> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.salesfinity.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Accounts from Signals

> Build account lists from what companies are doing right now: hiring for a role, running or missing a technology, showing buying intent, or matching a size and department profile.

**You will end up with:** a company table where every row carries the signal that put it there,
such as an open-roles count, so the reason to call is on the list itself.

**Before you start:** signals come from providers your team has enabled. Hiring and intent
signals from live job postings, technology and department-size profiles, and similarity are each
a separate source. If a signal is not available to your team, the companion says so instead of
guessing.

## The signals Salesfinity supports

| Signal                       | What you say                                                                     | What you get                                                                 |
| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Hiring for a role            | "companies hiring SDRs right now"                                                | Companies with open postings for that role, with an Open Roles count per row |
| Hiring with a stack gap      | "hiring SDRs but no dialer yet"                                                  | Companies with the problem and no incumbent to displace                      |
| Buying intent                | "companies working on SOC 2 compliance", "going through post-merger integration" | Companies whose job postings talk about that initiative                      |
| Technology in use            | "companies using Snowflake", "Orum customers"                                    | Companies verified to run that product                                       |
| Department size              | "at least 5 SDRs", "10+ account executives"                                      | Companies that clear the headcount bar in that department                    |
| Firmographic profile         | industry, size band, plus any of the above in one ask                            | Companies qualified on all of it in one pass                                 |
| Person recently changed jobs | "VPs of Sales new in seat in the last 90 days"                                   | People, not companies; see [Track job changes](/tutorials/track-job-changes) |

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Size it before you spend">
    Sizing a signal search is free. Ask how many match first, then tighten or loosen until the
    pool is the size you want to work.

    ```text theme={null}
    How many US companies with 100 to 2,000 employees are hiring SDRs right now?
    ```

    The companion answers with the pool size and no rows, so refining costs nothing.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the signal exists">
    Intent topics and technologies resolve against a verified taxonomy. If you are not sure your
    phrase is a real signal, ask.

    ```text theme={null}
    Can you filter companies on "revenue operations transformation"? What similar signals exist?
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run the search">
    ```text theme={null}
    Build a list of companies in the US hiring SDRs in the last 60 days, 100 to 2,000
    employees, that don't already use a dialer.
    ```

    Each row lands with its Open Roles count. Recency defaults to 90 days when you do not name a
    window.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Combine signals in one ask">
    Profile searches qualify size, department headcount, technology, industry, and hiring in a
    single pass, so say everything at once.

    ```text theme={null}
    Companies in financial services with 200 to 5,000 employees, at least 5 SDRs, using
    Salesforce, that have hired sales reps in the last 3 months.
    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check one company's timing">
    For a named account, ask what they are hiring for right now. This is pre-call research, not
    list building, and each posting read has a small per-row cost.

    ```text theme={null}
    Is Acme hiring right now, and for which roles?
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What happens behind the scenes

Hiring and intent searches read live job postings and filter on job title and posting recency
natively, so "hiring SDRs in the last 30 days" is a real filter and not a semantic guess. The
stack-gap option excludes companies already running a category of product. Technology and
department-size searches qualify companies against verified data in one call. Every signal
search appends to the current company list unless you ask for a new one.

## Prompts to try

```text theme={null}
Companies going through a merger or acquisition, 500+ employees, in the US.
```

```text theme={null}
Who is hiring data engineers in Austin right now? Size it first.
```

```text theme={null}
Companies using HubSpot with at least 10 AEs, then find their VP of Sales.
```

```text theme={null}
Which of these signals can I filter on: "cold calling", "outbound sales", "pipeline generation"?
```

## Next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Score your accounts" icon="ranking-star" href="/tutorials/score-accounts">
    Signals count toward the market pillar of the Account Score.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Find contacts at target accounts" icon="users" href="/tutorials/find-contacts">
    Reach the people behind the signal.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>