Portable

Never miss a buyer conversation on social media

B2BMarketing
Ethan Aaron, Founder & CEO at Portable
Through the portal with Portable: Never miss a buyer conversation
THE CHALLENGE

Social Listening at Scale

Portable's team is lean and wears many hats. They wanted to tap into Reddit (e.g., r/dataengineering, r/bi) to find real conversations about ETL, data integrations, and warehouse workflows, but daily manual scrolling wasn't feasible and feeds often bury the good stuff.

Ethan spends time in Slack, not Reddit, and needed a way to surface only high-intent threads worth reading or responding to.

I don't want to be scrolling Reddit every day… I just want a curated feed of things that matter to our business.
THE SOLUTION

Automated Social Monitoring

Cotera set up a Portable-trained agent that:

1

Understands Portable's offering

ETL, connectors, warehouses like Snowflake/BigQuery/Databricks

2

Searches Reddit (and Google for threads)

Opens posts, scans comments, and filters for relevant asks (ETL help, Postgres→warehouse, connecting SaaS tools)

3

Scores and curates a daily digest

Delivers it in Slack, Portable's preferred workspace, so Ethan sees only actionable discussions

THE RESULTS

Enhanced Brand Engagement

Time saved for a lean team

No more hunting across subreddits; high-signal posts are delivered once a day

Faster, helpful engagement

Ethan can jump into the right conversations and be of service, amplifying Portable's already-strong brand without hiring a content marketer

Expandable playbook

The same 'social listening' approach can be aimed at LinkedIn and X next, keeping signal high across channels

It pops up in Slack, it's relevant, I can be helpful to the world, and over time that pays off for our brand.

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