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.