Who it's forInroads Agency · Updated 2026

Outsourced prospecting for staffing firms that sell relationships, not volume.

Winning new clients is now the number one problem in staffing. The default fix, blasting hiring managers with a sequence tool, is the exact behavior the data says is collapsing.

The industry flipped. StaffingHub's benchmark survey found that finding new clients is the top challenge for staffing agencies, named by 23 percent of firms, up from 16 percent a year earlier. Bullhorn's survey of 2,300 firms says the same: winning clients now ranks ahead of finding candidates. And the default answer, load a sequence tool and blast hiring managers, is the behavior the Expandi data says fell 37 percent in reply rate in a single year. You can spot a templated message in half a second because you've sent thousands. So can the VP of Engineering you're trying to reach.

Who this is for

Owners, presidents, managing partners, and VPs of business development at staffing and recruiting firms who want more conversations with hiring decision makers without their team spraying generic staffing pitches across LinkedIn. Contract, direct hire, RPO, or specialized practice, the mechanics are the same.

The reasons we reach out, so it never reads like a template

We don't message people because they match a title. We message them because something changed. For staffing firms, the signals we watch:

Each message names the reason. That is the entire difference between a message that gets ignored and one that gets a reply.

What we do, and what you keep

A custom AI connected to LinkedIn builds the list from the profile we agree on, with hard filters. It drafts every message from the prospect's real posts and activity. A person reads every message before it sends. We work the replies the way a person would and hand you the ones that are real, with the thread and the reason they said yes. You keep the highest-value work: the sales conversation.

One reply that becomes one client isn't a small win in staffing. It's recurring revenue on every contractor hour you place there, for as long as you hold the account. The math favors fewer, better conversations over volume, which is the only kind we run.

The numbers, measured

Across 65,000+ connection requests: 46.6 percent accepted against a 26.4 percent industry figure. 28.4 percent of those replied against 9.4 percent. 78.5 percent of replies were positive, measured by a blind read of 1,000 of them. 37.5 percent of replies became a conversation.

The Conversation Engine is $4,000 a month on a 90-day initial term, then month to month. See it before we send it: you approve targeting and sample messages before launch.

Do you message candidates or clients?

Clients. This is business development: hiring managers, HR leaders, and executives at companies that buy staffing. We don't touch candidate sourcing.

Our recruiters already do LinkedIn. Why would we outsource it?

They do it when the calendar is empty, which is exactly when consistency dies. The question isn't whether someone is on LinkedIn. It's whether it produces client conversations every week regardless of how busy the desk is.

Will this look like every other staffing pitch?

No, because every message names a specific reason we reached out this week, and a person reads it before it sends. If it could have gone to anyone, it doesn't go out.

See what we'd send

Give us 3 to 5 people you would genuinely like to meet. We'll show you the outreach we'd write for them before you pay a dollar.

JD
Jonathan DickeyFounder, Inroads Agency. $20M+ closed, self-sourced. Runs this system on his own pipeline daily.
See what we'd send

Give us 3 to 5 people you'd genuinely like to meet.

We'll show you the LinkedIn outreach we'd write for them, and why, before you pay a dollar. A person reads every message before it sends.

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