Lantern SourcingY Backed by Y Combinator

The most thoroughsourcing agent in existence.

Exceptional people don’t all follow the same path. Your sourcing agent shouldn’t either.

[WORLD PEOPLE MODEL]

World People Model.

Understands the context behind every career. People, companies, and what they’ve built.

[01] WHERE TALENT IS

Skills, cities, and company ecosystems.

[02] HOW CAREERS CONNECT

Paths, teams, and company context.

[03] WHAT PEOPLE BUILT

Real work beyond the job title.

INFORMED BY 1B INDEXED PROFILES + COMPANY DATA

THE BLIND SPOT IN OTHER SOURCING TOOLS

Other sourcing tools will miss great talent.

When keyword filters decide who gets seen, AI only ranks the people who make it through.

[01] NATURAL LANGUAGE →

Find a founding engineer who builds developer tools, contributes to open source, and thrives on a small team.

Include the nuance a title misses.

[02] BOOLEAN →

("founding engineer") AND
("developer tools" OR "devtools")

Great talent exists beyond the search results.

[03] LLM RANK

AI ranking only starts here.

[OUTSIDE THE RESULTS]

Different title.

The right experience.

[OUTSIDE THE RESULTS]

Unconventional path.

Exactly the skills you need.

[HOW LANTERN SEARCHES]

A thorough search, made clear.

[01] UNDERSTAND

Your role, company context,and what great looks like.

[02] EXPLORE

Multiple personas. A wider searchthrough the World People Model.

[03] EVALUATE

Assess the evidence behind eachperson. See why they belong.

Refine and keep exploring.

Domain specialists, adjacent industries, and emerging builders — explored in parallel, evaluated against one shared hiring bar.

BROAD EVALUATION

[BEYOND LINKEDIN]

Great talent leaves clues. Everywhere.

Follow what people build, share, and contribute. Connect the clues into a fuller picture.

Open source

What they build

Forums

How they think

Discord

What they contribute

YouTube

What they teach

Instagram

What they create

X

What they share

Connect the clues

One connected picture

See the person
beyond the profile.

Work & projectsExpertise & interestsCommunity contributions

More context for your shortlist.

Different sources. A fuller picture of what someone can do.

Public & authorized sources

[START WHERE YOU ARE]

Start with what you know. We’ll find who you need.

A role, a conversation, or a few people who set the bar.

[01] DESCRIBE THE ROLE

Include the nuance a title misses.

[02] INTAKE RECORDING

Start with the conversation behind the brief.

[03] SIMILAR PROFILES

Show Lantern what good looks like.

THREE STARTING POINTS, ONE THOROUGH SEARCH

[CONTEXT, CONNECTED]

Your context. In every search.

Connect company knowledge. Bring sourcing into your tools and agents.

[MCP CLIENT]

Connect the sources that explain your company and what makes a great hire.

[MCP SERVER]

Make Lantern’s sourcing capabilities available to your own tools and agents.

Company context

Knowledge, role requirements,and hiring conversations.

Your tools & agents

Talent intelligence,where you already work.

[FROM DISCOVERY TO CONVERSATION]

Found them. Now start aconversation.

Email, LinkedIn, and iMessage.Open with their work, and why your role fits.

[ALEX CHEN]

Open-source builder · Developer tools

[DRAFT]

Hey Alex — your work on the distributed job scheduler caught our eye.

We’re hiring a founding engineer to build tools developers love. Your approach to making complex systems feel simple stood out.

Open to a conversation?

REVIEW BEFORE SENDING

There’s a whole world of talent beyond your first search.

Give Lantern your hardest role. See where a more thorough search takes you.

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