionAnd from Pro: which competitor machines the customer runs.
  • 05Commercial register and Federal GazetteFive years of financials, headcount development, insolvency check.
  • 06Job adsWhich roles are open right now.
  • 07Trade fair and exhibitor listsWho exhibits at AMB, EMO or LIGNA.
  • 08Contact peopleWith their role, "✓ verified" or "≈ derived".

What doesn't fit is removed, with a reason: distributor, portal, too large, competitor, your existing customer.

Every statement with a source. What isn't proven isn't on it.

The easiest way

  1. One conversation. 20 minutes, once.
  2. The list every Monday. Each salesperson gets their own list, in their inbox.
  3. Your sales team calls. Prepared: with a reason to call, a contact person and an opening line.

What Kodo does differently.

  • Reasons to call instead of addresses.You see who is investing, hiring or switching right now.
  • A finished list instead of a search form.Every Monday, without clicking through filters.
  • Proof instead of estimates.Every statement with a link and a date, no score.
  • Industry instead of one size fits all.Certificates, machinery, competitor machines.

Kodo compared to Apollo, Dealfront and others

Public sources only. In line with the GDPR, without US data brokers. Contacts we cannot confirm again within 24 months are deleted. Security and data protection

It's this simple.

Your sales team doesn't have to learn anything. One conversation with us, then the list arrives every Monday.

  1. 1

    Once, at the start

    20 minutes with Joshua.

    Together with Joshua you define who you are looking for: target companies, competitors, occasions. Your existing customers are left out. Then we deliver.

    Joshua SchätzleManaging Director, Sales and Customers

    Salesperson
    M. Huber
    Search area
    Germany, Austria, Switzerland
    Target companies
    Machining shops and contract manufacturers with their own measuring room
    Competitors
    Your competitors, the names stay with us
    Leave out
    Your existing customers from the CRM
    Example
  2. 2

    Every Monday

    Monday, 6 am. The list is here.

    Each salesperson gets their own list. The strongest reason to call is at the top, every company with a contact person and a source.

    From Kodo Leads · To M. Huber · Mon 6:00 am Monday list · Week 43
    1. A

      Bräckle Präzisionsteile GmbH Ulm

      Switching chanceMeasures with a competitor's coordinate measuring machine, built in 2012.

      Website, quality page

    2. A

      Kurzbeck Feinwerktechnik KG Langenau

      InvestmentNew production hall announced.

      Press release, 8 Oct 2026

    3. A

      Strohmaier Formenbau GmbH Ehingen

      Open positionLooking for two machinists for 5-axis milling.

      Careers page, 12 Oct 2026

    4. B

      Lauterwein Antriebstechnik GmbH Heidenheim

      New managementNew managing director since October.

      Commercial register

    5. B

      Hörtnagel Blechtechnik GmbH Senden

      Trade fairExhibits at AMB in Stuttgart.

      Exhibitor list

    Example, all companies invented
  3. 3

    From 8 am

    Your salesperson calls. Prepared.

    The reason to call is the opening line. The contact person and source sit right next to it, and there is a draft for the email. Afterwards one click: fits, doesn't fit, meeting. The next list gets sharper.

    Opening line, taken from the reason to call

    "I saw that you announced a new production hall in Langenau. Who is planning the equipment on your side?"

    Reason Investment, new production hallSource Press release, 8 Oct 2026Email Draft included

    fitsdoesn't fitMeeting

    Example, Kurzbeck Feinwerktechnik KG from the Monday list, company invented

The list lands where your sales team works:in the inboxin Salesforce, directlyin HubSpot or Pipedrive, via CSV

A match

This is what a company on your list looks like.

The company is invented, the structure is real. Every company comes as a card with five building blocks. Short enough to read before the call, solid enough to check.

