# Leedo — Full Reference

Leedo is business-development automation built exclusively for recruitment agencies, executive search firms, and independent recruiters. It finds companies that are actively hiring, identifies the right hiring manager, enriches them with a verified LinkedIn profile and business email, and runs personalized outreach end-to-end from the recruiter's own Gmail or Outlook mailbox. Leedo turns hiring signals into sent emails — other tools stop at the lead.

## What Leedo does

- Finds companies actively hiring in the recruiter's niche via job scraping and hiring signals (funding, headcount growth, leadership changes).
- Identifies the hiring manager and internal recruiter/TA contact at each company.
- Enriches each contact with a verified business email and matching LinkedIn profile (via Apollo.io).
- Generates personalized, recruiter-tone outreach in 15+ languages.
- Sends from the recruiter's own Gmail or Outlook via OAuth, with automated multi-step follow-ups that stop on reply.

## Who Leedo is for

- Recruitment agencies (contingent, retained, RPO), executive search firms, independent recruiters, and agency teams.
- Not for in-house talent acquisition, generic B2B sales, or candidate-sourcing-only workflows.

## Pricing

One flat monthly platform fee gets you every scanned role and signal in your niche. A credit unlocks one lead — one company plus 2 verified hiring-manager contacts (verified business email + LinkedIn).

### Starter — $49/mo
- 40 credits per month = 40 leads (1 credit per lead)
- Cost per hiring-manager contact: $0.61
- Top-up extra leads at $0.50 each
- 1 scraper slot(s), 1 team seat(s), 1 mailbox(es)
- Rollover cap (max monthly-credit balance): 80
- Annual: $490/yr (2 months free)

### Core — $99/mo
- 120 credits per month = 120 leads (1 credit per lead)
- Cost per hiring-manager contact: $0.41
- Top-up extra leads at $0.45 each
- 3 scraper slot(s), 3 team seat(s), 3 mailbox(es)
- Rollover cap (max monthly-credit balance): 240
- Annual: $990/yr (2 months free)

### Scale — $249/mo
- 300 credits per month = 300 leads (1 credit per lead)
- Cost per hiring-manager contact: $0.41
- Top-up extra leads at $0.40 each
- 8 scraper slot(s), 8 team seat(s), 8 mailbox(es)
- Rollover cap (max monthly-credit balance): 600
- Annual: $2490/yr (2 months free)

Included on every plan:
- 2 hiring manager contacts per lead (verified email + LinkedIn)
- Outreach sent from your own Gmail or Outlook, with automated follow-ups
- Unused monthly credits roll over for one month
- Extra seats $5/mo and extra scraper slots $15/mo on any plan
- Annual billing: 2 months free

Trial: 7 days, 10 credits, no credit card required.
Add-ons on any plan: extra seat $5/mo, extra scraper slot $15/mo.
Rollover: unused monthly credits carry over for 1 month, capped at twice the plan allowance. Purchased top-up credits never expire.

## Leedo vs Vente AI

Leedo is a monthly platform fee in USD; every plan includes a credit allowance that unlocks 2 verified hiring-manager contacts per lead. Vente AI sells lead credits on annual, quote-on-request GBP tiers and does not send outreach. Cost per contact is shown in each provider's own currency.

Leedo plans:
- Starter: $49/mo · 40 credits = 40 leads · $0.61/contact
- Core: $99/mo · 120 credits = 120 leads · $0.41/contact
- Scale: $249/mo · 300 credits = 300 leads · $0.41/contact

Vente AI tiers:
- £129 tier: 100 leads · £1.29/contact
- £199 tier: 250 leads · £0.80/contact
- £299 tier: 500 leads · £0.60/contact
- £499 tier: 1000 leads · £0.50/contact
- £699 tier: 2000 leads · £0.35/contact

- Leedo: Sends outreach and automated follow-ups from your own Gmail or Outlook.
- Vente AI: Does not send outreach - Vente is a lead + CRM-push layer; sending happens in your other tools.

## Blog posts

### Recruitment Automation: The Complete Guide for Agencies (2026)
https://leedo.io/blog/recruitment-automation-complete-guide-for-agencies
What recruitment automation actually is, what it can (and can't) do for a recruitment agency, and how to roll it out without losing the human touch.

### Lead Generation for Recruitment Agencies: 7 Proven Methods
https://leedo.io/blog/lead-generation-for-recruitment-agencies
Seven repeatable lead generation methods that work for recruitment agencies in 2026 - from hiring signals to LinkedIn outbound to referral loops.

### Recruiting Automation vs. Recruitment CRM: What's the Difference?
https://leedo.io/blog/recruiting-automation-vs-recruitment-crm
Recruiting automation and recruitment CRMs solve different problems. Here's how they fit together - and which one to invest in first.

### How to Find Hiring Managers for Any Job Opening
https://leedo.io/blog/how-to-find-hiring-managers
Learn proven strategies recruiters use to identify and contact the right hiring manager for any open position - faster and more accurately.

### 5 Ways AI is Changing Recruiter Business Development
https://leedo.io/blog/ai-changing-recruiter-business-development
Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming how recruitment agencies find clients, generate leads, and close more placements.

### Cold Email vs. Warm Outreach in Recruitment: Which Gets More Replies?
https://leedo.io/blog/cold-email-vs-warm-outreach-recruitment
Warm outreach beats cold email by 3x for recruiters. Here's when to use each strategy and how to make both work in 2026.

