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Prospecting · New businessProspecting · New business

Prospecting that finds the customers worth calling.

Our prospecting service puts your sales time into companies that fit. We find the right accounts and decision makers, verify contact details and show why each one deserves a conversation.

See how we choose prospects
  • Clear selection criteria
  • Verified contact details
  • Ready for your CRM
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NorthstarPrioritise
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Aurora StudioMonitor
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Valon RetailExclude
Example target audience
From company list to sales priorityExample · IT services
Example target audience
  • UK service companies
  • 20–100 employees
  • Growing organisation
CompanyOur selection
Pick a company to see what decides the next step. A new hire can be relevant, but the account has to fit your offer first.
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Northstar

Prioritise
01
Opening a new office
Why this decision?

Fits the sector and company size. A new office may mean more users, equipment and IT needs. Check the current setup before reaching out.

Relevant contact roleIT lead / operations director
Next step

Confirm who owns it and ask how IT support will work at the new office.

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Aurora Studio

Monitor
02
No current change identified
Why this decision?

The company fits the audience, but there's no current reason to prioritise outreach. Keep it for further research and monitoring.

Relevant contact roleOperations director
Next step

Research the current provider and watch for expansion or hiring.

V

Valon Retail

Exclude
03
Hiring a store manager
Why this decision?

The hiring signal is current, but the company falls outside both the sector and size criteria. An event alone doesn't make a company the right customer.

Relevant contact roleNo contact researched
Next step

Exclude from this campaign and spend sales time on accounts that fit.

Illustrative example with fictional companies. The selection shows a method, not client results or verified buying intent.

What is prospecting?What is prospecting?

Winning new business starts before the first call.

Prospecting means finding, researching and prioritising potential customers. New business development then continues with outreach, follow-up and qualification. We build the foundation that helps your sales team pick the right accounts and open with a relevant question.

The list is only the startThe list is only the start

Good prospecting answers who, why and why now

Company names and email addresses aren't enough. Salespeople need to know why the account fits, who owns the problem and what makes the timing right.

01
UK service companies20–100 employeesGrowing organisation

A sharp ideal customer profile

We turn your best customers into concrete criteria: sector, size, technology, region, maturity and the costly problems you solve.

02
IT lead / operations director
Relevant contact role

The right person to talk to

We map both the person with budget authority and the people who feel the problem, so outreach starts at the right level of the organisation.

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Northstar
Opening a new office
Prioritise

A reason to get in touch now

We research hiring, expansion and changes that may create a need for your offer. Each event is weighed against your customer profile before an account is prioritised.

Illustrative example with fictional companies. The selection shows a method, not client results or verified buying intent.

From market to prioritised listFrom market to prioritised list

Sales prospecting starts with better selection

We combine strategy, data sources and manual research into a living prospect base your salespeople will actually use.

  1. Step 101

    Analyse your best customers

    We find the shared traits, trigger problems and roles that drove the decision in deals you've won.

  2. Step 202

    Map the market

    Relevant companies are pulled from Companies House and other sources, then filtered by firm criteria, exclusions and regions.

  3. Step 303

    Enrich and verify

    Decision makers, contact details, technology, events and signals are checked before anything reaches your sales team.

  4. Ongoing04

    Prioritise and learn

    We update priorities as new events and sales feedback come in. Replies and won deals sharpen the next selection.

What you getWhat you get

Prospect research your sales team can put to work.

You get a prioritised list of companies with contact roles, sources and a clear reason for the next step, delivered into your CRM or existing workflow.

01

ICP and selection criteria

Documented requirements, priorities and exclusions.

02

Accounts and groups

The right legal entity, market, size and group structure.

03

Decision makers

Role, responsibilities, profile and verified contact routes.

04

Buying signals

Current events that justify prioritising and contacting an account.

05

Priority and segments

Clear tiers for who's contacted first, and with which angle.

06

CRM-ready delivery

Fields, ownership and status matched to your workflow.

Example deliverable

One account. The full context.

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NorthstarPrioritised for research
01Fits because
Services firm, 48 employees, UK
02Current event
New office → check IT needs
03Contact role
IT lead / operations director
04Source and verification
Companies House + manual check
05Delivery format
CRM fields or structured CSV

Fictional example deliverable. Sources, verification status and contact details are documented in the real engagement.

Ready for your CRM
When does a prospecting service fit?When does a prospecting service fit?

