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The Rare MPC Finder

The MPC everyone markets is the one already open to work. The one clients pay for isn't looking.

Claude· Pricing actuary who writes Python, Chicago6 angles
Titles nobody puts in an ad12 searches14 people
Left the big carriers10 searches11 people
Pricing plus Python words9 searches9 people
Industries next door9 searches8 people
Towns within a commute8 searches7 people
The credential in their name6 searches6 people
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of 38 people showed up in 3 or more angles. Those are the MPCs.

Mock example · people and companies are made up
01 · Free · the judgement

The 4 signals of a real MPC

None of these is a filter. Each is a call you make by reading the profile. That's why the people who have them are rarely pitched.

02 · Free · prompt 1 of 3

Write the MPC profile first

Start from what your clients keep asking for, not from one job order. Claude turns that into the profile it will hunt for.

mpc/1-profile.txt
I run an agency desk in [market, e.g. P&C insurance] around [city].
My clients keep asking for: [what they ask for in their own words].
The roles we placed in the last year: [3 to 5 titles].

I want to market one candidate to many of these clients without a job order.
Don't search yet. Write the MPC profile:

1. The rare mix: 2 skills that are each common but rarely in one person. Say why clients pay more for both.
2. The seat: which titles and levels this person holds today, and how many years in seat makes someone ready to move.
3. The stall: what's happening at a company that makes good people restless (a merger, a new owner, a leader who left, a reorg, layoffs nearby). Say how I'd spot each one from public news.
4. The hidden part: why this person isn't on job boards, and what they'd write on their profile instead.
5. Wrong matches: people who look like this profile but aren't, and the words that give them away.
6. The pitch line: one sentence a hiring manager would want to read about this person.

Keep it to one page. Ask me nothing. Where you're unsure, say what you assumed.
03 · Free · prompt 2 of 3

Turn the profile into search angles

A rare person describes themselves in one of many ways. Each angle catches people the others miss. The overlap between angles is where the MPCs are.

mpc/2-angles.txt
From the MPC profile, write a search plan with 6 angles:

1. Titles nobody puts in an ad: what people in this seat actually call themselves, including the smaller-company and bigger-company version.
2. Past employers: the companies known for this work. Search people who were there before and are somewhere else now.
3. The skill mix: words only someone with both skills writes on a profile. Pair them, 2 at a time.
4. Towns within a commute: the nearby cities and suburbs, not just the big city name.
5. Industries next door: where the same work happens under another name.
6. The credential: letters people put in their name or headline.

For each angle give at least 6 wordings and say what wrong match to exclude.
Then run every angle as its own search. Label each person with the angles that found them.
Never invent a person, a company or a profile line.

Running 6 angles by hand takes a day. Inside Claude, with The Cognitive connected, it runs while you get coffee. 100 people free.

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04 · Run it

Run all 6 angles in Claude

Connect The Cognitive to Claude once. Then Claude runs the plan as live people searches and remembers which angle found whom.

  1. Create a free account: 7 days, 100 credits, no card.
  2. Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste https://app.thecognitive.io/mcp and sign in.
  3. Paste prompt 1, then prompt 2, then: "Run every angle. Search deeper on the angles that find new people. Skip anyone already shown."
What it costs

The profile and the plan are Claude's thinking: free. You pay 1 credit per person shown, and nothing when a search finds nobody. Searching deeper charges only for the new people. Reopening a search you already ran is free. A personal email is 4 credits, only for the MPCs you pick. 38 people across 6 angles costs about 38 credits.

MPC hunt: pricing + Python Example
Run the 6 angles for the profile. P&C pricing actuaries who write Python, Chicago area. Then show me who came up in 3 or more.

Running 6 angles, 54 wordings. Excluding life and health actuaries and retail pricing everywhere.

