Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn

Hi Philip! This tool looks amazing!

My company specializes in selling to underserved communities in the AMEA region. Can your product help me connect with LGBT customers specifically in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia? Thanks!

PS can I get their exact addresses as well as the addresses of their family members and community leaders?

Thanks everybody for trying this out. I just looked at our logs and we're doing >2k requests per minute to OpenAI right now.

Free users only get partial search results. If there are any you want to see run to completion, reply here or email me and I'll mark it to run to completion. (The code PRODUCTHUNT is also available this week for a free month of access).

> I started building Find AI to make it easier to search for people. I initially started just having GPT review people's LinkedIn profiles and websites, but it cost thousands of dollars per search (!).

Can you help me connect to what was costing >$1k/search or is that hyperbole? Genuinely interested, not patronizing.

Cool but after waiting 2 mins for a one sentence prompt I got;

We have analyzed 1681 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 2 minutes ago and took 1 minute and 42 seconds to complete.

Trying to get a sense of whether the results really are good by testing it on a query I basically know the answers to for my niche, but it looks like to get more than 3 results I've got to join the $39/mo plan. Is that the case?

When are you going to add non-tech companies? I'm constantly scanning bios like this for lawyers, especially on what types of law they practice and what types of cases they've done in the past.

Amazing concept! I am a heavy user of such tools, and typically build my own bespoke search. I tried out Find AI across a number of different queries, and I think the general issue here is one of coverage. For example, when searching for "all people with PhD", it only analyzes 1700 candidates (for reference, around 2% of US population alone, holds a PhD).

Also - do you intend on providing an API for this tool, e.g. for enterprise clients?

The examples start out looking like recruiting, and heavy on the usual school obsession (MIT, Stanford, Harvard), with no improvement over existing simple queries that every bottom-end sourcer is doing.

Ideally, smarter tech will let us get closer to what we're really trying to do like "Find me a person, who I can hire, who will do great work at responsibilities X, Y, and Z."

So what's the AI part in this? (And I am not being snarky or condescending here, everyone assumes that's the default on internet. I have more or less missed the AI wave and just playing catchup.) Are you indexing LinkedIn API and feeding it to an algorithm? Or are you converting a natural language query to a database query using an LLM?

Confused by these numbers:

Software engineers Search completed: less than a minute ago • 1792 candidates analyzed • stopped after 53 matches found

We have analyzed 84 candidates and found 31 records matching the search criteria. The search was initiated 1 minute ago and took 30 seconds to complete.

This seems like a great idea. Organisations pay a fortune for researchers to find executives. I think you're on to something.

Now how do I pay to be at the top of the "executives I should pay a fortune for" list (-:

Reminds me of Buildspace [0].

[0] https://sage.buildspace.so/chat/i-need-help-with-my-idea

What vectordb are you using?

guessing you're just slammed with traffic right now, but it says it searched 1.4k records and it took over 2 minutes. Should be able to run it subsecond.

I'm actually trying to hire someone with a complex situation right now, but looks like the site is getting the HN hug? Will try tomorrow.

This sort of stuff is a great use case match for AI, where even a human would end up with imperfect results.

"LinkedIn-type data". What does this mean? Are you scraping LinkedIn? How fresh is the data?

Great stuff! If a query returns zero results, would it return non-zero results with the paid plan?

So can I pay you, so you set me as a top candidate for any CFO job?

Or we pay you to even be in the results?

Interesting concept. Just wondering, how does it stay updated with the latest info?

Where does the data come from?

Multiple examples are querying for "female" (which could be fine), and this prompted a thought...

What happens when a customer is searching for hiring purposes, and searches specifically for "male"? Or "young", or "unmarried", or "childless", or "straight", or "white", or "non-disabled", or "non-veteran"?

The data is out there, and is bought and sold heavily. (You mention that dog ownership is something you query over.)

What queries are you going to permit, and what not?

Even with current tools, it seems a lot of people people do this casually. Besides the many biases that people will openly admit on HN, I'm reminded of when someone told me to use one of the popular hiring sites to filter out candidates who weren't in early/mid-20s. (They spoke of it as if it was clever to use graduation year, since the site didn't let you filter by age directly.) Aaaannnndddd... the hiring sites surely have that search history information that recruiters and hiring managers for numerous employers are doing, unless they're intentionally discarding it against all data-appetite industry convention, so should be easy fodder for some energetic regulators/lawyers.

Search was "Find companies that are looking for designers with a print background."

Result was: "We have analyzed 1072 candidates and found 0 records matching the search criteria."

Why would you analyze _any_ candidates if the query was to find companies?

Why use this over LinkedIn Sales Navigator? Zoominfo/DiscoverOrg? How much time have you actually spent prospecting? If you have to ask vague questions to find your prospects, you probably don't know your ICP and need to refine your GTM strategy

After a little research I'd be frankly surprised if this product ever made back the ~6M in funding you guys have. The whole bet is predicated on the incumbents not adding the most basic of AI features

How do you opt your LinkedIn or other personal info out?

ran a couple searches and this looks good! any plans for outbound? i'm using luna ai right now

> We're sorry, but something went wrong.

> If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.

Console:

cable_stream_source_element.js:22

       GET https://usefind.ai/searches/are-unhappy-with-robotic-process-automation-tools 500 (Internal Server Error)

brilliant idea!