What JustReachOut does

JustReachOut is a Brooklyn-based, privately held SaaS company that sells AI-powered PR and link-building software to small businesses, PR consultants, content marketers, and SEO link-builders. The platform bundles five tools — Journalist Outreach, Pitch Requests, Podcast Outreach, Broken Link Building, and Guest Post Outreach — that help users discover relevant media contacts, manage inbound pitch requests, and run outreach campaigns for press mentions, podcast guest appearances, and backlinks. The product is positioned as a self-serve, lower-cost alternative to traditional PR agencies, and the company's marketing emphasizes speed of results and ease of use.

The business runs on a product-led growth motion: prospects sign up via a risk-free trial on a public pricing page, with no enterprise sales motion, marketplace, or reseller channel disclosed. Pricing is not publicly disclosed, and the company does not appear to have raised institutional venture funding; ownership and management details are limited to founder/CEO Dmitry Dragilev. The company's GTM is content-driven, anchored on a blog, customer case studies, and inclusion in third-party curated PR tool lists where it is commonly positioned as a HARO alternative. The same founding team also operates ChatRank.ai, a sibling product that tracks brand visibility across AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google AI Answers, extending the team's footprint into the emerging AI-search optimization category.

JustReachOut was launched in 2014 as a tool to help startups write better email pitches, and the founding team carries prior credibility from growing a media property to 40 million pageviews and exiting to Google. The company has been featured in Forbes, Inc, TechCrunch, The Next Web, and Mixergy, and remains operating with a headcount in the 11-50 range. No patents, regulatory actions, partnerships of strategic significance, M&A, or funding rounds are disclosed in the available data, indicating a lean, bootstrapped operating profile.

Name

JustReachOut

Website

https://justreachout.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

JustReachOut is a Brooklyn-based SaaS platform that provides AI-powered PR and link-building tools — including journalist, podcast, and guest-post outreach — to SMBs, PR consultants, and content marketers via a self-serve subscription model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PR and Media Outreach Software

NAICS

Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

PR, Reputation Management & Earned Media Platforms (BPAMALAO)

Keywords

• PR outreach software
• Media outreach tools
• Journalist pitch platform
• Link building software
• Podcast outreach tool

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Software Access: SaaS subscription model providing access to PR outreach tools including journalist database, pitch management, and campaign tracking capabilities

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

JustReachOut sells an AI-powered, self-serve PR software platform that helps PR specialists, content marketers, and link builders find and pitch relevant journalists, podcast hosts, broken link opportunities, and guest post placements. The product is delivered as a SaaS subscription covering five integrated outreach tools, with a risk-free trial entry point.

Product overview

JustReachOut is an AI-powered PR software platform designed to help PR specialists crush their outreach efforts. The platform consists of five core outreach tools: Journalist Outreach, Pitch Requests, Podcast Outreach, Broken Link Building, and Guest Post Outreach. These tools work together to help users get featured in press, earn press mentions, and secure backlinks through efficient journalist discovery and personalized pitch automation. The platform is marketed as helping users find and pitch relevant journalists faster than traditional methods.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Journalist Outreach
• Pitch Requests
• Podcast Outreach
• Broken Link Building
• Guest Post Outreach

Quantifiable outcome

• Prominent blog coverage achieved within 2 weeks of use

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability1 record

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ChatRank.aiminorOthersRelated product from the same team. ChatRank.ai helps track and improve brand visibility across AI tools including ChatGPT and Google AI Answers. Sibling product under same founding team rather than formal partnership.

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Meltwater: Global media intelligence and PR SaaS incumbent offering journalist search, outreach, and monitoring as part of a broader enterprise suite, serving as a broad incumbent alternative to JustReachOut for SMBs as it expands down-market.
• Muck Rack: Established PR/journalist database platform used by agencies and in-house teams to find journalists, pitch, and monitor coverage — overlapping with JustReachOut's journalist-outreach and podcast-outreach use cases but at a larger, agency-tier scale.
• Cision (Connectively): Large enterprise PR and earned-media platform with media monitoring, journalist databases, and (via Connectively, the HARO successor) journalist query and outreach features that compete with JustReachOut's pitch-request workflow.

Emerging players

• Just.AI (Propels PR suite): Cloud-based PR software for small teams offering media lists, pitching, and reporting — comparable to JustReachOut as a horizontal PR SaaS aimed at lean PR operations.
• BuzzStream: Outreach and link-building SaaS used by content marketers and SEOs — directly comparable to JustReachOut's broken-link-building and guest-post-outreach tools for the link-builder persona.
• CoverageBook: PR reporting and coverage-tracking tool for PR professionals and agencies, addressing the post-campaign measurement side of the workflow that JustReachOut supports adjacent to outreach.

Direct peers

• Qwoted: Journalist query platform connecting sources with reporters seeking expert commentary, overlapping directly with JustReachOut's Pitch Requests feature for earned-media opportunities.
• Prowly: PR SaaS platform offering a journalist CRM, media database, and outreach tools targeted at PR professionals and SMBs — the closest head-to-head competitor to JustReachOut in self-serve PR software.
• Prezly: PR CRM and outreach SaaS aimed at small PR teams and agencies, with journalist database, pitch workflows, and newsroom features — directly comparable to JustReachOut in target persona and self-serve positioning.

Regional players

• ResponseSource: UK-headquartered journalist query and outreach platform widely used by PR professionals; functionally similar to JustReachOut's Pitch Requests and Journalist Outreach tools but primarily serving the UK/EU market.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dragilev

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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