How Scripily books libraries and archives on repeat with Leadiy
Scripily
with Leadiy
3.4x
more qualified demos
6 wks
to first archive contract
1,900+
institutions mapped
42%
lower cost per lead
Scripily turns fragile handwritten and typed records into clean, searchable text. The hard part was never the technology - it was finding the institutions sitting on rooms full of paper. Leadiy mapped them, ranked them, and opened the doors.
Scripily was born from a simple frustration: some of the most important records in the world - parish registers, ship manifests, oral-history transcripts, decades of local newspapers - are trapped in formats no one can search. Its platform reads handwriting and degraded print, restores damaged pages, and turns them into structured, searchable archives.
The founding team knew exactly who needed this: public libraries, university special collections, county archives, genealogical societies and museums. What they didn't have was a way to reach them without spending every evening copy-pasting names off directory websites.
“We always knew who needed Scripily - we just couldn't find them fast enough. Leadiy turned a room full of sticky notes into a real, ranked pipeline. The first time an outreach email landed with the actual head of special collections, I knew this changed everything.â€
Maya Okafor
Founder & CEO, Scripily
A perfect product with no map to its buyers
Early sales were founder-led and painfully manual. Institutions that fit Scripily were everywhere and nowhere - scattered across thousands of county sites, university department pages and society newsletters, with no central list to work from.
Worse, the generic info@ inbox was a dead end. The person who actually cared about digitizing a collection was a special-collections librarian or a records manager, and finding that individual meant hours of digging per prospect. The team was closing deals, but couldn't predict where the next one would come from.
From guesswork to a targeted, ranked pipeline
With Business Explorer, Scripily built lists of libraries, archives and museums by type and region in minutes instead of weeks. Opportunity Finder then surfaced the institutions showing real digitization intent - recent grant activity, new archivist hires, aging collections mentioned on their own sites.
AI Outreach wrote to the right person in the right language of the field - referencing a specific collection, not a generic pitch. Every promising account landed in a tagged Lead List the whole team could work from, so momentum stopped living in one founder's head.
“The opportunity signals are what surprised me. Seeing which archives had just won a preservation grant meant we reached out exactly when they had budget and urgency. Our demos stopped being cold.â€
Daniel Reyes
Head of Growth, Scripily
A repeatable engine for a niche market
Within six weeks Scripily signed its first county-archive contract sourced entirely through Leadiy, and qualified demos more than tripled as outreach finally reached decision-makers. The team expanded confidently from libraries into museums and genealogy organizations, reusing the same playbook for each new segment.
Most importantly, prospecting stopped being a bottleneck. Instead of wondering where the next customer would come from, Scripily could point to a ranked list and a forecast.
Leadiy features Scripily relies on
Business Explorer
Mapped every library, archive and museum by type and region.
Opportunity Finder
Surfaced institutions actively investing in digitization.
AI Outreach
Wrote to the right archivist, referencing their real collection.
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