Every sourced prospect has an experience timeline: each public role Chosen could assemble, in order, with dates. Above it sits a panel of signals Chosen reads off that history automatically — "promoted from IC to manager in two years", "switched industries three times". Together they're a fast sanity check before you spend personalization effort on someone.
What it is
When Chosen surfaces a prospect from a Mission, it assembles their work history from public profiles. The Experience section of the prospect drawer renders that history as a timeline — company, title, location, and dates for each role, current job marked. It's the same source data behind the prospect's headline, shown in full instead of summarized.
The point of seeing it laid out: a one-line headline ("Senior Engineer at Stripe") hides the things that decide whether outreach is worth sending. The timeline shows them.
Read the auto-surfaced signals
Chosen reads the timeline and surfaces patterns on its own, in the Key insights panel of the drawer. Signals come in three flavors:
- Positive — something that supports the fit. "Steady three-year tenures", "deep specialization in one domain".
- Caution — something worth a closer look before you commit. "Three roles in two years", "a recent industry switch".
- Negative — something that likely works against the fit for this role.
A caution signal is not a rejection. It's Chosen pointing at the part of the history you'd want to have read anyway — so you read it now, before drafting, instead of after a reply.
Use it as a pre-outreach check
Open the timeline before you write the draft, not after. A minute here decides whether the next ten are worth spending.
- Open the prospect and scroll to Experience.
- Check the story holds up — does the work history actually match the role you're sourcing for, or just the current job title?
- Read the Key insights signals. A caution flag is a prompt to look closer, not a reason to skip.
- Look at tenure and trajectory. Someone four months into a new job is a different outreach than someone three years in and visibly restless.
- If it holds up, draft your outreach — and use what you saw to make it specific.
When it gets it wrong
The timeline is assembled from public profiles, so it inherits their gaps. A role the prospect never posted publicly won't appear. Dates can be approximate, and a contract or part-time stint can read like a full-time job. Signals are pattern-matching on imperfect data — "job hopper" might just be a string of acquisitions, and "industry switcher" might be one company that's hard to categorize.
Treat the timeline as a strong lead, not a verified CV. It's accurate enough to catch the prospects who clearly don't fit and to point you at the detail worth mentioning — which is most of the value, before a single email goes out. When a prospect is worth pursuing, the next step is drafting outreach.