Contract Recruiters in India: Daily Cadence for Profile-URL Lookups

Contract recruiters in India often juggle multiple clients, WhatsApp threads, and a shared sheet – without a full-time bench. The daily win is not a bigger CRM; it is a repeatable cadence for profile-URL lookups: shortlist, look up, outreach only when contacts exist, leave empty empty. Invenitor is that lookup layer – Connecting people; a lookup API, not a sales cloud.

Sibling freelance spoke: Freelance Recruiter Workflow: From LinkedIn Shortlist to Contact Fields. Boutique frame: India Boutique IT Staffing. Agency sheets: Agency Desk Playbook.

A daily cadence that fits contract desks

Docs: /docs. MCP option: /mcp.md. Pricing: /pricing.

Why cadence beats spray

Spray lookups without a shortlist burns trust and tempts invented fills when soft mesh returns empty. Soft mesh means contacts when we have them – coverage varies; we do not publish hit-rate percentages. Empty completed finds are free under Credit B; inventing a mailbox is still wrong.

Honesty: Empty Means Not Found. Credit rules pillar: Credits, Empty Results, and Timeouts. Plain English: Contact Enrichment Explained for Recruiters.

Sizing credits for a contract week

New accounts: 5 free lookups. Packs ~₹2/credit, 30-day expiry, Razorpay/UPI. 1 credit only when we return an email, a phone, or both. Empty completed finds are free. Timeouts and errors do not spend. Illustrative only: if you paste 20 clean URLs and some return contacts while others return empty, you spend only on found outcomes.

INR feel: INR Credit Packs. UPI path: UPI to API Key. Seat comparison: Seat Subscriptions vs Pay-Per-Lookup Credits.

Sheet hygiene for multi-client contract work

Columns that save you: client, req_id, full_name, linkedin_url, github_url, email, phone, lookup_status, lookup_at, notes. Never paste company pages. Dedupe URLs across clients when the same person appears twice. Primary fields only: One Primary Contact, Never Invented.

Hub: LinkedIn or GitHub Profile URL → Contact Lookup API. Definition: What Is a LinkedIn Profile URL Lookup?. GitHub: GitHub Profile URL Contact Lookup.

Agents on a contract desk

If you use Claude or Cursor to fill columns, wire MCP – do not scrape. Prompt: empty ⇒ not found. See Claude / Cursor Agents: Calling a Contact Lookup MCP Endpoint and MCP for Recruiting Agents.

Screening calls without wasting dials

Look up before you dial when the funnel allows – Screening Calls Faster: Contact Lookup in the India IT Staffing Funnel. Empty rows go to referral ask or wait, not to a guessed number.

What should you do next?

Lock tomorrow’s four-window cadence. Spend free lookups on real URLs. Buy a small pack on /pricing if it fits. Keep /docs open. Leave empty empty. That is the contract recruiter OS – Connecting people without inventing them.

Client reporting without fake hit rates

When clients ask “how many contacts did you get?”, report found vs empty counts from your sheet – not a vendor brochure %. Soft mesh + Credit B means honesty is free on empties. Category: What a Contact Lookup API Actually Does. Free-plan traps: The Hidden Cost of "Free Plan" Enrichment Tools.

Multi-client week without mixing empties

Tag every row with client and req id before lookup. After lookup, never copy a found email onto another client's empty row. Soft mesh is per person – not transferable fiction. Hub: LinkedIn or GitHub Profile URL → Contact Lookup API. MCP: Claude / Cursor Agents, /mcp.md. Screening: Screening Calls Faster. PAYG: Pay-As-You-Go Contact APIs. Billing: Credits, Empty Results, and Timeouts. Free-plan traps: The Hidden Cost of "Free Plan" Enrichment Tools. Definition: What Is a LinkedIn Profile URL Lookup?. /pricing · /docs.

End-of-week contract recruiter review

Count found vs empty vs error. Match credit spend to found outcomes under Credit B. Note which clients produced noisy company-page URLs. Refill packs inside the 30-day window via /pricing. Share Empty Means Not Found with any junior who still invents mailboxes. Boutique context: India Boutique IT Staffing. Freelance sibling: Freelance Recruiter Workflow. Agency scale: Agency Desk Playbook. GitHub-led reqs: GitHub Profile URL Contact Lookup. Seat escape: Seat Subscriptions vs Pay-Per-Lookup Credits. Primary fields: One Primary Contact, Never Invented. Connecting people – without inventing them – is the whole cadence.