Describe the company you sell IT services to in one sentence. Jesse searches the live internet and returns the ones showing a signal right now: a cloud migration, a DevOps hiring spree, a growth spike the stack cannot hold, a cloud bill someone just complained about. With the source page and the date.
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Corbett Dental Partners
Nashville · 24 practices · 410 staff
Wrenfield Analytics
Atlanta · 140 employees · Series A
A firmographic list gives every MSP in the region the same 4,000 companies. The 200 that acquired a competitor, opened a second office, or posted a first IT role this quarter are the ones ready to talk.
They read the email that names the six practices they just acquired and the systems that now have to talk to each other.
A cloud migration, a merger, or a compliance deadline creates the need and closes it within a few months. A list refreshed last quarter has you calling after the contract is signed.
Signal 1
A CTO post about leaving the data centre, a job ad for a cloud architect, or an announcement that names AWS, Azure, or GCP means a migration is funded and a partner is being chosen. The post arrives months before the workloads move.
Example result
Company migrating to cloud
Signal 2
An engineering leader posting about the cloud bill, a job ad for a FinOps or platform engineer, or a company that tripled headcount and users in a year has a cost problem that is public before it is solved. That is when FinOps tooling, reserved-capacity brokers, and cloud-optimisation consultancies get a hearing.
Example result
Fast-growing engineering team
Signal 3
Three DevOps or SRE roles open at once means the platform has outgrown the people running it. Until those seats are filled, the company is buying observability, CI/CD, managed Kubernetes, and often a fractional or outsourced DevOps team to bridge the gap.
Example result
Company hiring DevOps
Signal 4
An acquisition, a second office, a headcount jump, or a compliance requirement lands on a company with no IT leader and a stack built by whoever was around. That is the classic managed-services moment, and every one of those events is public and dated.
Example result
Company after rapid growth
How it works
Company type, signal, one constraint. "Healthcare groups in Tennessee that acquired practices this year and have no IT leader." That sentence is the whole input.
Every query runs against the internet now, not a firmographic list. Each company comes back with the signal, the source page, and the date. 10 credits a search.
Enrich only the owners and IT leaders you will email, 5 credits each. Open with the acquisition or the cloud migration. Re-run weekly and work only the new rows.
Worked example
Corbett Dental Partners
Nashville · 24 practices · 410 staff
To: COO, Corbett Dental Partners · Subject: six new practices, one network, before the IT Manager starts
Congrats on the six acquisitions. Posting a first IT Manager the same month usually means the new practices are on six different networks and someone senior is fielding the tickets.
We run co-managed IT for a 30-location dental group in Tennessee and consolidated their acquired practices onto one stack in a quarter, so their new IT lead inherited a network, not a project.
Worth 20 minutes before the first start date?
Honest fit
| Choose | If you | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Jesse | sell IT services, cloud, or DevOps on timing: migrations, DevOps hiring, growth events, acquisitions | A sentence against the live web gives a short list with a dated reason to write. Free to start; Pro $9/mo. |
| Tech-stack databases (BuiltWith, HG Insights, Clay enrichment) | need to know what a company already runs: cloud provider, endpoint tools, ticketing, backup | Installed-technology reference data Jesse does not hold. A stack database tells you they run Azure; Jesse tells you they announced a move to it last month. |
| MSP lead-gen agencies and appointment setters | want meetings booked for you rather than a list to work yourself | Jesse gives you the who and the why; it does not make the calls. Agencies run on volume and pay-per-meeting; Jesse runs on 10 credits a search. |
| Apollo.io | run high-volume outbound to IT Director and CTO titles with a sequencer in the same seat | Database plus sending at the lowest per-seat cost, from $49/user/mo. Jesse has no sequencer. |
Most MSPs run two: Jesse for who changed this month, a tech-stack tool or sequencer for the rest. Jesse pricing read 11 Sep 2026; Apollo.io 20 Aug 2026; stack databases and agencies described from public positioning, not re-verified.
Pricing
$0
1,000 credits, once
≈100 searches, no card
$9/mo
1,000 credits/mo
Alerts, CSV export, lookalikes
$29/mo
8,000 credits/mo
API, MCP, n8n
$100/mo
30,000 credits/mo
Priority support
As of 14 September 2026. Phone enrichment is 30 credits.
Sell to the moment a company outgrows its IT. An acquisition, a second office, a compliance requirement, a first IT Manager posting, or a stated cloud migration each means the current setup is about to break. In Jesse, one sentence such as "companies in Nashville with 50–300 staff that made an acquisition this quarter" returns those companies with sources. Open with the event, not with a free assessment.
Start from the client's change, not your service list. Migrations, DevOps hiring, growth spikes, mergers, and first IT hires are all public and dated. Find the event, write to the owner or IT leader about it, and re-run the search weekly. Jesse's free plan covers about 100 searches, which is a first campaign.
Migrations are announced by the people doing them: a CTO post about leaving the data centre, a cloud-architect job ad, a case study from the cloud provider. In Jesse, "Find me 100 companies migrating their infrastructure to the cloud" returns the company, the target cloud, and the source. Reach the CTO while the partner is still being chosen.
Sell to the change in their bill or their team. A company that tripled users, posted a FinOps role, or complained publicly about cloud costs is open to optimisation even with an incumbent. In Jesse, "Find me 100 fast-growing engineering teams that may be struggling with cloud costs" returns those companies with the growth and cost signals. Open with the specific bill driver.
The roles are public on careers pages and job boards, and the count against headcount tells you it is a spike. In Jesse, "Find me 100 companies hiring DevOps engineers rapidly" returns the company, the role count, the stack named in the posts, and the source. Until those seats are filled, the company is buying tooling and often outsourced DevOps to bridge the gap.
Five that are public and dated: an acquisition or merger, a new office, headcount passing roughly 50 with no IT leader, a first IT Manager or Director posting, and a compliance requirement such as a first enterprise customer or a cyber-insurance renewal. Each creates a project the internal team cannot absorb, which is the managed-services moment.
No to both. A tech-stack database tells you what a company runs today, and an agency books meetings on your behalf; Jesse does neither. Jesse tells you which companies changed this month, with a source and a date, so your own outreach opens with a fact. Most MSPs use Jesse for the list and their own team or a sequencer for the follow-up.
At a project, a failure, or a renewal. Migrations, mergers, and new offices create projects. An outage or a ransomware scare creates urgency. Cyber-insurance and contract renewals create a review. Signal-based outreach targets the first, because projects are announced publicly weeks or months before the contract, while failures and renewals are private until they are over.
Run one of the four IT and cloud prompts, or write your own, on the free plan. 1,000 credits, no card.
Prices read from agentjesse.ai/pricing on 11 September 2026 (page dated 14 September 2026). Result cards on this page are illustrative examples.