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Source candidates who fit the role. With proof of their work and a way to reach them.
Candidate sourcing finds people who fit a role, checks their work, and gives you a way to reach them. With Agentik, your AI finds people in the role with Leadsforge, reads their full profiles and finds their emails with Icypeas, locates their GitHub accounts with Exa, and reads their open-source projects from GitHub.
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- 4
- tools
- 6
- example, at most
- $1.00
Prices from the live catalog · updated
- Step 1: Find people in the roleLeadsforgeFree
- Step 2: Read their profilesIcypeas$0.72
- Step 3: Find their open-source workExa and GitHub$0.07
- Step 4: Get a way to reach themIcypeas$0.21
- Step 5: Rank the shortlistYour AI, no tool call
Paid from one prepaid balanceat most $1.00
Why 4 providers
Each provider does one part. Your AI does the rest.
No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection.
Leadsforge
People who hold the role today, by title, seniority, location and company.
1 tool · step 1Free
Icypeas
Their public LinkedIn profiles in full, and their work emails, found and verified.
3 tools · steps 2 and 4$0.93
Exa
Their GitHub accounts, found by name and role.
1 tool · step 3$0.07
GitHub
Their public repositories: stars, languages and recent activity.
1 tool · step 3Free
Without Agentik
2 accounts, 2 API keys, 2 bills, and 2 open APIs to learn.
- LeadsforgeOpen API: its own format and limits
- IcypeasSign-up, card, API key, bill
- ExaSign-up, card, API key, bill
- GitHubOpen API: its own format and limits
Then code to call each API, retry it and join the results before your AI can use them.
With Agentik
One connection. One prepaid balance.
- People search, profiles, GitHub and email checks come from four providers through one connection.
- GitHub is free; profiles and emails are priced per result found and quoted before your agent runs.
- Your AI shows the price before each call, and a call that ends in an error is refunded.
Step by step
How to source candidates for a role in Claude or ChatGPT. Step by step.
Prices are for this example: 50 senior backend engineers in Germany, 25 profiles read, 10 GitHub accounts checked, 10 emails found and verified. They are the most each call can reserve at today’s catalog prices.
Step 1: Find people in the role
LeadsforgeLeadsforge returns people who hold the title today, with their company and tenure.
Tools called in step 1 People search leadsforge/search-people50 people Free Step 2: Read their profiles
IcypeasIcypeas reads each public LinkedIn profile in full: experience, skills and education.
Tools called in step 2 Scrape profiles batch icypeas/scrape-profiles-batch25 profiles at most $0.72 Step 3: Find their open-source work
Exa and GitHubExa finds each person’s GitHub account by name and role, and GitHub returns their repositories with stars and languages.
Tools called in step 3 Web search exa/search10 people at most $0.07 GitHub repository search github/search-repositories10 accounts Free Step 4: Get a way to reach them
IcypeasIcypeas finds each shortlisted person’s work email and checks it.
Tools called in step 4 Find work emails icypeas/find-emails-batch10 people at most $0.19 Verify emails icypeas/verify-emails-batch10 emails at most $0.02 Step 5: Rank the shortlist
Your AIYour AI ranks the ten against your must-haves, with the evidence for each.
What you get
What you get: a ranked shortlist of ten. In your conversation.
You provide
- The role, its seniority and location
- Must-have skills
- How many candidates you want
Your AI returns
- A list of people in the role, with current company and tenure
- Their experience and skills, from their profiles
- Their open-source work, where they have some
- A ranked shortlist of ten with verified emails and why each fits
| Candidate | Now at | Open source | Fit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lena M. | Example Cloud | 3 active repos | Verified | Strong |
| Tomas R. | Example Pay | None public | Verified | Strong |
| Ines K. | Example Labs | 1 popular repo | Not found | Good |
Placeholders: your rows come from your run.
The prompt
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.
Once Agentik is connected, your AI asks for your inputs, checks each tool and shows the price before anything runs.
Or ask it your way
- “Find 30 senior iOS engineers in London who have shipped consumer apps.”
- “Which of these candidates maintain open-source projects in Rust?”
- “Find staff engineers in Paris who changed jobs in the last year.”
- “Write a short, specific message to each of my top five.”
What it costs
At most $1.00. From one balance.
Each provider’s own price, with 0% markup. Each call reserves at most the amount shown, is billed for what it actually used, and the rest is released. A call that ends in an error is refunded.
LeadsforgeFree
- People search50 peopleFree
Icypeas$0.93
- Scrape profiles batch25 profiles$0.72
- Find work emails10 people$0.19
- Verify emails10 emails$0.02
Exa$0.07
- Web search10 people$0.07
GitHubFree
- GitHub repository search10 accountsFree
Total, at most$1.00
Good to know
- Recruit with a legitimate interest: tell candidates where you found them, honour opt-outs and follow GDPR in Europe.
- Open-source work is a signal for some roles only; many good engineers don’t publish code.
When to use something else
To manage a pipeline with stages and interviews, use your applicant tracking system; Agentik finds and checks the candidates.
Questions
Candidate sourcing: straight answers.
Still unsure? Ask us.
Is this allowed?
Sourcing from public profiles is common practice. Contact people with a legitimate interest, say where you found them and honour opt-outs; rules vary by country.
Couldn’t I just use one recruiting database?
For finding people, often. This job also reads their open-source work and finds and checks their emails, from Exa, GitHub and Icypeas. Through Agentik your AI uses all four providers from one connection; the example costs at most $1.00.
What does the example cost?
At most $1.00; profiles and emails that aren’t found aren’t billed.
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