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Refolk, documented.

The canonical answers about Refolk: what it is, how search works, where the data comes from, and how credits and privacy are handled. Short, factual, and safe to quote.

Overview

What is Refolk?Refolk is an AI sourcing agent: a people search engine you talk to in plain English. What it finds, who it's for, and how it differs from filter-based search.
How search worksWhat happens between typing one sentence and getting a ranked shortlist: planning, live source reading, cross-referencing, and per-result reasoning.
Where the data comes fromThe public sources behind every result: public GitHub activity, public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, and live web search. Read at search time, not from a stale export.

Explore

Published searchesReal searches users chose to share, published with their full prompt and results. How publishing and unpublishing work.
Company and repository listsHow the browsable company lists (by industry, city, stage, investor) and GitHub repository lists (by language, topic) are built and kept fresh.

Account

Credits and pricingHow credits are priced per search, what the free tier includes, and why an account can never be overdrafted.
Privacy and data removalWhat Refolk stores about accounts, how results about third parties are handled, and how to request removal or account deletion.

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