Best when the market is large but the right audience is narrow

Usually a strong fit

  • You sell B2B to identifiable companies
  • Your salespeople need better accounts to work
  • Your market shifts and new signals appear
  • You want a repeatable outbound process

When strategy has to come first

  • Every company counts as a potential customer
  • Nobody can explain why customers buy
  • Data should be bought once and never updated
  • List size matters more than accuracy
Start with five dream clientsStart with five dream clients

Which five customers would you like more of?

Bring five dream clients to a free call. We'll look at what they have in common and the criteria we'd use to find more like them.

From prospect to conversationFrom prospect to conversation

Explore lead generation

Prospecting decides who to approach. These are the channels and processes that move each contact forward.

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Cold emailRelevant outreach that starts conversations.LinkedIn outreachSocial selling with a human voice.Appointment settingQualified B2B meetings in your calendar.
Common questionsCommon questions

About prospecting

Straight answers on new business, data quality, UK GDPR and delivery.

Prospecting is the work of identifying and prioritising potential customers before active selling begins. It covers defining your target criteria, mapping the market, choosing the right companies and decision makers, finding contact details and spotting signals that show when an account is especially worth approaching. Good prospecting means your salespeople spend their time on accounts that can actually buy.

Prospecting is mainly selection and research: which companies and people should you prioritise? Lead generation and new business development are broader and also include outreach, follow-up, qualification and booking the next step. Strong lead generation always starts with good prospecting, because the best message still fails if it goes to the wrong person.

New business development is the systematic work of finding, contacting and following up companies that aren't yet customers. It starts with a clear customer profile and a prioritised target list, continues with personal contact in the right channel, such as cold email, and ends with qualification and a booked conversation. What separates good new business work from poor is usually the targeting and follow-up, not the number of calls.

Outbound sales is when your team makes the first contact with potential customers instead of waiting for them to get in touch. It can happen by phone, email, LinkedIn or in person. It works best when it's built on solid prospecting, so every approach goes to a company that fits your profile and has a reason to listen right now.

We combine Companies House records, professional networks such as LinkedIn, company websites, technology data, hiring signals and commercial databases where relevant. No single source is complete or fully up to date, so we verify critical fields such as role, company status and email address across several sources before delivery.

We work in four steps. First, we analyse your best customers to find shared traits and the roles that drove the decision. Next, we map the market and filter out the relevant companies. Then we check decision makers, contact details and buying signals. Finally, we prioritise the accounts and keep updating those priorities as new events happen and your sales team gives feedback.

An ideal customer profile, or ICP, describes the companies that get the most value from your offer and are the most profitable to work with. It's built on concrete criteria such as sector, size, location, technology, maturity and the problems that cost them money. A sharp ICP makes prospecting accurate and gives your salespeople a clear reason to say no to the wrong accounts.

Buying signals are events suggesting a company may need what you offer right now: new hires, expansion into new markets, a new office, a technology change or fresh funding. Changes at Companies House, such as new director appointments, can help too. A signal alone isn't enough; the company must also fit your customer profile. But signals give you a natural reason to get in touch, for example in LinkedIn outreach.

Company data isn't always personal data, but contact details linked to a named person usually are. We work with a clear purpose, data minimisation, documented sources and a legitimate interests assessment, and handle objections and deletion requests promptly. Any outreach must also follow PECR. Your own legal assessment of your specific setup should be done separately.

Roles, company status and signals change quickly, especially when people move jobs. In ongoing engagements the prospect base is continuously updated and reprioritised, and data used in a campaign is verified as close to the contact date as practical, which keeps bounce rates and wasted outreach down.

Lists from data providers can be a useful starting point, but they're rarely enough on their own. They often contain out-of-date contacts, the wrong roles and companies that match the filters on paper but don't fit your offer. The value comes from filtering the list against a clear customer profile, checking it against sources such as Companies House and enriching it with signals. That's the work we do before anything reaches your sales team.

No. The delivery has to work in real selling, so it includes selection logic, segments, decision makers, verified contact details, current signals and priorities. It can go straight into your CRM, or be combined with our cold email, LinkedIn outreach and appointment setting so the prospects are contacted for you.

In-house prospecting works when your salespeople have the time, the right tools and a clear customer profile. Often, though, research eats into the time they should spend in conversations that close deals. Outsourcing suits teams that want a repeatable process, are entering a new market or need to free up selling time. We can deliver the research into your CRM or take contact further with appointment setting.

It depends on how large and complex the market is, how many accounts and roles need mapping, how deep the research on each account has to go, and whether the work is a one-off or ongoing. A short list of carefully checked decision makers is priced differently from mapping a whole sector. Bring five dream customers to a first meeting and we'll send you a fixed proposal afterwards.

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