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Methodology

How RecruitmentOS works.

Two parts. A 30–60 day Setup to design and stand up the BD engine on your stack. A monthly Run to operate it.

Setup · One-time

Day 1 → Day 60

ICP map · Signal engine · Outreach engine · Handover

Run · Monthly

Day 60 → ongoing

Daily operation · Weekly reporting · Monthly iteration

01

Setup · Week 1–2

Niche Immersion

Before a single email goes out, we map your niche in depth: titles that buy, geographies you win in, signals that fire 4–8 weeks before a hire happens. The output is a written ICP map and a signal-source list specific to your niche.

ICP mapTitles, headcount bands, geography
Signal sourcesDepartures, funding, restructures, job-board triggers, news triggers
Disqualification rulesWho we explicitly skip
02

Setup · Week 2–3

Signal Engine

We build the data layer that turns niche signals into ranked hiring-manager contacts. Apify/Phantombuster scrapes feed a daily list; ZoomInfo/BetterContact enriches; Clay or Smartlead handles routing.

Daily scrape jobsRuns at 06:00 UTC, posts new list to your CRM
EnrichmentVerified email, mobile, LinkedIn
RankingRecency of signal, fit to niche, decision-maker title
03

Setup · Week 3–5 → Run · ongoing

Outreach Engine

Multi-step sequences across email + LinkedIn, niche-aware copy, and trigger-specific openers. Built on your sending infrastructure (Smartlead, your domains, your inboxes — you own the deliverability).

Sequence design4-touch cold + 3-touch warm
Trigger openers"Saw the [BD role] you posted yesterday…"
DeliverabilityDomain warming, inbox rotation, reply detection
04

Run · ongoing

Reply Filtering & Handoff

We sort every reply. Interested ones land in your recruiters' inboxes within 4 business hours. Everything else — not-now, wrong-person, unsubscribes — gets handled on our side, so your team only sees the replies worth their time.

Reply sortingInterested / not now / wrong person / unsubscribe
Handoff SLAQualified replies in your inbox within 4 business hours
Weekly reportingPipeline, reply rate, meeting count

The Setup, in one block

What you get at end of Setup (Day 60).

ICP map
Signal source list
Sequence library
Domain/inbox config
CRM mapping
Reply triage SOP
Weekly report template
30-day handover walkthrough

The Run cadence

What happens every day, week, month, quarter.

Daily

  • Fresh lead list built
  • Emails + LinkedIn sent
  • Replies sorted (4h turnaround)

Weekly

  • Pipeline summary sent
  • Reply rates checked
  • Email domain health checked

Monthly

  • Outreach copy updated
  • Target audience tightened
  • Lead sources reviewed

Quarterly

  • Full review with placements traced back
  • Strategy adjusted if needed

Ownership

Your stack stays yours. We operate it.

You own

  • Your domains, sending IPs, inboxes
  • Your CRM (Bullhorn, Vincere, HubSpot, etc.) and its data
  • Your ATS and candidate database
  • Every contact, every sequence, every report — full export at any time

We operate

  • Daily operation of the engine
  • Sequence design, copy, signal sourcing
  • Reply triage and handover
  • Reporting and iteration

The fit interview

6 questions we ask on the fit call.

You are being interviewed. You know it. Pass = we sign. Fail = we don't, even if you want to.

  1. 1

    What's your monthly placement target, and is it backed by a candidate pipeline that can deliver it?

  2. 2

    Who, on your team — name, role, weekly hours — will own the inbox we hand off?

  3. 3

    What did your previous BD attempt look like and what specifically went wrong?

  4. 4

    If we book you 25 qualified meetings in month 4, what happens to your business?

  5. 5

    What would make you want to fire us in month 6?

  6. 6

    Are you willing to be honest with me when something isn't working — within a week of noticing?

The three things we won't compromise on

Selectivity is the product.

No outreach without niche-specific filtering.

Spray-and-pray sends domains burn in 90 days and the client's brand burns with them. Even when the client pushes for "just send more," we don't.

No promised meetings without a written Qualified Meeting Definition.

Title list, geography, company size, show-up rate — defined and signed before contracts.

No Setup for an agency whose delivery isn't ready.

If they can't articulate who handles the inbound or candidate pipeline, we tell them to fix that first and come back. Lost revenue. Worth it.

Ready to walk through your numbers?

On the fit call we open the 180-point BD scorecard live, score your agency together, run your volume math, and identify the 1–3 highest-leverage things we'd build first.