Disclosure: we build Prospectio. We have tried to write the Skylead side as fairly as we would want ours written.
Background
Skylead is a cloud LinkedIn and email outreach tool built around smart sequences: campaign flows that branch on what the prospect does, whether they accept, reply, view or open. It bundles email discovery and supports image and GIF personalisation. In shape and price it is the closest thing in the category to Expandi.
Prospectio does three things. It reads every profile against your ideal customer profile and skips the poor fits. It sends a message in your cloned voice or on video, personalised to the prospect. Then an AI responder answers replies and books the meeting. It does not try to have the deepest branching builder on the market.
Side by side
| Prospectio | Skylead | |
|---|---|---|
| ICP qualification before sending | Yes, per profile | No |
| Personalisation | Profile-based opener; cloned voice and video | Merge fields; images and GIFs; optional AI text |
| Message formats | Text, voice, video, email | Text, images/GIFs, email |
| Branching sequences | Yes, on accept and reply | Yes, smart sequences with more conditions |
| Email discovery | Via integrations | Built in, included in seat price |
| AI replies and booking | Yes | No |
| Architecture | Cloud, residential IP per account | Cloud, dedicated IP |
| Price (at time of writing) | $99 per seat per month, annual | Similar per-seat level; check skylead.io |
Where Skylead wins
Your sequences are complex and you want more conditions to branch on. The builder is the reason most people pick this category of tool.
You need email addresses and do not want a separate data subscription. Having discovery inside the sequence removes an integration and an invoice.
You have a large team and a plan with unlimited seats. That changes the cost comparison against any per-seat tool, including ours.
Where Prospectio wins
Reply rate is the bottleneck, not sequence logic. Across 8,385 prospects, a personalised video first touch replied at 40.4 percent against 28.8 percent for text-only and produced 57 percent more meetings. Image personalisation was clever in 2021. Most prospects have now seen it.
Your list is broad. In our dataset an identical sequence replied at 13.0 percent on a job-title list and 51.9 percent on a list where fit had been verified per person. Prospectio does that check before it sends. Skylead sends to whatever you upload.
Nobody owns the inbox. Replies answered inside 24 hours converted to a meeting at 21.4 percent; after 48 hours, 3.6 percent. An AI responder closes that gap without someone watching LinkedIn all day.
The honest summary
If you have compared Skylead with Expandi and are choosing between two builders, that is a fair choice to make on price and interface. If the question is why your messages are not getting answered, a better builder will not fix it. The fix is who you message and what they receive, which is what Prospectio is built around.
Full method and all fifteen controlled tests are on the 2026 outbound benchmarks page.