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Building Pipeline Before the Team
Had Capacity to Sell

HR Technology  ·  Ontario, Canada  ·  1–10 Employees

IndustrySoftware, HR & Recruitment Tech
Company Size1–10 Employees
Target MarketNorth American SMBs
ChannelLinkedIn
EngagementFull System Build

A cloud-based RMS with a
three-person team.

This Ontario HR technology startup had built a cloud-based Recruitment Management System that brought together recruiters and candidates to streamline the hiring process. The product was ready. The problem was getting it in front of the right buyers.

With only three team members, the idea of one of them spending their time on LinkedIn doing outreach, qualifying leads, and managing conversations was not realistic. Every hour spent selling was an hour not spent building and improving the product.

They came to BitWide to build their online presence through LinkedIn and to run the day-to-day lead generation and conversation management so they could stay focused on the product and on serving the clients they were already winning.

Team Too Small to Sell
Three people building a software product had no capacity to run a consistent outreach operation. Every hour diverted to sales was a real cost to product development and client delivery.
LinkedIn Required for This Buyer
HR decision-makers and recruiting professionals live on LinkedIn. It was the right channel for the audience, but managing it consistently at scale requires daily attention the team could not provide.
Brand Awareness at Zero
As an early-stage startup, the company had no market presence outside their immediate network. The campaign needed to build awareness and generate qualified conversations simultaneously.

A full LinkedIn engine
for a three-person startup.

BitWide ran the entire LinkedIn outreach operation so the founding team could stay focused on the product.

01
ICP Definition and Target List Building
BitWide defined the ideal buyer profile: HR directors, talent acquisition leads, and business owners at North American SMBs who were actively managing recruiting. Target lists were built from LinkedIn Sales Navigator data and refined based on company size, hiring activity, and sector.
02
Connection Request Campaigns
Personalised connection requests went out to 400+ targeted profiles per month. Each request was crafted to be relevant to the recipient's role and company context, making acceptance rates meaningfully higher than generic connection requests.
03
Conversation Management and Lead Qualification
BitWide managed all conversations arising from accepted connections. Interested prospects were qualified on team size, current recruitment challenges, and whether the RMS was relevant to their workflow. Only qualified leads were handed to the client team.
04
Optional Network Outreach
In addition to new prospect outreach, BitWide ran structured outreach to the founders' existing LinkedIn connections, many of whom had not been engaged through a proactive sales lens. This produced additional conversations from warm relationships that had previously been untapped.

60+ qualified conversations.
7 new clients in 6 months.

In six months, a three-person startup had a functioning LinkedIn pipeline and 7 new clients without diverting a single team member to sales.

60+
Meetings Scheduled
Over the 6-month engagement
7+
New Clients Signed
Across North American SMBs
400+
Monthly Connection Requests
To targeted HR and recruiting decision-makers
3
Team Members
None of whom needed to sell

Sixty qualified conversations in six months is a substantial output for a company of this size. The volume gave the team real data on what types of companies converted best, what objections came up most often, and what the product needed to address to improve conversion from meeting to close.

7 new clients signed within the engagement period gave the startup both revenue and market validation without sacrificing the product focus that early-stage companies cannot afford to lose.

Early stage.
No capacity to sell. Real pipeline.

If you're building something real but can't afford to pull a founder off product to run outreach, book a call. That's exactly the situation we're built for.