You create a sourcing campaign in a five-step wizard, and it saves as a draft — no candidates are sourced and no email is sent until you launch it after a dry-run.
Go to Sourcing → Campaigns and start a new campaign.
Define who gets contacted, then click Search to preview the real people you'll reach:
Nothing is searched until you click Search — then the panel shows the estimated reach and a live sample of matching people you can scroll and click into for detail. Aim for an audience of 10,000+ people: about half of emails enrich to a working address, and a desk reaches ~5,000 prospects a month, so a smaller pool won't keep it fed. You can't move to the next step until you've searched a valid audience.
Note: locations outside the US, UK, and France are blocked — cold B2B email elsewhere requires prior opt-in consent and carries legal risk. See Sourcing compliance: geography and confidentiality.
The Qualifier is the short first chat every interested candidate gets: the universal PlacementFlow basics (location, right to work, notice, work setup, salary expectations, ideal next role) plus your own must-knows for this campaign. Here's the important part: after the Qualifier, the candidate stops. Their answers come to Needs Review → Qualifier, and you decide who continues — nothing deeper runs on a candidate you haven't approved.
The Screening is the AI-scored deep-dive that runs only for candidates you approve at the Qualifier gate. Choose what it asks: the desk's questionnaire (the default), a campaign-specific set of questions, or no screening (every approved candidate lands in your queue unscored). Skipping screening doesn't block launch — the wizard just warns you.
You don't write the outreach emails. PlacementFlow sends a proven, compliant two-email sequence on your behalf — the same battle-tested message for every campaign, personalised with each candidate's name and your audience description. The review screen shows the exact emails read-only; the only thing to check is the audience phrase ("senior security engineers", "platform engineers", …), which is pre-filled from your job titles and editable in one small field.
Why you can't edit the emails: the wording is engineered for deliverability and compliance (no links, no salary claims, no brand names, a low-friction reply ask, and a "reply from your personal email" option for candidates who want discretion). One centrally-managed message means every send is legally clean and measurable.
Click Save & dry-run. The campaign is saved as a DRAFT and you're taken straight into the Dry Run to rehearse the candidate experience. Nothing external has happened.