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The Prospect Scout

Business development that finds the moment.

Agencies live on new clients. The Prospect Scout watches the companies on your list and the market around them for the moments to call: a new leader in the first ninety days, an award, a job posting, a target company hiring. It ranks each against your ideal client, in your words, writes the first line, and leaves it for you.

Business developmentNorthbridge Talent
Overnight: 30 signals ranked. 6 worth a call. 2 drafts waiting.
Worth a call this week
Sorrelbrook Capital 88
New Head of People, started three weeks ago

New people leaders review agency panels in their first quarter, and you placed their Controller in March.

Reach: Maya Lindqvist, Head of People
Congratulations on the move, Maya. We placed Sorrelbrook's Controller earlier this year and I would like to hear how you are thinking about the finance team.
Cedar Point Health 82
Won the HPD award for a Bronx portfolio

An award like this usually comes with a second site and a hiring plan to match it.

Reach: Daniel Achebe, Chief Operating Officer
Congratulations on the HPD award, Daniel. If the Bronx portfolio means a second site, we have placed the operations leads for two like it.
Cascade Logistics 79
Posted three property manager roles this month

Three postings in one month is a team being built, not a backfill.

Reach: Grace Oduya, VP Operations
Grace, three property manager roles in a month is a build. We filled the same three for Ironvale Manufacturing in nine weeks and can show you how.
What it watches

Five kinds of moment.

Each one is a reason to call this week, not someday. The Prospect Scout checks for all five every night, on every company you name and on the market around them.

A new leader in the first ninety days

A new head of people or head of operations reviews the agency panel in the first quarter. The call lands while the panel is still open.

An award

An award usually comes with a second site, a larger portfolio, or a hiring plan to match it. The draft names the award and asks about the plan.

A job posting

One posting is a backfill. Three in a month is a team being built. The Prospect Scout reads the difference and says which one it is.

A target company hiring

A company on your list starts hiring for the roles you fill. That is the week to be in front of them, with names from your bench in hand.

A company like one you already won

You placed a controller at one operator. The Prospect Scout finds the next operator like it and says what the two have in common.

Your ideal client

Your ideal client, in your words.

There is no form. You write one paragraph, the way you would describe your best client to a new recruiter, and every signal is ranked against it. Edit it any time. The next night's ranking follows the new words.

  • One paragraph in plain words: the size, the sector, the roles they hire, and how often
  • A Not this list under it: the kinds of company you will never call, and the exceptions by name
  • The fit on every card is the match against this paragraph, with the reason in one line
Ideal client, as Northbridge Talent wrote it

Affordable housing operators and owners in New York City and the Hudson Valley, 50 to 500 staff, who hire compliance, finance and operations leads more than twice a year. Tax credit portfolios, supportive housing and mixed income. We do best with a chief operating officer or a head of people who has hired through an agency before. Halston and Reed LLP refer us, so they are always in.

Not this
  • REITs and public companies
  • Property managers under 50 staff
  • Anyone who only hires hourly staff
Worth a call this weekDraft waiting
Cedar Point Health 82
Won the HPD award for a Bronx portfolio

An award like this usually comes with a second site and a hiring plan to match it.

Reach: Daniel Achebe, Chief Operating Officer
Congratulations on the HPD award, Daniel. If the Bronx portfolio means a second site, we have placed the operations leads for two like it.
Worth a call this week

Thirty signals in. Six cards out.

By morning the night's signals have been read and ranked, and only the ones worth your time are left as cards. Each card is one company and one moment.

  • The signal, the fit against your ideal client, one line on why now, and the person to reach
  • Under it, the first two lines of the email in your voice, naming what you did for them or for a company like them
  • Review and send puts the draft in front of you before anything leaves. Not a fit puts the card away, and the reason is kept
The Prospecting Room

Your targets, in one room.

Every company you are working toward, the people at each, and the signals as they arrive. One room per recruiter, or one for the firm.

  • Targets: every company on your list, with its signals as they come in
  • The star: mark the ten you most want, and they sit first every day
  • Find the people to reach: the right person at each target, with a verified way to reach them
  • Companies like this: hand it one client you won and it finds the next
OutreachNorthbridge Talent
Who sends
Draft for usSend it itself

Every draft waits in Worth a call this week until someone presses Review and send.

The checkpoint

Draft for us, or send it itself.

One switch. On Draft for us, every email waits for a person to open it and press send. On Send it itself, a person can send the strongest drafts straight from the card in one press, inside limits that do not move. Nothing goes out until someone presses.

  • Five at a time, inside your daily limit
  • One company a month, so a second person at the same firm waits
  • Never your do-not-email list, and never a contact you already know
It learns

What you send teaches it. So does what you dismiss.

Every Review and send and every Not a fit is a lesson, and the lesson is kept by kind of signal.

What you sent

A draft you sent, or edited and sent, says that company and that moment were right. More like it move up the list.

What you dismissed

Not a fit says the opposite. Dismiss awards often enough and awards drop down your ranking, without a word changed in the paragraph.

By kind of signal

The lesson is kept per signal. Call on every new leader and ignore every posting, and the ranking comes to look like your desk, not the average one.

Questions

What firms ask about the Prospect Scout.

Where do the signals come from?

Public sources the Prospect Scout watches: company sites, job postings, the news, and the index, checked nightly.

Will it email someone we already know?

No. It checks your contacts, your suppression list, and one company a month.

Can each recruiter have their own list?

Yes.

Pricing

$79 per user, per month.

The price is on the page, and it is the same for every firm. The Prospect Scout is in it. Contact lookups are included.

The platforms that connect the whole search charge $130 to $199 a seat. This is the whole search, at $79.

Our competitive read, September 2026.
  • Every feature included
  • Unlimited job postings
  • No seat minimum
  • The Prospect Scout at no extra tier
  • CSV in, CSV out, any time
  • Migration included

Give it your list tonight.

Start free, no card, and the first signals are ranked by morning. The demo is preloaded with a full example firm if you want to see the rest of the platform first.

Start free, no card