AI market research

  • A hard-to-fill role needed candidates, and the firm had likely met good ones before.
  • I searched years of archived postings and public profiles with Claude.
75 applicantsfound again, 25 with earlier interview feedback
Under 1 hourfor research that took 2 to 3 days by hand
47 profilesin a market map across 4 cities
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Key decisions

  1. Set the rules before the first search

    Read only, no AI judgement of people, no contact details.

  2. Handed over plain spreadsheets

    The team built a candidate pipeline from them the next day.

Every step (7)
  1. Had we already met good people for this role?
  2. People are wary of AI in hiring
  3. Set the rules before the first search
  4. Walked the team through the results
  5. Handed over plain spreadsheets
  6. The same rules applied again
  7. 75 past applicants found again