NAUT Lead Desk: 138 scored leads out of 10,734 companies

The NAUT Lead Desk is a scored outreach queue for crypto BD teams, and on 2 November 2026 NAUT's data shows 138 companies sitting at its desk layer, scored 49.4 to 97.0 with an average of 81.0. Those 138 come out of 10,734 companies NAUT scores in 6 layers, and the score behind each one has 2 families: priority, which reads the investor track record on the row and how recently the company raised, and reach, which reads whether NAUT holds a Telegram or an X account for it.

How this was read: on 2 November 2026 NAUT read its own Lead Desk tables, read-only, and counted every company in each funnel layer, the score band of each layer, the reach channel NAUT holds per company, and the activity the desk has logged. The 6 layers hold 10,734 companies between them and no company sits in 2 layers, so the layer counts add to the total. The 12 rows in the table below are the desk's own top 12 by score, with the reason labels the desk prints against them. The desk's log holds 13 lead records, 11 touches opened, 10 confirmed and 1 failed against 10 companies. A lead record is only created when a team takes its first action against a company, so 13 is a count of actions taken and says nothing about how much of the 138 has been worked. Every figure here is NAUT's own record of these companies, never the whole market: a backer NAUT has not recorded yet does not count toward a row's score.

What is the NAUT Lead Desk, and what does it hold?

It is the ranked end of a scoring pipeline that runs over every company NAUT tracks. NAUT's data shows 10,734 companies carrying a score on 2 November 2026, sorted into 6 layers by how far they have moved through the screen. The desk layer is the working queue: 138 companies, the highest average score of any layer at 81.0, and the only layer whose top reaches 97.0. As a crypto outreach queue it is deliberately short, because a team can read 138 rows in a sitting and cannot read 10,734.

Read the table as a funnel with a wide mouth. 9,709 of the 10,734 companies sit in the universe and eligible layers, where the average score is 12.8 and 7.2, so most of the pool is scored and parked. The 503 companies in the desk, monitored and qualified layers are the part a human ever opens. The score ranges also overlap: a universe row can reach 95.0 while a desk row can sit at 49.4, because the layer records how far a company has moved through the screen and the score records how attractive it looks.

The desk ships with 8 pipeline stages, and NAUT's data shows 0 custom stages added, 0 pinned accounts and 0 banned accounts. Of the 13 lead records created, 11 are at the working stage and 2 at new.

How does the NAUT Lead Desk score a company?

With 2 point families added together. The priority family is capped at 100 and reads the money signals on the row. The reach family adds points for a channel a BD team can actually use, which is what turns a good-looking row into a company you can write to.

The priority side, as the product weighs it:

• The backer-rate term carries a weight of 0.9 and is capped at 60 points, so the quality of the investors on the row is the single largest input.
• 2 or more rated backers on NAUT's record adds 6 points.
• 4 or more rated backers adds a further 3 points.
• A recent raise adds 12 points.

The reach side is smaller and it decides more:

• A Telegram account NAUT holds for the company adds 14 points.
• An X account adds 8 points.
• Elfa watchability adds 2 points as a tiebreak.

A company with strong backers and no channel therefore loses 22 points of reach it can never earn back, which is why so much of the pool never reaches the desk. Lead scoring on this desk is a ranking of who you can reach as much as a ranking of who is worth reaching.

Which companies sit at the top of the queue?

The 12 rows below are the top of the desk layer, ranked by desk score, on 2 November 2026. Backers is the count of rated backers NAUT holds against the row, and Top reason is the first label the desk prints. All 12 have both a Telegram and an X account on NAUT's record, and all 12 sit at coverage 2, the upper of the 2 coverage bands NAUT's data holds.

Rank	Company	Score	Backers	Top reason
1	Fhenix	97.00	11	Backed by WAGMI Ventures +12
2	hyperbeat	97.00	6	Backed by Maelstrom +15
3	ExponentFinance	97.00	4	Backed by RockawayX +4
4	Concrete	97.00	8	Backed by Binance Labs +23
5	Theo	96.85	7	Backed by Amber Group +8
6	Kelp DAO	96.18	9	Backed by Binance Labs +8
7	Abstract	95.75	4	Backed by Fenbushi Capital +4
8	creditcoop_xyz	95.00	4	Backed by TRGC +5
9	Vest Exchange	94.89	6	Backed by Amber Group +7
10	Neutrl	94.00	3	Backed by Amber Group +4
11	RSRialo (Subzero Labs)	93.78	7	Backed by Hashed +8
12	Tempo	92.68	3	Backed by SV Angel +4

4 companies tie at exactly 97.00, so treat Fhenix, hyperbeat, ExponentFinance and Concrete as 1 band and pick by fit rather than by rank. The backer rate on NAUT's record moves very little across the band, from 0.63 at Rialo (Subzero Labs) to 0.72 at Concrete, creditcoop_xyz and Neutrl, while the count of rated backers NAUT holds swings from 3 to 11. All 12 carry the reason label "High token launch signal", which is the reason NAUT's data shows against 1,556 companies in total.

