Introducing Agentic Search: AI-Powered LinkedIn Prospecting on Autopilot

Finding the right prospects has always had the same friction: you know exactly who you’re looking for, but translating that into database filters is clunky, slow, and never quite captures it.

“VP of Engineering at a SaaS company between 50 and 200 employees, preferably in fintech, joined in the last year.” You can write that sentence in seconds. Turning it into LinkedIn search filters? That’s a 15-minute job with mediocre results.

TL;DR: Agentic Search is CatchIntent’s AI-powered LinkedIn prospecting tool. Describe your ideal customer in plain English. The AI agent searches LinkedIn, enriches every result with contact data and ICP scores, and imports them into your People database. Set it on Autopilot and it runs on a schedule, finding new leads while you sleep. Every paid plan includes monthly credits, and you can buy more in one-time credit packs that never expire. When a prospect from your list also posts a buying signal on Reddit, LinkedIn, or X? That becomes your warmest lead. Available now on all plans.

That’s the problem Agentic Search solves.

What Is Agentic Search?

Agentic Search is a conversational AI agent built into CatchIntent that finds LinkedIn prospects for you. Instead of navigating filter dropdowns, you describe who you’re looking for in natural language. The AI agent selects from 14+ specialized tools to search, enrich, and score every result.

You say: “I’m looking for VPs of Sales at B2B SaaS companies with 100 to 500 employees in North America, ideally those who joined their current company in the last 18 months.”

Agentic Search does:

Translates your description into LinkedIn search criteria
Searches professional profile data across multiple providers
Enriches every match with contact info, company data, and LinkedIn profiles
Scores each prospect against your saved ICP criteria
Deduplicates against your existing People database
Imports matching profiles, ready for outreach

The whole process takes minutes, not hours.

Why We Built This

The hardest part of getting outbound moving isn’t the messaging or the sequencing. It’s finding the right people to reach out to in the first place.

Teams either waste hours in LinkedIn filters building mediocre lists, or pay enterprise prices for data platforms that still require manual work. Neither is the right answer for a growing company that needs to get GTM rolling.

Agentic Search is built to solve that starting problem: give you a high-quality list of ICP-matched prospects, enriched and ready to reach, so you can start connecting on LinkedIn, sending DMs, and running email sequences without spending days on list building.

The intent signal layer sits on top of that. CatchIntent’s social listening already monitors Reddit, X, Hacker News, and Bluesky for buying signals. When someone in your People database posts a buying signal, they become your hottest lead. You’re not cold-reaching someone who might be in market. You’re responding to someone who is definitively in market and already on your radar.

That combination, a curated ICP list for proactive outreach plus live intent signals that flag who’s actively looking right now, is what makes CatchIntent different from any standalone prospecting tool.

How It Works

Step 1: Describe Your Ideal Prospect

Start a new search session and describe who you’re looking for in plain English. The AI understands:

Titles and seniority: “VPs of Marketing”, “senior data engineers”, “co-founders”, “heads of product”
Company characteristics: employee count, industry, growth stage, funding
Geography: countries, regions (“Europe”, “Southeast Asia”), specific cities
Tenure: “joined in the last 12 months”, “been in the role less than 2 years”
Experience: “10+ years in sales”, “background in enterprise software”
Past companies: people who previously worked at specific organizations

The AI handles ambiguity. Say “Europe” and it expands to individual country codes. Say “mid-size company” and it maps to a reasonable employee range. You don’t need to know the system’s taxonomy. Just describe a person.

Or skip the typing entirely and use one of the Quick Actions: preset searches for common workflows like “Find warm leads” (signal-based), “Spy on a competitor”, “Find ICP prospects”, “Who’s hiring?”, and more.

Step 2: Refine in Conversation

After your first results come in, refine the search in the same session. The AI remembers your criteria and tracks pagination, so running a second batch with the same description finds the next page of results, not duplicates of what you already imported.

You can chain multiple strategies in a single conversation. Start with a broad search, narrow down by a specific industry, then pivot to a competitor’s customer base. The AI keeps context across the entire session.

Step 3: Set It on Autopilot

This is where Agentic Search goes from useful to hands-free.

Turn any search into a recurring task. Choose a schedule (every 6 hours, 12 hours, daily, every 3 days, or weekly), set a credit budget cap, and let it run. The AI agent re-executes your search on schedule, finds new leads matching your criteria, and adds them to your People database automatically.

