Leedo is BD intelligence and BD mapping software built exclusively for recruitment agencies. It identifies hiring managers and internal recruiters/TA at companies that are actively hiring or showing hiring signals, enriches each contact with a verified LinkedIn profile and email, and runs personalized outreach end-to-end through your own Gmail or Outlook.

Who is Leedo built for?

Leedo is built exclusively for recruitment agencies, executive search firms, and independent recruiters. It is not designed for in-house talent acquisition teams or generic B2B sales.

Does Leedo find hiring managers and their email addresses?

Yes. For every company in your target niche, Leedo identifies the most likely hiring manager and the relevant internal recruiter or talent acquisition contact, then enriches each with a verified LinkedIn profile and a verified business email so you can reach them directly.

Can Leedo reach companies before a job is publicly posted?

Yes. Leedo surfaces hiring signals - such as funding events, headcount growth, leadership changes, and historical hiring patterns - so recruitment agencies can identify companies likely to hire and start BD before the job is advertised on a job board.

How is Leedo different from generic sales-intelligence or sourcing tools?

Generic sales-intelligence and sourcing tools are built for B2B sales or in-house talent acquisition. Leedo is purpose-built for recruitment agency BD: it links live job postings and hiring signals to the specific hiring manager and TA contact, generates outreach tailored to recruitment, and sends from the recruiter's own mailbox so emails look personal.

How does Leedo's pricing work?

Leedo is pay-per-lead with no subscription. One credit equals one qualified lead - including the job posting, company details, hiring manager name, verified email, and AI-generated outreach. The free tier includes 10 leads with no credit card required.

Does Leedo send emails through my own mailbox?

Yes. Leedo connects via OAuth to your own Gmail or Outlook account, so outreach is sent from your real email address. Recipients see your name and your domain - Leedo never relays through its own infrastructure.

Recruitment Automation: The Complete Guide for Agencies in 2026

Leedo Team · 2026-05-12 · 7 min read

Recruitment Automation · Recruiting · Business Development · AI

What Recruitment Automation Really Means

Recruitment automation is the use of software to handle repetitive recruiting tasks - sourcing, contact research, outreach, follow-ups, and reporting - without manual effort. For recruitment agencies specifically, the highest-leverage automation isn't candidate sourcing (you already do that well). It's business development - finding the next client before a competitor does.

Done right, recruitment automation gives a single recruiter the BD output of a three-person team. Done wrong, it floods hiring managers with generic spam and burns your domain reputation.

The Four Layers of Recruitment Automation

Most "recruitment automation" tools only cover one or two of these. The agencies winning in 2026 stack all four:

1. Signal Detection

Automatically surface companies showing hiring intent - funding rounds, headcount growth, leadership changes, repeated job postings - before they post a job publicly.

2. Contact Identification

For every target company, find the actual hiring manager (not generic info@ addresses) plus the internal recruiter or TA contact, with a verified LinkedIn profile and verified business email.

3. Personalized Outreach Generation

AI-generated email drafts that reference the role, the company, and a specific signal - written in plain recruiter language, not curiosity-gap marketing copy.

4. Send + Sequence + Track

Outreach sent from the recruiter's own Gmail or Outlook (so it lands in the primary inbox), with automated follow-ups and open/reply tracking.

Where Recruitment Automation Wins

Daily lead discovery: 6–8 hours/week saved per recruiter
Hiring manager research: 8–12 hours/week saved per recruiter
Follow-up consistency: 2–3x more responses captured (most replies come on follow-up #2 or #3)
Pipeline visibility: every prospect, every status, in one place - no more leads falling through the cracks

Where Recruitment Automation Fails

Be honest about the limits:

Generic mass outreach - automation amplifies whatever input you give it. Bad copy at scale = bad results at scale.
Replacing the consultative call - automation gets you the meeting. The meeting still needs a human who knows recruitment.
Niche markets without data - if your specialization is too narrow, automated tools may not find enough signals to be useful.

How Leedo Fits

Leedo is built exclusively for recruitment agency BD. It covers all four automation layers - signal detection, hiring manager identification, personalized outreach generation, and mailbox-integrated send/track - in one tool, pay-per-lead, no subscription.

See how it works or start with 10 free leads.