Building a real-time lead enrichment agent requires acting within minutes of a buyer signal — research shows responding within five minutes makes teams up to 100× more likely to make contact. The architecture centers on Kafka for event ingestion, SingleStore as a unified system of record for streaming ingest, relational
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What a real-time lead enrichment agent actually isWhy the platform matters more than the scoring ideaWhy GTM intelligence platforms care about “now”The architecture, from the outside inWhere vector search fits (beyond “RAG over documents”)Keeping the agent explainable, unlike magicFrom First Signal to First Action: Building the LoopWhat changes when it’s workingSort: