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Lead Intelligence

Find companies showing buying triggers and turn them into evidence-backed sales opportunities with AI-powered market signal monitoring.

Lead Intelligence

Lead Intelligence is a Teamday workspace app that watches the market for business triggers and turns them into evidence-backed sales opportunities. A set of AI agents runs continuously to find target companies, score their signals, and draft recommended next actions — without you having to search manually.


What it does

Lead Intelligence monitors public market signals — hiring surges, new funding, leadership changes, new locations, layoffs — and matches them against the ideal customer profile you define. For each match it produces a scored opportunity with:

  • Why now — the specific signals observed and their evidence
  • Priority score — a composite score weighted by signal strength, freshness, and ICP fit
  • Recommended action — a suggested first outreach step or qualifying question

The result is a prioritized list of companies worth contacting, with proof attached to every entry.


Activate Lead Intelligence

Lead Intelligence is a workspace app. Add it to any workspace where you want market monitoring to run.

  1. Open your workspace in the Teamday sidebar.
  2. Click Apps or look for the Lead Intelligence entry in the workspace navigation.
  3. If not yet configured, you land on the Setup tab.

Initial setup

On first launch, select a profile or fill in your own configuration.

Choose a profile

Two built-in profiles provide sensible defaults:

ProfileBest for
Teamday ICPB2B SaaS and services companies looking for AI execution capacity
HORECAField sales targeting hotels, restaurants, cafes, and foodservice operators

Select Custom to configure your own market and buyer criteria from scratch.

Configure your market

FieldWhat to enter
Market nameA short label for internal reference, e.g. "Lisbon AI-ready companies"
GeographyOne or more cities, regions, or countries
IndustriesTarget industry categories, comma-separated
Company sizeEmployee or revenue range
ExcludeAccount types to skip, e.g. "public sector, students, retail-only"

Configure your ICP

FieldWhat to enter
PainThe execution problem your buyers share
Buyer titlesDecision-maker job titles, comma-separated
OfferA short description of what Teamday brings to these buyers

Enable signals

Toggle the market signals you want the Lead Scout to watch:

SignalWhen to enable
HiringCompany is hiring for roles that imply growth or new process volume
Layoffs / cost pressureCompany is cutting headcount, implying a do-more-with-less pressure
Leadership changeNew executive who may re-evaluate vendors
FundingRecent funding round, implying runway to buy
New locationExpansion that creates new operational surface
Review spikeRapid change in review volume or rating (e.g. Google Places)
Places statusBusiness status change detected via Google Places (requires a Google Places API key)

Click Save & start to create the workspace config and install the AI agents.


AI agents

Once setup completes, Lead Intelligence installs three scheduled missions into your workspace:

Lead Scout

Runs daily. Searches configured sources for companies and raw signals matching your market criteria. Writes accounts and raw signals to the workspace.

Lead Analyst

Runs after the Scout. Deduplicates accounts, scores signals, and produces ranked opportunities. Each opportunity includes a priority score, why-now proof, and a recommended outreach action.

Weekly Pipeline Brief

Runs every Monday morning. Summarises the hottest accounts, strongest signals, new vs stale opportunities, and what needs human approval.

Check the Agents tab to see each mission's last run time and current status.


Reading your leads

Go to the Leads tab to see scored opportunities.

Each card shows:

  • Company name and brief descriptor
  • Priority score (0–100) — higher is warmer
  • Stagevisit_first (high-confidence, act now), or nurture (monitor, not ready yet)
  • Why now — the specific signals observed with cited sources
  • Recommended action — what to do next

The Signals tab shows all raw signals before they are rolled up into opportunities. Use it to spot emerging trends or investigate why a company was scored.

The Briefings tab stores the weekly pipeline reports and any outreach drafts the agents have prepared.


Starter leads

New workspaces can load a set of example leads to see what the data looks like before the scout runs its first live cycle. Click Load starter leads on the Overview tab. These are pre-seeded example records — replace them with live data by clicking Replace with live run once the agents have completed their first scheduled cycle.


API keys and credentials

Most signals use public web search and do not require credentials. Some sources need a key:

SourceRequired credential
Google Places enrichmentGOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY in workspace secrets
LinkedIn job signalsLINKEDIN_SOURCE in workspace secrets (requires a compliant LinkedIn data provider)
Custom search providerSERP_API_KEY in workspace secrets

Add these under Settings → Secrets in your workspace. The Lead Scout will only use a source if the required credential is present and valid.


Worked example

Goal: Find Lisbon companies hiring for support or operations roles that might benefit from AI employees.

  1. Activate Lead Intelligence in your workspace.
  2. On Setup, select Teamday ICP profile. Adjust geography to Lisbon, Portugal. Enable Hiring and Layoffs signals. Disable signals you do not need.
  3. Click Save & start. The agents are installed and the first Scout run is scheduled for the next morning.
  4. After the first run, open Leads. You see scored opportunities — for example: "Acme Operations (score 88) — Hiring 5 support roles in 14 days. Recommended: ask the founder if they are scaling because demand is up or process is overloaded."
  5. Check Briefings on Monday for the weekly summary. Forward the top three opportunities to your sales lead.

Troubleshooting

No leads appear after the first run.
Check the Agents tab for mission errors. If the Scout mission shows a schedule error, open the mission detail for the full job log. Most failures are caused by missing credentials for a source that was enabled in setup.

"Places status" signal is disabled even though I enabled it.
Google Places enrichment requires a valid GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY in workspace secrets. Add the key and re-save setup.

The Scout found companies but the Analyst produced no opportunities.
The Analyst may have discarded all signals as low-confidence. This happens when the observed signals do not clearly match your ICP definition. Broaden your industry or geography settings, or lower the signal threshold by enabling additional signal types.