> ## Documentation Index
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# Adjusting Your Suggestions

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Account Suggestions will never be perfect — but with a few adjustments, 80–90% of what surfaces should be accounts you'd actually want to work. This page covers how to tune your search when results are too broad, too narrow, or just slightly off.

## How to edit your search

From the **Suggestions** tab, click **Edit Search**. This opens the same Find Accounts table you used during setup.

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From here you can change any of your filters — signals, geography, industries, or employee count — and re-run the search.

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## What to adjust and when

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  <Accordion title="Getting too many low-quality suggestions">
    Your filters are too broad. Try one or more of these:

    * **Tighten your industry list** — remove industries where you rarely win deals
    * **Narrow your employee count range** — if your sweet spot is 100–500, don't include 10–50
    * **Add a signal filter** — require at least one signal to be present before an account surfaces. Set it to **Any Of** so you're not excluding too much.
    * **Tighten your geography** — if you only serve certain US states or countries, make sure that's reflected
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Getting too few suggestions or near-zero results">
    Your filters are too narrow. The most common cause is too many **Must Have** signals. Try one or more of these:

    * **Switch Must Have signals to Any Of** — this alone usually fixes a near-zero result count
    * **Remove signal filters entirely** — let firmographics do the filtering and use signals just for ranking
    * **Expand your industry list** — add adjacent industries where you've won deals before
    * **Widen your employee count range** — try going slightly above or below your typical range
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Suggestions are the right size but wrong type of company">
    Your firmographic filters need refinement. Try:

    * **Revisiting your industry list** — go to LinkedIn, look up 5–10 of your best current customers, and check which industry they've selected. Make sure all of them are in your filter.
    * **Adjusting employee count** — if the accounts feel too small or too large, tighten the range
    * **Adding a geography constraint** — if you're seeing accounts from regions you don't serve, filter them out
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Suggestions look good but signals feel irrelevant">
    Your signal list may need a refresh. Suggestions surfaces accounts that have matched your signals — if the signals aren't specific enough to your ICP, the matches won't feel relevant.

    See [How to Get Unique Signal Ideas](/how-to-get-unique-signal-ideas) for a guide on writing signals that surface actual buying moments.
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## Set realistic expectations

The goal isn't a perfect list — it's a high-signal queue where the majority of what surfaces is worth a look. Here's what good looks like in practice:

* **80–90% of suggestions** should be companies you'd consider reaching out to
* **Some will be off** — That's expected. Use the feedback tools to train the system over time.
* **Results improve as you iterate** — each adjustment compounds. A search you've tuned over a few weeks will perform significantly better than one you set up once and never touched.

<Tip>
  After any adjustment, give the search 24–48 hours before evaluating. WhiteWhale scans accounts on a daily cycle, so changes take a full pass to fully reflect in your results.
</Tip>

## Related

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  <Card title="Giving Feedback on Suggestions" icon="thumbs-up" href="/giving-feedback-on-suggestions">
    Mark suggestions as good or bad fit to help WhiteWhale improve over time.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Setting Up Account Suggestions" icon="gear" href="/setting-up-account-suggestions">
    Review the full setup guide if you want to start your search from scratch.
  </Card>

  <Card title="How to Get Unique Signal Ideas" icon="lightbulb" href="/how-to-get-unique-signal-ideas">
    Better signals lead to better suggestions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Improving Signals" icon="sliders" href="/improving-signals">
    Fix signals that are too broad or returning the wrong results.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
