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LeadCognition
AI signal intelligence for developer-led sales

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.

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Trusted by 15+ DevTool teams — self-serve, no sales call required

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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.

Platform

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.

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Core Engine

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.

Stars Forks Pull Requests Commits Issues Reviews Comments +3 more
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Pipeline

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.

GitHub LinkedIn Company Email AI Validated
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AI Engine

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.

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Sarah Chen
Sr. Engineer @ Datadog
AI Playbook
"Sarah recently starred langchain-ai/langchain and contributed to a vector DB project, signaling active evaluation of AI tooling..."
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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.

tech = "Go" hireable = true signal = commit
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Company Intelligence

Leads grouped by company with aggregated activity metrics. See org-level intent with employee count, industry, and LinkedIn data.

Datadog | 3 signals | 7,500 emp
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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.

Strong 47 signals · 2d ago
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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.

Smart Picks · 5 leads
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Sarah Chen Strong
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M. Kovacs Good
Unlock All · 5 credits
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Tagging & Lead Lifecycle

Built-in tags for every stage: contacted, engaged, replied, meeting, closed-won, closed-lost. Plus custom tags, bulk operations, and favorites.

contacted engaged meeting closed-won
Who It's For

Three teams, one platform

Whether you're closing deals, sourcing candidates, or finding your first 50 customers — LeadCognition has a workflow for you.

SDR / Sales

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.

Key workflow
Signal-first filter Repo-based targeting AI outreach context
Technical Recruiter

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.

Key workflow
Tech stack filter Hireable flag Location filter
Founder / CEO

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.

Key workflow
Smart Picks Self-serve free tier AI context drafts
How It Works

From repo to revenue,
automated

Set up in minutes. Our automated pipeline polls every 15 minutes and enriches continuously.

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Step One

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.

kubernetes/kubernetes
vercel/next.js
langchain-ai/*
+ Add repository...
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Nightly Pipeline

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.

BigQuery sync 0:02
GitHub profile scrape 0:15
LinkedIn + Email + Company 1:42
AI validation & scoring... 2:08
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Every Morning

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.

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Sarah Chen
Sr. Engineer @ Datadog
Hey Sarah, I noticed you starred langchain-ai/langchain. We just shipped...
Send Context-first outreach
12,400+
Signals Tracked Daily
3,200+
Leads Discovered
4.2x
Pipeline Growth
2,100+
Repos Monitored
Why LeadCognition

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.

Unique data source
GitHub activity is an untapped intent signal. No one else is mining it for sales intelligence at this depth.
Full enrichment, not just signals
Every lead comes with LinkedIn, email, company data, and AI-generated outreach context. Not just a list of GitHub usernames.
Set it and forget it
Our pipeline polls GitHub every 15 minutes and enriches continuously. Wake up to fresh, scored leads. Zero manual work.
Capability
Lead
Cognition
Generic
Tools
GitHub signal intelligence
Identify buyers before demo request
Automated multi-step enrichment
Partial
AI-generated sales playbooks
Competitor repo monitoring
Nightly automated pipeline
Manual
Signal Strength Score + Smart Picks
Starts at $49/mo (vs $500+/user)
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Self-serve free tier (no sales call)
Pricing

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.

1 credit = 1 lead unlock
Every lead's GitHub activity, signal strength score, and public profile is always visible. Spend 1 credit to reveal verified email, full LinkedIn URL, and phone number for that lead.

Free

Try it out, no card needed

$0 /mo

25 credits/month

  • Browse all leads free
  • 25 unlocks/month
  • Signal Strength Score
  • Smart Picks
Start Free Trial

Starter

For solo SDRs & founders

$49 /mo

500 credits/month

  • Everything in Free
  • 500 unlocks/month
  • AI outreach context
  • Saved views
Start Free Trial
Most Popular

Growth

For SDR teams & recruiters

$149 /mo

2,000 credits/month

  • Everything in Starter
  • 2,000 unlocks/month
  • Companies view + company intel
  • Batch unlock operations
  • Tech stack + location + hireable filters
Start Free Trial

Scale

For high-volume teams

$399 /mo

8,000 credits/month

  • Everything in Growth
  • 8,000 unlocks/month
  • Priority enrichment queue
  • Dedicated support
Start Free Trial

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

How does LeadCognition find leads from GitHub?
We monitor GitHub events (stars, forks, commits, PRs, issues) on the repositories you choose — polled every 15 minutes. Each event is tied to a GitHub user. We then enrich that user with their LinkedIn profile, verified email, company, and job title to create a complete lead profile.
How does the credit / unlock system work?
You can browse all leads, view their Signal Strength Score, GitHub activity timeline, and public profile data for free. When you're ready to contact someone, spend 1 credit to unlock their verified email, full LinkedIn URL, and phone number. Credits reset monthly with your plan.
What makes a GitHub signal "high-intent"?
Our Signal Strength Score weighs four factors: volume (30%), recency (30%), quality (25% — PRs count more than stars), and diversity (15% — multiple repos in your space). When someone opens PRs, commits code, and is active across multiple related repos recently, that's a Strong signal. Just a star from 3 months ago? That's Low.
Can I track competitor repos?
Absolutely. Track any public GitHub repo — your own, competitors, or any technology in your space. If someone is actively contributing to a competing solution, they're evaluating your category and might be a perfect fit for you.
Does LeadCognition work for technical recruiting?
Yes — it's one of our core use cases. Filter by tech stack (Go, Rust, Python, etc.), location, and hireable flag. GitHub activity proves skills in a way resumes can't. Track repos in your target tech stack and find active contributors who've declared they're open to opportunities.
How accurate is the lead enrichment?
LinkedIn URLs sourced from a developer's own GitHub social links are verified — they explicitly set that link themselves, so it's trustworthy. Emails are verified via FullEnrich. AI validation cross-checks profile matches before surfacing them.
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 visits a website or fills out a form. LeadCognition converts these signals into enriched B2B leads with verified contact information and AI-generated outreach context.
What types of GitHub events does LeadCognition track?
LeadCognition monitors 10+ GitHub event types in near real-time (polled every 15 minutes): repository stars, forks, pull request creation and reviews, commit pushes, issue creation and comments, release downloads, and repository watches. Each signal is tied to a developer profile that is automatically enriched with LinkedIn and verified email.
LeadCognition

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.