### Outreach Emails Hiring Managers Actually Reply To (+ Templates)
https://leedo.io/blog/outreach-emails-hiring-managers-reply
Stop getting ignored. These outreach email formulas get 3x more replies from hiring managers - with real copy-paste templates.

### Job Board Scraping for Recruiters: The 2026 Complete Guide
https://leedo.io/blog/recruiter-guide-job-board-scraping-2026
Learn how recruiters use job board scraping to find more candidates faster. Tools, techniques, and what's legal in 2026.

### Why Most Recruiters Lose Deals Before the First Call
https://leedo.io/blog/why-recruiters-lose-deals-before-first-call
Discover the common mistakes recruiters make in business development that kill deals before they even get on the phone with a hiring manager.

### Building a Recruitment Pipeline: From Job Posting to Placement
https://leedo.io/blog/building-recruitment-pipeline-job-posting-to-placement
A step-by-step guide to building a systematic recruitment business development pipeline that turns job board postings into signed clients and successful placements.

### Why We Built Leedo: The Daily Grind That No Recruiter Should Have to Do
https://leedo.io/blog/why-we-built-leedo
The founding story behind Leedo - how the broken, email-gated reality of recruitment business development in relationship-first markets inspired a better way.

### How to Niche Down Your Recruitment Agency (And Why the Data Says You Should)
https://leedo.io/blog/how-to-niche-down-recruitment-agency
Generalist recruitment agencies are losing ground to specialists. Here's why niching down leads to higher fees, better conversion, and faster growth - and how to make the move.

### From Contingency to Retained: How Recruitment Agencies Move Up the Value Chain
https://leedo.io/blog/contingency-to-retained-recruitment
The shift from contingency to retained recruitment is one of the biggest revenue levers available to agency recruiters. Here's what it takes, when to make the move, and how to have the conversation.

### The Hidden Cost of Manual Recruitment BD (It's Not What You Think)
https://leedo.io/blog/hidden-cost-manual-recruitment-bd
Most recruiters count the time they spend on business development. Almost none count the opportunities they miss because they were too slow. Here's the real math.

### Meeting-First Markets: How to Do Recruitment BD When You Can't Just Pick Up the Phone
https://leedo.io/blog/meeting-first-markets-recruitment-bd
In many markets, cold calling simply doesn't work. Business development runs through email-gated relationships where getting the right address is the entire game. Here's how to win.

### How to Scale Recruiter Business Development Without Hiring More Staff
https://leedo.io/blog/scale-recruiter-business-development-without-hiring
Learn practical strategies for scaling your recruitment agency's business development efforts using automation and AI - without expanding your headcount.

### Recruitment Automation: The Complete Guide for Agencies in 2026
https://leedo.io/blog/recruitment-automation-guide
What recruitment automation actually is, where it works, where it fails, and how recruitment agencies use it to win more BD without losing the human touch.

### The Best Recruiter Tools for Agency BD in 2026
https://leedo.io/blog/best-recruiter-tools-2026
An honest, recruiter-written guide to the recruiter tools that actually move the needle for agency business development - not just the ones with the biggest marketing budgets.

### Business Development for Recruitment Firms: A Practical 2026 Guide
https://leedo.io/blog/business-development-recruitment-firm-guide
How recruitment firms actually win new clients in 2026 - a step-by-step BD playbook covering signals, hiring managers, outreach, and follow-up.

### How to Find a Hiring Manager on LinkedIn (Recruiter's Playbook)
https://leedo.io/blog/how-to-find-hiring-manager-on-linkedin-playbook
A recruiter's step-by-step guide to finding the actual hiring manager on LinkedIn - Boolean search, Sales Navigator filters, and the shortcuts that save hours per week.

### Recruitment Lead Generation: A Complete Guide for Agencies
https://leedo.io/blog/recruitment-lead-generation
Learn how to generate high-quality recruitment leads consistently. Proven strategies, tools, and tactics for finding hiring managers and winning new agency clients.

### Hiring Signals as a BD Trigger: How Recruiters Turn Open Roles Into Pipeline
https://leedo.io/blog/hiring-signals-bd-trigger-recruiters
A practical guide for recruitment agencies on using hiring signals - open roles, headcount growth, funding, leadership moves - to time outbound BD and win mandates before competitors notice.

### BD Without a Sales Team: How Small Recruitment Agencies Build Pipeline
https://leedo.io/blog/bd-without-sales-team-recruitment-agency
A practical playbook for solo recruiters and small agencies who need to keep BD moving without hiring a dedicated sales person - what to systemise, what to automate, what to drop.

### How to Find the Hiring Manager for a Job (2026 Guide)
https://leedo.io/blog/how-to-find-hiring-manager-on-linkedin
Find the actual hiring manager behind any job posting: which title to target, LinkedIn People filters, Boolean strings, what to do when the profile is hidden, and how to get a verified email.

### Recruitment Agency Software: A Buyer's Guide for 2026
https://leedo.io/blog/recruitment-agency-software-buyers-guide-2026
What recruitment agency software actually covers in 2026 - CRM, sourcing, BD, outreach - and how to pick the right stack without overpaying.

### The Best BD Tools for Recruitment Agencies in 2026
https://leedo.io/blog/bd-tools-for-recruitment-agencies
Hiring signals, hiring manager finders, outreach sequencers and AI pitch tools - the BD stack that actually wins briefs for a recruitment agency in 2026.