Find which target accounts hired a senior executive

Find which of my target accounts hired a senior executive in the last six months, and rank them by what the company has done since the arrival. Use the Lusha connector.

Accounts (up to 25 domains):
[domain 1]
[domain 2]
[domain 3]

Steps:

1. Call account_usage first. It is free. Tell me the credit balance before you spend anything.

2. Call signals_companies_search once for all the domains, with signalTypes: peopleNews, surgeInHiring, headcountIncrease3m, itSpendIncrease, financialEventsNews, productActivityNews, commercialActivityNews. Set startDate to six months ago and maxResultsPerSignal to 100. The default is 10 and it hides older events. If I gave you more than 25 domains, split them into calls of 25.

3. For each account, find the executive hire. From peopleNews, take events with eventType "Executive Hire". Read the eventSummary and keep only senior titles: chief officer titles, CEO, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO, CISO, CMO, CRO, CHRO, president, managing director, vice president, SVP, EVP, head of. Drop board seats, advisors, partners, chairs and director level roles. The anchor is the most recent qualifying hire. Use eventEffectiveDate, or articlePublishedDate if there is no effective date. Accounts with no qualifying hire go in a short list at the end and are not ranked.

4. For each account with a hire, split the buying signals into before and after the anchor date. Before is the 60 days before the hire. After is the 60 days after, or up to today if fewer than 60 days have passed. Count these as buying signals:
- surgeInHiring where changeRatePercent is 25 or more. Ignore any surge row where historicalAvg is 0; that is the first week of tracking, not a surge.
- headcountIncrease3m where changeRatePercent is 3 or more
- itSpendIncrease where changeRatePercent is 10 or more
- financialEventsNews with eventType Funding Round, IPO or Strategic Investment
- productActivityNews with eventType Product Launch
- commercialActivityNews with eventType New Customer, Partnership, Facilities Expansion or New Location
Where several news events share one article, count them once. If the hire date is within 60 days of the start of the history, mark the before window as incomplete.

5. Rank the accounts by number of buying signals since the arrival. Break ties by days since arrival, fewer first. Show a table with these columns: Account, Who arrived (title and date), Days since, Signals before (60 days), Signals since, First signal on day, Strongest signal since, Window (complete, or days elapsed out of 60).

6. Under the table, write a five line brief for each of the top three: who arrived, what has changed, and the outreach angle in two sentences that reference the strongest signal since the arrival. No flattery, no "congrats".

7. End with the accounts that had no qualifying hire, the accounts where the window is too early to judge, and the credits used.

Do not enrich any contacts. Do not reveal emails or phone numbers.

Paste up to 25 domains where the placeholders are. For a territory you have not listed, ask Claude to build the list first with the build a target account list play, then run this on the result.

The situation: a rep covering mid market accounts wanted to know which of 25 companies had brought in a new senior leader since spring, and which of those had started doing something about it.

The output, run September 12, 2026:

Top three briefs

U.T.B. A head of intermediary sales channels arrived June 16 at a UK specialist lender. Before the hire the company was already busy: six hiring surges and one product launch in 60 days. Since: four more surges, three product launches in July, and the first IT spend increase in the history on August 8. The launches cluster in the first four weeks after arrival. Angle: three product launches in one month means new distribution and new processes; ask what the sales team is using to work the new channels, and reference the July launches by name.

N.C.B. A vice president joined a US cooperative bank May 26. Before: three signals, mostly IT spend recalculations. Since: seven, including four hiring surges between June 1 and July 13, the largest at nearly three times the normal posting rate. First signal on day 6. Angle: the hiring started the week the new VP arrived and ran for six weeks; the conversation is about the team being built, not the appointment.

Z.G. A data analytics company appointed a COO, a CFO and an SVP of GTM operations on the same day, May 4. Before: two headcount growth readings, nothing else. Since: four hiring surges in six weeks, first on day 7. Angle: a three seat leadership change on one day is a reset, and the GTM operations seat is the one to reach; the hiring pattern since suggests the operating model is being rebuilt.

Too early to judge: S.B. (46 days, 3 signals so far, trending up), C.L. (48 days, 2 so far), M.B. (9 days, nothing yet; the company showed seven signals in the 60 days before the hire, so watch this one).

No change since arrival: R.L. (CHRO, 62 days, zero buying signals since; three before). M.A. (CEO, March 1, before window falls outside the history).

No qualifying hire in six months: 15 of 25 accounts. Six had executive hire news that did not pass the seniority filter: two directors of business development, a chief underwriter, a law firm partner, a design practice leader and a quant trading strategist.

Credits used: 416. Fifty two for the company search with the news filter, 364 for signals across 25 companies.

Live example via Lusha connector, September 12, 2026. Companies masked to initials, no individuals named. Signal values are as returned.