You wake up to new ICP-matched prospects in your pipeline without lifting a finger.

Every Autopilot run tracks credits used and leads found, so you always know what you’re spending.

Step 4: Enrich and Start Reaching Out

Imported profiles appear in your CatchIntent People database, enriched and ready for outreach:

ICP match scores: Every prospect scored against your saved ICP criteria. Strong ICP, Partial ICP, or Low Match, so you can prioritize the best fits first.
Enrichment data: LinkedIn profile, company information, email addresses, and professional details
Lists: Organize prospects by campaign, search, or segment
Pipeline view: Track engagement from imported through contacted, replied, and qualified
CRM sync: Push qualified prospects to HubSpot or Instantly to hand off to your existing sequences
CSV export: Download your People database for use in other tools

From here, start your outbound motion: connect with them on LinkedIn, send a personalized DM, or run them through your email sequence. These aren’t cold contacts from a scraped list. They’re people specifically matching your ICP criteria, which means your outreach is relevant from the first message.

Watchlists (the bonus layer): Add any prospect to a watchlist and CatchIntent monitors them for buying signals across Reddit, X, Hacker News, and Bluesky. If a watchlisted prospect posts asking for recommendations in your category, or complains about a competitor, you’ll get notified immediately. That prospect just went from “good ICP fit” to “actively looking right now.”

The People database becomes your source of truth for outbound.

The AI Toolkit Under the Hood

Agentic Search isn’t a single search endpoint. It’s an AI agent with access to 14+ specialized tools across four categories:

LinkedIn Intelligence: Profile search by keywords, company research, role and seniority mapping, engagement analysis

Contact Enrichment: Email finder, company data and sizing, professional details, social profiles

Intent Signals: Cross-platform correlation (spot someone on Reddit, find them on LinkedIn), buying behavior detection, competitor engagement monitoring, technology signals

ICP Scoring: Automatic fit scoring against your saved criteria, custom ICP parameters, priority ranking, warm vs. cold signal distinction

The AI dynamically selects which tools to use based on your query. Ask “find me fintech CTOs” and it runs LinkedIn search with enrichment. Ask “who from my Reddit signals works at a Series B startup?” and it cross-references intent data with LinkedIn profiles.

The Full CatchIntent Workflow

CatchIntent now covers the complete outbound prospecting workflow:

1. Find your ICP: Agentic Search builds a high-quality prospect list from your natural language description

2. Score and prioritize: ICP match scores surface the strongest fits at the top

3. Start outreach: Connect on LinkedIn, send DMs, or run your email sequences against enriched contact data

4. Track who’s in market: Watchlists flag when a prospect posts a buying signal, instantly upgrading them from “good ICP fit” to “actively looking right now”

5. Automate the pipeline: Autopilot keeps finding new prospects on a schedule. CRM sync hands off qualified leads to your existing sales process.

Most B2B teams stitch this together across three or four separate tools: a data provider, a LinkedIn tool, an enrichment service, and a monitoring tool. CatchIntent covers the full loop in one place.

Pricing: Credits That Make Sense

Agentic Search uses a credit-based model. No monthly seat licenses, no per-user pricing, no unused data fees.

Every paid plan includes monthly credits:

Plan	Monthly Credits	Sessions
Basic ($49/mo)	50 credits	~10 search sessions
Pro ($99/mo)	100 credits	~25 search sessions

One credit equals one AI search action (finding a lead, enriching a contact, researching a company).

Need more? Buy one-time credit packs:

Pack	Credits
Starter	500
Growth	1,000
Scale	2,500

Credits from packs are shared across your entire workspace and never expire. Your monthly allocation is consumed first; credit packs kick in after that.

Compare that to the alternatives:

LinkedIn Sales Navigator: $99 to $165/user/month
Apollo.io: $49 to $99/user/month for contact data
ZoomInfo: $15,000+/year for enterprise access

One Growth pack gives your whole team 1,000 prospect credits with no expiration date. That’s less than what most teams pay for a single month of Sales Navigator for one user.

Check the pricing page for current credit pack prices in your currency.

What Makes It Different

Conversational, Not Configurational

Other prospecting tools give you filter dropdowns. Specify company size, select from a list of industries, pick seniority levels. It works, but it’s rigid and requires knowing the system’s vocabulary.

Agentic Search takes your natural language and handles the translation. You describe a person; it finds them.

