A full-time caller on business development.
Your recruiters stay on their desks.
Outbound appointment setting for specialty staffing and recruiting firms. A dedicated caller works full time on US Eastern hours and books meetings with hiring managers, HR and operations leaders at employers in your niche, matched to criteria you approve in writing, each with a written brief. Calling starts in month 1, once you approve the script. Programs start at $4,500 a month plus a fee from $200 per held meeting. No-shows, cancellations and mismatches are never billed.
Never billed: no-shows, cancellations, mismatches · stop at the end of any month · pilots end on their own
Most specialty staffing firms face the same choice: pull recruiters off their desks to make business development calls, or pay a vendor for employer meetings. Published offers include $300 to $550 per booked meeting with no retainer (VA Horizon, 2026) and $5,250 a month for a dedicated rep on a 6-month term (Alleyoop, checked October 2026). This works differently: you fund one dedicated caller at a price fixed before you sign, you can stop at the end of any month, and the meeting fee is charged only for held meetings with employers that match your written criteria.
Director-led: a director sets the employer targeting with you, checks call quality and reviews every meeting against your written criteria before it reaches your calendar.
You pay for the caller, and for employer meetings you accept
Three parts, and no other fees: a monthly program fee, a one-time launch fee in month 1, and a fee for each held meeting that matches your written criteria.
- Dedicated outbound caller: full time on US Eastern business hours, recruited, trained and supervised by us, calling employers only, never candidates
- Hiring-signal data and compliance: live job-postings data for your niche, direct dials and mobile numbers, email verification, do-not-call and litigator scrubbing
- Calling and LinkedIn: dialer seats, US calling minutes, LinkedIn Sales Navigator seats, with connection requests and messages sent by hand
- Supporting email: inboxes on separate sending domains, warmup, placement tests, and your firm’s name, postal address and a working opt-out in every email
- Program management: qualification review of every meeting before you see it, call quality checks, a weekly report
Your employer list built from live job postings in your niche, the sending domains, recruiting and onboarding your caller, and the call script and written qualification criteria for your approval.
Set by your niche and the employers you target, and confirmed on a short scoping call. It includes the caller’s commission. No-shows, cancellations and mismatches are never billed, and a call with a candidate never counts as a meeting.
Under a spending cap you set. Total fees never pass it unless you raise it in writing, and the pilot ends on its own, with no auto-renewal.
What you get
- A caller who works only your employer list: full time on US Eastern business hours, live and manually dialed, from a script you approved.
- Employers found from live job postings: companies posting roles in your niche, in the industries, sizes and locations you set. A posting alone never qualifies a meeting; the caller confirms the need on the call.
- Criteria in writing before the first call: the right attendee (a hiring manager or operations leader with an open or planned role in your niche, or the HR or talent acquisition leader who picks agencies), a stated need with timing inside 90 days, and openness to outside agencies. An employer locked into a managed service provider (MSP) or vendor management system (VMS) program that is closed to new suppliers does not qualify.
- A written brief with every meeting: who is coming and their hiring authority, the open roles behind the meeting in their own words, how they buy agency help today, and how each criterion was checked.
- Your current clients left out: existing clients and open job orders are kept off the list and never count as meetings.
- A weekly report: hiring signals found, calls made, conversations, meetings booked and held, and the job orders those meetings opened, as you report them back.
You can stop at the end of any month
- Minimum one month. Either side can stop at the end of any month with 7 days’ notice.
- A pilot runs 30 or 60 days under a spending cap you set and ends on its own, with no auto-renewal. Continuing takes a new signed order.
- The monthly fee is paid before each month starts and is not refunded once the month starts. If calling stops for more than 5 business days on our side, those days are credited.
- The meeting fee is charged only for held meetings that match your written criteria. No-shows, cancellations and mismatches are never billed.
- You have 5 business days after a meeting to dispute it. An upheld dispute is settled by credit or refund; a replacement meeting is only ever your choice.
- You approve the criteria, the call script and every email in writing before outreach starts.
