Five steps, shown as they finish
The steps on the page are the steps that run, each marked as it finishes and each carrying the real number it produced: how many signals were searched, how many companies matched, how many were worth your time. Nothing on the page moves ahead of the work.
- 01
Profile
What your company sells and to whom, read from the public company record for your domain and from your homepage. If the homepage does not answer in time, the profile is written from the record alone. It is shown the moment it is ready.
- 02
Match
The recorded signals are matched against that profile: buyer function, kind of event, company size and region.
- 03
Fit
Every match is read against what you sell, and the ones that do not fit are dropped. What is left is the count of companies worth your time.
- 04
Narrow
The three with the strongest fit are chosen, on different kinds of event where the matches allow.
- 05
Write
For each of the three, the quotation is chosen from the source text, the note on the kind of event is attached, and one sentence ties the two together.
Questions about the lookup
What is a buying signal?
A buying signal is a dated public event at a company that tends to open a buying window: an acquisition, a new site or a site expansion, a leadership change, a security incident, a funding round, a first public listing. Kairos records the event with its source and its date, classifies it under its own signal taxonomy, and reads it against what you sell. A signal is the event and where it was said; it is not a statement about what the company will buy.
How does this work?
You enter your company domain. Kairos reads what your company sells from its public company record and its homepage, matches that against the signals it has recorded, reads every match against what you sell, and writes up the three with the strongest fit. Each step shows on the page as it finishes, with the real numbers behind it; a lookup usually takes under a minute. Each row is the company name, the recorded event date, what happened quoted from the source, and a note on why events of that kind matter to the buyer who would own the decision. The page also states how many further companies matched. Those three rows go to a work email address to keep.
What is the difference between this and Kairos itself?
This runs once, on the signals Kairos has already stored, and reasons at a general level: why events of that kind open a buying window. It writes up three companies and counts the rest. Kairos itself runs on your exact customer profile each time you press Run: in the free pilot, up to 15 companies per run, each with the person to contact, the estimated buying window, the source and, on request, what to send them. The count of further matches on this page shows how much is already happening in your market.
What does it cost?
Nothing. There is one lookup per company domain every six months, and a daily cap on lookups because each one costs Kairos money to run; if the cap is reached, the lookup is recorded and the report is sent when it has run. If your domain has already been looked up, the stored report can be sent to a work email address at your company. The report goes to a work email address, and Kairos may follow up about it by email. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing is immediate and permanent.
Where does the data come from?
The events come from public sources, company announcements and verified reporting. What Kairos builds and runs in-house is the proprietary detection and interpretation layer on top of them: the signal taxonomy that classifies each event, the archetype library that says why each kind of event opens a buying window, and the matching and fit engine that reads each event against what you sell. On this page each row quotes the source text; nothing about the named company is written by Kairos. What your company sells is read from the public company record for your domain and from your homepage. The note under each row is about the kind of event, for one buyer function, and is written without reference to the company named.
What a signal looks like in your market
Twenty guides, one per vertical, each grouping the kinds of events to look for when selling into it.
- Buying signals: SaaS
- Buying signals: Cybersecurity
- Buying signals: AI Infrastructure
- Buying signals: Data & Analytics
- Buying signals: DevOps & Cloud
- Buying signals: Revenue Technology
- Buying signals: HR Technology
- Buying signals: Legal Technology
- Buying signals: Marketing Technology
- Buying signals: Enterprise Software
- Buying signals: Financial Services
- Buying signals: Health Technology
- Buying signals: RegTech & Compliance
- Buying signals: IT Managed Services
- Buying signals: Supply Chain Technology
- Buying signals: InsurTech
- Buying signals: PropTech
- Buying signals: CleanTech
- Buying signals: Manufacturing Technology
- Buying signals: Research Intelligence
This runs once. Kairos runs every time you press Run.
The free lookup reads stored signals once and reasons at a general level. Kairos itself runs on your exact customer profile each time you press Run: in the free pilot, up to 15 companies per run, each with the person to contact, the estimated buying window, the source and, on request, what to send them, delivered where your team works.
See the full picture for your market.
A Kairos pilot gives you four runs on your market across 30 days, at no cost, with a named contact and a reason to call on every opportunity. Three teams per market. After the pilot: Own Kairos for US$7,500 once, or US$1,000 a month for 12 months, at the founding price for the first 10 customers.
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