Autopilot: Prospecting That Runs Itself

No other prospecting tool lets you set a search on a recurring schedule and walk away. Autopilot runs your searches every few hours or every few days, finds new leads, and adds them to your People database. You set the budget cap, and it stays within it.

Built for Outreach, Not Just Lists

Most prospect finders stop at the list. You get names and job titles, and then you’re on your own to figure out how to reach them.

Agentic Search imports prospects with enriched profiles (contact information, LinkedIn data, company details, ICP scores) so you can go straight from “found them” to “connected, DMed, or emailed.” The People database is your outbound starting point, not a reference document.

The Intent Layer: When Good Fits Go In Market

Here’s what separates a CatchIntent prospect from a generic cold contact: they’re pre-qualified.

When a watchlisted prospect, someone you’ve already confirmed fits your ICP, posts a buying signal on Reddit, X, or Hacker News, you get notified immediately. That’s not a cold lead who happens to be browsing your category. That’s a person you already know is the right fit, who is now definitively in market.

That combination is as warm as a lead gets before they’ve already found you.

No Per-Seat Pricing

Sales Navigator charges per user per month. Three people doing outbound? That’s $300 to $500/month just for LinkedIn access.

Agentic Search credits are shared across your workspace. One purchase, everyone can use it.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Agentic Search?

Agentic Search is CatchIntent’s AI-powered LinkedIn prospecting tool. You describe your ideal customer in plain English, and an AI agent autonomously searches LinkedIn, enriches every result with contact data, and scores each prospect against your ICP criteria. It replaces manual filter configuration with a conversational interface that understands natural language descriptions of people.

How do Agentic Search credits work?

Every paid CatchIntent plan includes monthly Agentic Search credits (50 on Basic, 100 on Pro). One credit equals one AI search action, such as finding a lead, enriching a contact, or researching a company. If you need more, you can buy one-time credit packs (500, 1,000, or 2,500 credits) that never expire. Monthly credits are consumed first; credit packs kick in after that. Credits are shared across your entire workspace.

What is Autopilot and how does it work?

Autopilot lets you turn any Agentic Search query into a recurring task. Choose a schedule (every 6 hours, 12 hours, daily, every 3 days, or weekly), set a credit budget cap, and the AI agent re-runs your search automatically. It finds new leads matching your criteria and adds them to your People database without any manual effort. Every run tracks credits used and leads found.

How is Agentic Search different from LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

Sales Navigator requires you to manually configure filters using LinkedIn’s taxonomy. Agentic Search takes a natural language description of your ideal prospect and handles the translation automatically. It also enriches every result with contact data and ICP scores, runs on autopilot, and connects to CatchIntent’s social listening so you can see which prospects are posting buying signals. Sales Navigator charges per user per month; Agentic Search credits are shared across your team.

What data does Agentic Search return for each prospect?

Every imported prospect includes their name, headline, job title, company, industry, location, LinkedIn profile URL, experience and skills, email addresses (when available), and an ICP match score. Prospects are added to your People database where you can organize them into lists, push them to HubSpot or Instantly, or export as CSV.

Can Agentic Search detect buying intent?

Yes, through integration with CatchIntent’s social listening. When you add a prospect to a watchlist, CatchIntent monitors Reddit, X, Hacker News, and Bluesky for buying signals from that person. If a watchlisted prospect posts asking for product recommendations or complains about a competitor, you get notified immediately. This turns a cold ICP-matched prospect into a warm lead with confirmed buying intent.

What platforms does Agentic Search work with?

Agentic Search finds prospects on LinkedIn using professional profile data. CatchIntent’s social listening monitors Reddit, X (Twitter), Hacker News, and Bluesky for buying signals. The two features work together: Agentic Search builds your prospect list, and social listening flags when those prospects show buying intent on other platforms.

Do I need a LinkedIn account or Sales Navigator license to use Agentic Search?

No. Agentic Search searches LinkedIn through its own data providers. You do not need a LinkedIn Premium account, Sales Navigator license, or any LinkedIn login. The AI agent handles all the searching and data retrieval.

Getting Started

Agentic Search is available on all CatchIntent plans. Open your dashboard and look for Agentic Search in the navigation. You can start searching immediately with your monthly credit allocation, or buy credit packs for larger prospecting runs.

If you don’t have a CatchIntent account yet, start with a free trial to explore both Agentic Search and social listening from day one.

Have questions or want to share feedback? Email [email protected].

Akash Rajpurohit is the founder of CatchIntent. Follow him on X / Twitter for product updates and intent-based selling tactics.