Clado puts 200 million+ people profiles (and growing) at your fingertips with simple, agentic search. If you’re interested in a global people search for sales, spreadsheets, hiring, and more, try our product.
clado used to be linkd, a natural language search engine over alumni databases for schools. we launched this consumer platform for students because we believed that current alumni systems are fundamentally broken, despite being the most powerful aspect of a university.
we saw this at our respective alumni platforms at ucsd & upenn:
> disconnected sites with outdated alumni profiles that people don't fill out
> direct messages that are never answered due to inactivity
why is so much potential locked behind an inactive system?
when we first launched at upenn with just 2000 profiles and a simple vector database with semantic search, we were ecstatic to see what people would search for.
> alumni working in investment banking, ai engineers at google, etc.
we then scaled up with each launch at u of toronto, columbia, stanford, and berkeley. we saw more creative searches:
> find me every angel investor at berkeley.
> grad students at stanford working on ai/ml at nvidia (a student found the person sitting across from them at lunch).
with each launch, we saw more and more requests to bring clado to more schools (and we loved the people building their own versions of clado at their schools!). we knew we couldn't scale one school at a time, and decided to work on releasing them all at once.
we believe every student, regardless of where they're at school, should have access to the powerful group of alumni that came before them. we hope this achieves that. (IF YOUR SCHOOL ISN'T HERE, please message me and we'll add it for you).
we're also serving hundreds of thousands of people profiles via search results to enterprises. please dm me if this is interesting as well.
thank you for reading, i hope you enjoy clado!
Can I get a medium t-shirt and Clado pro please 🙏🏻 🥺
It's refreshing to see a search algorithm focused on human connections rather than just data.
i use it too often, they shipped it too fast, earlier i thought clado (prev. linkd) would never come to GMU, cuz not an ivy league, but hey, they just launched everywhere!
This feels like what LinkedIn should’ve been if it were built for action instead of scrolling. Curious to see how far this can scale—big potential.
I'm excited about the opportunity to connect not only with others in my academic field but also with professionals across a variety of industries I'm interested in. I can’t wait to explore its full potential and build some meaningful connections!
I signed up and entered the verification code I received in my inbox (strangely from [email protected]) but got "access denied" when I tried to login.
I don't know what the purpose of this button is. After entering the homepage, it can't be clicked
so cool! I played around with it yesterday and was very impressed. the potential here is great. nice work, guys!!
Great idea with huge potential; I'm excited to use this to help me find the right people for coffee chats and hopefully land an internship. I haven't had the chance to try it yet, as I'm on a student budget, so I look forward to student discounts or a free model! Vamos Clado!
