Frequently asked questions
What is SignalsAPI?
SignalsAPI is an AI-powered platform that finds your next clients before anyone else does by monitoring 290 sources including 150+ job boards 24/7. Every day, new companies post fresh job openings. With SignalsAPI, your team gets those insights the moment they go live. No more endless searching, we track, filter, and qualify new opportunities for you in real time.
What is a signal?
A signal is an observed activity or change at a company that indicates potential buying interest. Typical examples include new relevant job postings, technology changes, website changes, or public announcements aligned with your ideal customer profile.
What are my options for running SignalsAPI to grow my business?
We sell two different things, and they are priced differently. The self‑serve SignalsAPI subscription gives you the signals and you do the rest; our managed service adds our team on top of them, done‑with‑you or done‑for‑you.
Self‑serve – the SignalsAPI subscription
You get the qualifying signals through the platform, the API or your CRM, and you run everything downstream yourself. You pay per qualifying signal, on the ladder in How much does SignalsAPI cost? below. Sign up at signalsapi.com.
Managed, Option 1 – Done‑with‑you: we deliver the prospects, you run the outreach
Harness the power of buying signals to fuel your own outbound campaigns. We’ll deliver qualified prospects in the format that works best for you, whether that’s direct integration with your CRM or outreach tools, platform access, or email delivery.
You start with a 2‑week test drive, then continue on a simple monthly subscription of £400/€490/$550. That figure prices the managed service, not the self‑serve SignalsAPI subscription — the two are separate offers, see below.
Managed, Option 2 – Done‑for‑you outbound (SignalsAPI + Virtual Networker)
Let our full business suite handle the outreach for you. By combining SignalsAPI with Virtual Networker, we build familiarity and trust with your ideal prospects before they’re ready to buy. This way, when they show active interest, your brand is already top of mind meaning warmer introductions, stronger conversations, and higher conversion rates.
How much does SignalsAPI cost?
Every figure below renders from _data/pricing.yml, the one file allowed to hold a price — see Pricing.
SignalsAPI itself — the self‑serve subscription — is priced per qualifying signal:
You pay for qualifying signals, not for companies monitored: €79/month for 50 signals, €199 for 250, €399 for 1,000, custom above 5,000.
| Plan | Per month | Qualifying signals included | Per additional signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | €79 | 50 | €1.58 |
| Growth | €199 | 250 | €0.80 |
| Pro | €399 | 1,000 | €0.40 |
| Enterprise | custom | above 5,000 | custom |
There is a free evaluation tier, and enrichment runs on your own provider key at that provider’s cost. Current plans and sign‑up are at signalsapi.com.
A qualifying signal is one verified hiring event at one company that passes your filters. Several roles posted by the same company in the same window count once; agency reposts, duplicates and unverified postings never count, and false positives are credited back.
The managed service is a different offer and is priced separately. Done‑with‑you / done‑for‑you outbound is £400/€490/$550 per month after the 2‑week test drive (above), and qualified telephone numbers are their own packages (below). Those figures are not the price of the SignalsAPI subscription and do not appear on the ladder above.
What information do you need from me to get started?
Hardly anything, just your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and the services you provide.
What is ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) filtering?
ICP filtering is the process of narrowing down accounts to those that match your target customer characteristics. Common criteria include company size, industry, geography, and specific technologies or tools a company uses.
How does ICP filtering work with SignalsAPI?
You define your ICP criteria (for example: SaaS companies, 50–500 employees, in North America, using a specific tech stack). SignalsAPI applies these rules to its account universe so you only see signals from companies that match your ICP.
Can we handle the outreach ourselves?
Absolutely however keep in mind that traditional cold outreach is often ignored as your prospects have built an immunity to generic messages. Successful recruitment outreach works only when you know who to contact and when the timing is right.
SignalsAPI takes care of both the who and when by identifying high‑intent prospects already showing relevant buying signals. Meanwhile, Virtual Networker builds ongoing familiarity and trust with your target audience so when it reaches out, you’re not a stranger but a known and credible brand.
Do you provide contact telephone numbers?
On the self‑serve subscription, mobile phone lookup is bring-your-own-provider: connect your own people-data provider key and enable Find phone numbers on a project. See Find phone numbers for how it works and which provider currently supports it.
On the managed service, we supply the numbers ourselves as packages, separate from the self‑serve subscription priced above: £49/month for 100 telephone numbers, £149 for 300 and £199 for 500. We offer larger packages if you are receiving a higher number of prospects matching your ICP.
How many qualified prospects do you guarantee in the first month?
We don’t know how many qualified opportunities you’d receive per month and how you position your USP until we begin, hence a zero-commitment trial. We suggest using your own numbers as the basis to compare with as we reduce the time spend finding and contacting high-intent opportunities before your competitors catch on.
How reliable are the email addresses of the decision-makers?
Sending emails to unverified email addresses risks burning your email sending domain, high bounce rates and zero reply rates. The result? An unpleasant situation where your sending efforts are futile.
We help our customers keep their deliverability high with email addresses that have a >97% confidence guarantee. If they have a question mark beside them in the platform, they have a >70% confidence. If confidence is lower than 70%, we do not provide them.
How reliable are the LinkedIn URLs of the decision-makers?
100% reliable.
How fresh is the data?
Signals are updated in real-time.
Can I integrate SignalsAPI with my CRM or sales tools?
Yes, SignalsAPI is designed to feed data into CRMs and sales tools such as HubSpot, Salesforce, or outbound platforms.
Is it working?
Please check the status page to find out: https://status.signalsapi.com/
Something is not working as expected
The system is currently in the active development stage. If you encountered a glitch, please contact Support with details.
I have a question not covered here
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Recent changes
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2024-03-22 — FAQ section in docs
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2024-01-29 — Status page https://status.signalsapi.com/