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Where the data comes from

Every result Refolk returns is built from publicly available information, read live at search time. Nothing behind a login, nothing users haven’t made public.

Public GitHub activity

Profiles, repositories, and contribution history from the GitHub API, plus public archives of GitHub events for activity over time. This is how I know who actually shipped the code, not just who lists a language on a profile.

Public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records

Roles, work history, company profiles, funding rounds, and investor relationships from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records - the public company graph. This is also what powers the browsable company lists.

Live web search

The open web, searched at query time: personal sites, blog posts, conference talks, news. Useful for the signal that never makes it into a structured profile.

Freshness

Sources are read when you search, not batch-imported months earlier. Results are cached briefly so follow-up questions in the same conversation stay fast.

What is not used

  • Private repositories or private profiles.
  • Direct messages, inboxes, or anything behind a login.
  • Data that isn’t publicly available.

If you’d like your public information excluded from results, see Privacy and data removal.

Try it on the search you came here for

Stop building boolean strings. Just describe the person.

Type one sentence. I plan the search, read GitHub, public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, and the open web as it is right now, and hand back a ranked list with the reason next to every name.

  1. 01Describe them

    One plain sentence. Role, city, stack, stage, whatever matters to you.

  2. 02I read the web live

    GitHub, public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, the open web. Not a database that went stale last quarter.

  3. 03You read the shortlist

    Ranked, with the reasoning under every name. Open a profile, ask a follow-up, narrow it down.

  • No boolean, no filters, no seat to buy. One box.
  • Read at search time, so a profile updated yesterday counts today.
  • Every step visible as it runs, every name with its reason.

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