For IT & tech recruiters

“Senior Engineer at Acme” tells you nothing. The tech stack tells you everything.

A React dev at a fintech is not the same beast as a React dev at an e-commerce startup. Funding stage, tech stack, B2B versus B2C. That decides whether the experience translates. LinkedIn does not show this. SourceLens does.

No credit card·Works with LinkedIn Basic·€89/mo launch price

THE PROBLEM

Sound familiar?

You open a sourcing list for a Senior Backend Engineer role at a Series B SaaS startup.

LinkedIn shows 240 profiles. About 30 of them you recognise: the household names, the unicorns, the well-known scale-ups. The other 210 are companies you have never heard of.

Is “Senior Engineer at Lumera Labs” relevant?

You have no idea. Are they pre-seed or Series C? B2B SaaS or consumer app? Go and Kubernetes, or PHP monolith? Two engineers in a shared office, or a 200-person tech org with platform teams?

Without that context the title is meaningless. So you open a new tab. Google the company. Check Crunchbase. Read their engineering blog. Scan StackShare. Five minutes per profile.

At 210 unknown employers, nobody does that 210 times. You skip companies you do not recognise. And you miss engineers who fit perfectly — at startups quietly building the exact stack and stage you need.

Tech recruiter context blindness

Hours spent in Crunchbase, StackShare and Google instead of approaching candidates

You miss strong engineers at unknown SaaS startups

Hiring managers asking why the shortlist is shallow

You filter on logos you recognise, not on real fit

For agency tech recruiters:

Every week a different stack, a different stage, a different vertical. One week Rust at an infra startup, next week .NET at an enterprise insurer. The orientation cost is real and it never stops.

THE SOLUTION

Tech-stack and company context for every candidate.

SourceLens employer-context panel

SourceLens automatically analyses the last 8 employers per candidate across 18 dimensions. For tech recruitment the dimensions that matter most are surfaced before you read a single profile.

Per employer you see:

  • Funding stage and round (pre-seed, Series A through D, PE-backed, public)
  • Tech-stack signals (languages, infra, observable from product and hiring)
  • Company size and engineering org maturity
  • Growth stage (early product, scaling, mature platform)
  • B2B versus B2C versus B2B2C and industry vertical
  • Product complexity (API, platform, consumer app, infra, data)

The difference for you:

  • Decide in 3 seconds whether a Series B SaaS engineer maps onto your Series A SaaS role
  • Spot the unknown 8-person startup running exactly your stack
  • Stop wasting outreach on engineers whose company context is wrong for the role
  • Walk into the hiring manager call already knowing why each shortlist candidate fits
See how it works →

Important: many strong engineers leave their LinkedIn description blank. Just a title and a company name. LinkedIn Recruiter ranks them low because there is no text to match against. SourceLens reads the employer instead of the profile, so these candidates surface on your shortlist while other recruiters miss them.

From half a day of company research per role to 30 minutes. The rest of your day goes to InMails, intake calls and closes.

RESULTS

Concrete results for tech recruiters

30 min per search

What used to take half a day of Crunchbase, StackShare and Google now takes 30 minutes. Context comes pre-loaded next to every profile.

18 employer dimensions

Funding, stack signals, size, stage, B2B versus B2C, vertical, growth pattern. The signals tech recruiters care about, scored for every employer.

+ hidden engineers

Strong engineers at unknown SaaS startups, with bare profiles, that LinkedIn Recruiter ranks low. SourceLens surfaces them by reading the employer.

€89 per month

Starter plan with launch code LINKEDIN25. Works with any LinkedIn tier, including the free Basic account.

ROI calculation

One extra placement per quarter from engineers you would otherwise have skipped pays the Starter plan back many times over. Tech-recruiter fees of €15k to €25k make the math trivial.

“I was sourcing for a Senior Platform Engineer role at a Series B fintech. Out of 180 profiles I would normally have looked at maybe 40. With SourceLens I saw funding stage and stack context next to every profile. Three of my four final candidates came from companies I had never heard of.”

Martijn V.

Tech Recruiter, Amsterdam

PRICING

Pricing for IT recruiters

Starter

Launch offer
€149 €89 /mo

With code LINKEDIN25 (until April 30). Early adopters keep this price forever.

  • Chrome extension (free, works with LinkedIn Basic)
  • Employer context (18 dimensions per employer)
  • 2,000 candidates per month
  • 5 active projects
  • Email support

No credit card needed for trial. 14 days free.

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ROI calculation

  • Time saved per tech search: 3 hrs × €60/hr = €180
  • Searches per month: 6
  • Total savings: €1,080/mo
  • SourceLens: €89/mo
  • Net ROI: €991/mo = €11,892/year

Or do you have a team?

Professional: €249/mo for multiple seats. Extra seats €49/seat.

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Ready to stop googling every SaaS startup?

No credit card·€89/mo launch price·Chrome extension instantly available