Turn GitHub signals
into qualified leads
Discover developers actively evaluating your space — from GitHub stars, PRs, and commits. Enriched with LinkedIn, verified email, and AI-powered outreach context. Built for SDRs, technical recruiters, and founders.
No demo required. No credit card for free plan.
Trusted by 15+ DevTool teams — self-serve, no sales call required
What is Developer Signal Intelligence?
Developer signal intelligence is the practice of monitoring public GitHub activity — stars, forks, pull requests, commits, and issues — to identify developers who are actively evaluating technology in a specific category. These behavioral signals reveal purchase intent before a prospect ever fills out a form or visits a pricing page. LeadCognition converts these signals into enriched B2B leads with verified LinkedIn URLs, work emails, and AI-generated outreach context, delivered in a self-serve platform starting at $0/month.
Everything you need for
signal-based selling
From raw GitHub events to enriched, scored leads ready to contact. Built for SDRs, technical recruiters, and founders doing outbound.
Real-Time GitHub Signal Intelligence
Monitor 10+ event types across every repo you care about. Sourced from the GitHub Events API, polled every 15 minutes. Know who's evaluating your technology — before they fill out a form.
Multi-Step Lead Enrichment
Every signal triggers a multi-step enrichment pipeline. GitHub profile, LinkedIn discovery via social links + reverse email lookup, waterfall email enrichment across 20+ data sources, triple email verification (including catch-all), and AI-powered validation with confidence scoring.
AI-Powered Outreach Context
Claude AI generates personalized engagement context based on each lead's actual GitHub activity — PRs, commits, repos, stars — and your value props. The right message, written for you.
Smart Filtering & Saved Views
Filter by company, repo, signal type, tech stack, location, hireable flag, and more. Save views for your ICPs — SDR campaigns, recruiter pipelines, or target accounts.
Company Intelligence
Leads grouped by company with aggregated activity metrics. See org-level intent with employee count, industry, and LinkedIn data.
Signal Strength Score
4-factor scoring: volume, recency, quality, and diversity — weighted and percentile-ranked across your entire lead cohort. Instantly spot who's worth unlocking.
Smart Picks — AI-Recommended Leads
Each session, AI surfaces your top 5 high-signal leads with score ≥ 0.5. See a breakdown: "3 Commits, 4 repos, active this week." Batch-unlock with one click.
Tagging & Lead Lifecycle
Built-in tags for every stage: contacted, engaged, replied, meeting, closed-won, closed-lost. Plus custom tags, bulk operations, and favorites.
Three teams, one platform
Whether you're closing deals, sourcing candidates, or finding your first 50 customers — LeadCognition has a workflow for you.
Find buyers before they demo-request
Track competitor repos. Filter by signal strength and recency. Unlock enriched leads. Send personalized outreach in minutes — not hours of research.
Source active devs by skill, not keyword
Filter by tech stack, location, and hireable flag. Find developers actively contributing to repos in your target stack — Go, Rust, Python, Kubernetes. GitHub activity proves skills.
Find your first 50 users from GitHub
Add your repo and competitors. Smart Picks surfaces your top 5 leads every session. No complex setup — just paste repo URLs and start unlocking warm prospects.
From repo to revenue,
automated
Set up in minutes. Our automated pipeline polls every 15 minutes and enriches continuously.
Connect Your Repos
Add any GitHub repos or full orgs to monitor. Track your own repos, competitors, or any technology in your space. Wildcard support included.
Automated Enrichment
Our enrichment pipeline fetches GitHub profiles, discovers LinkedIn via social links and reverse email lookup, enriches company data in real time, finds triple-verified emails via waterfall enrichment across 20+ data sources, and AI-validates matches for accuracy.
Discover & Act
Open your dashboard to enriched, scored leads. Filter by signal strength, tech stack, or location. Unlock contact info with credits. Get AI-generated outreach context and send.
The only sales tool that finds buyers before they raise their hand
Traditional intent data tells you who visited your website. We tell you who's actively building with your category on GitHub — stars, forks, commits, PRs — days or weeks before they ever fill out a form. And we give you the contact details and outreach context to act on it immediately.
Pay per unlock.
See everything for free.
Browse all leads and signal data for free. Spend a credit to unlock personal contact info (email, LinkedIn, phone) for any lead. No surprises.
Free
Try it out, no card needed
25 credits/month
- Browse all leads free
- 25 unlocks/month
- Signal Strength Score
- Smart Picks
Starter
For solo SDRs & founders
500 credits/month
- Everything in Free
- 500 unlocks/month
- AI outreach context
- Saved views
Growth
For SDR teams & recruiters
2,000 credits/month
- Everything in Starter
- 2,000 unlocks/month
- Companies view + company intel
- Batch unlock operations
- Tech stack + location + hireable filters
Scale
For high-volume teams
8,000 credits/month
- Everything in Growth
- 8,000 unlocks/month
- Priority enrichment queue
- Dedicated support
All plans include a 14-day free trial on paid tiers. No credit card required for the Free plan.
Need more volume? Talk to our team for enterprise pricing.
Frequently asked questions
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Can I track competitor repos?
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What is developer signal intelligence?
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Stop guessing.
Start selling to people
who already care.
Join the DevTool teams already using LeadCognition to turn GitHub signals into pipeline. Browse unlimited leads for free — pay only when you unlock contact info.
No demo required. No credit card for free plan.
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