An Apollo alternative for teams that score before they send
Apollo.io is built around a large B2B contact and company database with sales engagement tooling on top. StrykePoint is built around the decision that comes before contact data is useful: which accounts deserve outreach, on what evidence, and in what order.
Different approach, not a scoreboard
This page is not an attack on Apollo. Apollo publicly positions itself as a go-to-market platform combining a B2B contact and company database with prospecting filters, email sequencing, a dialer, and CRM integrations. For teams whose bottleneck is access to contact records and a place to run sequences from, that is a coherent product.
StrykePoint solves a different bottleneck. When the constraint is not how many contacts can I reach but which of these deserve to be reached at all, the missing layer is evidence and scoring, not database volume.
Where StrykePoint puts its weight
- Discovery: Scout builds prospect records for businesses matching your definition, from public sources, rather than starting from filters over a fixed database.
- Evidence: signals are gathered per prospect and stored with their origin, so a score can be opened and inspected.
- Scoring: StrykeScore ranks fit and evidence together, and Evidence Completeness reports how much is actually known.
- Contactability: contacts are enriched and verified before they enter the queue.
- Personalization: Stryke Angle drafts the opening from that specific prospect's evidence.
- Controlled sending: outreach runs through send authorization, suppression checks, and safety limits.
Who each one suits
Apollo may be the better fit when your team's primary need is broad access to contact records at scale, a large filterable database to build lists from, or a single vendor for dialing, sequencing, and CRM sync across a sizeable sales floor.
StrykePoint is the better fit when outreach volume is deliberately constrained — agencies, founder-led sales, small revenue teams — and the value comes from approaching the right accounts with a specific, evidenced reason. If your risk is burning domain reputation on indiscriminate sending, the scoring layer is the part that matters.
Teams do run both: a database for coverage, StrykePoint for the decision about where effort goes. We make no claims about Apollo's pricing, performance, or feature roadmap — check their current materials directly, since both products change.
Start with the scoring model
The clearest way to judge the difference is to read how the decision layer works: score prospects before outreach. Agencies evaluating a switch usually start at SEO agencies or web design agencies.
Evaluate the decision layer
Every StrykePoint workspace includes discovery, scoring, contact verification, and controlled outreach. Capacity is metered in scored contacts.