A sourcing campaign finds candidates on LinkedIn, emails them cold from managed sending domains, and delivers the warm repliers to your review queue — where you take over from your own mailbox. Here's the whole journey.
- Describe the role. A sourcing brief captures what good looks like — it drives matching, screening questions, and submissions.
- Build the campaign. The wizard collects your targeting filters (titles, seniority, locations, company size) and your cold email copy — one opener plus up to two follow-ups. See Create a sourcing campaign.
- It saves as a draft. Nothing external happens at this point — no sourcing, no sending.
- Dry-run it in the Playground. You play the candidate through the exact experience the campaign creates, iterate on the copy, and finish at a launch decision. See Dry-run a campaign in the Playground.
- Launch. Candidates matching your filters are sourced from LinkedIn, their emails enriched, and your cold sequence goes out — from PlacementFlow-managed sending domains, never your own.
- Replies are classified. Every reply is read and classified by AI; genuinely interested people surface in Sourcing → Qualified with the reply text and a classification badge.
- You take over. Click Hand off to me and you're CC'd into the live email thread. From there, the relationship is yours — screening, submission to the client, interviews — all warm email sent from your own connected mailbox.
PlacementFlow deliberately separates email into three paths, because mixing them is how domains get burned:
| Path | What it carries | Sends from |
|---|
| Cold outreach | First-touch campaigns to candidates and prospects who don't know you | Dedicated sending domains PlacementFlow provisions and manages — separate from your domain |
| Warm email | Submissions, client follow-ups, conversations with people who replied | Your connected Microsoft 365 / Outlook mailbox |
| System email | Confirmations, notifications, billing | PlacementFlow's own platform domain |
The practical upshot: cold volume can never damage your own domain's reputation, and everything a client or engaged candidate sees comes genuinely from you.
- Generates targeting filters and email sequences from your brief, sources matching candidates, and runs the cold sequence with automatic stop-on-reply.
- Classifies every reply (interested, meeting request, not interested, and more) so your queue contains signal, not noise.
- Screens interested candidates conversationally — non-negotiables first — always disclosing that it's an AI.
- You approve every lead at the review gate and every handoff; nothing is submitted to a client without you.
- No caps on sourcing volume — more matching candidates is always better; sending pace is managed for deliverability on the outreach side.
- Your clients are protected — email domains on your client blocklist are filtered out before any cold send, and an off-limits check runs again before handoff.
- The kill switch — pausing AI actions for your agency stops campaigns and sends immediately.