Intent data
Third-party behavioral data suggesting an account is researching a category: content consumption, review-site activity, search patterns: sold by providers as buying-readiness scores.
Treat third-party intent as a prioritization hint and retain its source and observation date. Account-level aggregation does not prove an individual researched a topic. LinkedBoost does not bundle intent data; any externally obtained finding needs its own provenance and appropriate use.
In practice
Use an account-level intent score to prioritize research, then seek a public, attributable reason for the message.
What to check
Do not tell a person they researched a topic based on an inferred third-party score. LinkedBoost does not bundle an intent-data provider.
Use it in LinkedBoost
- write_column_values
Store researched member values and evidence using write_column_values.
- get_lead_group
Inspect saved members, eligibility, and research-column coverage.
Related terms
- Buying signal
- An observable event suggesting a company or person may be in-market: hiring for relevant roles, raising funding, adopting adjacent tooling, or engaging with the problem space publicly.
- Hiring signal
- Open roles as market intelligence: a company hiring SDRs is investing in outbound; one hiring RevOps is systematizing; one hiring for a pain your product removes is a warm door.