How Skylight Reduced Their Sourcing Time by 90%

A Growing Team, and Little Time to Source

Skylight is a bootstrapped consumer technology company building products that help families stay connected. In 2024, they grew from 30 to 60 employees. 

By early 2025, they had already reached 80, and planned to hit 110-120 by year-end.

Managing that kind of growth with a small team wasn’t easy. Justin Wade, Head of Talent, was juggling 16 open roles while reviewing hundreds of inbound applications.

“You're starting to go to the administrative task of processing candidates... and so you are missing the opportunity to identify the right candidates who could potentially be a fit who are not on the market.”

There was no time left to find great outbound candidates — the ones who weren’t actively applying but could be the perfect fit.

“For a while there was zero outbound being done. Just due to timing and no availability.”

Skylight needed a way to bring outbound sourcing back, without adding more recruiters or working longer hours.

That’s when Justin turned to Juicebox to solve the problem. 

Finding a New Way to Source with Juicebox

He started using autonomous Juicebox Agents to automate the candidate search process.

Instead of manually sourcing every day, the Agents kept searches running in the background — even while Justin was focused on interviews and offers.

“One of the things I found with the agents is it actually reduces that burden —that stress of only being able to get into sourcing once a week or other week, maybe once a month sometimes.”

Not only did the time-saving make a difference, but also the quality of talent:

“I'm actually setting weekly time now to do more strategic outbound just because we are getting a better quality of candidates.”

Juicebox Agents also allowed Justin to combine multiple parts of the hiring workflow — sourcing, messaging, and research — into one simple system.

“With Juicebox, I've been able to do now is actually combine sourcing, outreach, and research.”

Stronger Candidates, Faster Hiring

After rolling out Juicebox across their team, outbound sourcing didn’t just restart — it became a major part of the pipeline. 

Outbound now makes up 50% of all candidates sourced at Skylight.

“Now our outbound has increased to 50%, which was a requirement I had.”

And the quality of outbound candidates often surpassed inbound.

“I just went through the first 50 inbound applicants, and unfortunately not a single one was a fit. I already knew the hire was going to come from outbound.”

Quick Adoption Across The Team

Recruiters quickly picked up Juicebox once they saw how much easier and faster sourcing became.

“Once they've done it once or twice and had a couple of successes, they [our recruiters] do it on their own.”

Hiring managers also saw the impact right away. 

During one search, an executive referred a candidate, but Juicebox had already found and messaged that person before the referral even happened.

“One of the executives actually had a referral that came in. We happened to already message that person from within Juicebox. I felt pretty vindicated — like, yes, we are on top of this.”

Beyond moving faster, Juicebox helped hiring managers set more realistic expectations by showing real-time market data.

Turning Sourcing into a Competitive Advantage

With Juicebox, Skylight transformed how they sourced and hired talent without needing a bigger team.

• Sourcing time was cut by 90%

• Outbound strategy became 50% of their total talent pipeline

• Quality improved, with outbound candidates often stronger than inbound

• Recruiters and hiring managers fully adopted Juicebox in their workflows

Juicebox helped Skylight turn outbound sourcing from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage — giving them the speed, consistency, and talent quality they needed to scale.