Your list is a snapshot.
A "Head of Talent" export from last quarter cannot tell you whose roles are open this week.
Fresh leads from the live internet · for recruitment teams
Reach hiring managers while the roles are still open.
Describe your ideal client in one sentence. Jesse searches the live internet and returns companies with a hiring signal, the source page, and the date. No filter stacks, no stale list.
1200+ sales teams use Agent Jesse · no credit card required
› Find me software companies in Texas with 100–600 employees that posted 5+ engineering roles in the last 60 days
Larkspur Systems
Austin · 340 employees
12 Aug9 engineering roles posted since 12 Jul · careers page
3 SepSenior Backend Engineer open in Austin and Denver
Northwind Health
Dallas · 210 employees
28 AugHiring first Head of People · LinkedIn post by CEO
1 Sep6 roles open 45+ days · careers page
Every hiring manager already hears from recruiters daily.
Your first line is about you.
"We specialise in placing top talent" is deleted before the second sentence. The reader saw it four times today.
Timing decides the search.
A hiring manager is a lead for the three to six weeks a role stays open. Call in week seven and someone else has it.
Signal 1
Find companies with an engineering hiring spike.
Twelve engineering roles in 90 days at a 200-person company is a spike. Jesse reads the count against the headcount and returns the companies where volume just outran the internal team.
For technical recruiting agencies and contract-staffing firms. Buyer: Head of Talent or VP Engineering.
› Find me 100 companies with engineering hiring spikes in the last 90 days
Acme Software
San Francisco · 190 employees
5 Sep12 engineering roles posted in 90 days · careers page
Signal 2
Find the same role open in several cities.
A company hiring account executives in Austin, Denver, and Atlanta at once has one job description and three markets. That is a retained search waiting for the recruiter who works all three.
The cleanest agency pitch there is. Open your email with the cities.
› Find me 100 companies hiring for the same role across multiple locations
Pinnacle SaaS
Austin · 420 employees
2 SepAccount Executive open in Austin, Denver, and Atlanta · LinkedIn
Signal 3
Find companies hiring their first Head of People.
The post says "our first" or "build the function from scratch." Whoever takes the role buys an ATS, an HRIS, and often an agency partner in their first two quarters. Write to the CEO now and to the new hire the week they start.
For HR-tech vendors, HR consultancies, and agencies that want a long-term partner, not one search.
› Find me 100 companies hiring their first Head of People
Vertex Labs
New York · 85 employees
7 SepFirst Head of People · reports to CEO · careers page
Signal 4
Find companies posting roles in a new country.
Three roles in Lisbon from a US company with no Lisbon office means a payroll and entity problem nobody has solved yet. The job posts appear weeks before any press release.
For EOR and global payroll vendors, relocation firms, and immigration counsel. Buyer: CFO or Head of People.
› Find me 100 companies hiring internationally that may need global hiring or EOR solutions
Global FinTech
Remote-first · 310 employees
9 Sep3 roles in Lisbon, no local entity listed · careers page
How it works
One sentence in. A short, dated list out.
01
Describe the client
Company type, hiring event, one constraint. "Fintechs in Chicago that posted 3+ sales roles in 30 days." That sentence is the whole input.
02
Jesse searches the live web
Every query runs against the internet now, not a stored list. Each company comes back with the signal, the source page, and the date. 10 credits a search.
03
Write to the signal
Enrich only the people you will email, 5 credits each. Open with the roles you saw. Re-run the sentence weekly and work only the new rows.
Worked example
From query to email in one screen.
› Find me US software companies with 100–800 employees that posted 6+ engineering roles in 60 days, especially the same role in more than one city
Larkspur Systems
Austin · 340 employees
12 Aug9 engineering roles posted since 12 Jul · careers page
3 SepSenior Backend Engineer open in Denver and Raleigh · careers page
To: Head of Talent, Larkspur Systems · Subject: the Denver + Raleigh backend search
Noticed the Senior Backend role is open in both Denver and Raleigh, plus seven other engineering posts since July.
We filled the same two-city backend search for a comparable Austin company in 31 days last quarter.
Worth 15 minutes before the internal team burns another month on it?
Honest fit
When Jesse is the right tool, and when it isn't.
| Choose | If you | Because |
|---|---|---|
| Jesse | win clients on timing: spikes, first People hires, new-country postings | A sentence against the live web gives a short list with a dated reason to write. Free to start; Pro $9/mo. |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator | sell through relationships and InMail | Warm paths beat cold lists. Jesse finds the company and the signal; it does not give you an introduction. |
| Apollo.io | run high-volume outbound to a known title and want a sequencer in the same seat | Database plus sending at the lowest per-seat cost, from $49/user/mo. Jesse has no sequencer. |
| ZoomInfo | sell RPO into enterprise procurement | Org charts and compliance documentation Jesse does not offer today. |
Many agencies run two: find in Jesse, reach in LinkedIn or Apollo. Jesse pricing read 11 Sep 2026; Apollo.io 20 Aug 2026.
Pricing
Search is 10 credits. Email is 5.
$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 11 September 2026. Phone enrichment is 30 credits.
Frequently asked questions
How do I generate leads for my staffing agency?
Search for hiring events, not company categories: the same role in several cities, an engineering spike, a first Head of People. Open your email with that event, add one comparable placement, ask for 15 minutes. Re-run weekly. Jesse's free plan covers about 100 searches.
How do I get clients for a recruitment agency with no network?
Replace the network with timing. A hiring manager with four open roles will take a call from a stranger who names those roles in line one. Ten specific emails beat 500 generic ones, and each placement becomes the referral you did not have.
Should I buy a list of HR contacts or hiring managers?
No. A purchased list is a snapshot, so the roles it implies were open when it was built, not now. And every agency in your niche bought the same list. Ten hiring managers with roles open this week beat 5,000 "Head of Talent" records.
Is Jesse better than LinkedIn Sales Navigator for finding companies that are hiring?
For a dated, company-level hiring signal, yes: one sentence returns the spike, the source, and the date. For warm outreach through shared connections and InMail, Sales Navigator is stronger. Many agencies find in Jesse and reach in LinkedIn.
How do I sell recruitment services to a company that already has an agency?
Sell to the roles the incumbent has not filled. A post open 60 days is one the current agency is losing. Open with that role, not with your firm.
What is the cheapest way to find companies hiring in one city or niche?
One live search with a city constraint on the free plan. "Find me fintech companies in Chicago that posted 3+ sales roles in 30 days" returns a short list with sources. The manual version is filtering job boards and checking careers pages by hand; it takes an afternoon and goes stale in a week.
When do companies buy recruiting services?
Right after funding or an approved headcount plan, and when a role has been open 45 days or more. Signal-based outreach works in both, because a company with nine open engineering roles has the problem whichever month it is.
How is Jesse different from a database like Apollo or ZoomInfo?
There is no stored list. Jesse runs your sentence against the live internet on every query, so a role posted yesterday shows up today with its source. Databases refresh on a cycle and filter by firmographics; they cannot see which week a role is open.
Ten hiring managers with roles open this week. That's the list.
Run one of the nine recruiting prompts on the free plan. 1,000 credits, no card.
Prices read from agentjesse.ai/pricing on 11 September 2026. Result cards on this page are illustrative examples.