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. Hand-written copy protects your reputation from everything. By the time a message leaves, it is aimed, checked and written by a person.
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
Every message written by hand, by Nathan, referencing the specific stuck role. No templates for you to fix, nothing for you to write.
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 inside your ideal client profile, booked, and attended.
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
AI-written pitches
Technology finds the leads and fills in the details. It never writes the pitch. Your name is the asset, and it gets treated like one.
Excluded
03.10
Twelve-month contracts
A 90-day first term with a guarantee behind it, then rolling on 14 days' notice. The work has to keep earning its place.
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
Your name on everything. 10 meetings in 90 days, guaranteed.
The terms fit on one card, which is the point. The guarantee is written down, you do no BD yourself, and a meeting only counts when it is real. Commercials depend on the volume you want, and they are discussed on the strategy call once we understand your market.
- Term90-DAY FIRST TERM · THEN ROLLING
- Guarantee10 QUALIFIED MEETINGS IN 90 DAYS OR YOUR RETAINER BACK
- Notice14 DAYS
- IdentityOUTBOUND RUNS IN YOUR NAME
- CopyWRITTEN BY HAND, BY US
- Qualified meetingICP FIT · BOOKED · ATTENDED
- No-showsNEVER COUNTED
- CommercialsDISCUSSED ON THE STRATEGY 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. We look at your market 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?
Someone inside your ideal client profile (right sector, right size, right region) who is booked into your calendar and turns up. No-shows do not count and are not reported as meetings.
05.2Is there a contract or lock-in?
There is a 90-day first term, because that is the period the guarantee covers. After that it rolls on, and either side can stop it with 14 days' notice. No twelve-month contracts.
05.3Do you guarantee a number of meetings?
Yes. 10 qualified meetings in your first 90 days, or your retainer back. The same promise on every package. On top of that you get a weekly written account of what went out, what came back and what got booked.
05.4Who writes and sends the messages?
Nathan writes every message by hand, in your voice, referencing the specific reason that company needs to hire. Technology finds the leads and fills in the details; it never writes the pitch. Everything goes out in your name, and you don't lift a finger.
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 the volume you want. There are three packages, Starter, Growth and Enterprise, and they differ only in how much outreach we send each month. Every package is fully done for you and carries the same guarantee. Pricing is set on the strategy call, once we understand your market.
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 promise is written down: 10 qualified meetings in your first 90 days, or your retainer back.
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 every message is written by a person.
06.0
Book
See what the method would do for your market.
Book a free strategy call. We'll look at your market, show you the hiring signals we'd go after, and tell you honestly whether we can help.