Three questions to ask any appointment-setting vendor
Ask these before you sign with anyone. Our answers are on this page, in writing:
- “What does my monthly fee pay for?” A retainer with nothing listed behind it is hard to judge. Here: one dedicated caller, hiring-signal data and compliance scrubbing, calling and LinkedIn tools, supporting email and program management.
- “Do I pay for booked meetings or held ones?” Booked means you pay for no-shows. Here: the meeting fee applies only to held meetings with employers that match your written criteria, and a call with a candidate never counts.
- “How do I stop?” Here: at the end of any month, with 7 days’ notice. A pilot ends on its own.
Ask us all three on the call. A vague answer to any of them means do not buy, from us or anyone.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost?
Three parts: a monthly program fee, a one-time launch fee in month 1, and a fee for each held meeting that matches your written criteria. Programs start at $4,500 a month and the meeting fee starts at $200. Both depend on your niche and the employers you target, so we confirm them on a short scoping call. A pilot runs 30 or 60 days under a spending cap you set.
Why pay a monthly fee when we could hire a virtual assistant or pay per booked meeting?
Because the caller, the data and the tools cost the same whether a month goes well or not. A virtual assistant leaves the data, the dialer, the do-not-call scrubbing, the training and the call reviews to you, and a vendor paid only per meeting has to price that risk into the meeting fee. Here the monthly fee covers all of it, a director reviews every meeting against your written criteria, and if your caller leaves, we recruit and train the replacement.
How many meetings will we get?
We do not promise a number. Volume depends on your niche, your geography and how many employers fit your criteria. On the scoping call we give you a planning estimate, never a guarantee, and the weekly report shows the real numbers as they come in.
What counts as a held meeting?
One the employer actually joined. The meeting fee applies only when a held meeting also matches the criteria you approved in writing, so a no-show, a cancellation or a mismatch is never billed, and a call with a candidate is never a meeting. The definitions are in the agreement, not a conversation after the fact.
Will the caller pitch our candidates or quote our fees?
No. The caller books the meeting and finds out the hiring need; your team covers candidates, fees and terms in the meeting. The program contacts employers only: the caller never calls or texts candidates, never says you have candidates ready, and never quotes fees, markups or guarantee terms. A call with a candidate never counts as a meeting.
We keep chasing job orders that get filled internally or were never real.
A job posting alone never qualifies a meeting. On the call, the caller confirms the need: how many roles, which role types, the timing inside 90 days, and whether the employer uses or will consider outside agencies. Every meeting arrives with a written brief showing how each criterion was checked, and you have 5 business days after a meeting to dispute it. An upheld dispute is settled by credit or refund.
Most of the employers we want buy through an MSP or VMS.
Then supplier status is a written criterion. The caller asks how the employer buys agency help today, and an employer locked into an MSP or VMS program that is closed to new suppliers does not count as a meeting. If too many employers in your niche buy that way, we re-target to employers with direct hiring authority.
Which calling and email rules do you follow?
Calls go out from 9am to 7pm in the employer’s time zone, Monday to Friday, never on holidays, with at most 3 attempts per number in 24 hours. The caller opens with a real first and last name, your firm’s name and the reason for the call. We scrub every mobile number against the National Do Not Call Registry and a litigator list, honor every stop request at once, and use no autodialer, prerecorded or AI voice, ringless voicemail or texts. Every email carries your firm’s name, postal address and a working opt-out, plus the word “agency” and your license number for a New York agency.
Do you call employers in every state?
In every state you choose, with a registration check first. Arizona, Mississippi, Texas, Utah and Washington have telemarketing registration rules that can reach business calls, so employers there stay off your lists until you confirm in writing that registration is in place or not required. We do not give legal advice on that question, so check it with your own counsel.
Tell us your niche and the employers you want to work with, and we will tell you whether outbound calling fits your market and what a 30 or 60 day pilot under your cap would cover. We confirm both fees after the call.
Never billed: no-shows, cancellations, mismatches · stop at the end of any month