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# How Account Suggestions Work
> WhiteWhale finds net-new accounts that match your ICP and already have active buying signals. Discover companies you have never heard of without manual prospecting.
**Account Suggestions is WhiteWhale's prospecting engine.** Instead of uploading a list, you describe your ICP — industry, geography, company size, and signals — and WhiteWhale finds accounts that match and already have signal activity. It runs continuously and surfaces new accounts as they become relevant.
## How to get to Suggestions
There are two ways to reach the Suggestions setup:
* Go to the **Suggestions** tab in the left nav and click **Turn On** or **Edit Search**
* Go to **Add Accounts** and click **Find Accounts**
Both take you to the same setup screen.
## Setting up your search
Select any signals you want accounts to have matched. You can mark signals as **Must Have** or **Exclude** — but use this sparingly.
The more signals you mark as Must Have, the narrower your search becomes. Requiring five signals simultaneously means an account would need to hit all five at once — which almost never happens. If you are going to require signals, which is not needed, keep this as an **OR** search unless you have a very specific reason to narrow it down.
Fill in the standard firmographic filters:
* **Geography** — countries or US states
* **Industry** — maps to LinkedIn's industry categories. If you're not sure what to call an industry, look up a known good-fit customer on LinkedIn and use whatever industry is listed on their profile.
* **Employee count** — set a range that matches your ICP sweet spot
WhiteWhale will show you:
* How many potential companies match your criteria
* How many have already been scanned
* How many are currently active in your account list
* How many remain to be scanned
If the estimate looks right, proceed. If it's too narrow or too broad, adjust your filters before running.
WhiteWhale will start scanning. Results typically begin appearing within 1–2 hours.
## Reviewing and accepting suggestions
Suggested accounts appear in the **Suggestions** tab highlighted in orange. For each one you'll see:
* Which signals it matched
* The date the signals were found
* A preview of the company information
To unlock the full signal data and add the account to your list, click **Activate**. Once added, the account appears in **All Accounts** or **My Accounts** depending on who it's assigned to — and that team member will receive an alert.
You don't have to accept every suggestion. Browse them, look at which signals fired, and add the ones that look like real opportunities. The rest stay in your Suggestions queue.
## Related
Step-by-step guide to configuring your first Suggestions search.
Change your ICP filters or signal requirements after your search is running.
Tell WhiteWhale when a suggestion is a good or bad fit to improve future results.
Assign accepted accounts to team members.