The AI tool that knows who's hiring before anyone else does.

BD Radar is a business-development tool built into Shortlists that scans every recruiting job board, funding announcement, and leadership-change signal overnight, then surfaces fee-earning roles for your niche before they're publicly posted. It's included in the $109/user/month Shortlists plan with no annual contract.

BD signal intelligence is the practice of identifying hiring-need signals (funding rounds, executive moves, adjacent-role posting spikes, senior leavers) before a company publicly posts a job, so a recruiter can approach the hiring manager 2 to 3 weeks ahead of the public market. BD Radar automates this signal-scanning across hundreds of public sources every night.

The recruiters winning in 2026 don't wait for jobs to hit LinkedIn. They watch four early-warning signals: (1) funding rounds closed, (2) VP-level hires, (3) senior leavers in their niche, (4) adjacent-role posting volume. BD Radar automates this. Otherwise it takes a recruiter 2 to 3 hours a day to do manually across enough job boards to be worthwhile.

BD Radar reads pre-public hiring signals (funding, exec moves, adjacency) and surfaces fee-earning roles before the job is posted. Loxo's ABP is a US-built tool that prioritises target-account research after a recruiter manually defines the account list. BD Radar starts with the signal. ABP starts with the list.

BD Radar is included in the $109/user/month Shortlists plan. There's no separate add-on, no annual contract, and no per-feature pricing. The plan also includes the CRM, ATS, AI notetaker, client portal, outreach, and 40 monthly credits.

Yes. Shortlists replaces Bullhorn for solo recruiters and 2-to-10 person UK recruitment agencies, at $109/user/month vs Bullhorn's typical $200+/user/month, with no annual contract, free migration handled by our team, and BD Radar built in. See the full feature-by-feature comparison at /compare/shortlists-vs-bullhorn.

Yes. Use the $40-a-month contract-bridge offer at /switch. Pay $40/user/month for the months your existing contract overlaps with Shortlists. Full price ($109/user/month) only kicks in once your old contract ends.

BD Radar works globally. The geographies you set determine which job boards, funding sources, and signal feeds it scans. Most current customers are UK-based 2-to-10 person agencies, but several are US-based, Nordic, and Middle East-based.

Initial niche definition takes 5 to 10 minutes. Our team migrates your existing CRM data overnight, before your next working day starts, for free. Most agencies are fully running BD Radar by 9am the morning after onboarding.

BD Radar relies on signals that are publicly observable (funding announcements, LinkedIn role changes, public job-board postings, adjacent-role posting volume). It does not pick up entirely-private hiring decisions, headhunting from search firms, or word-of-mouth referrals. Those still come through your network. BD Radar is the antenna. Your network is still the closer.

Paiger is a pure outbound-execution tool that sends cold emails. BD Radar is upstream of execution: it identifies who to send to, before the job is publicly posted. BD Radar plus Shortlists' built-in outreach replaces both functions. If you currently use a standalone BD tool, BD Radar usually replaces it once you've set your niche.

Yes. The $109/user/month price is locked in forever for early customers. It doesn't increase even when our public pricing rises. This is a permanent commitment, not a launch promo.