Warm Start · $7,500 fixed

Map your team’s way into your top 50.

We map who on your team already knows someone at the 50 institutions you most want to win, and write the briefs your reps start from. Around them, we verify contacts and signals across a universe of up to 500. Your reps write and send. We never email your prospects.

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Lead Desk, the queue in the dark theme: nine made-up contacts in rank order, each with a college and a signal age such as “2 days ago”, and a five-cell heat strip with a score and a band from Hot to Cooling.
Lead Desk · queue · Fixture render · Made-up colleges and people
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What you get

  • A research file per institutionFor each of your top 50: who matters there, what changed lately, and where you already stand.
  • A warm-path mapWho on your team already knows someone at each institution, strongest connection first. The readout shows how many of your 50 have a path, so nobody spends a week hunting for one that isn’t there.
  • Intro briefsFor every path we confirm, a short brief your teammate uses to ask for the introduction: who to ask and what to ask for.
  • About 20 hot-lead briefsThe institutions with a reason to talk now, each on one card: why now, who, the angles, talking points with sources, the ask, and the likely objection.
  • A CRM health scanWhere our scanner supports your CRM (the FAQ lists which), a read-only scan, so you know what shape the records under all this are in.
  • Verified contacts and signalsAround your 50, a universe of up to 500 institutions: verified contacts for about 15 roles and a signal baseline, included in the fixed price.
  • The readout and a trackerOne call to walk through everything, then a tracker that runs for 30 days so you can see which paths turn into conversations.
Diagram: lines from three teammates to four target institutions, thicker where the connection is stronger, and a fifth institution with no path.TeammateTeammateTeammateInstitutionInstitutionInstitutionInstitutionNo path: cold
The shape of the map, not a real one. Thicker lines are stronger connections.
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How a signal earns a brief

Your offer gets its own list of signals, and every institution is checked against it. Here’s the order it runs in.

  1. Your signals, firstBefore we look at a single institution, we work out what “ready to buy” looks like for what you sell. That becomes a weighted list of signals, each with a window for how long it stays fresh.
  2. Every institution’s news, checkedWe research each institution’s recent news and keep every fact with its date and its source link. Then we check those facts against your signals, one signal at a time. Sensitive news, like lawsuits and breaches, stays out.
  3. Only what holds upA fact counts only if its source came back in that search’s own results, and every fact we keep carries its source link and its date.
  4. Ranked, then briefedInstitutions are ranked by the strength of their signals: weight, freshness and sources. Selected institutions with a reason to talk now get a brief, with the why-now and the talking points linked to their sources.

Coming next: skipping pages we’ve already read, and holding a brief back until the buyer is confirmed in the role.

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What “done” means

The sprint is done when every line below is true, and not before. Warm-path map and briefs in two to three weeks; your universe of up to 500 institutions within 30 days of kickoff.

  • Your 50 institutions are mapped.
  • Verified contacts and a signal baseline cover your universe of up to 500 institutions.
  • The teammates who opted in are onboarded.
  • About 20 hot-lead briefs are delivered.
  • An intro brief exists for every confirmed path.
  • The readout has happened.
  • The tracker is live.
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A sample readout

An excerpt from a readout for a made-up vendor. The institutions are real, and each signal links to the public page it came from.

Illustrative headline: the top 50 institutions and about 20 briefs, inside a universe of up to 500.

Sample. Real institutions and public sources; synthetic vendor; headline counts are illustrative.

InstitutionSignalBrief
University of North Carolina at CharlotteUNC Charlotte is introducing new and expanded fully online degree programs and certificates for 2026–2027.Yes
University of New Hampshire-Main CampusThe University of New Hampshire College of Professional Studies announced two new online Applied Bachelor of Science degree programs designed to help eligible students earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as three years.Yes
Temple UniversityTemple University named its inaugural vice provost for online and digital learning and executive director of Temple Online.Yes
Shenandoah UniversityShenandoah University added two fully online graduate Master of Arts programs, in teaching and strategic narrative communication, for Fall 2026.No
Le Moyne CollegeLe Moyne College selected a vice president for enrollment management and marketing who will oversee admission, financial aid and marketing communications.No
University of VermontThe University of Vermont launched the inaugural cohort of its online master's program in agroecology.No
University of KansasThe University of Kansas School of Education & Human Sciences is launching a fully online master's in higher education administration.Yes

Warm paths come from your team’s own exports; this sample has no team, so no path is shown.

Sources
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What we need from you

  • One kickoff call. Your 50 institutions, who you sell to there, and what you sell them.
  • Your team’s connections, from whoever opts in. Each teammate decides for themselves and shares their own connection export. Three or more makes a useful map.
  • Read-only access to your CRM, so we know who you already talk to and can run the health scan.

That’s all we need until the readout. How we handle access

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If the paths are thin

Some institutions won’t have a warm path, and the readout shows how many of your 50 have one. Every institution still gets researched. The hot-lead briefs don’t depend on an introduction: they’re written about the institutions with a reason to talk now, warm or cold.

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Add a list clean

If you plan to work a bigger list after the sprint, we check it before anyone contacts it: still in the role, deliverable, not on a do-not-contact list, and not already in your CRM. $2,000 per 5,000 contacts, and $0.40 per contact above that. List clean

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After the sprint

If the briefs earn their keep, we send new ones every week. Hot leads & briefs

Let’s look at your top 50.

Bring the institutions you most want to win. In 30 minutes we’ll tell you how the sprint would run on them, and whether it’s a fit.