Searched titles, skill mix, credentials23 shown · 23 credits
Actuarial Analyst, Ratemaking · Pricing Data Scientist · "GLM" + "Python" · ACAS, FCAS
Searched deeper past employers, next door, nearby towns15 new · 15 credits
Skipped everyone already shown

38 people. 5 came up in 3 or more angles:

HHannah K. · Actuarial Analyst, Ratemaking · Lakeshore Mutual5 ANGLES"Rebuilt our homeowners rating model in Python. ACAS." 4 years in seat.
PPriya S. · Pricing Data Scientist · Northgate Re4 ANGLESPast: Pricing Actuary at a big carrier. "Python, GLMs, treaty pricing."
MMarcus T. · Senior Analyst, Pricing · Prairie Auto3 ANGLES"Moved auto rate indications from Excel to Python." 3 years in seat.

Prairie Auto announced a merger in the spring. Want the scorecard for all 5?

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Mock example · people and companies are made up

05 · Free · the overlap trick

Who shows up in 3 or more angles

One angle finds people who match a word. Three angles find people who match the whole profile: the title, the past, the skill mix. Rank by how many angles found them, then read only the top rows.

PersonTitlesPast employerSkill mixNext doorNearby townCredentialAngles
Hannah K.Actuarial Analyst · Lakeshore Mutual5
Priya S.Pricing Data Scientist · Northgate Re4
Daniel O.Actuary · Brightline (insurtech)4
Marcus T.Senior Analyst, Pricing · Prairie Auto3
Lena V.Pricing Actuary · Fox River Mutual3
Sam R.Data Scientist · retail bank2
Jo P.Pricing Analyst · e-commerce1

Mock example · people and companies are made up. 31 more people found by 1 or 2 angles not shown.

mpc/overlap.txt
Make one table of everyone the searches found.
Columns: name, title, company, one column per angle (yes or no), number of angles.
Count each person once. Sort by number of angles, highest first.
Drop anyone who matches a wrong-match word from the profile.
Show me only people found by 3 or more angles. Under each, quote the one profile line that best shows the rare mix.
06 · Free · prompt 3 of 3

The MPC scorecard

Before you pitch anyone, Claude scores them on the 4 signals with a reason for each. Weak reasons mean you don't pitch. Strong ones become your first line to the hiring manager.

mpc/3-scorecard.txt
Score each person found by 3 or more angles.

For each of the 4 signals give Strong, Maybe or No, and the reason in one line:
1. Rare mix: quote the profile line that shows both skills.
2. Years in seat: count from their dates. 3 to 4 years is Strong.
3. Company stall: look up public news about their employer from the last 12 months (merger, new owner, leader left, reorg, layoffs). Name the source. No news is Maybe, not No.
4. Not on job boards: no "open to work", no recent job-hunt posts.

Then:
- MPC: yes if 3 or 4 signals are Strong.
- Pitch line: one sentence about what they built, without their name or employer.
- 5 kinds of companies that would pay most for this person, and why.

Never guess a fact. If you can't find it, say so.
Hannah K.Actuarial Analyst, RatemakingMPC · 4 of 4
Rare mixStrong. "Rebuilt our homeowners rating model in Python. ACAS."
Years in seatStrong. 4 years, no promotion listed.
Company stallStrong. New CEO and a pricing reorg announced in the spring (company news page).
Not on job boardsStrong. No open-to-work, last post is about a model release.
Pitch lineACAS pricing actuary who moved a whole homeowners rating model from spreadsheets to Python, Chicago based.

Mock example · people and companies are made up

The offer

Bring your desk. Leave with your first 5 MPCs.

  1. Start the free trial7 days, 100 people included
  2. Book 30 minutesTell us what your clients keep asking for
  3. We run the 6 angles with you, liveThe profile, the overlap, the scorecards

Market the candidates nobody else has found.

Start free, connect Claude, paste prompt 1. 100 credits covers about 100 people found.

Want it run on your own desk? Book 30 minutes and we'll find your first MPCs together. sparsh@thecognitive.io · Sparsh, founder