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R-Advertising: Sales prospecting as a Tinder-style swipe deck

How a performance-marketing agency built an internal tool that turns every prospect into a swipeable card — with Microlink generating the website screenshot behind every "right" or "left" decision.

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About R-Advertising

Performance marketing across email, programmatic, data, outdoor, and influence — since 2006.

R-Advertising is a performance-driven digital marketing agency that has been activating multi-channel campaigns for brands since 2006. Their teams design and run acquisition, traffic, visibility, and lead-generation programs across email and SMS, programmatic advertising, data, outdoor media, and influence — orchestrated together rather than treated as silos.

The agency supported 60 clients in 2024 across e-commerce, retail, travel, and enterprise — including Air France, Crédit Agricole, Printemps, Showroom Privé, and French Bee — and operates a proprietary database of more than 20 million qualified profiles that feeds the targeting layer of every campaign.

Microlink's screenshot API allowed us to create an engaging, swipe-based interface for our sales team to qualify prospects at a glance. It's transformed our internal workflow.
François Pacot
CEO · R-Advertising
How they use Microlink

A Tinder-style swipe deck for sales prospecting

R-Advertising's sales team works through long lists of candidate prospects every week. To make that work feel less like a spreadsheet and more like the apps the team actually uses, the agency built an internal tool that turns each prospect into a card the salesperson can swipe right or left — exactly like Tinder. The card shows what the prospect's website actually looks like.

Prospect list
Domains to evaluate
Microlink
Screenshot generated
Swipe card
Card with site preview
Salesperson
Right or left swipe

Microlink generates the screenshot for every prospect on demand, rendered the way a real visitor would see the site. The salesperson can decide in a fraction of a second whether the company looks like a fit and is worth contacting, or swipe past. What used to be a list of opaque domain names becomes a visual queue the team can move through quickly.

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Why Microlink

A screenshot API that fits behind an internal tool

Building an internal tool isn't where R-Advertising's engineering time should go on rendering pipelines and browser pools. They reached for Microlink for three reasons.

01 · Speed to ship
From idea to swipe deck without a rendering pipeline.
The prospecting tool exists because the screenshot work didn't have to be built from scratch. A single API call returns a website's screenshot in a format the swipe deck can drop straight onto a card — no headless browsers to operate, no queue, no infrastructure for the team to maintain.
02 · Visual fidelity
What the salesperson sees is what a customer sees.
The whole premise of the swipe deck is judging a prospect at a glance, so the screenshot has to look like a real visit to the site. Microlink renders the page with the layout, fonts, and imagery a normal browser would, which is what makes "right or left" a meaningful decision instead of a guess from a URL.
03 · Internal-tool fit
Right-sized for an internal use case.
This isn't a customer-facing product — it's a tool the sales team uses every day. Microlink's hosted API and simple integration mean the agency can run it as a small line in their internal stack without operating any rendering infrastructure of their own.

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Thank you to the R-Advertising team for letting us share their use case, and for choosing Microlink to power the screenshots in their internal sales prospecting tool.