Vitae is the ATS and CRM that adapts to your business. BD Signals runs in the background, watches your list of target firms for funding rounds, leadership changes, and hiring news (often before a role is posted, and the posted ones too), then ranks what it finds so your team works the warmest openings first.
A working illustration of the Opportunities feed. The scan runs every Monday and on demand, scoring and ranking each opening so the strongest rise to the top.
You set the firms. The scan does the watching. The score does the triage. You do the part that wins business: the call.
Import your target firms (paste a list, one per line, with optional websites) and add senior executives to a people-watch roster. Candidates you place are watched automatically.
Every Monday, and on demand, Vitae checks each firm across business-event data and news headlines. Signals from different sources are merged so the same opening never shows up twice.
Each signal is sorted into an urgency tier and given a confidence score. Weak, watch-only signals stay out of the way instead of cluttering the queue.
Promote a signal into a CRM opportunity, draft outreach to send from your own email, log an outcome, or dismiss it so it stops resurfacing. All inside the same workspace.
BD Signals tracks the business-development triggers that matter: funding rounds, new fund launches, hiring spikes, leadership changes, headcount changes, new job postings, office openings, and executive moves. When something happens at a firm you care about, it surfaces as a signal.
Signals are pulled from more than one source (business-event data and Google News headlines) and merged. When two sources report the same kind of event for the same firm, Vitae keeps the higher-confidence one, so you see the opening once, not three times.
A scheduled scan runs every Monday and checks each active firm in your universe. You can also hit Scan now to refresh on demand. A freshness window skips firms that were just scanned, so you are not paying for the same look twice.
Each signal is sorted into an urgency tier and given a confidence score, so the strongest openings rise to the top of the list. Weaker, watch-only signals stay out of your way instead of cluttering the queue.
Build your firm universe by importing a list of names (paste them in, one per line, with an optional website). Add senior executives to a people-watch roster. Placed candidates are watched automatically once they are marked placed in your ATS. Monitoring starts the moment a firm is in your universe.
From the ranked list you can promote a signal into a CRM opportunity, start outreach (which drafts a task in your Signals inbox to send from your own email), log an outcome, or dismiss it so it stops resurfacing. Everything stays inside the same workspace as the rest of your recruiting work.
When a candidate you placed or a watched executive changes firms, Vitae can draft a follow-the-mover plan: an immediate outreach task plus a check-in task a couple of months out. You keep the relationship warm at their new firm without setting reminders by hand.
Northwind closed a $400M growth fund and signalled an investment-team build-out. Two sources reported it; the higher-confidence one was kept.
Fresh capital plus stated hiring intent, at a firm in your universe with no agency on record. Strong, recent, and actionable.
Promote to a CRM opportunity and open outreach to the new managing partner. Move this week.
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See BD Signals watch your target firms, rank the openings worth a call, and turn them into outreach inside your workspace.