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Workspace Signals: Tracking Buying Intent and Contact Changes

How to add signal columns to a Workspace table to track hiring surges, headcount changes, website traffic, and contact job changes.

Written by Hila
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Signals add a real-time layer of behavioral intelligence to your saved Workspace tables. Instead of just knowing who someone is, Signals show you what they are actively doing right now β€” so you can reach out at exactly the right moment.

πŸ’‘ Signals are available on saved Workspace tables. You cannot add signals to a preview table before saving.

What are Signals?

A Signal is a tracked event or behavioral change attached to a company or contact record in your table. Examples include a company posting significantly more job openings (a sign of growth), a contact being promoted, or a website seeing a spike in traffic (a sign of increased market activity). Signals give your outreach timing and context.

How to add a Signal column

  1. Open a saved Workspace table

  2. Click Add enrichment in the toolbar

  3. Go to the Signals tab

  4. Browse the available signals and click the + icon next to your chosen signal to configure it

  5. Select your time frame (e.g., detect changes in the last 6 months)

  6. Choose which data fields to include in the column (e.g., signal date, change rate, new jobs posted)

  7. Click Run signal to apply

When running a signal you can choose to: run it for all rows, run it for the first 25 rows, or add the column without running immediately.

Cost: 1 credit per signal detected (a row only costs a credit if a signal is found for it)

Available Signal types

For Company tables:

Signal

What it tracks

Best used for

Surge in hiring

Significant spikes in new job postings compared to previous periods

Identifying companies in growth mode; expansion plays

Website traffic increase

Meaningful increase in domain visits

Companies gaining market momentum; inbound demand signals

Website traffic decrease

Notable drop in domain visits

Competitive displacement; re-engagement plays

IT spend increase

Rising estimated budget for technology tools

Companies actively investing in tech; tech vendor plays

IT spend decrease

Declining tech spend

Budget consolidation; cost-saving solution plays

Headcount increase

Company growth in employee count vs. previous months

Scaling companies; growth-stage targeting

Headcount decrease

Decline in employee count

Efficiency-focused solution plays; M&A activity

For Contact tables:

Signal

What it tracks

Best used for

Moved to a new company

Contact has changed employers

Champion tracking; new role introductions

Promotion

Contact has taken on a new, more senior title

Congratulations outreach; decision-maker access

Using Signal data to prioritize outreach

Once a signal runs, the new data appears as specialized columns in your table. The columns will show the signal date, the magnitude of the change (e.g., change rate percentage), and any additional fields you selected.

Recommended workflow:

  1. Run a Signal on your table (e.g., "Surge in hiring" for the last 3 months)

  2. Click the signal column header to sort by signal date β€” most recent signals appear at the top

  3. Use the Filter button to show only rows where a signal was detected

  4. Focus your outreach on the contacts or companies at the top of the filtered list

This approach ensures your sales energy is always directed toward the warmest accounts.

Tips

  • For SDR teams running expansion plays, combining "Headcount increase" + "IT spend increase" identifies companies simultaneously growing and investing β€” ideal targets

  • "Moved to a new company" is one of the most actionable signals β€” a champion who changes jobs is a warm introduction into a new account

  • Run signals on your first 25 rows before committing to the full table, especially for large lists, to validate relevance

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