Our story
Built by recruiters, for recruiters.
We lived the BD grind, so we built OutputX to give you your week back.
The problem we set out to solve
UK recruiters spend roughly 8 hours every week on business development. That's an entire working day lost to cold calls, speculative emails, and trawling LinkedIn, before you even pick up the phone to a candidate.
The numbers behind cold outreach are brutal. It takes an average of 209 cold calls to secure a single appointment. Cold email response rates sit between 1–5%. And cold sales cycles drag on for 3–6 months before a deal closes.
We watched talented recruiters burn out on prospecting instead of doing what they're actually great at, building relationships and making placements.
The insight that changed everything
Warm leads convert at 40–60% compared to ~2% for cold calls. Recruiters who focus on warm outreach need 10x fewer contacts per client win and close deals in days, not months.
The question wasn't whether warm beats cold. It was: how do you get warm leads at scale without spending all day researching?
Answer it well, and you get your Friday afternoons back.
Source: OneUp Sales (4,000+ UK recruiters), industry BD benchmarks 2023–24
What OutputX does
OutputX is your AI recruiting copilot. Tell us your niche, job titles, geography, industry, and we scan live job boards and hiring signals to deliver verified warm leads straight to your pipeline.
Every lead comes with an active job opening, the hiring manager's details, and enriched company data. No more guessing who's hiring. No more cold-calling into the void.
Define your niche
Set the job titles, geography, and industry you specialise in. We handle the rest.
AI verifies & enriches
Our agents verify each opening, find decision-makers, and enrich leads with contact details and company data.
Warm leads, ready to call
Qualified leads arrive in your pipeline with a real person to call and an active job to discuss.
Why cold outreach doesn't scale
For every 1,000 companies you cold-call, here's what actually converts:
OutputX eliminates the top of this funnel entirely. We deliver companies with active hiring needs, so every conversation starts warm.
The result
You spend your time where it matters, building relationships, talking to clients, and closing placements. The research, the prospecting, the data enrichment? That's on us.
What changes for you
No more Friday afternoons lost to lead lists. The research happens in the background.
Spend the day on briefings, calls, and placements. The part of the job you actually like.
Each lead arrives with a real role and a real person. Pick up the phone.
Tom, Co-Founder
15+ years in tech recruitment. The recruiter on the team.
Tom is one of three co-founders of OutputX, and the one who has lived the BD grind firsthand. He spent over 15 years in tech recruitment, working across both small and large agencies before running his own independent recruitment business for the past 12 years.
Watching the industry get more crowded and competitive every year, Tom saw recruiters losing time and energy to manual research, poor quality data, and low value outreach. OutputX was built to fix that, helping recruiters work smarter, improve the quality of their business development, and focus on meaningful conversations.
The added bonus: less cold outreach and fewer nuisance calls for hiring teams on the other end of the phone.
Ready to fill your pipeline?
Stop grinding cold lists. Start closing warm leads.