Search a subject, not a job title
Type the subject in your own words. We match the title and abstract of every indexed paper, so you find the people doing the work you need, not the ones who wrote the right keyword on a profile.
The AI researcher index
Find the best AI researchers, and reach them first.
We read the papers and the public signals that say when a PhD ends. You see who does the best work on your subject, and you hear months ahead when they are about to be free, while they are still reachable.
The index and the alerts
Find them yourself
Search any subject in your own words, see who does the best work on it, and get an alert before anyone else knows they are about to be free.
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We run the search
We find, approach and shortlist the best AI researchers for you, from the same index. You pay only when one of them joins your company.
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220,000 papers
arXiv, OpenAlex, ORCID, DBLP
430,000 researchers
Indexed by subject and by work
Months of notice
Before a defence, not after
First message
Sent while they are still reachable
Why it works
Timing is most of the job.
The researchers worth hiring are reachable for a short window: the months around finishing a PhD, wrapping up a project, or watching a lab reorganise around them. Miss it and they are inside a frontier lab on a package you cannot match. The index exists to tell you when that window opens, months before it does.
See the work, then the person
Each profile leads with what they published, where, and with whom. You judge the work first, which is also what makes the first message worth answering.
Hear it before the market does
An alert lands when a new researcher appears on your subject, and again when their date firms up. That is the moment to write, and it comes months before a job board would tell you anything.
In practice
From a subject to a first message.
Four steps, and the fourth is the one that gets you the hire. Every date on a profile carries the source we read it from, so you know what you are acting on.
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Say what you need
The subject in your own words, the way you would describe the role to a colleague. No preset categories to choose from.
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See who does the work
The people whose published work is closest to it, with what they wrote, where, and with whom.
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Get the date
When they finish and come on the market, months ahead, and where that date comes from.
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Write first
An alert tells you when a date firms up. You reach them about their work, before a lab does and before a package you cannot match.
The people you want were not looking, and nobody had written to them yet. Arriving before that changes is the job.
Founding Hires, AI research and engineering search
The engineering half
Papers name researchers. Repositories name engineers.
A paper tells you who solved the problem. It seldom names whoever shipped the training loop, the inference server or the evaluation harness. Those people leave their trace in commits instead. We built a second tool for them: StarHunt, GitHub sourcing for AI engineers.
It reads GitHub in real time and filters on stack, recent activity and the kind of AI work people commit, so you reach engineers no keyword search on a job board will ever surface. Same principle as the index, applied to code instead of papers, and open to you directly.
Done for you
Or we run the search for you.
Same index, our hands. We find the people, approach them about their work, and hand you a short list with our reasoning attached. You pay only when one of them joins your company.