I automated basically all of my sourcing and outbound with Claude
Been running this for a few months and it's finally good enough to be worth a write-up.
Stack is just Claude with one search skill and markdown files that store everything it learns about my preferences.
I set up this loop for each role (to start it I just say "kick off a new role with this jd: [JD]"):
First step is questioning me about the role. Before it runs a search, it asks me about the req until it fully understands it in a way to facilitate search. Basically what parts of the jd actually matter, companies to pull from, companies to avoid, etc.
"Find me 300 people that match".
Each run, run a search with your favorite search MCP (or have Claude write some code to use an API), then have Claude evaluate the profiles it returned.
It maintains an .md file per role and one for my general preferences. Every time I give feedback, this updates and the filtering and search improves
Each pass, it flags a few profiles on the edge to calibrate. Eventually you can get rid of this step.
Outbound is fairly simple:
Enrich emails, then export to a sequencing tool to dedupe + run.
Tried a bunch of mcps/apis doing this, happy to share what worked best over dm.
