Describe the role. Get the candidates.
Candidate sourcing
Find the right candidates across the open web.
Search every source in plain language - by skill, industry, company, location, even who's open to work. Profiles come back in seconds, ranked and scored against your brief, and enriched with verified contacts.
AI candidate sourcing is finding qualified candidates from a natural-language description of a role, rather than from hand-built Boolean search strings - including passive candidates who aren't actively job-hunting.
Instalent reads your requirements the way a colleague would and searches across the open web, public code on GitHub and professional-network signals to build a list of people who match. It surfaces active and passive candidates, deduplicates them into a single profile per person, and hands each one straight into enrichment and scoring - so sourcing, qualifying and reaching out happen in one place instead of three tools.
What you get
A plain-English brief in, a real shortlist out.
Search in plain English
Write the role the way you'd brief a colleague - seniority, skills, industry, location - and Instalent turns it into a search. No Boolean operators, no quoting, no maintaining a string that breaks the moment requirements shift.
Reach passive candidates
Most of the best-fit people aren't on a job board. Instalent surfaces passive candidates from public signals across the web, so your pipeline isn't limited to whoever happens to be applying this week.
Across the open web and GitHub
Instalent searches the open web, public code and contributions on GitHub, and professional-network signals - so an engineer's real work and a candidate's public footprint count, not just a résumé.
One clean profile per person
Results are deduplicated into a single profile per candidate, with the sources stitched together, so you review people once instead of untangling three near-identical hits.
Straight into enrichment and scoring
Every result flows into verified contact enrichment and AI fit scoring without an export. Find someone, reveal how to reach them, and see how they score against your criteria in the same view.
Client search too
The same natural-language search finds companies, not just candidates - so you can source target accounts and the decision-makers inside them for business development.
How it works
From a description to a deduplicated shortlist.
- 01
Describe who you're looking for
Write the role in plain English - the must-haves, the nice-to-haves, the location and seniority. No search-string syntax to learn.
- 02
Instalent searches broadly
It queries the open web, GitHub and professional-network signals in parallel and streams matching candidates back as they're found, active and passive alike.
- 03
Review a deduplicated shortlist
Candidates arrive as one clean profile each, ready to enrich and score - no duplicate hits to reconcile.
- 04
Enrich, score and reach out
Reveal verified contact details, score fit against your criteria, and move straight into multichannel outreach from the same place.
Why it matters
More of the market, less of the busywork.
- Stop hand-writing and debugging Boolean strings that break every time the brief changes.
- Reach passive candidates your competitors never see because they only search job boards.
- Judge engineers on public code and real contributions, not just a keyword-stuffed résumé.
- Skip the tab-hopping - sourcing, enrichment, scoring and outreach live in one workspace.
- Source client companies with the same search, so business development runs on the same engine.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to write Boolean search strings?
No. You describe the role in plain English and Instalent handles the search. There are no operators, quotes or field syntax to learn or maintain.
Can it find passive candidates?
Yes. Instalent surfaces passive candidates from public signals across the web, GitHub and professional networks - not just people who are actively applying.
Where does Instalent search?
Across the open web, public code and contributions on GitHub, and professional-network signals, then deduplicates everything into one profile per person.
Can I search for companies, not just candidates?
Yes. The same natural-language search finds target companies and the decision-makers inside them, which is useful for recruitment business development.
What happens after I find someone?
Results flow straight into verified contact enrichment, AI fit scoring and multichannel outreach - no exports between tools.
Can I try it for free?
Yes - start with a 7-day free trial and run sourcing, enrichment, scoring and outreach end to end.
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Candidate analysis & scoring
Score every candidate you find against your criteria, with evidence and a breakdown.
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Contact enrichment
Turn a matched profile into a verified email and phone number in the same flow.
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How to find passive candidates
The playbook for reaching the people who aren't applying - and why it works.
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