Built for Staffing & Recruiting Agencies

Know Who's Hiring
Before They Post the Job

Your recruiters spend 60% of their time finding clients and sourcing candidates. We automate both — detecting hiring signals before jobs hit LinkedIn, identifying decision-makers, and running outreach at scale so your team can focus on closing.

See It In Action How It Works

Why Most Agencies Hit a Ceiling

The staffing industry runs on outbound. But most agencies are still doing it the way they did in 2015.

Recruiters Prospecting Instead of Closing

Your highest-paid people spend most of their day searching for clients and sourcing candidates instead of filling roles and building relationships.

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Everyone's Fishing the Same Pond

Job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter, ZoomInfo — every agency uses the same tools and contacts the same people. You're competing on speed, not insight.

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Reactive, Not Predictive

By the time a company posts a job, they already have 10 agencies in their inbox. The real advantage is reaching them before the req goes live.

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Two Workflows, Zero Automation

Client acquisition and candidate sourcing are both manual, disconnected processes. Your team toggles between spreadsheets, LinkedIn, and email all day.

Two Engines, One Pipeline Machine

We build two parallel outbound systems — one to fill your client roster, one to fill your candidate bench.

Engine 1

Client Acquisition

Find companies that need to hire before they post on job boards. Reach the right decision-maker with a message that proves you already understand their hiring pain.

  • Headcount growth velocity — companies adding 10%+ headcount in 90 days
  • Funding round detection — Series A/B/C companies hire aggressively post-raise
  • Job posting analysis — open roles, time-to-fill, repeat postings = pain
  • Leadership changes — new VP of Engineering = new agency relationships
  • Competitor layoffs — companies hiring displaced talent need help fast
  • Automated outreach to HR Directors, VPs of Talent, Hiring Managers
  • Email + LinkedIn sequences with company-specific talking points
Engine 2

Candidate Pipeline

Build a bench of qualified, reachable candidates before you need them. When a client signs, you're presenting candidates in days, not weeks.

  • Passive candidate identification — people not actively looking but open to the right offer
  • Job-change signals — profile updates, new certifications, role anniversary milestones
  • Tech stack matching — map candidate skills to client requirements automatically
  • "Open to work" detection + LinkedIn activity monitoring
  • Automated LinkedIn + email outreach sequences for candidate engagement
  • Candidate enrichment — verify emails, phones, current compensation ranges
  • Talent pool segmentation by skill, seniority, geography, and availability

Signals We Track With Clay

Every client prospect and candidate gets enriched with signals that give you an unfair advantage over agencies using generic databases.

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Headcount Growth Velocity

Companies growing headcount 10%+ quarter-over-quarter are about to need staffing help — whether they know it yet or not.

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Job Posting Intelligence

Which roles are open, how long they've been posted, how many times they've been re-listed. Long-open roles = a company that needs help.

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Funding Round Detection

Companies that just raised a round hire fast. We flag them within days of the announcement so you're first in the door.

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Layoff & Displacement Signals

When competitors downsize, two things happen: displaced talent needs placement, and surviving companies need to backfill. Both are opportunities.

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Tech Stack Detection

Match candidate technical skills to client requirements automatically. If they need React developers, we find companies using React and candidates who know it.

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LinkedIn Activity Signals

Profile updates, "open to work" flags, new certifications, job anniversary milestones — early indicators that someone is ready to move.

Built for Every Staffing Vertical

Different specialties, same automation engine.

IT & Tech Staffing

Place developers, DevOps engineers, data scientists, and product managers at companies actively building technical teams.

Tech stack detection — match candidates to specific frameworks, languages, and cloud platforms
GitHub and Stack Overflow enrichment for candidate technical credibility
Engineering team growth velocity as a buying signal for client outreach
Passive candidate identification — employed engineers open to the right opportunity
Competitor hiring patterns — if they're all hiring the same role, demand is surging
Contract-to-hire pipeline automation with separate sequence tracks

Executive Search

C-suite and VP-level placements require discretion, deep research, and warm multi-channel outreach — not mass emails.

Org chart mapping — identify reporting structures and decision chains before outreach
Leadership change detection — new CEO/CRO often replaces their leadership team
Board composition analysis — investor-backed companies with open board seats signal executive hiring
Discreet multi-channel outreach — LinkedIn InMail + personal email, never company email
Tenure analysis — executives at 3+ years in role are statistically more likely to consider a move
Compensation benchmarking data enrichment for precise candidate targeting

Healthcare & Specialized Staffing

Nurses, allied health professionals, licensed specialists — regulated industries with unique compliance and credentialing requirements.

License and credential verification signals from public databases
License expiry tracking — upcoming renewals indicate active professionals
Geographic mobility indicators — candidates with multi-state licensure are more placeable
Hospital system expansion signals — new facilities, department growth, accreditation changes
Compliance-aware outreach — TCPA, state-specific regulations built into sequence logic
Shift-based availability matching for per diem and travel staffing

Manual Recruiting vs. Valcat-Powered

Activity Manual / Traditional With Valcat
Finding new clients Cold-calling from bought lists Signal-triggered outreach to companies about to hire
Candidate sourcing LinkedIn Recruiter searches Automated enrichment + passive candidate detection
Personalization "We specialize in your industry" References their open roles, tech stack, and growth signals
Follow-up Manual, drops off after 2 emails Automated 5-step sequences with reply detection
Time to fill pipeline 2-3 weeks of manual prospecting First sequences live in under 2 weeks
Client prospects / month 100 – 300 10,000+
Recruiter time on prospecting 60% of their week Near zero — they focus on closing

Fill Your Pipeline Before They Post on LinkedIn

Book a 30-minute call. We'll show you the hiring signals in your target market right now — companies about to hire, candidates about to move — and how we automate the outreach.

Book Your Free Signal Audit No commitment. We'll show you what your competitors are missing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — that's exactly how we set it up. Engine 1 handles client acquisition (reaching companies that need to hire) and Engine 2 handles candidate sourcing (finding and engaging qualified professionals). Both run in parallel on separate infrastructure so there's no conflict or overlap.

We can push enriched leads and candidates into any ATS that has an API or accepts CSV imports — Bullhorn, JobAdder, Greenhouse, Lever, and others. We'll map the data fields during setup so everything lands in the right place without manual entry.

We build suppression lists from your existing client roster and candidate database. Before any sequence goes live, we cross-reference against these lists to ensure you never accidentally poach from a client or re-contact a placed candidate. The suppression lists are updated automatically.

All outreach includes opt-out mechanisms and complies with CAN-SPAM, GDPR, and CCPA requirements. For healthcare and regulated industries, we build compliance checks directly into the sequence logic — including TCPA considerations for SMS outreach and state-specific regulations.

Client acquisition sequences typically go live within 2 weeks — that includes domain setup, warmup, enrichment workflows, and the first campaigns. Candidate outreach can launch in parallel. Most agencies see their first signal-triggered meetings within the first month.