A people research agent
Find the exact people you're looking for.
Describe a hire, a speaker, an expert, or an investor. PeopleCite sends parallel research agents across the live web and returns a scored, source-cited slate you can review and export — in about 15 minutes.
Paid plans from $49/mo · cancel anytime, self-serve.
Staff Engineer, Payments Platform · Series C fintech
Led the ledger rewrite that took card volume from 2M to 80M transactions a month through a Series B, and spoke about the migration at QCon 2025. Exactly the scaled-payments-through-hypergrowth profile in the brief.
2025 conference bio and talk place her in Austin, TX; the company engineering blog confirms the payments-platform role.
Payments Infrastructure Lead · Series B commerce startup
Senior Staff Engineer, Billing & Ledger
Staff SWE, Payment Risk & Auth
Backend Engineer, Ledger Systems
Run complete · 5 candidates · 214 sources · ~15 min · ready to export
Sample replay with anonymized data. A real run streams live like this and takes about 15 minutes.
How it works
No boolean strings, no filters. Describe the people — role, field, constraints, dealbreakers.
A supervisor agent fans out parallel researchers across the live web. You see every step: what's searched, what's read, who's considered.
- Payments teams at Series B–C fintechs41 sources
- Speakers at payments & infra conferences33 sources
- Open-source ledger and billing tooling38 sources
Every candidate arrives scored and ranked, with a written rationale, verification status, and the sources behind them. Export to Excel or CSV in one click.
Not a mystery score. Receipts.
Databases give you a list. PeopleCite gives you an argument: why this person fits, what they've published, where they've been covered — with links you can check yourself.
And if we can't verify someone, we flag them instead of guessing.
Staff Engineer, Payments Platform · Series C fintech
Led the ledger rewrite that took card volume from 2M to 80M transactions a month through a Series B, and spoke about the migration at QCon 2025. Exactly the scaled-payments-through-hypergrowth profile in the brief.
2025 conference bio and talk place her in Austin, TX; the company engineering blog confirms the payments-platform role.
Talk covered in a payments-engineering newsletter, Jan 2026.
Fresh research, not a stale database
Databases go stale the day they're built, and everyone searches the same one. PeopleCite researches the open web at the moment you ask — the person who published last week is already in your slate.
For people whose job is finding people
Recruiters & sourcers
“Staff payments engineers, Series B–C experience”
A ranked slate with evidence — not 400 keyword matches.
VCs & BD
“Technical founders building in industrial automation”
Coverage of people who aren't on anyone's list yet.
Events, media & research
“Climate scientists who can hold a stage”
Speakers and sources with their press footprint attached.
Your search keeps running after you close the tab
Standing searches re-run on a schedule and surface new people as they appear.
Bring your own list and check it against the live web — CSV in, receipts out.
Launch runs and pull slates with receipts from your own scripts, pipelines, and AI assistants.
Works with your AI tools via MCP:ClaudeChatGPTCursor
Simple, transparent pricing
A credit is one candidate researched. Fast depth: 1 credit. Smart: 5. Deep: 12. A typical 10-person Smart search costs 50 credits — you pay per candidate researched, not per seat. We are not cheaper for spraying 500 emails; we are cheaper for ten defensible slates.
Need more credits later? Overage packs are $30 per 250 credits. Full plan details
You stay in control of candidate data — export it, delete it, and see every source it came from.
GDPRCCPA — we don't sell dataDPA availablePrivacy policy
Questions, answered
Where does the data come from?
The open web, researched live per question — public profiles, publications, press, talks. Every candidate links its sources.
How accurate is it?
Every claim is cited so you can check it yourself. Candidates we can't verify are flagged, not silently included. Ranking is based on fit against your criteria, with a written rationale per person.
Is there a free trial?
Not right now — live web research is expensive to run, so PeopleCite is paid-only for the moment. Plans start at $49/mo and you can cancel self-serve in one click.
What's a credit?
One candidate researched at standard depth. Deeper models cost more per candidate: Fast is 1 credit, Smart is 5, Deep is 12. A 10-person Smart search is 50 credits.
How is this different from LinkedIn Recruiter, Apollo, or Clay?
They search a database; we research your question. Database tools return whoever matched keywords when the profile was last indexed — the same pool everyone else is searching. PeopleCite reads the live web per request, ranks people against your actual criteria, and shows the sources, so you review evidence instead of guessing from titles.
Is this GDPR / CCPA compliant?
We process only public data, we don't sell it, and you can export or delete candidate data at any time. See the privacy policy and DPA.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes — self-serve, from settings, in one click.
Describe the people. Review the evidence. Export the slate.
Paid plans from $49/mo · cancel anytime, self-serve.