The sector labels on the band skew hard: 6 of the 12 print DeFi, 2 print Infrastructure, and the rest print Privacy, Money Market, Stablecoins and L1/2/3 one each. That matches the pool, where DeFi is the most common sector reason at 660 companies, ahead of Infrastructure at 551, Gaming at 469 and AI at 453.

How do the scores compare across the band?

The spread across the top 12 is 4.32 points, from 97.00 to 92.68.

A flat chart is the point: inside the top band the score has stopped sorting, and the next decision is yours rather than the model's.

How many of these companies can you actually reach?

Reach is the binding constraint, and NAUT's data puts a number on it. Of the 10,734 scored companies, 2,744 have a Telegram account on file, 1,097 have an X account with no Telegram, and 6,893 have neither, which is the single most common reason label in the whole pool. 93 companies are monitorable through Elfa, the signal that feeds the 2-point tiebreak.

Those 3 groups add to 10,734, so the picture is complete: the majority of companies NAUT scores cannot be contacted through a channel NAUT holds, whatever their backers look like. That is what pushes a 97.00 row to the top. Every company in the top 12 clears both reach checks, so the 14 and the 8 are both in its score.

Coverage sits on 2 bands. 10,144 companies are at coverage 1 and 590 at coverage 2, and all 12 companies in the table above are in the 590.

What this tells a BD team

• The queue is short enough to work by hand. 138 companies at the desk layer, 170 more 1 layer below it.
• The top is a band rather than a ranking. 4 companies tie at 97.00, and the top 12 span 4.32 points.
• A channel is worth more than a backer at the margin. 14 points for a Telegram against 6 points for having 2 or more rated backers.
• Reach, not quality, is what empties the pool. 6,893 of 10,734 scored companies have no channel NAUT holds.

What this tells a founder raising a round

The same score is a fair proxy for how a BD team or a sourcing investor reads your row, because it is built from the things a stranger can check about you.

• A missing Telegram costs 14 points, which is more than any backer bonus on the sheet.
• 2 rated backers on NAUT's record earns 6 points, and 4 or more earns 3 points on top.
• A recent raise earns 12 points, and it decays, so the window after an announcement is when you are easiest to find.
• 0.63 to 0.72 is the backer rate across the top 12, so a strong row is a matter of a few rated names rather than a long list.

Related reading on NAUT: Crypto lead generation: 21 funded teams, 15 CEOs to pitch and Telegram outreach: 5 cold openers, 6,610 handles on file.

Can you pull this data through the NAUT API?

The desk itself is an internal screen, and the candidate pool behind it is public through the API: GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?token=pre&sort=recent&limit=100 with the header Authorization: Bearer $NAUT_KEY returns pre-token companies 100 to a page, so a 138-row queue takes 2 calls at 5 credits each. For a single row with its team, call GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects/fhenix, and for a named person use GET https://api.naut.so/v1/people?q=business%20development. Parameters, credit prices and plans are at naut.so/docs/api and naut.so/pricing. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those rows unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial if you want the channels as well as the names.

NAUT Lead Desk FAQ

What is the NAUT Lead Desk?

The NAUT Lead Desk is a scored outreach queue for crypto BD teams: on 2 November 2026 it holds 138 companies at its desk layer, scored 49.4 to 97.0 with an average of 81.0, drawn from the 10,734 companies NAUT scores across 6 funnel layers.

How does the NAUT Lead Desk score leads?

It adds 2 point families. Priority is capped at 100 and weights the backer-rate term at 0.9 up to 60 points, plus 6 points for 2 or more rated backers, 3 more for 4 or more, and 12 for a recent raise; reach adds 14 points for a Telegram, 8 for an X account and 2 for Elfa watchability as a tiebreak.

Which companies are at the top of the desk right now?

On 2 November 2026 the top 12 run from Fhenix, hyperbeat, ExponentFinance and Concrete, all tied at 97.00, down to Tempo at 92.68, with Theo, Kelp DAO, Abstract, creditcoop_xyz, Vest Exchange, Neutrl and Rialo (Subzero Labs) in between.

Where can I find these 12 pre-token companies and their decision makers?

Each one has a NAUT project page with its team on it, from Fhenix to Tempo, and the same rows come back through the API with GET https://api.naut.so/v1/projects?token=pre&sort=recent&limit=100 at 5 credits a call. Verified Telegram, email and LinkedIn for the people on those pages unlock on any paid NAUT plan, so start a 7-day trial to open the channels.

How many companies on NAUT have a Telegram on file?

2,744 of the 10,734 scored companies have a Telegram account NAUT holds as of 2 November 2026, 1,097 more have an X account with no Telegram, and 6,893 have neither channel on NAUT's record.

Sources

• NAUT's own Lead Desk tables, read read-only on 2 November 2026: the layer of every scored company, its score, its backer rate, the count of rated backers NAUT holds against it, the reach channels on its row, the reason labels the desk prints, and the desk's activity log.
• The funnel counts in this article are NAUT's coverage of these companies on 2 November 2026, never the whole market. A backer, a Telegram account or a raise NAUT has not recorded yet does not count toward a row's score.
• No outside source was used. Every number above comes from NAUT's own database.