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Describe who you're looking for
Write the buyer the way you'd describe them to a new rep. "B2B SaaS companies that raised a Series A in the last 90 days and are hiring SDRs." No filter stack, no ICP builder.
Build a list of SaaS companies that are about to spend: fresh funding, a first sales hire, a new enterprise plan. Type a sentence. Jesse searches the live internet and returns companies with the signal, the source, and the date.
Try it:
"Find me 100 SaaS companies with 50 to 500 employees actively hiring SDRs"
Run this search freeThe best approach is to identify companies showing a recent buying signal—such as new funding, a senior hire, active sales recruitment, or an enterprise launch—then contact the person responsible while that change is still active. Agent Jesse searches the live web for those sales trigger events and returns the source and date, so each prospect has a verifiable reason to reach out now.
Write the buyer the way you'd describe them to a new rep. "B2B SaaS companies that raised a Series A in the last 90 days and are hiring SDRs." No filter stack, no ICP builder.
Every query runs against the internet as it is today, not a stored list. Jesse returns companies showing the signal, with the page it found it on and the date it was posted.
Pick the sales leader who owns the problem, enrich an email, and push the list to your CRM or sequencer via API, MCP, or n8n.
Every prompt below is ready to run from the prompt gallery.
| Prompt | Who it finds |
|---|---|
| Find me 100 B2B SaaS companies that recently raised a Series A or B | Companies with fresh budget and a quarter to spend it |
| Find me 100 SaaS companies hiring their first sales team | Teams choosing every sales tool for the first time |
| Find me 100 SaaS companies expanding into the US market | Non-US SaaS needing local data, compliance, and outreach |
| Find me 100 SaaS companies with 50 to 500 employees actively hiring SDRs | Teams building or scaling outbound right now |
| Find me 100 PLG companies likely building an outbound sales motion | Product-led companies adding their first sales-assist motion |
| Find me 100 SaaS companies whose competitors recently raised funding | Categories about to get louder, re-evaluating positioning and tools |
| Find me 100 SaaS companies launching enterprise plans | Companies buying security, compliance, and enterprise sales tooling at once |
| Find me 100 startups that recently switched from founder-led sales | The first non-founder seller, and the first sales stack |
A VP of Sales exists at every funded SaaS company. Only some of them opened three SDR roles last week. Jesse finds the ones where something just happened, so your first line is about them.
Hiring and expansion signals lose relevance as teams fill roles and priorities change. Stored lists age from the day they're exported. Jesse has no list to refresh; each search reads the live web and every row carries a date.
Apollo gives you industry and headcount. Clay gives you a table to build. Jesse takes the sentence you'd say out loud, including the part filters can't express: "switched from founder-led sales."
Entering a segment you don't know? Ask Jesse which signals mark a buyer as in-market, then search for them. Useful when you've raised and need a second ICP fast.
Trigger-event research gives sales teams a practical reason to prioritize recent change over static firmographic fit.
“You are five times more likely to win the sale (74% vs 16%) when you are the first vendor to reach decision makers who recently entered the Window of Dissatisfaction.”
Craig Elias
Creator of Trigger Event Selling and Chief Catalyst, SHiFT Selling
Primary source: SHiFT Selling: Window of Dissatisfaction“Trigger events are the silver bullets in sales, because they allow you to get in front of the right person at exactly the right time.”
Craig Elias
Author of SHiFT!
Primary source: Selling Power interview with Geoffrey JamesApollo.io's all-in-one is cheaper for high-volume outbound to a well-understood ICP. Many teams run Jesse to find who's in-market and Apollo to send.
Clay's waterfalls give that control. Jesse trades control for a sentence.
Search for the announcement, not the attribute. Type “Find me B2B SaaS companies that recently raised a Series A or B,” and Agent Jesse returns each company with the funding source and date. Enrich the sales or marketing leader, then write to the raise.
It depends on the job. Agent Jesse is better for discovering companies through a dated buying signal on the live web; Apollo is better when you need a large contact database, filters, and outreach workflows in one product. Apollo documents those capabilities on its official prospecting page, and many teams use both tools.
Yes. Agent Jesse’s official pricing page lists a free plan with 1,000 credits and no card required. Pick one signal and test it consistently before paying for more volume.
As of 18 September 2026, a company search costs 10 credits, an email 5, and a phone number 30. Free includes 1,000 credits; Pro is $9 per month for 1,000 monthly credits; and Business is $29 per month for 8,000 monthly credits plus API, MCP, and n8n access. Verify current amounts on the Agent Jesse pricing page.
Start when you can describe a plausible buyer and one observable reason that buyer might act now. Keep the first campaign narrow, compare replies across signals, and expand only after you learn which trigger produces relevant conversations.
Fresh funding, executive changes, product launches, new sales hiring, and moves into enterprise or new markets are useful starting points. The best signal is the one your product directly helps the prospect act on, so the outreach can explain why the event matters rather than merely mention it.
Last updated 18 September 2026. Product and pricing claims link to their primary sources.