Buying Window Signal Scorer

What changed at a company that makes your offer relevant now? This open-source app searches Google Jobs and Google News through SearchApi, then ranks companies using the roles, job-description phrases, and events you choose. Every score opens to the source evidence behind it.

What you can do

• Discover employers from relevant job searches or check a list of companies you already know.
• Start with growth, hiring, new leadership, or revenue operations signals, then edit the profile for your own offer.
• See a request estimate before scanning and set a hard API attempt limit.
• Inspect source links, dates, matched description text, score components, and identity flags.
• Export CSV or JSON, compare repeat scans, and replay a redacted local response archive.

Run it locally

Get a SearchApi key with 100 free requests, then install the app:

git clone https://github.com/forma-norden/buying-window-signal-scorer.git
cd buying-window-signal-scorer
python -m venv .venv
# Activate .venv for your shell
python -m pip install -e .
# Copy .env.example to .env and add SEARCHAPI_API_KEY=your_key
python -m buying_window.cli serve

Open http://127.0.0.1:8765, choose a profile and market, review the search estimate, and run a live scan. The key stays in the ignored .env file on your computer. The repository includes a fictional sample if you want to explore the interface first.

An editable 100-point research score

The shipped growth profile gives up to 40 points for a relevant role and description mandate, 20 for a recent job, 25 for a dated company event, and 15 when both qualified signals appear. You can change the weights and matching phrases. Older or undated material stays available for inspection without earning recency points; weak company-name matches cannot add news points.

The score orders research under your selected profile. Open the job and article before outreach, confirm the actual employer, and decide whether the change is one your offer can help with. A high score cannot establish purchase intent or market fit.

Where it fits in the library

The Signal-Based List Building Workflow helps develop sources and target lists. This scorer finds and prioritises possible changes. The Buying Window Signal Workflow helps route a verified signal to the right next action. Our signal-based prospecting guide covers the broader method.

SearchApi supplied API credits for the project. Forma Nôrden built the app and its scoring rules. The code and tests are MIT licensed.