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what this is
a standing scan that runs on its own. set it up once, pick a time, and it looks while you are on calls.
connect one tool, attach the file, answer eight questions. every morning claude scans your market for the firms quietly getting ready to hire, and drops them into a sheet with a dated source behind every row. no prompting, nothing to remember.
you set it up once, pick a time, and it goes looking while you are on calls. by the time you open the laptop, the companies about to hire are already in a sheet, each with a live link you can check yourself.
a rolling sheet of companies in your market, each showing a signal that they are about to hire. a funding round. a new department head. a contract win. every row carries the signal, the date, a live link to the source, the roles it usually produces, and a heat rating.
most AI guides hand you prompts to copy and paste. this one has the instructions claude needs written into the document itself. attach it in claude cowork, claude reads them, asks what it needs to know, builds your sheet, then keeps filling it every morning without being asked again.
the file is the tool. no prompting, and nothing to remember.
it works while you are not there, on the cadence you set, every morning.
it remembers what it has already found across weeks, so it never covers old ground.
it sends findings to separate agents to verify before they ever reach your sheet.
everything from setup to the operating instructions claude runs every morning, printed in the open so you can see exactly what is building your sheet.
a standing scan that runs on its own. set it up once, pick a time, and it looks while you are on calls.
connect a search tool, attach the file and answer, confirm the schedule. after that you never touch it again.
one at a time, in conversation, so each answer shapes the next. written to a config file every run then reads.
ten events that come before the job advert, each a company quietly telling you it is about to need what you do.
four stages, in the same order every time. the second one is what separates this from a scraper.
most tools ask you to pick a company size. that is the wrong question. this changes where the radar looks.
one rolling file. new rows land on top, worked rows stay in the history, and nothing gets verified twice.
the exact steps claude follows on setup and every morning after, in the open so you can see what runs.
the radar is built from public information. that is worth being honest about, because it is where the real edge sits.
each one is a company quietly telling you it is about to need what you do, and a reason to call you did not have to invent. the bars show roughly how long until the roles land.
those lead times are working estimates based on how these signals usually play out, not measured data. treat them as a starting position, then track what converts on your desk and tell the radar to weight those signals higher.
stacked signals jump the queue. a funding round and a new VP in the same quarter is a desk worth clearing your morning for. the radar flags those as stacked and pushes them to the top of the sheet.
after this you never touch it again unless you want to change something.
a search tool that plugs into claude and lets it check firms against the live web instead of guessing from memory. open settings, find connectors, search for exa, click connect. it is a native connector, so there is nothing to download and no code to paste. if you already have zoominfo, indeed or clay connected, the radar will use those too for cross-checking.
open cowork, start a new task, attach the pdf and send it. claude reads its own instructions out of the back of the document and starts asking. eight questions, one at a time, plain english, the way you would tell a colleague. then it writes your answers to a config file and builds your empty sheet.
claude already has your cadence from question six, so it writes the schedule line for you. type /schedule, paste it in, confirm. cowork then runs each scan as its own fresh session, so nothing sits there burning through your usage overnight waiting for the clock.
the second one is what separates this from a scraper. a quiet morning returns a quiet sheet, because a scan that finds ten things every single morning is a scan that is making some of them up.
reads your config, checks what is already in the sheet so it does not cover old ground, then searches for the ten signals inside your recency window. also runs a lookalike pass against your client list.
every candidate signal is handed to a separate agent that had nothing to do with finding it. four checks, all of which must hold: the link is live, the date is in your window, the entity matches, and the source is not an agency repost.
verified rows get appended to your rolling sheet. a signal already in there gets skipped. the same company with a different signal gets a new row, flagged as stacked. a row you have touched never gets overwritten.
four lines waiting for you: what it searched, how many it found, how many passed verification, and the top three by heat. for the hottest signals it drafts an opening message in the sheet.
new rows land on top, worked rows stay in the history, and nothing gets verified twice. every row carries a clickable source and a date, so you can check it yourself before you dial.
| company | signal | date | source | heat | flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| northwind robotics | funding round, series b | 12 jul | filing | hot | stacked |
| meridian health | new department head | 09 jul | press | hot | – |
| atlas logistics | contract win | 08 jul | trade press | warm | – |
| beacon fintech | new office, manchester | 05 jul | announcement | warm | – |
| orbit software | product launch | 03 jul | company page | cold | – |
a strong, recent, verified signal that lines up with your desk, or two stacked on one company. the radar drafts you an opener for these. call this week.
real and relevant, but the signal is older, softer, or the fit needs a judgement call. one more signal away from hot. worth a light touch.
verified but marginal. it stays on the sheet so you do not waste a cycle rediscovering it in six weeks. on the record.
this radar is useful, and it is built entirely from public information. that is worth being honest about, because it is exactly where the real opportunity sits.
funding, hires, contract wins, departures. all of it is public, which means the agency down the road can point the same tool at the same market and get a similar sheet.
running this puts you ahead of the recruiters still waiting for the advert. it does not put you ahead of the ones who have read this too. a public-web radar is now the floor.
the client who mentions a team is about to be restructured. the candidate who knows their manager just resigned. the sign-off that cleared last week.
these decide who briefs you, and they are spoken on calls weeks before anything reaches the open web. they are also the signals that walk out of the door when a consultant leaves.
the open web is the floor. your conversations are the moat.
connect exa, attach the file, answer eight questions, pick a time. from then on the companies about to hire in your market are sitting in a sheet before you have had your first coffee. free, no email wall.
the email opens ready to send with the details already in it. add your name and a number. if your reader blocks mail links, the address is hello@ryvr.ai. then remember the part that wins the work lives in the conversations your team is already having today, where the open web can't reach.