00.0 · The method Full delivery specification
How to find companies that are struggling to hire. Then get paid to fix it.
This page is the complete recruitment agency BD process Link Think runs: the signal it reads, the engine that turns evidence into meetings, what is in the box, and what is kept out on purpose. No mystique. It works because it is boring, daily and aimed.
01.0
The signal
timing beats targeting. every time
Struggling to hire is public information. We just read it.
A job ad on week six is not an advert any more. It is a company paying to stay visibly stuck. So is an ad drawing a trickle of unusable applicants. These companies do not need a recruiter someday. They need one this week, and they have published the evidence themselves.
Job boards say who is struggling. Companies House says who they legally are, how big they are, and whether they are trading. Cross-reference the two and you get the thing most prospect lists never have: timing.
01.1
Aged advertisements
A role still advertised after weeks in market. The company is paying, publicly, to stay visibly stuck.
01.2
Application starvation
Ads that attract almost nobody worth interviewing. The vacancy is open, the funnel is empty, the hiring manager is getting asked about it every Monday.
01.3
Registry cross-check
Every signal is matched against Companies House. Live entity, right size, right sector, actually trading. No ghost companies, no franchised job-ad noise.
01.4
The hitlist
The output is a ranked, living list of companies in your niche and region that are failing to hire right now. Your next client posted the evidence three weeks ago.
02.0
The engine
One machine, six stages, your name on the output.
Each stage exists to protect the one after it. The registry check protects the hitlist from junk. Verification protects your name from bounces. Your sign-off protects your reputation from everything. By the time a message leaves, it is aimed, checked and approved.
03.0
Service specification
What's in the box. And what is kept out of it, on purpose.
03.1
Live hitlist, your market
Companies failing to hire in your niche and geography, refreshed continuously and ranked by strength of evidence.
Included
03.2
Contact discovery & verification
The named decision maker for each target, with contact data verified before anyone writes a word.
Included
03.3
Copy in your voice
Messages drafted for you, referencing the specific stuck role. You approve every word before anything sends.
Included
03.4
Outbound in your name
Email and LinkedIn, from your identity, at a measured cadence. Replies land with you.
Included
03.5
Diary booking
Interested replies are qualified and booked straight into your calendar. Qualified means held ten minutes or more with an ICP-fit company.
Included
03.6
The prospect report
Before every booked meeting: who they are, what is hurting, the full conversation so far, qualification answers, their LinkedIn, socials and website, how they speak, and the sales angles most likely to convert. You turn up already ahead.
Included
03.7
The weekly ledger
A plain written account every week: what went out, what came back, what got booked. No dashboard theatre.
Included
Excluded by design
03.8
The spam cannon
No blasting thousands of messages at a bought list of everyone. Volume is not the product. Timing is.
Excluded
03.9
Unapproved sends
Nothing goes out that you have not signed off. Your name is the asset. It gets treated like one.
Excluded
03.10
Twelve-month contracts
No lock-in to hide behind. The work has to earn next month, every month.
Excluded
03.11
Invented results
Nothing on this site is projected or borrowed. The evidence on the results page is real clients, quoted verbatim, with their names attached.
Excluded
04.0
Engagement terms
Month to month. Your name on everything. No lock-in.
The terms fit on one card, which is the point. You are never locked in, nothing sends without your sign-off, and a meeting only counts when it is real. Commercials depend on scope: your niche, your territory, the volume you want. They are discussed on the discovery call, after you have watched your hitlist get built.
- TermMONTH TO MONTH · NO LOCK-IN
- ExitIF THE MEETINGS AREN'T GOOD, SACK US
- IdentityOUTBOUND RUNS IN YOUR NAME
- ApprovalEVERY WORD SIGNED OFF BY YOU
- Qualified meetingHELD 10+ MIN · ICP FIT
- No-showsNEVER COUNTED
- CommercialsDISCUSSED ON THE DISCOVERY CALL
Scope is not one-size. A perm finance desk in the South East and a niche engineering desk in the North West need different volume, different groundwork, different pacing. You watch your live hitlist get built first, then we talk numbers. If they don't fit, you walk. No hard feelings, no follow-up sequence.
05.0
Questions
Asked before. Answered plainly.
05.1What counts as a qualified meeting?
A meeting held for ten minutes or more with a company that fits your ideal client profile: right sector, right size, right region. No-shows do not count and are not reported as meetings.
05.2Is there a contract or lock-in?
No. The engagement runs month to month. If the meetings are not good, you sack us and stop paying. That is the whole exit clause.
05.3Do you guarantee a number of meetings?
No. A number promised before anyone has looked at your niche and market is a guess dressed up as a promise. What you get instead is a strict definition of a qualified meeting, a weekly written account of what went out and what came back, and the client results on the results page.
05.4Who writes and sends the messages?
Every message goes out in your name, from your identity, and you approve every word before anything sends. Nothing leaves the building without your sign-off. Ever.
05.5How do you find the companies?
Job ads that have been up too long, or that attract almost no applicants, are public evidence that a company is failing to hire. Link Think mines job boards for those signals, cross-checks every company against Companies House, and builds a live hitlist for your niche and region.
05.6What does it cost?
It depends on scope: your niche, your territory, and the volume you want. Commercials are discussed on the discovery call, after you have watched your hitlist get built live. Every engagement runs month to month with no lock-in.
05.7Why trust another lead gen agency?
Nathan worked in recruitment, so he is not going to pitch a CFO a contractor desk. And the discovery call is the audition: he builds a live hitlist for your market, on screen, in real time, before you pay anything.
05.8Is this just spam in my name?
No. There is no spam cannon and no bought list of everyone. Outreach goes only to companies showing the failing-to-hire signal in your niche, with verified contacts, and you approve every message before it sends.
06.0
Book
See the method run on your market. Live.
The discovery call is the audition. Nathan builds a hitlist for your niche and region on screen, in real time, before you pay anything.