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A sentence in. The agent reads the open web, live.

Query
Agent
    Shortlist
    • Results will appear here as the agent finds them.

    How it works

    One sentence in. A shortlist out.

    1. 01Describe who you're after

      Plain English, no filters or booleans. "Staff backend engineers in NYC who shipped Rust in production" is a complete query.

      Try that exact search

    2. 02I read the open web, live

      I plan the search, then read public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, GitHub, and the sources they link to - at search time, not from a stale export. You watch every step as it runs.

    3. 03Act on a ranked shortlist

      Every result comes with the reasoning behind it. From there I draft outreach in each person's language, put them on a role's pipeline, or you export the list to wherever you work.

      See real shared results

    The full pipeline, step by step

    Then run the hire

    A pipeline for every role, set up before you ask.

    Put the shortlist on a role's board in one click, clip more people from LinkedIn, and move them to hired by dragging or by saying so. Free with your account.

    See the pipelineFor agencies

    Pipeline

    Senior Backend Engineer

    + Add candidate
    Move Lena to hired and note she nailed the incident review

    Sourced3

    Priya Raman

    Staff Engineer

    San Francisco1d

    Marcus Lee

    Senior Backend Engineer

    New York2d

    Ana Souza

    Platform Engineer

    Remotetoday

    Interview3

    Tom Becker

    Software Engineer

    Toronto4d

    Lena Fischer

    Senior SRE

    Berlin16d

    Omar Haddad

    Tech Lead

    Amsterdam2d
    People shown are examples.

    Trusted by

    Individual recruiters, investors, and founders.

    The ones who source for themselves - from teams like these.

    • Ramp
    • Mercury
    • Linear
    • Retool
    • Vanta
    • Deel
    • Hunt Club
    • Riviera Partners
    • Uncork Capital
    • Craft Ventures
    • Boldstart
    • Amplify Partners
    • Base10
    • Initialized
    Then write the line

    Reach each one, in their language, with the line that earned them in.

    Founding Rust Engineer · Cinder Pay
    San Francisco · on-site 3 days · Series A · 14 people · $9M raised
    Drafting outreach
    Shortlist
    • Sarah K.
      Sarah K.·San Francisco

      maintains tikv/raft-rs · 314 commits in last year

      drafting
    • Mike T.
      Mike T.·San Francisco

      ex-Stripe · founding eng at Quantum Forge

      queued
    • Emily H.
      Emily H.·New York

      RustConf ’24 · "async runtimes that don’t lie"

      queued
    • Chris P.
      Chris P.·San Francisco

      ex-Apple · founding eng at Foundry (18 ppl)

      queued
    Outreach draft
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    ToSarah K.Sarah K.· sarah@<inferred>
    Subject

    Generating from sources
    Send email

    You stay in the loop on every send.

    API and MCP server

    Put people search in your own stack.

    Everything the interface does is one HTTP call away, and the same searches drop into Claude, Cursor, or VS Code as tools your assistant can call mid-conversation. One key, the same credits, no separate plan.

    Call it from your code

    A sentence in for a ranked shortlist with the reasoning attached, or an exact filter set for the same page every time.

    curl https://www.refolk.ai/api/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REFOLK_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "Staff backend engineers in NYC who shipped Rust in production"}'

    Read the API reference

    Or add it to your assistant

    One URL, one header, 12 tools. Then ask for a shortlist in the chat you are already in.

    claude mcp add --transport http refolk https://www.refolk.ai/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer rfk_live_your_key_here"

    Set up the MCP server

    A search in plain English costs 100 credits, and nothing at all when it finds nobody; a filtered search costs 10. A new account starts with 500 free credits, so the first calls are on me.

    Shared searches

    See what others are looking for.

    Real prompts, real results. Each page is a snapshot of a search someone ran and decided to share.

    See all shared searches →

    For developers

    The same search, from your own code.

    Everything the interface does is an endpoint: a sentence in, a ranked shortlist with the evidence out, or an exact filter set in and a deterministic page out. Point an assistant at /api/mcp and it can do the same thing mid-conversation.

    POST /api/v1/searchcurl
    curl https://www.refolk.ai/api/v1/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REFOLK_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"query": "Staff Rust engineers in NYC"}'

    No SDK to install. Read the API documentation.

    From the blog

    Playbooks and field notes.

    Headhunting, sourcing, and prospecting - written for people who actually have to do it.

    All posts →

    Questions

    The short version.

    What is Refolk?

    Refolk is an AI agent for headhunting and prospecting. Describe who you're looking for in plain English and I return a ranked shortlist of people, companies, or repositories, with the reasoning behind each pick.

    What can I search for?

    People - engineers, founders, operators, investors. Companies - by industry, stage, geography, or investor. GitHub repositories and the maintainers behind them. If it's on the open web, I can probably find it.

    Who is it for?

    Anyone whose job starts with finding a specific person or company. Headhunting and sourcing, sales and partnership prospecting, investor deal flow, market and competitor research. It is the same search either way: describe who you want, read the shortlist, see why each name is on it.

    Where does the data come from?

    Public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, GitHub, and the open web - read live at search time, not from a stale database export.

    What does it cost?

    You can start for nothing: 500 free credits, no card required, and a balance that refills every month for as long as your account is open. Paid plans raise that monthly number when the free one stops being enough.

    Do I need a credit card?

    No. Signing in with your email is enough. Credits are granted to your account directly.

    Is there an API?

    Yes, and an MCP server with it. The same two searches run from your own code over one HTTP endpoint and one key, or from inside Claude, Cursor, or VS Code as tools your assistant can call mid-conversation. Same account, same credits, no separate API plan.

    How is this different from LinkedIn or GitHub search?

    Those tools need exact filters and keywords. I take one sentence, plan the search myself, read sources live, cross-reference them, and hand back a ranked shortlist instead of ten pages of maybes.

    Can I use it from my own code?

    Yes. Both searches are a keyed HTTP API, and there is an MCP server so Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or anything else that speaks the protocol can run them mid-conversation. Same account, same credits, documented in full at /developers.

    More detail on the pricing page, and in the API documentation.

    Find anyone. Just ask.

    Your first searches are on me - 500 free credits, no card required.

    Start a search