Find the companies that need you this week. Be the first to call.
When a company raises, hires fast or brings in a new leader, it needs help it did not need last month. FirstFlag finds it, names the person to email, verifies the address and writes the whole first email. You approve and send.
5 finished signals free every Monday. No card, no call. Real examples from your market in about a minute.
Built by the team behind BuzzLead: 10M+ cold emails sent and 2,900+ meetings booked for our own clients.
Who it's for
Pick your business. See the signal you would get.
Same product, different moment. Each of these is one finished signal: the trigger with its source, why it fits, the right person with a verified email, and the whole first email.
You get paid when a company has roles it cannot fill. FirstFlag finds them in your area the week they post, and flags the ones that have sat open for a month.
14 warehouse roles open in Dallas, 9 posted in the last 3 weeks
Source: Careers page
Hard to fill
3 forklift roles reposted after 30 days open
Source: Job boards
Why now
A site hiring that fast usually has a new contract or a peak that will not wait for direct hires. Roles open a month are the ones they will pay a firm to fill.
The right person
Maria Okafor, Director of OperationsOwns the Dallas site's headcount plan
Email
Verified Oct 2
The whole first email, written
Subject: 14 open roles at the Dallas site
Hi Maria, Corvane has 14 warehouse roles open in Dallas, and three of the forklift roles have been reposted after a month.
When a site posts that many at once, it is usually a contract or a peak that cannot wait for direct hires. We place pickers, loaders and forklift operators across DFW and can usually have a first group on site within the week.
Want me to send over who we have available?
ApproveExportWrong signal
Example. The senders, companies and people above are made up. Real signals link to their source and show the date each email was last verified.
Five finished signals every Monday. Free, for good.
Each one is the research you would otherwise do yourself, already done:
Spotted the moment: the trigger, dated, with its source
Checked it against who you sell to
Found the person who owns the problem
Verified their email, with the date it was checked
Wrote the whole first email, subject and body
By hand, each one takes about 30 minutes: spot the news, find the right person, write the email. Five a week is two and a half hours back, every week, for nothing.
On the right: Larkspan's five this week. Stacked means two signals at one account in the same month, like a new leader and a hiring surge. Those go first.
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Dunmarrow Freight Lines
dunmarrow.example Stacked
New VP Operations, then 14 dispatch and planner roles in three weeks
Elena Marsh, VP Operations Verified emailSubject: 14 dispatch roles in your first month
02
Kelsbrook Cold Chain
kelsbrook.example Stacked
$28M Series B, and a new COO two weeks later
Tomasz Rendell, Chief Operating Officer Verified emailSubject: Series B, and a new COO
03
Ostravale Haulage
ostravale.example
Ostravale Haulage raised a $12M Series A to open Midwest lanes.
Nadia Feltham, Director of Operations Verified emailSubject: Midwest lanes after the Series A
04
Vantrick Logistics
vantrick.example
Nine dispatch and driver manager roles posted in three weeks, up from about one a month.
Owen Castellane, Director of Transportation Verified emailSubject: Nine dispatch roles in three weeks
05
Marlowfen Carriers
marlowfen.example
Imogen Tally joined Marlowfen Carriers as Director of Logistics from a large 3PL.
Imogen Tally, Director of Logistics Verified emailSubject: First 90 days at Marlowfen
Example. Larkspan, these companies and these people are made up.
How it works
Signals, not a CRM.
No pipeline to keep up and no records to clean. One table of accounts that just moved, each with the whole first email ready. Below is the real app, running on a made-up client called Larkspan.
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Step 1: Point it at a client's website
Reads the site and works out what they sell
Finds their buyers: industries, company sizes, titles
Switches on the plays that fit
Buyer profile
larkspan.example
Website read
Sells
Route and load planning software for regional freight carriers
Buyers
VP Operations · COO · Director of Logistics · Head of Dispatch
Accounts
Regional freight carriers with 50 to 500 trucks in North America.
Plays on
Job changeFundingHiring & surges
Watching
1,240 accounts
The buyer profile FirstFlag built from larkspan.example: what the company sells, who buys it, and the three plays switched on.
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Step 2: Signals land in one table
Funding, new leaders, hiring surges and more
Each one checked against the client's buyers
Two signals at one account: it is stacked and goes first
Hi Elena,
Congrats on the VP Operations seat at Dunmarrow. Fourteen dispatcher and planner roles posted in your first month says the network is growing faster than the desk can plan it.
