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Results

Every figure below comes from a signed fee agreement. Both recent wins are shown start to finish, including the emails we sent and the replies we got.

$830.5K+ in signed agreements, January 30, 2026 to date
1.5 days median time to first qualified introduction
16.5 days median time to first signed agreement
24 signed agreements across the case studies below
Recent wins

The same cold email play,
run into two VC firms

One opened a door at Andreessen Horowitz. The other turned into a 16-company portfolio relationship and $58K in signed agreements. Here are both, start to finish.

NXT Level · One outbound intro

Andreessen Horowitz

How we got a reply from their C-suite and Operating Partner

One cold email to Andreessen Horowitz presenting two Palantir engineers. Their C-suite and Operating Partner replied the same week, asked to meet both, and looped in a16z's recruiting lead and his co-head. Open the play to see the exact email, his reply, and how we targeted it.

The numbers
1 cold email 2 engineers presented Same-week reply Meeting with both requested
See the full play
The email we sent
two palantir engineers

Hey {first name}, wanted to present two engineers out of Palantir:

1. Forward-deployed engineer at Palantir, sent into enterprise environments alone to build AI tools that ship.

  • $12M in combined annual savings across two enterprises through automation and platform engineering
  • Led a team that cut $2M in annual operating costs for a national ISP, unifying terabytes of network data across 12+ disconnected systems
  • Pitched, designed, and led a contract to extract data from a 50-year-old mainframe supporting a divestiture
  • Built a self-healing Postgres platform from scratch in Go, Kubernetes and Terraform that drove $10M in annual savings

2. Palantir, now Meta, working on performance, infrastructure, and AI developer tools.

  • Built an AI agent that finds the cause of memory bugs on its own, cutting investigations from weeks to days
  • Built the automated pipeline that catches memory problems before they reach customers
  • Made Palantir's graph tool usable at 1,000+ nodes, where it used to freeze and stall
  • Shipped a Meta feature covering video metrics for 200,000 creators

Can I share more info if this fits any of your portcos?

- {sending rep}

His reply Reply from a C-suite and Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz asking to meet both engineers

A C-suite and Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, asking to meet both engineers and looping in a16z's recruiting lead. Name and exact title redacted, the a16z domain left intact.

How the play ran

This is the same play as the one below, run again with different candidates. Two engineers out of Palantir, one forward-deployed and one now at Meta, presented to venture firms whose portfolio companies hire exactly that profile.

The goal was never to place someone at a16z itself. It was to get into the conversation. Their C-suite and Operating Partner replied the same week, asked to meet both engineers, and pulled in a16z's recruiting lead and his co-head.

That is the whole point of the play. One reply from a firm at that level puts our recruitment partner in front of a portfolio that hires continuously, and every introduction after that costs nothing more to earn.

How we targeted it
Decision-maker roles
Operating Partner Talent Partner VP of Portfolio Operations VP of Talent Managing Director Managing Partner Director of Talent Head of Portfolio Talent Head of Operations Platform Partner Head of Platform Director of Platform VP of Platform Founding Partner Head of Talent Chief Talent Officer Recruiting Partner Head of Recruiting Talent Lead Talent Director Head of Value Creation Value Creation Partner Operating Executive Chief of Staff
Company filters
  • Location: United States
  • Size: 11 to 1,000 employees
  • Industry: venture capital and private equity, investment management
  • Excluded: family offices, funds of funds, wealth management, placement agents
Company keywords
enterprise software B2B SaaS vertical SaaS application software infrastructure software developer tools devtools data infrastructure data platforms data analytics cloud infrastructure cloud computing DevOps API platform software artificial intelligence AI machine learning generative AI AI infrastructure applied AI automation workflow automation deep tech open source IT services digital transformation B2B technology enterprise technology software SaaS technology cloud security tech-enabled services cybersecurity information security managed security MSSP MDR

VC relationship · One outbound intro

$58K

In signed agreements from a single cold email

One email opened a relationship with a venture capital and private equity firm and its 16 portfolio companies, and turned into 2 signed Account Executive agreements. Open the play to see the exact email, his reply, the campaign, and how we targeted it.