  1. 1Company datawith the characteristics that match your target customer
  2. 2Contact people"✓ verified" or "≈ derived", never guessed
  3. 3Financialsfive years from the company register, insolvency checked
  4. 4Buying signalsdated, with a source. The assessment is labelled as such.
  5. 5Opening line and email draftThe reason to call is your first sentence. The matching email comes as a draft.
Kodo cardWeek 43 · for S. Brandt
Example,
company invented
1Company data

Nordwerk Präzisionstechnik GmbH & Co. KG

Villingen-Schwenningen (BW)nordwerk-praezision.example
Matching characteristics
5-axis precision manufacturingIATF 16949 supplierMedical technologyInvesting right now
Head office
+49 7720 000000-0 · info@nordwerk-praezision.example
Employees
85 on average, financial year 2024
Profile
CNC precision parts and assemblies for medical technology and automotive suppliers. In-house toolmaking, climate-controlled measuring room, series from batch size 50.
2Contact people
Dr. Katharina Vogt
Managing Director
k.vogt@nordwerk-praezision.example✓ verified+49 7720 000000-12
Carsten Höfer
Technical Director
c.hoefer@nordwerk-praezision.example✓ verified+49 7720 000000-18
Michael Brenner
Head of Production
m.brenner@nordwerk-praezision.example≈ derived
3FinancialsCompany register

Annual accounts of the company, not group accounts · Source

Revenue · € m
10.2
11.1
12.0
13.3
14.8
20202021202220232024
+45 % in five years
Employees avg.
68
71
76
80
85
20202021202220232024
+25 % in five years
Total assets€9.3 m
Net income€1.2 m
Personnel costs€4.9 m
Insolvency proceedings opened: No Insolvency register
4Buying signalsdated · with proof

InvestmentNew hall with 1,400 m² and €4.2 m for further 5-axis centres. Press release

TenderWon a framework contract for precision parts from a medical technology manufacturer. Procurement portal

Open positionHead of Quality Assurance advertised. Job ad

CompetitorMeasures with a third-party supplier's machine, named on its own reference page. Reference page

"Our final inspection runs on a coordinate measuring machine in our climate-controlled measuring room."

Source: nordwerk-praezision.example/referenzen · retrieved 16 Oct 2026
Assessment, labelled as such

New hall, won tender and the open QA position coincide. That points to more capacity with higher inspection requirements. The third-party supplier in metrology turns this into a chance to switch.

5Email draftfrom the proven signals
View email draft
To: Dr. Katharina Vogt · Subject: Your new hall and the QA position

You are adding 1,400 m² of production space and are looking for a Head of Quality Assurance at the same time. This is exactly the order in which a bottleneck in final inspection often appears.

As you currently rely on a third-party solution in metrology, I would like to show you where a second machine covers downtime without touching your inspection process.

Would you have 15 minutes for a short call next week?

The maths, per salesperson.

≈ €13,500

saved per salesperson and year, after deducting Kodo Pro.

Time is Money. Save Both.

Calculation
17 % of 1,600 working hours272 h searching
272 h × €68.70 hourly rate€18,700
minus Kodo Pro on the annual plan− €5,200
left per salesperson and year≈ €13,500

Source: Destatis. Pro costs about as much as 1.5 sales hours a week.

Let's run the numbers for your sales team.

Talk to Joshuaor request a free trial list

One research. Two ways.

Both run on the same research, down to the shop floor of every company. You only decide whether we build the list for you or you search yourself in the tool.

What Kodo knows about every company
  • Manufacturing depth
  • Machine park
  • Processes and materials
  • Headcount and growth
  • Revenue over five years
  • Investments
  • Open jobs
  • Certificates
  • Competitors’ customers
  • Competitor machines on site
  • Trade fair appearances
  • Sites
  • Decision makers with role
  • Suppliers and partners
  • and much more, every fact with its source
Monthly support

Full service

We search and qualify for every salesperson. Every Monday the finished list, straight into your CRM.

from €1,790 a month · price on request Access to the tool

Self-serve

You work in the Kodo account yourself: describe your target customer, pull companies with reason and source.

from €290 a month

The difference in detail

About us

Industrial SMEs should win new customers again. Not get lost in complicated tools.

