Recruitment agencies are exceptional at finding talent. They are rarely exceptional at finding new clients. Deligatr runs your entire business development operation so your consultants can stay focused on what actually makes money.
We identify hiring managers, HR directors and business owners at companies that match your placement speciality. We reach out via email and LinkedIn, qualify interest, and book calls directly into your team calendar. You never touch a prospecting tool.
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The Market Shift
The recruitment industry is undergoing a massive transformation. Relying solely on your existing network, fragmented job boards, and manual cold calling is no longer sufficient to scale. Top-tier agencies are pivoting to highly-targeted, AI-driven outbound systems to secure exclusive mandates before their competitors even know the role exists.
The Problem Every Recruiter Knows
Most recruitment agencies depend almost entirely on their existing client relationships. When a key client pauses hiring, the revenue cliff arrives with almost no warning.
Business development in recruitment is brutally time-intensive. Cold calling is expensive and has shrinking returns. LinkedIn InMail quotas are tiny. And your consultants are already at capacity working existing mandates. The result is that business development either does not happen consistently, or it happens poorly.
Deligatr solves this by taking business development completely off your plate. We use AI-powered outbound across email and LinkedIn to reach hiring decision-makers at companies in your target market, every single week, without requiring any time from your team.
Most recruitment firms have less than 5% of new business coming from proactive outbound. Deligatr flips this permanently.
High concentration risk
When 80% of revenue comes from passive sources, a single client pausing hiring can remove 20 to 30% of your monthly revenue overnight. Proactive outbound is the only protection against this.
Precision Targeting
Not a generic outreach blast. Specific decision-makers at companies actively hiring in your specialist market.
Senior HR leaders responsible for hiring strategy, agency PSLs, and recruitment partnerships. They control the budget and decide which agencies get on the approved supplier list.
Targeting signal: companies growing headcount by 20%+ in the last 12 months
Line managers who are directly experiencing the pain of open roles. They often have the authority to bring in a new agency when an existing one fails to deliver.
Targeting signal: LinkedIn job postings in their department in the last 30 days
Business owners at companies with 10 to 100 employees who are scaling fast and have not yet established an internal recruitment function or preferred supplier list.
Targeting signal: recent funding rounds, headcount growth, or new office openings
Operations directors responsible for building out teams, especially in sectors like logistics, finance, technology, and healthcare where specialist hiring is critical.
Targeting signal: companies in your specialist vertical with active hiring budgets
Corporate recruiters actively seeking specialist agency partners when they fail to fill niche, highly-technical, or executive-level roles using their own internal resources.
Targeting signal: niche job postings active for 60+ days without a hire
Investment directors and operating partners who need to rapidly build out leadership teams and scale operations for their newly funded or acquired portfolio companies.
Targeting signal: recent M&A activity or Series A-C funding announcements
Month 2 Campaign Performance
Numbers are illustrative based on typical enterprise campaign performance. Results scale depending on niche, offer strength, and geographical market.
The Deligatr Difference
Sending a few hundred emails a week from your primary domain is a guaranteed path to the spam folder. Real outbound at scale requires a fortress of dedicated sending domains, rotating IP addresses, and algorithmic inbox warm-up protocols.
We do not just give you a tool; we construct, manage, and protect your entire technical outreach infrastructure. Your consultants get the meetings, and we handle the complex technical delivery silently in the background.
Specialist Areas
Whether you place technology talent, finance professionals, or C-suite executives, we engineer custom prospect mapping and campaigns specific to your exact placement market.
Targeting: CTOs, Engineering Managers, Tech HRDs
Targeting: CHROs, CEOs, Board-level HR
Targeting: CFOs, Finance Directors, Controllers
Targeting: General Counsels, Legal Directors
Targeting: HR Directors, Talent Leads, CPOs
Targeting: CROs, VP Sales, Sales Ops Leads
Targeting: CMOs, Heads of Brand, Growth Leaders
Targeting: Hiring Managers needing fast solutions
Targeting: COOs, Operations VPs, Logistics Heads
Deployment Process
Designed specifically for busy recruitment firm owners who have zero spare time to manage complex new systems.
A focused 60-minute session where we nail your ideal client profile: industry verticals, company sizes, geographies, the specific roles you specialize in placing, and your most compelling value proposition over competing agencies. This is the only hour we ever need from you.
We build your email sending infrastructure (multiple warmed domains, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and build your first target prospect lists, filtered by your ICP and enriched with intent signals like active job postings and recent company growth.
Our team writes your outreach sequences for email and LinkedIn. The messaging is specific to your placement specialism, references your track record, and speaks directly to the pain of the decision-maker we are targeting. You review and approve before anything sends.
Campaigns go live. Replies are handled by our team, leads are qualified, and meetings are booked to your calendar. We run weekly optimization: A/B testing subject lines and copy, refreshing prospect lists, adjusting targeting based on what is converting.
The Deli Suite
Your enterprise campaign runs on the full Deli Suite. You never log in to any of these platforms. We deploy, manage, and operate them entirely on your behalf.
Cold email engine
Sends up to 4,000 personalised emails/mo across warmed infrastructure.
LinkedIn automation
Runs sequences on LinkedIn across multiple accounts. Reaches HR directly.
Agency CRM pipeline
All prospect data and booked meetings flow automatically into DeliHub.
Website lead capture
Captures and qualifies inbound interest from your website 24/7.
The Real Numbers
The hidden cost of not having a systematic, reliable outbound operation is almost always exponentially larger than the cost of building one.
$80,000 to $120,000/yr
$1,500 to $3,500/mo
$500 to $2,000/mo + your time
Annual Cost Comparison: Securing 8 to 12 new client meetings per month
Time cost for DIY calculated conservatively at $75/hr for a senior recruiter spending 20 hours per week on business development.
FAQ
Deligatr runs your entire business development outbound operation. We identify companies that match your placement speciality, target hiring managers and HR decision-makers, write and send personalised outreach via email and LinkedIn, qualify replies, and book client meetings directly into your calendar. Your consultants focus entirely on candidate delivery.
We target the specific decision-makers who commission recruitment: HR directors, heads of talent acquisition, hiring managers, CFOs at SMEs, and business owners. We use intent data including active job postings, recent company growth signals, and funding announcements to prioritise the best-fit prospects.
Yes. We build prospect lists based on your exact ICP including industry vertical, company size, geography, growth signals, and hiring activity. A technology recruiter targeting Series A companies in London gets a completely different campaign to a legal recruiter targeting law firms across the US.
A leads list is just data. Deligatr is a full managed service: we research the prospects, write personalised outreach specific to each company, run the campaign, handle every reply, qualify interest, and book the meeting for you. Lists generate nothing on their own. We generate booked client calls.
Setup takes one week. Most recruitment agency clients see their first client meetings in weeks two or three. By month two, the pipeline is consistently active.
Cold email via DeliMail and LinkedIn outreach via DeliReach, run simultaneously. LinkedIn is especially powerful for reaching HR and talent acquisition leaders. We also recommend DeliChat for capturing inbound interest from your existing website traffic alongside the outbound activity.
We work with contingency recruitment agencies, retained executive search firms, specialist staffing companies, contract and interim placement agencies, IT recruiters, finance and legal recruiters, and HR-focused agencies. Any firm charging placement fees of $5,000 or above per placement is a strong fit.
Take the free QualiPi business health assessment at deligatr.ai/qualipi. It takes 3 minutes and gives you a personalised report on where your recruitment firm has the biggest gaps in pipeline, operations and growth strategy. The report will tell you honestly whether managed outbound is the right next move for your specific situation.
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