This prompt finds companies expanding into a new country, using the Lusha connector in Claude. Lusha flags a surge in job posts in your target country, counts the people each company already has there, and finds the person who owns the decision. If you sell employer of record, payroll, recruiting, office space or tools for a new regional team, these are the accounts that need you this quarter. More on how Lusha tracks hiring: Buying signals.
Find companies expanding into a new country
The prompt
Use the Lusha connector to find companies expanding into a new country.
What I sell: [e.g. employer of record, payroll, recruiting, sales tools for regional teams]
Target country: [e.g. United Kingdom]
Company HQ and ICP: [e.g. US-headquartered software companies, 51-500 employees]
Buyer titles: [e.g. General Manager, VP EMEA, Head of People, CFO]
1. Check my Lusha credit balance and estimate what this run will cost before you start.
2. Search for up to 25 companies in my ICP with a surge in hiring in my target country in the last 90 days. Drop global brands and subsidiaries whose LinkedIn member count is far above their company size.
3. Pull the hiring surge for each: new jobs posted in the last 4 weeks, the historical average and the change. Count each company once, because Lusha can return a country row and a region row for the same surge.
4. Drop steady hiring: anything under double the usual pace.
5. For the top 5, count the people Lusha shows in my target country and name the highest-ranking ones. Then sort:
- New entry: fewer than 10 people in the country
- Scaling: 10 or more, even if the hiring average looks like zero
6. For the top 5, pull up to 20 of their newest job posts and list the ones in my target country with title and department. Flag any post whose country looks wrong.
7. Pick the contact. New entry: the HQ executive who matches my buyer titles, since local hires won't own budget yet. Scaling: the highest-ranking person in the country who matches my buyer titles. Show whether a verified email and phone exist, but don't reveal them.
8. Return a table: company, stage, jobs last 4 weeks vs average, roles posted in the country, people already in the country, contact, title, and one line on why now.
9. Ask me before revealing any contact details or saving the list to a Workspace table.Fill in the four lines in brackets. The target country can be any country, and you can add a state or region.
What you get
The situation
A company opening in a new country has to hire, pay, house and equip people it has never had there. Each of those is a purchase, and the first ones get made within a few months. Arrive after the first hires are in place and the vendors are already picked.
The output
We ran the prompt for the United Kingdom, targeting US software companies with 51–500 employees. Lusha found 893 companies with a UK hiring surge in the last 90 days. We checked the hiring detail on five of them.
| Company | Stage | UK jobs, last 4 weeks vs usual | UK roles posted | People in the UK | Contact | Why now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company A (marketing data software, San Francisco, 201–500) | Scaling | 9 vs 1 (+800%), Oct 5 | Associate Recruiter | 33, including a General Manager and a Regional VP of Enterprise Sales in London | M.F., Regional VP of Enterprise Sales, London (email and phone available) | The UK team is hiring at nine times its usual pace, and it’s hiring a local recruiter to do it. |
| Company B (AI infrastructure, San Francisco, 201–500) | New entry | 5 vs 0, Sep 14 | Not in the 20 newest posts | 4, no one above individual contributor | S.S. and M.I., Founders, US (email and phone available) | Five UK roles from a standing start and no local leader yet, so the founders still own every UK decision. |
| Company C (industrial software, Tampa, 201–500) | Scaling | 3 vs 0, Sep 21 | Strategic Account Manager (Sales) | 16, including a Director of Revenue Operations and a Head of Operations | L.D., Director of Revenue Operations, UK (email and phone available) | The UK base is adding sales capacity for the first time in the signal window. |
Dropped as steady hiring: two companies were hiring in the UK at 20% and 33% above their usual pace, about one extra job a month. That’s an office replacing people, not an expansion.
What the people check changed: on job posts alone, Company A looked like a new entry, with a usual pace of one UK job a month. Lusha shows 33 people already there, led by a General Manager. Company C’s usual pace was zero, but it has 16 people across the UK. The hiring signal counts job posts, not people, so the prompt checks both before it picks a contact.
Data notes: Lusha returned each surge twice, once for the United Kingdom and once for England, so the prompt counts each company once. One of Company A’s job posts listed a regional sales VP role in an unlikely country, so the prompt flags posts like that instead of counting them.
Cost of the run: 62 credits: 26 for the company search, 9 for hiring detail on five companies, 20 for job posts, and 7 for people searches and one buying group. No contact details were revealed.
Contacts confirmed live via Lusha connector, November 5, 2026. Company names are masked; contact names show initials only.
Why it works
A hiring surge in one country is a dated, public sign that a company is building there. In Claude, Lusha connects that signal to two facts you can’t get from a job board: how many people the company already has in the country, and who among them, or back at HQ, owns the budget. That tells you whether to pitch a first-time setup to a founder or a growing team to a regional leader. Steady hiring gets filtered out before it reaches a rep, and nothing is revealed or saved until you approve it. Lusha is GDPR and CCPA compliant; see the Lusha Trust Center and Is Lusha GDPR and CCPA compliant? for details.
FAQ
What is a hiring surge by location?
A Lusha company signal that compares the jobs a company posted in a country or region over the last four weeks with its usual pace there. Lusha returns the number of new jobs, the historical average, the change and the date. Hiring signals refresh weekly.
Why does the prompt check how many people are already in the country?
Because the signal counts job posts, not people. In our test, a company with a usual pace of one UK job a month already had 33 people in the UK, including a General Manager. Another company with a usual pace of zero had 16. Without the people check, both would have looked like first-time entries and been pitched the wrong way.
Who should I contact at a company entering a new country?
For a new entry, the HQ executive who matches your buyer titles. The first local hires are usually individual contributors with no budget, and the decisions sit with founders or the US leadership team. For a company scaling an existing office, contact the highest-ranking person in the country who matches your buyer titles.
How many credits does this prompt use?
The company search costs 1 credit plus 1 for each company that returns the signal, so 25 companies cost 26 credits. Hiring detail costs about 2 credits per company. Job posts cost 1 credit each, which is why the prompt caps them at 20 per company for the top 5. People searches cost 1 credit each. Our test used 62 credits. The prompt estimates the cost before it starts.
Can I run this for a US state or a region?
Yes. Hiring by location takes any country, with an optional state or region. Lusha may return both a country row and a region row for the same surge, and the prompt counts each company once.
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