What is Refolk?
Refolk is an AI sourcing agent: a people search engine you talk to in plain English. Describe who you’re looking for - “staff backend engineers in NYC who shipped Rust in production” - and I return a ranked shortlist of real people, companies, or repositories, with the reasoning behind each pick.
What I can find
- People. Engineers, founders, operators, investors - anyone with a public footprint on GitHub, LinkedIn, or the open web.
- Companies. By industry, funding stage, geography, or investor - and any combination of those.
- Repositories. GitHub projects and the maintainers behind them.
How it differs from filter-based search
LinkedIn and GitHub search need exact filters and keywords, and hand back pages of partial matches to sift through. Refolk takes one sentence, plans the search itself, reads sources live, cross-references them, and returns a shortlist instead of ten pages of maybes. Every result carries the evidence for why it matched, so you can trust or discard it in seconds.
Details in How search works.
Who it’s for
- Recruiters and sourcers building candidate pipelines.
- Founders doing founder-led recruiting.
- Investors mapping a market or finding founders early.
- DevRel and community teams finding the maintainers who matter.
The basics
- Sign in with Google, GitHub, or email. No credit card required.
- Free while Refolk is in early access - see Credits and pricing.
- Results draw only on publicly available information - see Where the data comes from.
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.
01Describe them
One plain sentence. Role, city, stack, stage, whatever matters to you.
02I read the web live
GitHub, public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, the open web. Not a database that went stale last quarter.
03You read the shortlist
Ranked, with the reasoning under every name. Open a profile, ask a follow-up, narrow it down.
- Staff backend engineers in NYC who shipped Rust in production
- Series A fintechs in SF under 50 people, growing headcount this year
- Maintainers of fast-growing Rust web frameworks on GitHub
- 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.
500 free credits on sign-up. No card, no demo call. See real searches.