The numbers
1 cold email 16 portfolio companies 2 signed AEs $58K in fees
See the full play
The email we sent
tech CEO, built and sold

Hey {first name}, wanted to present an operator who built and sold a managed cybersecurity company:

  • 186% revenue growth in 3.5 years, sold to a PE-backed acquirer, DSO cut from 70 to 40 days
  • Led 170 people across 6 locations (US and India), launched 5 products generating $30M in revenue across enterprise software and cybersecurity
  • 300% SOC efficiency gain, mean detection time cut from 4 hours to 15 minutes
  • 50% reduction in legal turnaround time while cutting legal expenses

Open to a quick intro if this fits any of your portfolio companies?

- {sending rep}

His reply Reply from a venture capital and private equity Managing Partner agreeing to a portfolio introduction

The Managing Partner of a venture capital and private equity firm with 16 portfolio companies, agreeing to an intro.

How the play ran

This was an MPC play for one of our partners. The operator above is one of their MPCs. The goal was simple: get on the call. Once you are in the conversation you have options: pitch the MPC, the recruitment service, or another MPC. Getting on the call is the entire game.

On the call, the Managing Partner had no role for the MPC, but liked the value prop enough to introduce our partner into his portfolio. That intro turned into two signed Account Executive placements, both in telecommunications, at $125K to $240K base.

One VC relationship is worth far more than a single placement. This one firm opens the door to 15 other portfolio companies. Do even decent fulfillment across that network and it compounds into a money printing machine. One email got us in the door.

The campaign behind it
  • 1,280 prospects contacted
  • 804 received a second touch, 581 a third
  • 24 replies: 1 was this, 7 were passes, the rest were out of office
The stack we ran
  • AI Ark: pulls verified, send-ready contact details for every prospect on demand, so we build the whole target list in minutes instead of researching contacts by hand.
  • Instantly: warms the sending inboxes and runs the multi-step email sequence (the first touch plus the two follow-ups), tracking every reply in one inbox.
  • Scaled Mail: supplies the sending inboxes we run the campaign from.
  • Claude Code: automation.
How we targeted it
Decision-maker roles
Operating Partner Talent Partner VP of Portfolio Ops VP of Talent Managing Director Managing Partner Chief Investment Officer Director of Talent Head of Portfolio Talent Head of Operations
Company filters
  • Location: United States
  • Size: 11 to 500 employees
  • Industry: venture capital and private equity, investment management
Company keywords
information security managed security software SaaS technology cloud security tech-enabled services MSSP MDR cybersecurity
Results

Real numbers from
real engagements

Every figure below comes from a signed fee agreement.

Scout Lab · Tech Sales Recruitment

$553.2K

In placements and signed fee agreements

From zero outbound to 15 signed placements across 6 funded SaaS, AI, and enterprise companies in 123 days, plus 2 more signed agreements at a deep-tech infrastructure company since.

The numbers
15 placements 2 more signed agreements 7 funded companies 123 days

Before: entirely reliant on inbound and referrals, with no way into funded SaaS and enterprise accounts where they had no relationships.

