We hid our stack until we realized how costly it is to copy.
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We kept the exact Causo stack private because we thought it was part of the moat.
Then we realized that knowing the tools is the easy part. Orchestrating them, verifying every result, building fallbacks and running the whole thing at scale is what actually takes the time and money.
So we’re making it public.
This is how Causo searches, enriches, verifies and writes outreach using live data instead of stale databases.
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The thing that makes a stack safe to publish is that the hard part was never the stack. Anyone can read your tool list in a minute and still not have the year of decisions about what you tried and dropped, which is the actual asset and the one thing a blog post cannot transfer. Copying the stack gets you the same tools pointed at a problem you do not understand yet. Where I would still be careful is anything that reveals a customer or a live security surface, because that has nothing to do with competitive advantage and gets you a different kind of trouble. Otherwise publishing it mostly buys you people who want to talk about the choices, which is how you find out which ones were wrong.
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@rabnoor_s
100% agree, and we also had quiet a few potential customers ask - and we have given the answer. So feels like the cat is out of the bag already anyway
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Mom said transparency pays
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@dawid_baranowski mom is always right
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@mazin_assaf thnx Maz!
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@mazin_assaf well that's silly... Thnx as always dude
Huh this is interesting. I tried exa for my prospecting but ended up spending a lot of time and not getting amazing results. curious how you guys use it. or maybe I just need to pay you more and get on causo lol
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@mike_hill7 Thnx Mike, as with everything, it took us quiet a bit of tinkering. At the moment it is a part of both, our discovery and our enrichment waterfalls. In both cases, we have our own interpreters and custom prompts - and it is not 1 to 1 ratio of request to results. In many cases it takes multiple queries to a single provider to get a single high level consolidated result!
In any case, please do come check out Causo!
P.s. I know you are already a fundraising client, so thank you very much for your continued support! The Fundraising data comes from the same waterfalls!
Publishing the tool list is safe. The part you can't publish is which model runs each hop, and that's where the money actually is.
I ran the same constrained judgment across four models. Output was indistinguishable. Cost was 38 credits against 1,073. When one consolidated result takes several calls, that ratio compounds down the whole waterfall.
Worth pricing each hop separately rather than as one pipeline. The expensive model usually earns its keep on one of them.