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Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn

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Post by philip1209 »

As a founder, finding early customers is always a challenge. I'd come up with specific guesses for people to talk to - such "VCs that used to be startup founders" or "Former lawyers who are now CTOs." Running those types of searches typically involves opening dozens of LinkedIn profiles in tabs, and looking at them one-by-one. And, it turns out that going through LinkedIn profiles one-by-one is a daily job for many people.

I started building Find AI to make it easier to search for people. I initially started just having GPT review people's LinkedIn profiles and websites, but it cost thousands of dollars per search (!). The product we're launching today can now run the same searches in seconds for pennies.

Find AI is Perplexity-style search over LinkedIn-type data. Ask vague questions, and the AI will go find and analyze people to get you matches.

The results are really impressive - here are some questions I've used:

- Find potential future founders by looking for tech company PMs who previously started a company

- Find potential chief science officers by looking for PhDs with industry experience who now work at a startup but have never founded a company before

- Find other founders who have a dog and might want my vet app product

The database currently consists of tech companies and people, but we're working to scale up to more people. The data is all first-party and retrieved from public sources.

Our first customers have been VCs, who are using Find AI to keep track of new AI companies. We just launched email alerts on searches, so you can get updates as new companies match your criteria.

Try it out and let me know what you think.

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Post by philip1209 »

evashang wrote: post #3

When are you going to add non-tech companies? I'm constantly scanning bios like this for lawyers, especially on what types of law they practice and what types of cases they've done in the past.

We're mainly focused on the tech vertical right now, but are going to expand to a second vertical soon - and law is one we've been considering.

We use public data sources, so Find AI works best in industries where people want to be found. And, lawyers spend a lot of time building websites and profiles - so I think it would work really well with our data model.

I'll follow up with you once we add lawyers!

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Post by marigoldwhale »

philip1209 wrote: post #4
evashang wrote: post #3

When are you going to add non-tech companies? I'm constantly scanning bios like this for lawyers, especially on what types of law they practice and what types of cases they've done in the past.

We're mainly focused on the tech vertical right now, but are going to expand to a second vertical soon - and law is one we've been considering. We use public data sources, so Find AI works best in industries where people want to be found. And, lawyers spend a lot of time building websites and profiles - so I think it would work really well with our data model. I'll follow up with you once we add lawyers!

What are some of the other verticals you're considering. What types of data sources are you using?

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Post by philip1209 »

marigoldwhale wrote: post #5
philip1209 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're mainly focused on the tech vertical right now, but are going to expand to a second vertical soon - and law is one we've been considering. We use public data sources, so Find AI works best in industries where people want to be found. And, lawyers spend a lot of time building websites and profiles - so I think it would work really well with our data model. I'll follow up with you once we add lawyers!

What are some of the other verticals you're considering. What types of data sources are you using?

> What are some of the other verticals you're considering?

Thinking of VCs and finance next, because lots of the user so far have been customers. Law is high on the list. Healthcare has been something are interested in, too.

> What types of data sources are you using?

It's all scraping and LLMs under the hood. Nothing secret, but there's some surprising sophistication to how it works. We have ~50k companies and ~100k people in the database right now, and are trying to 10x that over the next month.

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Post by philip1209 »

Thanks everybody for trying this out. I just looked at our logs and we're doing >2k requests per minute to OpenAI right now.

Free users only get partial search results. If there are any you want to see run to completion, reply here or email me and I'll mark it to run to completion. (The code PRODUCTHUNT is also available this week for a free month of access).

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