INTELLIGENCE · THE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH

Ranked by the way in, not by size.

A firm with one reachable signer beats a giant nobody answers at. Gaden keeps a living graph of your accounts — who signs, who can actually be reached, what changed this week, and which roles have quietly stopped believing they will fill themselves.

SIGNERS · REACHABILITY · HIRING POSTURE · COMPETITORS · EVIDENCE

HOW THIS RANKS

A desk cannot bill a company it cannot reach

Size tells you how big the prize is. Reachability tells you whether the prize is available to you this week. Most account lists are sorted by the first and useless for the second.

TODAY · 13 ACCOUNTS ON THE DESK
14
DOORS WITH AN ADDRESS
9
REACHABLE FROM A DECODED PATTERN
0
SIGNERS STILL DARK
ADDRESS ON FILE FROM PATTERN NEEDS A PROBE

WHAT THE GRAPH HOLDS

Enough to have a reason for writing today

Who signs, and whether you can reach them

The leadership bench, read from every profile page the firm publishes — and separated into the people who can approve an agency and the people who cannot. Where an address is not published, the pattern is decoded from the ones that are, so a name stops being a dead end. Everyone found but not yet saved is flagged, because a contact discovered and forgotten is the same as never finding them.

SIGNING AUTHORITY PATTERN DECODED FOUND BUT NOT SAVED

THE BENCH

You can write to10 of 10 at the top
Direct lines published4
Found but never saved1
Profile coverage4 of 10 full

Every profile page they publish has been read. Run it again if their bench has changed.

What changed, and where it hurts

Hiring posture is not a number, it is a story: which tracks are opening, whether the roles are fresh or stale, and whether the pattern reads as replacement or expansion. And then the line that actually decides the opening — a role past thirty days is a conversation. One posted this week still thinks it fills itself.

HIRING POSTURE STALE ROLE DETECTION GROWTH SIGNALS

WHERE IT HURTS MOST

ERISA Associate · New Orleans30d
Wage & Hour Associate · New York30d
Labor Of Counsel · Cleveland30d
Class Action Associate · Cincinnati30d

A role past thirty days is a conversation. One posted this week still thinks it fills itself.

Every claim carries its evidence

Intelligence you cannot check is a rumour with better formatting. Every read on an account — the growth figures, the hiring pattern, the competitor set — links back to where it came from. Nineteen sources on a single account is normal. It matters most in the moment before you send, when the only question that counts is whether you actually know this or merely believe it.

SOURCE ON EVERY CLAIM COMPETITOR SET RE-RUNNABLE

THEIR COMPETITORS · 4

Who the client loses to, and why — so the pitch knows what it is standing next to.

Closest substituteNamed & sourced
Overlapping demandMapped
Evidence behind the read19 sources

WHY A DATABASE IS NOT ENOUGH

Rows do not survive a handoff

A contact database gives you a list. The moment that contact becomes a submittal, then a placement, then an invoice, then a commission, a list has nothing left to say — and everything it knew has to be typed somewhere else.

A CONTACT DATABASE

What you get

  • Rows, sorted by company size
  • Contacts with no read on whether they can approve you
  • No sense of what changed this week
  • Claims without sources behind them
  • Everything re-entered at the next stage

GADEN

What you get

  • Accounts ranked by whether you can actually get in
  • Signers separated from everyone else
  • Hiring posture, stale roles and growth signals
  • An evidence trail behind every claim
  • The same record through placement, fee and commission

ACCOUNT INTELLIGENCE, ANSWERED

What it is and what it is not

What is account intelligence in recruiting?

Knowing enough about a company to have a reason for contacting them today rather than a generic introduction. That means who actually signs off on an agency, whether they can be reached at all, what changed in their hiring recently, and which roles have been sitting open long enough that the internal team has quietly given up on filling them.

Why rank accounts by reachability instead of size?

Because a desk cannot bill a company it cannot reach. A mid-size firm with one signer whose address is known converts far more often than an enterprise with a thousand employees and no way in. Size is a measure of the prize; reachability is a measure of whether the prize is available to you this week.

What does a stale job posting tell a recruiter?

That the internal team has not filled it, and increasingly does not expect to. A role posted this week still believes it will fill itself. A role past thirty days is a conversation waiting to happen, and it is usually the best opening a recruiting desk has with a company that has never used an agency.

How is this different from a contact database?

A database gives you rows. A graph gives you relationships, and it stays connected to the rest of the desk. The same account record that produced the first touch carries through the submittal, the placement, the invoice and the commission, so nothing has to be re-entered and nothing loses its history at a handoff.

ALL-IN-ONE RECRUITMENT PLATFORM

From finding the client to paying your recruiter

Intelligence is where it starts. Gaden finds the companies hiring, sources and screens the candidates, writes the proposals and contracts, books the interviews, invoices the fee and chases what is overdue — then pays every recruiter and partner out of the money that actually landed.

The knowledge graph comes with Gaden Agency.