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Lookalike Signal Generator

Generate targeting criteria for each platform

For demand gen and ABM leads. The decision: how do we find more accounts like our best ones?

Give it your champions' job titles, plus any company profile, technologies or buying triggers, and get back targeting criteria for LinkedIn, Google Ads, intent data and B2B contact databases.

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What you get

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Company and lead search criteria

Search Query (Copy & Paste Ready)

Company Search:

Industry: Manufacturing OR IT services
Headquarters: India
Technologies used: SAP OR Tally OR Oracle NetSuite

Lead Search:

Current job title: "Finance Controller" OR "Head of Accounts Payable"
Current company industry: Manufacturing OR IT services
Geography: India

See the full example answer or run it with your own details.

Run Lookalike Signal Generator

You need: Champion titles. You can add: Company profile of your ideal customer, ICP technographics, Buying triggers.

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Technologies your ICP typically uses. One item per line.

Job titles of your champions. One item per line.

Events that trigger buying. One item per line.

Optional: what you sell (for example "spend management software"), used for search keywords and sector notes

Optional: your company or product name, so the answer can name it

Example answer

Generated on 2 November 2026 from this branch, with the inputs behind Fill in an example. Your own inputs give a different result.

ICP Intelligence report

Example: Lookalike Signal Generator

Made with Lookalike Signal Generator by Helix GTM ConsultingBased on the made-up example inputshttps://icp-intelligence.gtmhelix.com/tools/lookalike-signal-generator/

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Your supplied size labels are preserved below. Employee headcount was not explicitly supplied for every size label. Supply employee counts before building the employee count filters; vehicles, sites, accounts and other units are not headcount.

Lookalike Signal & Targeting Criteria

  • Company: not given (add the company input to name your company or product in this answer)
  • What you sell: not given (add product category for search keywords)

Sector: not clear from what you sell (describe your product, for example in product category, for sector notes).

ICP Summary
  • Industries: Manufacturing, IT services
  • Company Sizes: 201-500, 501-1000, 1001-5000
  • Locations: India
  • Funding Stages: not supplied
  • Technologies: SAP, Tally, Oracle NetSuite
  • Champion Titles: Finance Controller, Head of Accounts Payable
  • Buying Triggers: new CFO hire; audit finding; ERP migration
Company and lead search criteria
Search Query (Copy & Paste Ready)

Company Search:

Industry: Manufacturing OR IT services
Headquarters: India
Technologies used: SAP OR Tally OR Oracle NetSuite

Lead Search:

Current job title: "Finance Controller" OR "Head of Accounts Payable"
Current company industry: Manufacturing OR IT services
Geography: India
Boolean Search String
("Finance Controller" OR "Head of Accounts Payable") AND ("Manufacturing" OR "IT services")
Saved Search Strategy
  1. Create search with criteria above
  2. Save search with alert enabled
  3. Check weekly for new matches
  4. Export to outreach sequences
Advertising audience criteria
Custom Intent Audiences

Keywords to target (people searching for what you sell):

"sap integration"
"tally integration"
"oracle netsuite integration"

Add product category (what you sell) for search keywords about your product: this tool does not guess it.

Custom Audience: Website Visitors

Target visitors to the sites of the competitors your buyers compare you with (add their addresses).

In-Market Audiences

Pick the in-market category your existing advertising account offers that is closest to what you sell. This tool does not invent a category name.

Intent criteria
Account Fit Criteria
{
  "firmographics": {
    "industry": [
      "Manufacturing",
      "IT services"
    ],
    "geography": [
      "India"
    ]
  },
  "technographics": {
    "technologies_used": [
      "SAP",
      "Tally",
      "Oracle NetSuite"
    ]
  }
}
Intent Topic Keywords
SAP
Tally
Oracle NetSuite
Buying Stage Indicators
  • Awareness: Researching generic topics
  • Consideration: Comparing specific vendors
  • Decision: Pricing pages, demo requests
Contact criteria
Contact Search Criteria
Job Titles: Finance Controller, Head of Accounts Payable
Industry: Manufacturing, IT services
Location: India
Technologies: SAP, Tally, Oracle NetSuite
Intent Signals to Layer
  • Job changes in target titles (last 90 days)
  • Technology adoption changes
  • Hiring for related roles
Buying Trigger Signals
Trigger: New CFO hire

Signal: A new Finance Controller or a related leader joined in the last 90 days
Why it matters: New leaders review tools and processes early
How to track: The buyer’s own announcements and sources you already have permission to use

Trigger: Audit finding

Signal: Audit findings, regulatory notices or incidents made public, and hiring for audit, risk or compliance roles
Why it matters: A finding sets a deadline and a budget owner
How to track: News alerts, annual reports and filings, job posts

Trigger: ERP migration

Signal: Job posts and announcements that mention the new system or the migration
Why it matters: A system change reopens the processes around it
How to track: Job posting alerts, technographic change data, news alerts

Implementation Checklist
Company and lead search criteria
  • [ ] Build and save company search
  • [ ] Build and save lead search
  • [ ] Enable weekly alert emails
  • [ ] Export first batch (25 leads) (Example figure: replace with your own)
  • [ ] Add to outreach sequence
Advertising audience
  • [ ] Create custom intent audience
  • [ ] Create competitor website audience
  • [ ] Set up retargeting pixel
  • [ ] Launch awareness campaign
Intent data
  • [ ] Configure account fit model
  • [ ] Set up intent topic tracking
  • [ ] Create daily alert for surging accounts
  • [ ] Integrate with CRM
Contact Database
  • [ ] Run search with criteria
  • [ ] Verify data quality (10% sample) (Example figure: replace with your own)
  • [ ] Export qualified contacts
  • [ ] Enrich with additional data
Important Notes

This tool generates targeting CRITERIA, not actual data.