We don't sell addresses. We sell proof.

If we can't prove something, we don't write it down.

Kodo Leads is a small company with roots in the Ortenau district. We want your sales team to win customers again and keep the economy moving, instead of losing time in needlessly complicated processes. More about us

Built by mechanical engineers.

Two mechanical engineers and an IT specialist from the Ortenau district. That is why Kodo reads machinery, certificates and manufacturing processes, not just industry codes.

Joshua SchätzleManaging Director, Sales and CustomersM.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, ten years in industry. Leads the first conversations.
Benedict MehlmannTechnology and ProductB.Sc. Cognitive Computer Science
Marcel ReinboldResearchTrained toolmaker, M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, doctorate at KIT

Why we built Kodo

We are two mechanical engineers and an IT specialist from the Ortenau district.

Too much time in sales goes into searching. According to Destatis it is 17 % of working time, and nobody sells during that time.

So we built Kodo: we search, your sales team sells. And what we can't prove doesn't go on the card.

Joshua Schätzle

Benedict Mehlmann

Marcel Reinbold

A salesperson reads a printed list in the workshop in the morning, a coffee mug next to it.

No training. No new tool. More deals.

Your sales team should sell, not search.

Test us on your target customers. The first 10 companies are free.

Tell us your target companies. Within 24 hours you have 10 companies, each with a reason to call, a contact person and a source. No subscription, no credit card.

We only use your details for the trial list and any follow-up question about it. Privacy

Prefer to talk first? Talk to Joshua

Plans from €290 a month. Single list €990 one-off. All prices

Sales intelligence for industrial SMEs.

Kodo understands machinery, certificates and manufacturing processes, not just industry codes. These industries have their own pages:

Partners.

What we do not do ourselves, people we trust do.

What sales managers ask first.

What is the trial list?

10 companies that fit you, each with a reason to call, a contact person and a source. Within 24 hours, free of charge, no subscription and no credit card. You check them against your own target companies.

Does my sales team have to learn anything?

No. Kodo has a login, but your sales team does not need it: on Monday morning the list is in their inbox, every company as a card. If you want more, describe your target customer to the assistant in one sentence.

Can I search myself?

Yes. Most customers let us do the research. If you prefer to search yourself, you get a Kodo account: you set your target companies and pull the companies, with the same data and sources. We activate the account on request. Prices for both ways

Where does the information come from?

From public sources: company websites with their news and PDFs, job ads, the commercial register and the Federal Gazette, trade fair and exhibitor lists. Every statement is on the card with a date and a link. What we cannot prove is not there.

How is Kodo different from a database?

A database gives you addresses to search through yourself. Kodo gives you the selection: companies with a reason to call now. We leave out your existing customers.

Where does Kodo search?

Across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You tell us which companies you are looking for, not where. You do not have to define an area.

Is there a minimum term?

No. Every subscription can be cancelled at the end of the month. Pro is also available as an annual plan for €5,200 a year, which runs for a fixed twelve months.

How does Kodo detect buying signals?

Kodo reads public sources: company websites with news and PDFs, job ads, the commercial register and the Federal Gazette, trade fair and exhibitor lists. They become reasons to call, such as a chance to replace a competitor's machine, a new production hall, an open position or a trade fair appearance, each with a date and a source.

Which B2B database suits industrial companies in the DACH region?

For machine building and industry, what counts is not the number of addresses but knowing who is investing right now. Kodo is not a database to search through yourself. Every Monday it delivers the companies with a reason to call and a source. Kodo compared

Is it GDPR compliant?

We only process public information, in line with the GDPR and without US data brokers. Contacts we cannot confirm again within 24 months are deleted.