Solutions
Sourcing data for recruiting agencies
Take on more clients
without hiring more.
50%
More sourcing capacity, no new hire
90%
Irrelevant results cut from a single search
8 roles
Closed in a single week
Same tools, same candidates, same results
✕
The recruiter seat is expensive and capped
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The AI sourcing tools all look alike, on the same public data
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When the tool decides who you find, you have no edge
Every firm runs the same off-the-shelf stack, so every firm sees the
same profiles and the same shortlists. The tools search the same
public data and match on keywords. When the tool decides who you
find, you have no real edge over the next firm.
Four phases. One data layer.
One source for the entire recruiting workflow. 1B+ profiles with people and company history, real-time job-change
signals, and verified emails, from the mandate to the placement.
Phase 01
Map the landscape
Size the market and see who's hiring before you
pitch the mandate.
Size and segment the talent pool
Filter 1B+ profiles by skills, seniority, region, and more to understand the talent out there.
Find new business
See which companies are hiring right now, so you know who to pitch.
Phase 02
Build the pipeline
Keep a warm bench across clients, sourced on live
signals instead of a stale spreadsheet.
Build and nurture a passive candidate database
Maintain a warm bench of pre-qualified candidates, ready before the next role opens.
Watch for alerts about interesting candidates
Get alerted when someone leaves a company, gets promoted, or posts on
social media.
Phase 03
Qualify and reach out
Get the full picture on shortlisted candidates before
the first message.
Enrich and qualify candidates automatically
Pull complete profiles in one call, work history, education, skills, and a verified business email.
Understand the candidate's current company
Know if their employer just raised funding, is losing key people, or is growing
headcount. Context changes how you pitch.
Personalize outreach at scale
Full career context and a verified email in one API call gives you everything you need to write outreach that doesn't read like a template.
Phase 04
Compound the advantage
Every search you run makes the next one sharper.
Your data and rules compound.
Re-engage past candidates when signals fire
That candidate from six months ago just left their job. With Watcher alerts, you know before competitors reach out.
Compound your judgment
When you control the raw data and the judgment you apply to it, your edge compounds. The scoring rubric and per-client rules you build carry across every search, on Claude or in your own systems. An off-the-shelf tool does the judgment for you, so nothing you build ever becomes your own edge.
It doesn't matter if you're technical or not
Just ask, in plain English
Connect Crustdata to an LLM like Claude and it runs the search, enrichment, and outreach for you.
Build into your systems
On the API, teams build sourcing dashboards, Slack bots that ping when a candidate moves, ATS plugins that auto-enrich applicants, and outreach systems.
They built sourcing on Crustdata instead of hiring a third recruiter, and run every client search in parallel.
Dominique Kimbrough
Co-Founder, The Firm
69%
Reduction in sourcing time
8 roles
Closed in a single week
8-10%
Candidate interest rate
What agencies tell us
It's a Swiss Army knife. Depending on the role, I can push the routine stuff out faster, which frees me up for the deep work on the executive searches.
Mike Cannon
Co-founder, The Firm
"We like the mix of the people and the company history. Most tools only give you the people."
Co-Founder & COO
Technical recruiting agency
Whatever the model, the same data runs every search.
Boutique and specialist
Cover a narrow niche in depth, with every search running at once.
Contingency and staffing
Fill high-volume roles fast and reach the client first.
Embedded and outsourced
Run searches for several clients at once while matching their unique demands
Retained and executive search
Map the leadership market and catch movement early.
Add the clients, not the headcount
Bring a role you're sourcing for and we'll build you a shortlist that fits.
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