Which software fits your case is a judgement call. Ask Shashwat: book 45 minutes at https://calendly.com/shashwat-gtmhelix/45min

The criteria above are built from your inputs and ready to copy/paste into each platform.

Next Step: Use Account Prioritization to rank accounts for outreach

Suggested timings, lengths and counts: adjust them to your own.

Built by Shashwat Ghoshhttps://icp-intelligence.gtmhelix.com/tools/lookalike-signal-generator/

When a tool is not enough: if the decision needs more than one answer, talk it through in a call. Book 45 minutes with Shashwat.

How to read the answer

This tool generates copy-and-paste targeting criteria and search strings from your inputs (Industries, Company sizes, Locations, Funding stages, ICP technographics, Champion titles, and Buying triggers); it does not look up or export actual company or contact records. It outputs Company and lead search criteria (including a Boolean Search String), Advertising audience criteria, Intent criteria (in JSON format), Contact criteria, Buying Trigger Signals, and an Implementation Checklist. If your size labels are not explicit employee headcounts, a top note reminds you to supply employee counts before building headcount filters.

What to do next

  • Founder: Add your Product category (what you sell) if you left it blank and re-run the tool so the Custom Intent Audiences section includes product search keywords alongside technographic integration keywords.
  • CEO: Check the ICP Summary to ensure your outbound and paid teams are targeting the exact industries, geographies, and champion titles where you already win.
  • CMO: Use the Advertising audience criteria and Intent criteria JSON block to configure your custom intent topics, competitor website retargeting, and account fit model.
  • CRO: Have SDRs paste the Company Search, Lead Search, and Boolean Search String into your sales prospecting tool, save the search with weekly alerts, and monitor the Buying Trigger Signals.
  • Demand generation head: Work through the four Implementation Checklist blocks, verifying a 10% sample of exported contacts for data quality before launching outreach sequences.

Why come back

Run the generator again whenever you add a new champion title, discover a new technographic signal or buying trigger from customer interviews, or expand into a new geography or industry. The tool applies the same fixed rules every time. It does not call an AI model, and this site does not keep what you enter.

Who is the Lookalike Signal Generator tool not ideal for?

  • Anyone who cannot give the inputs listed above, because the answer is built only from them.
  • Teams looking for a list of companies to target: the tools describe and score profiles from your data, but they do not find companies.

How do I use the Lookalike Signal Generator tool with an AI assistant?

Add ICP Intelligence once (see Use it in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini), then ask in plain words. Here is a prompt built from the tested example:

My role is not stated. Ask me for my role first. Use ICP Intelligence's Lookalike Signal Generator tool. ICP firmographics: industries Manufacturing, IT services, company sizes 201-500, 501-1000, 1001-5000, locations India; ICP technographics: SAP, Tally, Oracle NetSuite; champion titles: Finance Controller, Head of Accounts Payable; buying triggers: new CFO hire, audit finding, ERP migration. If this tool is unavailable, ask me to open its web page; do not invent its output. In Gemini CLI or Antigravity, use the Helix GTM Suite skills package for related guidance, without claiming to run this connector.

How does the Lookalike Signal Generator tool work?

You do not need to sign in. A web browser is enough, and the answer comes back in a second or two.

  1. Fill in the form above, or press Fill in an example.
  2. Press Run Lookalike Signal Generator.
  3. Read the result on this page, then copy it and edit it before you use it.

It applies fixed rules in the ICP Intelligence code to the inputs above and returns text. It does not call an AI model, does not look anything up, and does not store what you type. The web form and the AI assistant connector run the same tool code, so the same input gives the same answer in both.

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For developers

MCP tool name: lookalike_signal_generator. REST: POST https://icp-intelligence.gtmhelix.com/api/tools/lookalike_signal_generator with this JSON body (see How it works):

{
  "input": {
    "icp_firmographics": {
      "industries": [
        "Manufacturing",
        "IT services"
      ],
      "company_sizes": [
        "201-500",
        "501-1000",
        "1001-5000"
      ],
      "locations": [
        "India"
      ]
    },
    "icp_technographics": [
      "SAP",
      "Tally",
      "Oracle NetSuite"
    ],
    "champion_titles": [
      "Finance Controller",
      "Head of Accounts Payable"
    ],
    "buying_triggers": [
      "new CFO hire",
      "audit finding",
      "ERP migration"
    ]
  }
}

Choose your app

Run a Helix tool in your browser, then take the result to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Connectors work with supported plans in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf. The Helix GTM Suite skills package supports Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cursor and VS Code, and is available through skills.sh. Each plugin has its own installation steps, below or on its own page.

Connector setup guides · Skills package setup guide · Find the skills on skills.sh