For retained search and recruiting firms
Your next mandate is forming right now. See it first.
MandateSignal watches thousands of companies for the patterns that come before a search begins — funding, leadership moves, acquisitions, financial signals — and tells you which firms are about to need a recruiter, weeks before your competition hears about it.
You are great at filling roles. Finding the companies that are about to need you — before they have called anyone — is the hard part. Your best mandates have always come from being in the conversation early. MandateSignal makes early repeatable.
The method
I
Describe who you place.
Industry, function, seniority, geography. Thirty seconds. That becomes your signal recipe.
II
We predict the opening — before the posting.
Dozens of signal types, pattern-matched across company events and back-tested against historical hiring. Not "they posted a job." "They are likely to open a VP Engineering search within 45 days — here is why."
III
You make the first call.
Every lead comes with the evidence trail, the decision-makers around the role, and a drafted, editable outreach in your voice.
The part nobody else does
Work both sides of the placement.
Win the mandate
Companies in your niche showing pre-search signals, ranked by timing and confidence — with the decision-makers and a drafted pitch.
Market your candidate
Load a strong candidate’s profile and see which companies are likely to hire that profile right now — so a great candidate who missed one role becomes your next placement, not a lost file.
Signals, not lists
Funding rounds
Budget unlocked before the org chart catches up.
Executive departures
The backfill brief is being written. No posting yet.
M&A and expansion
Integration mandates create leadership openings.
SEC filings and WARN notices
Restructuring signals the market reads too late.
MandateSignal is not a sourcing replacement, not a CRM, and not a substitute for retained-search judgment. It is the prediction layer that gets you into the conversation first — what you do in the room is still yours. Candidate profiles are processed only with attested consent. Private by default.