Most regional carriers we work with hit that point around 150 trucks. Planners end up rebuilding routes by hand every morning, and new hires take weeks to learn the lanes.
Larkspan plans the routes and loads first, so each dispatcher covers more trucks from day one.
Worth a 15-minute look before the new team starts?
Sam
One signal opened: Dunmarrow Freight Lines. A new VP Operations, then fourteen dispatch and planner roles in three weeks, so the account is stacked. It shows why it fits, the source, the person with a verified email, and the whole first email with an Approve button.
Larkspan, every account and every person shown here are made up. Real signals link to their source and show the date each email was last verified.
The plays
The moments an account starts buying.
Each play is a moment when a company starts needing help it did not need last month. The free five runs every play without a Paid tag. Paid plans run all of them, and you pick which matter for you or for each client.
Roles you fill
Three or more open roles you place, in your area. Hottest when a role has sat open 30 days or been reposted.
Funded, no sales leader
Raised in the last 120 days and now hiring its first sales leader. The seat is empty and the money is there.
Post-funding exec build-out
Paid plans
A Series A to C, then VP and C-level roles posted. A leadership team is being built this quarter.
New leaders
A new VP of Sales or CRO has about 90 days to show a plan, and a budget to spend on it.
Hiring surges
Five sales roles in a month. They just decided to spend on growth.
Funding
A fresh round comes with a hiring plan and a quarter to prove it.
Acquisitions
New owners bring new priorities, new leaders and a fresh look at every vendor.
Your customers' alumni
Paid plans
Someone who bought from you at their last company just started somewhere new.
Competitor engagement
Paid plans
People who fit the buyer profile are engaging with a competitor's posts. They are shopping.
Ad launches
Paid plans
A company starts running paid ads. There is budget for demand now.
Company announcements
Paid plans
A launch, a new office, a new market. Something changed, and someone owns making it work.
Stacked goes first
Two plays firing at one account in the same month beats either alone. Those accounts lead every week.
The guarantee
All the risk is on us.
The free five never asks for a card. When you pay, a wrong signal is credited back plus one, and you can have the month back if it is not worth it.
The Wrong Signal Guarantee
Wrong fact, wrong person, or they already left: mark it Wrong and you get the credit back plus 1 bonus signal. Report a bounce and we credit it once it's verified.
The 30-day refund
Not worth it in your first 30 days on a paid plan? Email us and we refund the month. No call to cancel.
The 3-customer cap
No company goes to more than 3 paying FirstFlag customers a week, and a free account never takes a paying customer's place. Once 3 have it, it is off the table until next week, so you are never the twelfth vendor in their inbox.
One credit per company, capped at 20% of your monthly signals.
For agencies and fractional leaders with several clients
Running this for clients? One login, a feed for each.
You bill each client for results. FirstFlag watches each client's market on its own, so your hours go into the work they pay you for, not the research behind it.
5 client workspaces, one login
A separate feed for each client, tuned to that client's buyers. Switch between them in a click.
A client report you can forward
A weekly page for each client: which accounts entered their market and who you are emailing. Send it before the Monday call.
API, MCP and webhooks
Pull every client's signals into your own pipeline or your AI agent. No copy and paste between tabs.
Agency is $399 a month for 5 client workspaces, plus your own. That is about $80 per client.
/signal-based is an open-source agent for Claude Code. Give it a client's website and it runs the loop from your terminal.
01Sets the client up: reads the site, makes the workspace and turns on the plays that fit
02Pulls this week's signals and drafts the whole first email in your voice
03Pushes the leads you approve to your sequencer, paused for review. Your sequencer keys stay on your machine.
Works with a free key on your own five. Client workspaces need Agency or Scale.
Open source. Coming soon.
~/clients/larkspan · claude
> /firstflag-agent:signal-based larkspan.example
Reading larkspan.example
12 pages read
Larkspan sells route and load planning software to regional freight carriers.
Buyers: VP Operations, Director of Logistics, COO. Carriers with 50 to 500 trucks.
Switched on 3 plays: New leaders · Funding · Hiring surges
12 signals this week, 2 stacked. Drafted the whole first email for each.
Pushed 1 approved lead to your sequencer, paused for review.
