Strides Agent helps staffing and recruiting firms generate client leads autonomously. AI cold calls, personalized outreach, and meeting booking — without extra headcount.
Built for High-Volume Staffing Business Development.
Prospect Research
Finds, scores, and qualifies your ideal customers from 6 live data sources — hiring signals, funding rounds, intent data, and more.
Personalized Outreach
Writes and sends emails that reference the prospect's specific context. Not templates with merge fields — genuinely unique messages for every person.
AI Phone Calls
Real phone conversations with real objection handling. The AI books meetings on the call, detects voicemail in 2 seconds, and leaves a perfect message every time.
Inbound Handling
Responds to every inbound inquiry in under 60 seconds, qualifies them against your ICP, and books a meeting before your team even opens their laptop.
Autonomous Pipeline
Stranger to booked meeting without a single human touchpoint. The full outbound motion runs on its own, 24/7, across every timezone.
CRM Sync & Reporting
Every interaction logged to your CRM automatically. Calls transcribed, scored, and summarized. Full pipeline visibility without any manual data entry.
Why Staffing Business Development Is a Speed Game — and How AI Wins It
Staffing is one of the highest-velocity outbound verticals in B2B. The window between a company posting a new job and engaging a staffing partner is narrow — often 24–48 hours before competitors have already made contact. Every hour of delay in reaching a new hiring manager is market share lost to faster-moving firms.
The traditional staffing BD motion — a human scanning job boards in the morning, building a contact list, writing outreach, making calls in the afternoon — is structurally too slow for the speed at which hiring signals emerge. By the time the BD rep gets to the outreach, three competing firms have already left voicemails. Speed-to-lead in staffing is not a nice-to-have; it's the primary competitive differentiator.
Strides monitors job postings and hiring signals in real time — not daily, not on a schedule, but continuously. The moment a target company posts a role that matches your placement criteria, Strides triggers outreach. The timing advantage is significant: reaching a hiring manager within the first 2 hours of a job posting appearing — before the role is even widely known — positions your firm as proactive and prepared.
The outreach is specific to the role and the company. Strides doesn't send a generic "we specialize in placement" email — it sends a message that references the specific role, the company's hiring pattern, and your firm's relevant track record for similar placements. Hiring managers notice specificity, especially when they're evaluating multiple staffing vendors simultaneously.
The phone call layer is where staffing BD converts most reliably. A well-prepared call that opens with "I saw you posted the Senior Backend Engineer role this morning — we placed three engineers with similar profiles at companies in your space last quarter" is a different conversation than a cold pitch. Strides makes those calls, continuously, across all the target companies you can't get to manually.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Strides detect new job postings in real time?
Strides monitors job boards, company career pages, and hiring signal databases continuously. When a new posting matches your target criteria — role type, seniority, company size, industry — it's immediately flagged and added to the outreach queue.
Can Strides target specific types of roles for placement specialization?
Yes. You can define exactly which role types and seniority levels trigger outreach — for example, only engineering leadership roles at Series B+ companies. Strides filters accordingly so your outreach is always relevant to your specialization.
How does Strides find the right contact at each hiring company?
Strides identifies the hiring manager for each role — typically an engineering manager, VP of Engineering, Head of People, or CTO depending on the role level — and finds their verified contact information. It targets the decision-maker, not just the company.
Can Strides help with both client development (BD) and candidate outreach?
Strides Agent is focused on client-side business development — reaching hiring companies and booking meetings with decision-makers. Candidate sourcing and outreach is a different use case that Strides doesn't currently address.
How does Strides handle the high call volume typical in staffing BD?
Strides can make hundreds of calls simultaneously — across all target companies, across all timezones, across all hours. There's no daily call limit from a headcount constraint. The volume ceiling is your target market size, not your team's dialing capacity.