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Every term on the hunt form, in plain English. Tap the ? next to any term on the site for the same definition in place.

Hunt

One run of Alma against a buyer definition you set. Output: a ranked shortlist with evidence and a recommended next action for each lead.

Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)

The kind of company that buys from you and stays. Industry, size, channels, stack, and the problem you solve — written down once so Alma can hunt against it.

Verified

A claim backed by a retained source with a capture date. It can be checked and cited independently of the model that found it.

Inferred

A reasonable judgement drawn from signals and context — useful for ranking and narrative, but not a fact until a source confirms it.

Unknown

The evidence is not there. Alma says so plainly rather than inventing a claim or inflating a score.

ICP Fit

How closely the account matches your ideal customer profile. Scored 0–100.

Commercial Fit

Budget, revenue and deal-size alignment with what you sell.

Need

Evidence the prospect has the problem you solve, right now.

Timing

Intent and timing signals — funding, hiring, expansion, churn, RFPs. The dimension most lead tools skip and the one that decides whether a sales hour is worth spending.

Buyer Access

A reachable, named buyer with the right title and channel.

Confidence

Strength of verifiable evidence behind every claim in the record.

Minimum score

The 0–100 floor a lead must clear to be delivered. Below it, Alma parks the account instead of padding your list.

Buying window

How soon the account has to be able to act. Timing signals older than this window don't count toward the score.

Deal size fit

The annual contract value you sell at. Accounts that can't plausibly spend this are filtered before premium research.

Evidence standard

Verified preferred: important claims need a retained source. Balanced: inferred claims allowed for ranking but marked as such.

Research depth

How much premium research each surviving account gets. Balanced is the default; Deep is for shortlists you will actually work this quarter.

AOV

Average order value — what a customer spends per transaction on a given channel.

Purchase frequency

How many times a year a customer buys on a given channel.

Cohort

The peer group a channel is measured against: category × price tier × channel type. A gap only means something against the right cohort.

Directness

Whether the company owns the end-customer relationship and transaction data on that channel: direct, partial, or indirect.

Weak dial

Whichever of AOV or purchase frequency sits furthest below its cohort baseline — and therefore which vendor category the lead is routed to.

Pack

A group of benchmarked leads that share a cohort and a weak dial, sold together so every lead in it carries the same pitch.

Managed pilot service

Alma Hunter is currently delivered as a managed pilot. You set the criteria and approve the budget; Alma runs the hunt; Scott reviews early deliveries before they reach you. Template audiences are confirmed for availability during setup.