An example Claude Code session running the FirstFlag agent on larkspan.example, a made-up client.
The math
One new client pays for a year of FirstFlag.
Solo is $149 a month for 100 finished signals: about $1.49 each, or $1,788 a year. By hand, that many is about 50 hours of research a month. One job order, one retained search or one new retainer is worth more than the year. Every play is included, plus your own accounts and past buyers watched.
The Weekly Five is free for good, no card. When five a week is not enough, every play is live from $149/mo, and every paid plan comes with the Wrong Signal Guarantee and a 30-day refund.
Weekly Five
$0
Your five best signals, every Monday.
The 5 best signals every Monday, in full
Why now, the right person, a verified email and the whole first email
Wrong fact, wrong person, or the person left: you get the credit back plus 1 bonus signal. Report a bounce and we credit it once it's verified. One credit per company, capped at 20% of your monthly signals.
Need more this month?
Top up on any paid plan at $1 a signal: 50 for $50, 100 for $100, 250 for $250. One-time, no plan change.
You won't be the 12th vendor.
We cap every account at 3 paying FirstFlag customers a week, so you're not the 12th vendor in their inbox.
Every play is included on every paid plan. Monthly billing, cancel in-app anytime. Not worth it in your first 30 days? Email us and we refund the month.
Free needs a work email, one free workspace per company. Paid plans don't. It pauses if you stop opening it; any visit turns it back on.
Questions people ask first.
5 finished signals every Monday, for as long as you want them. Each one is a company, why now, the right person, a verified email and the whole first email. No card, no call. The five are the best of that week for who you sell to, stacked accounts first.
Yes. The Roles you fill play finds companies with three or more open roles of the kind you place, in your area, and flags the ones that have sat open 30 days or been reposted. It works best where plenty of employers are hiring. If your area is quiet, we tell you and widen it rather than pad your five.
Yes. Funded, no sales leader finds companies that raised in the last 120 days and are now hiring their first sales leader, and it runs on the free five. Paid plans add the post-funding exec build-out: a Series A to C followed by VP and C-level roles.
Yes. Use the free five on your own website to find your next client. For the clients you already run, Agency is $399 a month for 5 client workspaces plus your own, sharing 500 signals, each with its own buyer profile and 150 watched accounts. Each extra client is $49 a month. Scale runs 20 clients with 1,500 signals.
A company that just did something that usually comes before it needs you: roles it cannot fill, a funding round with an empty sales seat, a new leader, a hiring surge, an acquisition, a launch, or one of your past buyers starting somewhere new. Each arrives with the right person, a verified email and the whole first email, ready to edit or approve.
Two signals at the same account in the same month, like a new leader and a hiring surge. Those accounts are much more likely to be buying, so they go to the top of the table and into your free five first.
That is the Wrong Signal Guarantee. If the fact is wrong, or the person is wrong or already gone, mark it Wrong and you get the credit back plus 1 bonus signal. Report a bounce and we credit it once it's verified. Paid plans also come with a 30-day refund.
No. No company goes to more than 3 paying FirstFlag customers in a week, and free accounts only get it while there is room; once it is full it is off the table until the next week. Each first email is written from your positioning and the specific trigger, not from a shared template.
No. Signals, not a CRM. There are no pipeline stages to keep up and no records to clean. FirstFlag finds the accounts that just moved and hands you the email. Your CRM and your sequencer stay where they are.
No. You approve signals and send from your own sequencer and domains, so your sending reputation stays yours. Approved signals go out through the API, a webhook or a CSV export.
Yes. FirstFlag runs an MCP server, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Grok can pull this week's signals, read the details and draft in your voice. There is also a REST API with webhooks. Setup is one key and one paste, under Settings, Connect your AI.
When you sign up we match the last 30 days. After that, new events are checked several times a day, and lists you give us are checked daily or weekly, depending on the play. Every contact shows the date its email was last verified, next to the address in the app and in your export.
Yes. Monthly billing, cancel from the billing page. You keep access until the end of the period you paid for, then drop back to the free five. Not worth it in your first 30 days? Email us and we refund the month. Solo starts at $149 a month.
Someone in your market moved this week. Be the first to call.
Paste your website, or a client's. Five finished signals every Monday, free for good: the company, why now, the right person, a verified email and the whole first email.
No card, no call. Each company goes to 3 FirstFlag customers a week at most.
