What the score means
- 80–100 — Strong match. All your filters check out — right title, right location, right industry, right company size.
- 50–79 — Partial match. Some filters match, some don’t. Prospect lands but is flagged.
- 0–49 — Weak match. Filtered out. You can still see them under the “Filtered” toggle.
What Guhan checks
Job title match
Job title match
Compares the prospect’s LinkedIn title against your list of target titles. Handles common variations — “VP of Sales” matches “Vice President Sales”, “SVP Sales”, “Head of Revenue”, etc.
Location match
Location match
Does the prospect’s LinkedIn location fall within your target regions? Handles city/state/country granularity.
Industry match
Industry match
Does the prospect’s company industry match your target industries? Uses LinkedIn’s own industry taxonomy.
Headcount match
Headcount match
Is the company within your headcount range (e.g., 50–500 employees)?
HQ country match
HQ country match
If you set an HQ country filter, is the company actually headquartered there?
Signal match
Signal match
Did the triggering signal actually fire on this prospect / company? (E.g., “posted about attribution” — does their recent post actually mention attribution?)
Must-match vs. nice-to-have
Some filters are required (must-match) and some are weighted (nice-to-have). By default:- Title and Location are must-match — fail either and the prospect is rejected outright.
- Everything else contributes to the score but isn’t a hard gate.
Why prospects get filtered
The Watchlist Agent’s detail page has a Filtered accordion showing every prospect that didn’t make it, with a plain-English reason:- “Wrong job title” — their title didn’t match any of yours
- “Wrong location” — they’re in a country you didn’t target
- “Wrong industry” — their company’s industry didn’t match
- “Competitor employee” — they work at one of your competitors (auto-block)
- “Do Not Contact” — they’re on your DNC list
- “Already in your workspace” — you found them via a different signal already
Tightening or loosening the threshold
Every workspace has a global score threshold. Default is 50 (moderately strict). You can override it per Watchlist Agent.- Tighten to 70 — fewer prospects, higher quality
- Loosen to 30 — more prospects, more noise
Related
Prospect pipeline
The full flow from LinkedIn search to landed prospect.
Watchlist Agent
Configure the filters that drive scoring.
