Hiring engineers at volume, with outreach dying before it reached the inbox.
Anonymized production account · data through 12 August 2026 · How Mira runs the search
In cold outreach, deliverability is the advantage.
Deliverability is infrastructure: warmed sending pools, per-account rate limits, health monitoring. Building that yourself usually takes months.
Solve getting seen first. Personalization only matters after that. A 62.5 percent open rate is what makes a 9.2 percent reply rate possible.
Contacted is the denominator for every percentage, and a person who appears under several roles is counted once.
| Stage | Count | Of contacted | Step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contacted | 1,299 | 100% | - |
| Opened | 812 | 62.5% | 62.5% |
| Replied | 119 | 9.2% | 14.7% |
| Interested | 98 | 7.5% | 82.4% |
| Resume | 45 | 3.5% | 45.9% |
Interview booking was not used by this account inside the window. The funnel stops at resume. All 28 confirmed interviews on the customers page belong to the largest account.
812 of 1,299. Pixel-tracked; treat it as a ceiling, not a fact about reading.
Engineering candidates whose inboxes vary wildly in reachability.
119 people replied.
45.9 percent of interested people sent a resume.
These are real intervals in this account, measured from the first outreach wave. They are not a 24-hour delivery claim, and they are not a fill-time claim.
First touch plus automatic follow-ups, each written for that person, with no template blast. The hour count below is the only estimate on this page: it assumes 3 minutes to research and write one email by hand.
3,791 × 3 min = 190 hours ≈ 24 working days. Substitute your own minutes-per-email and recompute.
No. Open rate uses a tracking pixel. Prefetch can fire it without a human reading the mail. Use reply, interest, and resume to decide. Those are 9.2 percent, 7.5 percent, and 45 resumes on this account.
No. That account ran many functions for seven months. This one hired engineers over two months. Both are anonymized company accounts. Neither is a named logo.
Same scale as the hub chart, with this account marked. The 55-role account is the largest by volume and the lowest by reply rate, and nothing in the set is dropped.
One hiring owner running dozens of cross-functional roles, capped by manual outreach.
Read the funnel →Hiring product managers, the hardest group to reach. Strong PMs rarely look.
Read the funnel →No recruiter on staff. Hiring managers had no time to source, reach out, or chase resumes.
Read the funnel →A scarce hybrid role with almost no inbound, needing a play they could run again.
Read the funnel →This account is one extract, not a guarantee that your role will match it. The trial is free for 14 days, with 3 New Roles and 12 Credits, and no card.