B2B research method, not leads — deep-tech ICP

We are a technical recruitment agency. We are not looking to buy leads, contacts or a prospect list. We are looking for a person who can show us how and where to search. The task We have a deliberately narrow ICP: small deep-tech companies (under ~50 employees) across several countries, qualified on a combination of engineering team composition, real technical depth of the core product, internal recruiting capacity, hiring activity and language-based criteria. Standard Apollo / Sales Navigator filters do not get us there. We want to talk to people who already build custom account lists in situations where off-the-shelf filters are not enough, and understand how you would approach this from scratch. We are especially interested if you see a way to automate a large part of it. How we'd like to start A free intro call (English or Russian, whichever you prefer). We explain the task in full, you tell us how you would build the process — sources, filters, queries, enrichment, what you'd automate, what stays manual, realistic throughput and cost per qualified account. If you'd rather not do a call first, send us a short written outline of your approach instead and we'll continue from that. Where this can go Ongoing cooperation is possible. We're also open to simply buying the process from you as a one-off. Terms and payment are discussed on the call — we have not fixed a budget in advance. You're a fit if you have done B2B lead research / account research / prospect list building for complex or unusual ICPs — especially where you had to determine things like team composition, technology concentration or hiring signals that no database exposes directly. Please note: we're looking for an individual practitioner who does this work personally, not an agency or a reseller. Not a fit: "X verified B2B leads", scraped databases, generic email lists. In your reply, briefly (2–3 sentences each is enough) One project where standard filters weren't enough — what did you do instead? How would you tell whether a technology is part of a company's core product rather than just something in their internal stack? How would you find companies under 50 employees with several complex engineering vacancies open right now? Full ICP details are shared on the call. NDA available on request.