Signals & Intents

Every buying signal, in one place.

Intent, hiring, funding, tech-stack, growth, and creator activity — Updately tracks them all across LinkedIn, Reddit, X, 100+ job boards, and funding databases, then scores every prospect against your ICP and writes the outreach for you.

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Signal families
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Signal types tracked
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Job boards monitored
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ICP fit score per lead
The full library

Every signal Updately tracks

Six families of buying signals, all searchable and combinable in a single prompt. Layer any of them with your ICP to reach buyers at the exact right moment.

Intent Signals

Intent & social activity

Find people the moment they talk about a problem you solve — not six months later. Updately reads posts, comments, and engagement across LinkedIn, Reddit, and X.

  • Category-research posts on LinkedIn, Reddit & X
  • Complaints about a competitor (switch intent)
  • "Any recommendations for…" / vendor-shopping posts
  • Pain-point keywords (e.g. “outgrowing our CRM”)
  • Engagement with your competitors' content & pages
  • Questions in niche communities & subreddits
Example prompt

VPs of Marketing who posted about lead-quality issues in the last 30 days

Hiring Signals

Hiring & job postings

Who a company hires tells you what it's about to buy. Updately watches 100+ job boards and surfaces the signal the moment a role goes live.

  • New leadership hires (VP, Head of, C-suite)
  • Roles matched to your exact buyer persona
  • Department build-outs (e.g. 3+ data engineers)
  • Job-description keyword matches (tools, methods, pain)
  • Posting-recency filter — catch fresh budget
  • Rapid headcount growth by department
Example prompt

Companies with 3+ open data-engineer roles and over 200 employees

Funding Signals

Funding rounds

Fresh capital means fresh budget. Updately surfaces new rounds within 24 hours, in the 90-day window when funded teams are actively buying.

  • Seed → late-stage rounds (A/B/C/D), as announced
  • Filter by round size, stage & lead investor
  • New budget owners after a raise (CEO/CFO/VP Sales)
  • Investor & portfolio mapping (e.g. Sequoia-backed)
  • Funding history & timing (first raise vs. later)
  • Funded + hiring overlay — strongest 90-day signal
Example prompt

B2B SaaS companies that raised Series A/B in the last 60 days with 20–100 employees

Tech-Stack Signals

Tech-stack changes

Know exactly what tools a company runs — and when they add or drop one. Perfect for selling a competitor alternative or an integration.

  • Companies using a specific competitor's product
  • Tools added or removed from the stack
  • Integration & complementary-tool users
  • Category adoption (CRM, analytics, support, etc.)
  • Migration / re-platforming intent
Example prompt

Companies using Outreach.io with 100–500 employees that recently hired a new CRO

Growth & Expansion

Growth & expansion

Companies in growth mode buy more of everything. Updately pulls headcount, location, and launch signals from news, sites, and social.

  • Headcount growth & scaling mode
  • New office locations
  • Geographic / international expansion
  • Product launches & new-market entry
  • Leadership or job changes among your champions
Example prompt

US SaaS companies that posted job listings in the UK for the first time this quarter

Social & Creator

Social & creator activity

Monitor brand and competitor mentions in real time — and, if you sell to creators, find them by niche, audience, and engagement.

  • Brand & competitor mentions in real time
  • Creator / influencer discovery by niche & audience
  • Instagram, YouTube, TikTok & X activity
  • Follower-count & engagement-rate filters
  • Reputation & review monitoring (ORM)
Example prompt

Creators in the fitness niche with 50k–500k followers and 3%+ engagement

Stacked intent

The magic is stacking signals

One signal is a hint. Two or three together are a buying decision waiting to happen. Combine any families to build a short, high-intent list.

Recently funded + actively hiring

Just raised and hiring aggressively — budget and urgency in the same account. The single strongest 90-day predictor of a purchase.

On a competitor + new leadership

Uses your competitor's product and just hired a new decision-maker who's re-evaluating the stack. Prime switch opportunity.

Posting a pain point + fits your ICP

Actively complaining about a problem you solve, and matches your ideal customer profile. Reach out while it's top of mind.

Expanding into a new market + hiring locally

Entering your region and staffing up for it — get in front of them before your competitors even notice.

How it works

From signal to booked meeting, automatically

Step 01

Detect

We scan social, 100+ job boards & funding databases for all 6 signal families in real time.

Step 02

Score

Every prospect is scored 0–100 against your ICP.

Step 03

Write

AI drafts outreach in the prospect's own words.

Step 04

Book

Warm messages go out and meetings land on your calendar.

Signal monitoring

LinkedIn signal automation

See how Updately turns LinkedIn activity into a live feed of warm, ready-to-buy prospects.

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