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Recruitment Growth Intelligence
Identify better client opportunities. Earlier.
Recruitment Growth Intelligence combines commercial consultancy with AI-assisted research to help specialist recruitment agencies identify, qualify and pursue valuable new client opportunities.
Built around your market, your ideal clients and your commercial priorities.
We help specialist recruitment firms find better-fit clients, uncover emerging hiring demand and build a more consistent new-business pipeline.
The Commercial Challenge
Winning new clients is getting harder.
Competition, changing hiring demand and pressure on consultants' time make consistent new-business development increasingly challenging.
Limited visibility
Future recruitment requirements aren't always apparent from current vacancies.
Inconsistent new business
Balancing client delivery and prospecting makes maintaining a steady pipeline more difficult.
Finding the right clients
Not every prospect represents valuable business. Fit, timing and commercial potential matter.
The opportunity: Turn your existing market knowledge into earlier, better-informed commercial conversations.
How RGI Works
Your market expertise. Our methodology. Better opportunities.
RGI turns your agency's briefing and commercial priorities into a documented, repeatable approach to recruitment client acquisition.
- 01
Define
Document your Ideal Client Profile and commercial priorities.
- 02
Discover
Identify relevant companies and credible signals of potential demand.
- 03
Qualify
Score prospects for fit, timing and commercial potential.
- 04
Research
Build account intelligence and identify relevant decision-makers.
- 05
Act
Translate the intelligence into focused new-business activity.
Verified signals
Observable evidence such as expansion, investment, leadership change or workforce activity.
Inferred opportunity
A potential recruitment requirement to investigate and qualify, never presented as certainty.
RGI Opportunity Pilot
See what RGI could uncover in your market.
Define your ideal clients. Identify valuable new-business opportunities.
Focused pilot£495+ VAT
What's included
- Focused discovery briefing
- Documented Ideal Client Profile, approved before research
- Research into one agreed recruitment market or specialism
- Five researched and prioritised prospective client opportunities
- Company information and credible commercial signals
- Potential recruitment requirements, clearly identified as hypotheses
- Decision-maker names, job titles and LinkedIn profiles where identifiable
- Opportunity scores and engagement priorities
- Concise Opportunity Intelligence Report
- Findings review and recommendations
A low-risk way to assess the relevance and quality of RGI's intelligence before considering a full implementation.
Full RGI Implementation
Turn opportunity intelligence into a repeatable new-business capability.
The eight-week programme builds, activates and embeds a system configured around your agency, specialist market and preferred ways of working.
This is a consultancy-led implementation, not a standalone software subscription.
Scope and commercial investment are discussed following discovery.
- Week 1
Define
ICP and targeting blueprint
- Weeks 2–4
Build
Signals, scoring and workflow setup
- Weeks 5–6
Activate
Live opportunities and outreach
- Weeks 7–8
Improve
Tracking, training and handover
ICP refinement and commercial targeting strategy
Tailored research methodology and opportunity scoring
Repeatable signal-led opportunity searches
Research into companies, recruitment requirements and decision-makers
Client-funded contact enrichment using Lusha or equivalent
Available business email addresses and alternative contact information
Personalised emails, LinkedIn messages and follow-up recommendations
Client-specific mini-presentations using approved agency credentials
CRM/ATS integration where feasible, or a structured opportunity tracker
Opportunity tracking, workflow configuration, activation and training
Measurement, refinement and handover during supported activation
Choose Your Starting Point
Pilot versus full implementation.
Start by testing the intelligence, or build the complete capability your team can use consistently.
| Capability | £495 Pilot | Full implementation |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial briefing | Focused | Comprehensive |
| Documented ICP | Included | Refined and operationalised |
| Opportunity research | Five prioritised accounts | Repeatable ongoing searches |
| Decision-maker intelligence | Names, titles and LinkedIn | Plus contact enrichment |
| Business email and alternative contact details | Not included | Where available |
| Personalised outreach | Not included | Included |
| Client-specific mini-presentations | Not included | Included |
| CRM and opportunity tracking | Not included | Included within agreed scope |
| Training and system handover | Not included | Included |
The pilot demonstrates the quality of the intelligence. The full implementation builds the capability to use it consistently.
Why Pathfinder?
More than technology. Commercial expertise that makes it useful.
Established tools provide access to data, research and workflow capability. Pathfinder's role is to configure those tools around your business and turn them into a commercially useful process.
RGI builds on your team's existing market knowledge, relationships and judgement.
- 01
Understand your specialist market and commercial priorities
- 02
Develop an ICP that is specific enough to guide action
- 03
Distinguish relevant opportunities from market noise
- 04
Create practical, repeatable business-development processes
- 05
Implement the approach around the way your team already works
Find better-fit clients. Recognise demand earlier.
Start with a focused Opportunity Pilot and discover where intelligence-led business development could create value for your recruitment agency.