Clado

Clado is an AI-powered people search and profile enrichment platform designed to help recruiting and sales teams find and qualify individuals using natural-language queries and multi-constraint criteria. The product positions itself as 'search over every human,' using large-scale agentic inference (deploying 100,000+ AI agents) to evaluate and rank matches across 800M+ profiles rather than relying solely on keyword or filter-based search. For recruiting teams, Clado's primary workflow is sourcing: users describe the candidate profile they want (for example, role, prior companies, education, location, and other attributes), and Clado returns relevant profiles. The platform emphasizes complex criteria matching, where custom criteria can be matched across hundreds of millions of unique profiles, with AI-filtered high-quality results. Beyond search, Clado offers comprehensive profile enrichment capabilities that attach additional identities and contact details to results, including verified emails, phone numbers, and external profiles such as GitHub and Google Scholar. The platform provides presentation-ready outputs intended to support downstream workflows like outreach and pipeline review, with unified profiles combining multiple social media identities into a single view. Clado provides both a web-based Atlas interface and an API (Clado Search & Enrichment API) with transparent usage-based pricing, where actions consume credits at $0.01 USD per credit. The API supports searching for people, deep research jobs, and enrichment endpoints. Organizations evaluating Clado for recruiting use cases would typically consider it for top-of-funnel sourcing and enrichment, with the platform's pricing structured around consumption (credits) rather than per-seat subscriptions. Clado is Y Combinator-backed (Spring 2025 batch) with $2.5M in total funding from investors including Valor Equity Partners and Y Combinator. The platform includes enterprise-grade security features with SOC-2 Type I certification and ISO 27001 compliance.