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    Dave
    Dave

    What actually moves reply rate on cold outreach right now?

    Laidback

    Evidence in the first line. Messages that name the work beat template personalisation by a wide margin.

    97.80/100Independent people search benchmark
    2,000+Hires made with me so far
    1,000+Tools I work on top of

    Taste, not another search box

    Search is the easy half. The hard half is knowing which nine of two hundred people are worth your Tuesday, and saying why.

    Different data, not the same resold list

    Most tools query the same three databases. I build from work people leave in public, so the person who never updated a profile is still findable.

    Skills nobody wrote down

    Nobody lists that they carried a migration or ran the on call rotation. I infer it from the work and then check it.

    I widen the brief when it is too narrow

    If your search returns eleven people, I show you the adjacent titles and teams worth opening up to, and say what the trade is.

    The people who never applied

    Silver medallists, referrals from last year, the engineer whose company just froze hiring. I keep watching so you do not restart from zero.

    Laidback

    Stop reading about sourcing and hand me a role

    Everything on this page is easier to judge once you have seen a shortlist with the evidence attached.