# 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. - For: Recruiters, founders and hiring managers - Providers: 4 (Leadsforge, Icypeas, Exa and GitHub), 6 tools - Example (50 senior backend engineers in Germany, 25 profiles read, 10 GitHub accounts checked, 10 emails found and verified): at most $1.00, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-07 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Leadsforge** (1 tool, free): People who hold the role today, by title, seniority, location and company. - **Icypeas** (3 tools, at most $0.93): Their public LinkedIn profiles in full, and their work emails, found and verified. - **Exa** (1 tool, at most $0.07): Their GitHub accounts, found by name and role. - **GitHub** (1 tool, free): Their public repositories: stars, languages and recent activity. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: candidate sourcing. Source candidates for a role. First ask me for the role, its seniority and location, the must-have skills and how many candidates I want. Find people in the role with leadsforge/search-people. Read the best 25 profiles with icypeas/scrape-profiles-batch. For the top ten, find their GitHub accounts with exa/search and their projects with github/search-repositories. Find and verify their work emails with icypeas/find-emails-batch and icypeas/verify-emails-batch. Finish with a ranked shortlist (name, current role, experience, open-source work, email, why they fit) and a short message I could send each one. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The role, its seniority and location - Must-have skills - How many candidates you want ## What you get: a ranked shortlist of ten - 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 ## How to source candidates for a role in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: 50 senior backend engineers in Germany, 25 profiles read, 10 GitHub accounts checked, 10 emails found and verified. ### 1. Find people in the role Leadsforge returns people who hold the title today, with their company and tenure. - [People search](/tools/leadsforge/search-people.md) `leadsforge/search-people` (Leadsforge, 50 people): free ### 2. Read their profiles Icypeas reads each public LinkedIn profile in full: experience, skills and education. - [Scrape profiles batch](/tools/icypeas/scrape-profiles-batch.md) `icypeas/scrape-profiles-batch` (Icypeas, 25 profiles): at most $0.72 ### 3. Find their open-source work Exa finds each person’s GitHub account by name and role, and GitHub returns their repositories with stars and languages. - [Web search](/tools/exa/search.md) `exa/search` (Exa, 10 people): at most $0.07 - [GitHub repository search](/tools/github/search-repositories.md) `github/search-repositories` (GitHub, 10 accounts): free ### 4. Get a way to reach them Icypeas finds each shortlisted person’s work email and checks it. - [Find work emails](/tools/icypeas/find-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/find-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 10 people): at most $0.19 - [Verify emails](/tools/icypeas/verify-emails-batch.md) `icypeas/verify-emails-batch` (Icypeas, 10 emails): at most $0.02 ### 5. Rank the shortlist Your AI ranks the ten against your must-haves, with the evidence for each. Example total: at most $1.00. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## 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. ## Why through Agentik - 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. ## 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. ## Candidate sourcing: questions ### 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. ## Keep going - [B2B lead list](/b2b-lead-list.md): People who match your buyer, emails found by two providers and verified, and a recent news hook for each company. - [Account research](/account-research.md): Their site, latest news, official filings and the profiles of the people you’ll meet, in a one-page brief with sources. - [Company due diligence](/company-due-diligence.md): Its legal identity and status, its registry entry, how long its website has existed, and any lawsuits or liquidation in the news. - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) - [Developer tools for your agent](/tools/dev.md) - [Web search tools for your agent](/tools/search.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/candidate-sourcing) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)