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Multi-Signal Outreach

A job change alone is noise. A job change + the company hiring for your category + their team commenting on competitor posts = someone building a new stack. That’s worth an email. Stacking signals like this gets 18% response rates vs 3.4% for cold email (Autobound).

The Play

1

Define your signal sources

Choose 3-5 signals to monitor: job changes, hiring posts, funding rounds, competitor engagement, technology adoption, or intent data.
2

Collect signals per account

Run enrichment across all signal sources for your target account list. Each signal adds a column to your dataset.
3

Stack and score

Count signals per account. Weight by strength: job change of a champion (10 pts) > generic hiring signal (3 pts). Rank by composite score.
4

Generate personalized sequences

For top-scored accounts, generate 3-step outreach sequences that reference their specific signals. “Congrats on the Series B — noticed you’re hiring RevOps, which usually means [pain point].”
5

Route to sequences

Push to your outreach tool (Instantly, Outreach, Apollo sequences) with signal context in custom fields.

Tell Claude Code

“For each company in target-accounts.csv: check for recent funding, hiring signals, and job changes among my HubSpot contacts. Stack the signals, score each account, and generate a personalized 3-step email sequence for the top 20. Write to outreach-ready.csv.”

Signal Stacking Framework

Signals DetectedPriorityAction
3+ signalsP0 — ImmediatePersonal email from AE within 48h
2 signalsP1 — This weekAutomated sequence with signal-specific personalization
1 signalP2 — QueueAdd to nurture sequence, monitor for additional signals
0 signalsSkipDon’t waste outreach credits on cold accounts

Signal Combinations That Convert

ComboWhy It Works
Job change + funding roundNew leader with fresh budget — classic buying window
Competitor engagement + hiringEvaluating alternatives while scaling the team
Tech stack change + job postingRebuilding infrastructure, need new tools
Funding + multiple job postsRapid growth = urgent tool needs

Cost Estimate

  • TAM building & web scraping: Included in Claude Code (AI-powered via Claude)
  • Email enrichment: ~0.3 credits per contact (waterfall, first provider hit)
  • Company enrichment: ~0.4 credits per account (via Crustdata)
  • Signal-specific enrichment costs vary by source and provider
Speed matters more than perfection. A good-enough personalized email today beats a perfect one next week.

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