Lesson 5 of 7

Lesson 1.2.5

Find decision makers at every qualified company

9 min read3 min videoBeginner

What this costs

Two tools, both charged per person returned, so a company that returns nobody costs nothing. Emails are a separate charge on top. The panel prices the run before you commit.

Before you start

A Website column, filled. Rows without a website are skipped, and a skip is not a miss.

You have companies. You need the person who can actually buy. Kuration gives you two tools for this and they work in opposite ways: one takes a list of job titles, the other takes a description of the role. Picking the right one is most of the lesson.

Two tools, and the difference matters

They sit next to each other in the Toolbox and the names are almost identical, so this catches almost everyone. Find People matches job titles you supply. Find People Agent works out the titles for you from a description of the role.

Find PeopleFind People Agent
You give itA list of job titles, most senior firstA sentence describing the role
It matches onThe titles you wroteTitles it discovers at each company
LimitEight titles per run, and only the first eight are usedNone. It expands the role itself
Cost2 credits per person returned3 credits per person returned
Reach for it whenYou know exactly what the title is called in your marketTitles vary company to company, which is most of the time
The Find people category of the Kuration Toolbox, showing Find People and Find People Agent side by side with their prices
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  1. 1Find People: based on the provided company website and job titles.
  2. 2Find People Agent: finds the right people even when you do not know the exact job title.
  3. 3Both are charged per result, so a company that returns nobody costs you nothing.
The two tools, one above the other, with their prices and their descriptions. Read the descriptions rather than the names: that is where the difference actually lives.

Describing the role, with the Agent

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    Confirm every row has a website

    The website is the required input and it is what the agent resolves each company against. Rows without one are skipped. If you have gaps, run Official Website Finder on those rows first.

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    Open the Toolbox and pick Find People Agent

    Find people is the first category in the sidebar. The Agent is the second card.

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    Answer the question the field actually asks

    The field is headed "Who do you want to find?" and the helper text underneath says it plainly: describe who you want to find, by role, not exact job title. Name the responsibility, the seniority you want, the fallback you will accept, and anything to skip.

    The Create Find People Agent panel, with the role description field, the website column selector, the email option and the strictness selector
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    1. 13 credits, charged per result. Nothing found on a row means nothing charged for that row.
    2. 2The role description. The placeholder is a good template: whoever leads HR, chief level if they have one, otherwise a VP, director or head, skip recruiters, located in APAC.
    3. 3The website column, required, with a live sample from your own table so you can see it picked the right one.
    4. 4Emails are a separate charge, added per email on top of the per person price.
    5. 5The estimate, before you press anything: your row count times the unit price.
    The whole panel. The description at the top explains how it works: it discovers the titles that exist at each company from LinkedIn search signals, then ranks candidates by seniority rather than matching one guessed title string.
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    Set Profile Quality Strictness deliberately

    How strictly to filter profiles by quality and bot scoring. High keeps only high confidence profiles. Mid is the default and keeps more. Leaving it unset lets the default decide something you should decide.

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    Gate it with a condition so it runs only on rows that qualify

    Conditions live under Optional, right beside the estimate. Add a rule and watch the estimate fall. This is where the cost discipline from the Practitioner track gets enforced rather than remembered.

    The conditions panel restricting a tool to rows where the domain is live and the audience is B2B
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    1. 1Conditions, next to Dependencies. Both travel with the column rather than with your view.
    2. 2Two rules here. The estimate underneath moves as you tighten them.
    Run this tool only on rows that match these conditions.
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    Create the column and read one cell

    Open a returned cell in the Data Point Explorer. It shows which profiles were selected, which were rejected, and why each rejection happened. That last part is what tells you whether your strictness is right.

The exact role description to start from

Who do you want to find? Copy this and change the first line.
Whoever leads marketing. Chief level if they have one, otherwise a VP, head or director. Skip agency, freelance and consultant profiles. Prefer someone based in the same country as the company.

Four sentences and each one is doing a job. The first names the responsibility. The second sets a seniority ladder with a fallback, so a twelve person company still returns its founder. The third excludes the profiles that pollute this kind of search. The fourth breaks ties.

What comes back, and how to read it

Worked example · One row per company, with the outcome per company

CompanyTarget audienceResultWhat it means
WiseB2B1 profileMatched, charged
ShopifyB2B1 profileMatched, charged
HelloFreshB2CSkippedThe condition excluded it. Never ran, never charged
AutomatticB2B2CSkippedThe condition excluded it
ZapierB2B1 profile, 1 rejectedOne returned, one failed the strictness gate
A Kuration people column sitting at 36 percent, with some rows returning a profile and others reading Skipped
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  1. 1Thirty six percent, in green, red and amber. Completion, rejections and skips, in one bar.
  2. 2Skipped. The tool never ran here, so nothing was charged and nothing was missed.
  3. 3The reason: this row is B2C, and the condition asked for B2B.
A column at 36 percent that is working exactly as instructed. The Skipped rows are the B2C companies a condition excluded, and they cost nothing.
The Data Point Explorer showing a rejected profile with the reason and the other sources explored
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  1. 1Selected and Rejected, each with a count. A cell showing one profile may have considered a dozen.
  2. 2The banner names the cause and the fix.
  3. 3A reason per rejection, so you can tell a bad match from a setting that is simply too tight.
Selected and Rejected are separate tabs. The banner says it plainly: these matched the company and the role, and quality scoring filtered them out. Lower the strictness to include them.

No website on the row

What you see
The cell reads Skipped
The fix
Run Official Website Finder on those rows first. It is the required input for both people tools.

Used Find People and wrote a role, not titles

What you see
Thin coverage across companies you know have that function
The fix
Find People matches the titles you supply. Either write the titles, or switch to the Agent, which is built for a description.

Used Find People with more than eight titles

What you see
Titles at the bottom of your list never appear
The fix
Only the first eight are used. Cut the synonyms and keep the ladder, or move to the Agent.

Strictness left unset

What you see
A high rejected count in the Data Point Explorer
The fix
Open a rejected cell and read the reasons. If they look like people you would have taken, drop to mid.

Surprised by the bill after ticking emails

What you see
The run costs several times what the per person price suggested
The fix
Emails carry their own per email charge on top. The estimate at the bottom of the panel shows the total before you run.

Read a low completion percentage as a broken column

What you see
The column bar sits at 36 percent
The fix
Check the condition first. A gated column is meant to run on a fraction of the table.

Check yourself

0 of 3 answered

1.What is the difference between Find People and Find People Agent?

2.Using Find People, you list twelve job titles. What happens?

3.A row reads Skipped in your people column. What should you check first?

Answer all 3, then open Transpose to a people table, then export it to tick this lesson off.

Try it yourself

Take 20 qualified rows. Use Find People Agent, describe the role you sell to in four sentences, set strictness to mid, leave emails off, and add one condition. Read the estimate before you run, then open one rejected cell afterwards.

You have done it when
The estimate you read beforehand matches what was deducted, and you can explain every Skipped row and every rejected profile.
Credit budget
About 60 credits for 20 rows at 3 credits per person, with emails off. Misses cost nothing.