"This is the first time we've hit full fulfillment capacity. Bolt's outbound is why."
Thomas Robinson, Founder, Scout Lab
See the placement breakdown
  • $33.0K fee: Enterprise Account Executive ($150K base) at a Series A AI compliance platform for regulated financial services. $18.5M raised, backed by Foundation Capital and American Express, named "Most Promising Fintech" by Citi and Visa.
  • $27.5K fee: Sales Engineer ($125K base) at a B2B revenue-attribution platform for SaaS marketing teams, winner of a 2026 LinkedIn Partnership Award.
  • $27.5K fee: Sales Engineer ($125K base) at a nationwide enterprise distributed-antenna-systems and private 5G integrator with 18,000+ deployments and 15+ regional offices.
  • $99.0K: three Account Executive placements ($33.0K each, $150K base) at a Series A+ agentic AI platform for regulated financial services, backed by Accenture Ventures at a $250M valuation, with 500+ enterprise customers.
  • $33.0K fee: Partner Solutions Engineer ($150K base) at the same Accenture-backed agentic AI platform.
  • $39.6K fee: Client-facing Full Stack Engineer ($180K base) at the same platform.
  • $35.2K fee: AI Solutions Architect ($160K base) at the same platform.
  • $30.8K fee: Senior Project Manager ($140K base) at the same platform.
  • $33.0K fee: Full Stack Engineer ($150K base) at the same platform.
  • $61.6K: two Pre-sales Engineer placements ($30.8K each, $140K base) at a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Master Data Management with offices across the US, UK, France, and India.
  • $75K in signed agreements: Enterprise Account Executive and Financial Enterprise Account Executive ($150K base minimum, 25% fee) at a deterministic simulation testing platform for mission-critical software, $182M raised including a $105M Series A led by one of the world's largest quantitative trading firms, with database, event-streaming, and blockchain infrastructure teams as customers. Agreements signed, both roles in progress.
  • $58K: two telecom Account Executive placements ($125K to $240K base) at a seed-funded AI customer-engagement platform that blends reinforcement learning from human feedback with behavioral economics to recover late payments for telecom, auto-finance, and financial-services enterprises, SOC 2 Type II certified with a claimed 20x ROI.

Orion Placement · Legal Recruitment

$158.3K

Signed fee agreements in 47 days

Five placements across 5 law firms. From a low-volume pipeline to consistent deal flow.

The numbers
5 placements 5 law firms 47 days

Before: solid infrastructure for filling roles, but new-client inflow could not keep up, and positive replies were dropping off before signature.

See the placement breakdown
  • $29.6K fee: Associate Litigation Attorney ($148K base) at a 50-year Denver insurance defense boutique specializing in construction defect and workers' comp.
  • $38.5K fee: Commercial Litigation Attorney ($175K base) at an 85-attorney, 125-year-old Pittsburgh firm ranked by Best Lawyers in 23 practice areas and by Chambers USA.
  • $36.3K fee: Creditor's Rights Attorney ($165K base) at a 61-attorney DC-metro regional firm ranked by U.S. News Best Law Firms since 2015.
  • $28.6K fee: Residential Real Estate Attorney ($130K base) at a 6-office Florida real estate firm named a Chamber of Commerce Medium Business of the Year in 2024, with attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers and Martindale-Hubbell.
  • $25.3K fee: Associate Litigation Attorney ($115K base) at a multi-state defense litigation firm active in 12 jurisdictions, a U.S. News Best Places to Work honoree in 2024 and 2025.

Express Employment · Staffing Franchise

$49K

Signed agreements in 8 days

Two placements at 2 companies. From door-to-door sales to automated outbound.

The numbers
2 placements 2 companies 8 days

Before: the owner spent 2 to 4 hours a day on door-to-door sales for just 1 to 2 new clients a month, and email sent from the corporate domain landed in spam with under 1% response.

See the placement breakdown
  • $25K fee: Accounting Manager ($125K base) at a global IT training company operating in 180 countries, an IBM Premier Partner and Top 20 IT Training Company for 10+ consecutive years.
  • $24K fee: Tax Manager ($120K base) at a Top 100 accounting firm with 250+ professionals, a BDO Alliance member ranked by Forbes among America's Best Tax Firms.

NXT Level · Technical Sales Recruitment

$70K–$80K

In signed fee agreements, plus an Andreessen Horowitz relationship

Two signed Sales Engineer agreements at funded software companies, and one cold email that opened a door at Andreessen Horowitz.

The numbers
2 signed agreements 2 funded companies 1 a16z relationship
See the placement breakdown
  • $26K to $32K fee: Sales Engineer ($130K to $160K base) at a Y Combinator-backed AI compliance platform in New York that automates marketing-material review for legal and compliance teams.
  • $44K to $48K fee: Sales Engineer ($220K to $240K base plus RSUs) at a Series C enterprise data observability platform in Silicon Valley, around 300 employees and $105M raised.
  • Andreessen Horowitz relationship: one cold email presenting two Palantir engineers, answered by a16z's C-suite and Operating Partner, who asked to meet both and looped in their recruiting lead. The full play, including the email and his reply, is above.