The ultimate search for people data on the web for AI agents and platforms - comprehensive, targeted, and programmatic With 60+ filters (& unlimited ways to combine them), you can find exactly who you need to sell to, hire, or invest in with one API call
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This is such a great tool. I don’t think I can live without it. Best tool for business and partnership development.
🚀 This is a big unlock. @garrytan
Most sales, recruiting, and investing workflows break because you’re stuck with rigid filters and outdated data. The Person Search API feels like search the way builders actually think — flexible, composable, and programmable.
Being able to combine fiters in your own logic is huge. Instead of cleaning and re-cleaning lists across 4 different tools, you can get a clean, precise list in one call. That saves time, but more importantly, it changes the quality of who you can reach.
Congrats to the Crustdata team (YC F24) — this will definitely power the next wave of AI SDRs, recruiters, and deal-sourcing tools. 👏
I have been a sales leader and can relate to this.
Congrats on the launch 🚀
The Person Search API sounds like a real game-changer for precision prospecting and recruitment. Love how you’ve tackled the “filtering fatigue” problem head-on. At ZeroThreat, we’ve seen something similar on the security side, that’s why we built ZeroThreat API Pentesting to uncover shadow APIs and hidden risks teams often overlook. Excited to see how Crustdata reshapes data-driven workflows! 🙌
Congratulation for the lunch 👏🏼. But, as much as I loved Clearbit back in the day, there's a clear issue with data privacy at the age of GPDR.
How do you guarantee genuine GDPR compliance, especially regarding consent for EU resident data?
Many data brokers, even those claiming GDPR alignment, are often criticized by privacy watchdogs and the CNIL for illegally aggregating and selling EU residents’ personal data without their explicit consent or proper information—often harvesting from platforms and public web sources in ways the European Data Protection Board has called non-compliant (CNIL, 2025, Leto Legal Guide, 2025).
Concretely: Can you explain, step by step, how you secure and document individual consent for each EU data subject whose information is exposed via your APIs, and how you guarantee their rights to information and erasure under the GDPR?
We constantly need to find specific types of content creators for partnerships. Most people data APIs are too restrictive with their filtering options.
How accurate is the job change tracking? We've had issues with stale employment data from other providers.
This is incredibly exciting! As someone working on AI agent development, the "60+ filters with unlimited ways to combine them" concept is exactly what we need. Traditional people search APIs force you into their limited filter logic, but this approach lets you implement your own search logic programmatically.
The real-time aspect is a game changer - most data providers give you stale information that's weeks or months old. Having instant updates via webhooks means your AI agents can react to job changes, company moves, or other events immediately.
For developers building AI SDRs or recruitment tools, this could replace the entire "search → filter → clean → enrich" pipeline with a single API call. That's huge for both development speed and data accuracy.
Looking forward to testing this with our AI agent stack. Congrats on the launch @garrytan and the Crustdata team!
This is super exciting! 🔍🚀
Love how you’re making precision list-building possible at scale — can’t wait to see the kinds of hidden gems and opportunities this unlocks. Congrats on the launch! 🙌
This is such a pain point solver! Before, when I was building sales lists, I had to jump between multiple tools just to filter, and still ended up with outdated data. The 60+ filters that you can mix freely are seriously game-changing. Quick question—for newbies who’re just getting into this kind of API, are there any simple sample templates we can use right away?🤔
The ultimate search layer for people data comprehensive, targeted, and fully programmatic. With 60+ filters and unlimited combinations, AI agents and platforms can find exactly who to sell to, hire, or invest in with just one API call.
Congrats on the launch 🚀! Person Search API sounds powerful especially with 60+ filters. This could be a game-changer for startups and sales teams looking to target the right people.
"This is an excellent solution for staying ahead with accurate, real-time company and people data. The instant updates and enrichment features make it incredibly valuable for GTM teams to work smarter and faster."
Crustdata sounds pretty cool! I’m definitely going to try it out. Thank you for sharing with us
Congrats on the launch! 🎉 This looks really useful, I’m very interested and will definitely give it a try.
Crustdata is a solid choice if you need live, actionable business data (companies + people) for sales, recruiting, or investment. If you only need occasional or static data, simpler/cheaper tools might suffice.
Congratulations. And happy product launch. @abhilash_chowdhary
Hi Product Hunt! I’m excited to help launch Crustdata (YC F24)'s newest product: The Person Search API.
Think of it as the ultimate search for people data on the web for AI agents, platforms, and tools - comprehensive, targeted, and programmatic.
With 60+ filters (and unlimited ways to combine them), you can find exactly who you need to sell to, hire, or invest in with just one API call.
Why it matters:
List building is broken. Prospect lists, candidate lists, founder watchlists - you name it. When you’re stuck with basic filters and stale data, everyone ends up with the same outdated lists. Most lists are filled with people who don’t actually fit the criteria you wanted. Precision is impossible because filters are limited, and the ways you can combine them are even more limited.
Sales teams and agents end up running lists through endless cycles of filtering, cleaning, enriching, and re-filtering across multiple tools to get a list that fits what they’re looking for.
Recruiting agents and recruiters are fishing in an ocean of a billion professionals to find that one perfect candidate, something you can’t do with just “industry” or “past job title” filters.
Investment agents miss deals and can’t find hidden gems because everyone is using the same filters with the same combinations, producing the same results.
This product fixes that.
Crustdata wanted users to be able to find the exact person they need with just one request - eliminating the need to stack different tools, filter out people, and build lists manually.
With this Person Search API, they've added more filters and give you the freedom to combine them however you want. It’s your logic and your way of thinking. We just made sure programmatic restrictions won’t get in your way.
Now you can:
Build prospect lists that match your ICP exactly with just one API call
Build talent pools with hyper-specific skills, experience, or career paths
Zero in on the one candidate who’s a perfect fit for your customer
Build lists around your investment hypotheses, not whatever pre-defined filters a tool gives you
Connect patterns and find the founder that will grow their company 1000x in two years
Who it's for:
Builders of AI SDRs, AI recruiters, deal sourcing agents
Internal or external recruiting platforms and AI investment platforms
Internal sales platforms
Anyone who wants their search logic to match how they think, not how an API restricts them.
If you need:
One query that finds everyone you’re looking for
A single clean list of results, not a messy pile to filter through
Confidence that you’ve found everyone who matters