Create a search

Before you start

You don’t need anything special — just the job titles, keywords, or role description you want to match. Every field below is documented in full, with examples, on Advanced search; this page names all of them in one place and shows how they combine.

Steps

  1. Go to Search → Add Search.
  2. Pick a starting method — a search needs at least one of these to know what to match:
  3. Optionally narrow the search with any of these fields. Within a single field, the terms you list are combined with OR logic (match any one); across different fields, requirements are combined with AND logic (all listed fields must hold):
  4. Save the search. It runs continuously against new signals from then on — see How it works for what happens to a signal after it matches.

Check it worked

New signals matching your criteria start appearing as the search runs. If you also set up a persona, decision-makers for those signals follow next.

If it did not work

Zero results usually means the filters combined are stricter than intended — remember that required words across different fields are ANDed together, so adding a second field’s requirement narrows results rather than widening them. Loosen or remove a filter one at a time, starting with the most specific one you added last. If you’re getting results but they’re not the companies you expected, see I’m getting the wrong companies. If you added an AI filter on top and it started rejecting everything, see My AI filter rejected everything. If none of that explains it, check Is it working? or the rest of the FAQ.

Recent changes

  • 2025-01-14 — Bugfix: Low search result count

  • 2024-11-27 — Bugfix: some searches returned 1 day old results

  • 2024-11-27 — Matches are called “results” now

  • 2024-11-25 — Jobs with match in title show first in run view

  • 2024-11-25 — Jobs with match in title have higher fetching priority than without

  • 2024-11-25 — Manual runs have higher priority than automated

  • 2024-11-24 — New searching core working faster, but not allowing more that 4 words as search term, quotes and special characters, words “or” and “and”

  • 2024-11-13 — Improvement: showing some warning messages that search will take long to run after a search is created

  • 2024-11-08 — Bugfix: disabled search schedules were shown as if they are enabled

  • 2024-11-08 — Improvement: Scheduling the next run after a search with a running schedule has been created or edited and if you press a “Save” button (not “Save and run”) is behaving more predictably

  • 2024-10-26 — When search is scheduled for the first time, it will not require a manual “Run now” anymore but will start running after a defined interval

  • 2024-10-18 — Fixed bug – manually initiated search never stopped but created a new run right after previous one has ended

  • 2024-09-29 — Search speed and stability improved

  • 2024-05-18 — Fixed: Resetting a failed search did not reset match counts in that search so search match count stopped matching sum of success counts of its runs.

  • 2024-05-18 — Fixed: Searches get stuck forever in “running” status if run has failed.

  • 2024-05-10 — Search shows status as “running” while its runs are fetching

  • 2024-05-09 — Fixed: runs in “Fetching” status were showing as “Completed”

  • 2024-05-09 — New run status: Fetching

  • 2024-04-30 — Fixed: searches are getting stuck in an infinite loop

  • 2024-04-30 — Showing running status in search list

  • 2024-04-26 — Uniqueness / deduplication policy is now a part of the Searches form

  • 2024-04-26 — To use multiple keywords in one search, you can:

  • 2024-04-25 — Showing date in matches

  • 2024-04-22 — Previous matches are temporarily unavailable

  • 2024-04-16 — If “Minimum number of valid emails per match” is left empty, emails will not be automatically unlocked, you can unlock them manually

  • 2024-04-16 — Any query can be run manually.

  • 2024-04-16 — You can now control how often runs are scheduled (and if they are scheduled at all) in each individual search settings.

  • 2024-04-11 — Matches list is opening much faster now

  • 2024-04-10 — Search can be opened to see queries. Showing last run date/time, today/yesterday signal/match count, next run date/time.

  • 2024-04-04 — Fixed a bug that led to “Failed” match status

  • 2024-04-04 — Daily match limit

  • 2024-03-23 — Run view (Runs -> click any run) is showing disqualified signals

  • 2024-03-22 — Some runs got stuck, and needed to be deleted manually

  • 2024-03-22 — Runs display their statuses

  • 2024-03-20 — Fixed: matches randomly appearing and disappearing

  • 2024-03-20 — Fixed: all matches are now visible, not only first 50

  • 2024-03-20 — De-duplication policy in search

  • 2024-03-20 — Matches are shown per day

  • 2024-03-20 — Editing a search no longer deletes previous matches, they still can be deleted manually by deleting items in “runs” tab

  • 2024-03-20 — “Runs” tab showing which queries are running and their run status

  • 2024-03-20 — All users must edit and save their searches for new core to kick in

  • 2024-03-08 — Message “Search will be automatically repeated every hour” makes it clear that search is not one-time but continuous

  • 2024-03-04 — Matches page shows stats instead of a progress bar

  • 2024-03-02 — “Exact match in title” checkbox for stricter matching

  • 2024-03-02 — Showing a message if no matches are found

  • 2024-02-25 — Progress bar showing research progress in Matches

  • 2024-02-15 — Showing signal details in match view

  • 2024-02-14 — Showing match details on click