Land more retained mandates as an executive search firm
Your clients are CEOs, boards and founders who need a C-suite or VP hire and want it handled discreetly. Find the companies signaling senior-leadership gaps on LinkedIn, reach the right sponsor with personalized outreach, and win more retained mandates, free to start.
From first search to booked search mandates, the exact steps
Never used LeadStal before? Follow this exact workflow to go from an empty pipeline to booked search mandates, using free tools and a $9.99 sending plan.
Install the free email finder extension
Add the LinkedIn Email Finder to Chrome, it's free and needs no sign-up to install. Reach CEOs, founders and board members at companies building out their leadership bench.
Every tool page has a one-click “Add to Chrome” button and a 2-minute install guide.
Search for the exact leads you want
Open LinkedIn and search by founder and C-suite titles plus industry and funding stage to find companies likely to need a senior hire soon.
Companies that recently raised or lost a leader are prime, they need senior talent fast and quietly.
Scrape verified emails in one click
Click the LeadStal extension icon. It instantly pulls names, executive titles, verified work emails and company stage from the results, then lets you export to CSV or send them straight to LeadStal.
Import your leads into LeadStal
In LeadStal, go to Lead Database → Import and upload your CSV (or push leads directly from the extension). Free verification cleans the list automatically, so you only email valid addresses.
Launch your AI-personalized campaign
Go to Campaigns → New Campaign and select your leads. Write your own email or let AI personalize a unique intro for each prospect. Add follow-up steps, turn on warm-up, and hit Send.
Hi Marisol, congratulations on the Series B, scaling revenue post-raise usually puts a strong commercial leader at the top of the list.
I run a retained search practice placing CROs and VPs of Sales in life sciences, with a guaranteed shortlist in weeks, not months.
Worth a confidential 20-minute call to scope it out?
AI-personalized first lines push reply rates well above the ~3.4% 2026 average.
Reply from the Unibox and close
Every reply lands in one unified inbox, the Unibox. Respond there, watch engagement with Ghost Analytics, and move deals forward without ever leaving LeadStal.
- MMarisol Vega8m
Yes, the CRO hire is urgent.
- AAnders Holt1h
Send your fee model and timeline.
- RRenata Pasco5h
The board would like to meet you.
Built for how executive search firms grow
Executive search firms win by reaching the right people first, but manual prospecting is slow and the pricey tools you pay for hand you stale, bouncing lists.
LeadStal replaces that whole stack. Pull fresh, verified leads from LinkedIn and dozens of other sources for free, then launch AI-personalized campaigns from the same dashboard.
Every reply lands in one unified inbox, every lead is scored by Ghost Analytics, and your follow-ups run automatically, so you spend your time closing, not chasing.
- Free access to 50M+ verified leads
- AI-personalized emails that get replies
- Automatic follow-ups and warm-up built in
- Every reply in one Unibox, never missed
“Retained search lives on relationships, but I still needed a steady top of funnel. I now target founders and boards filling leadership gaps and turn cold outreach into two new mandates a month.”
Why executive search firms grow faster with LeadStal
Endless prospects
Target any niche or area and pull verified decision-maker contacts in minutes.
AI that personalizes
Each email is tailored to the prospect, lifting open and reply rates.
Follow-ups on autopilot
Multi-step sequences nurture leads until they reply, no manual chasing.
One inbox for replies
Manage every conversation in the Unibox so no opportunity slips away.
Score before you send
Ghost Analytics flags your hottest leads so you focus where it pays off.
Stay deliverable
Built-in warm-up keeps your emails in the primary inbox, not spam.
Your client-acquisition workflow
Find your leads
Search LinkedIn for the exact people you need, then extract verified contacts for free.
Import & verify
Push leads into LeadStal; free verification cleans your list automatically.
Launch AI campaign
Let AI write personalized intros and send at the right cadence automatically.
Reply & close
Respond from the Unibox, track engagement, and turn replies into revenue.
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