For recruiting teams

Your next hire is already in your network

Happenstance is an AI search engine for the network your whole company actually has. Describe the role and find candidates with a warm path to each one.

Loved by 500,000+ users and teams at

PerplexityLovableGreylockApplied ComputeCognition
Thrive CapitalY CombinatorBrexAccelAngelList

How recruiting teams use Happenstance

Referrals make the best hires. Here's what recruiting teams use Happenstance for day to day.

Source from the network you already have

Describe the role in plain English. Happenstance searches everyone your company knows and shows all of the warm paths to them.

Strongest first, with who can refer them
JM
Jack Maxwell
Staff Product Designer at Airbnb
viaATAlex
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Parvaneh Toghiani
Principal Product Designer at Uber
viaISIshan
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Eric Cipra
Senior Product Designer at Spotify
viaDEDrew

Paste a job posting, skip the busywork

Paste the job post URL and Happenstance turns it into a search automatically, no query building required.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/senior-product-manager
JN
Jack Ng
Product Manager at Meta
viaATAlex
KW
Kevin Wang
Software Engineer at Meta
viaISIshan
OY
Olivia Yao
Staff Data Scientist at Meta
viaDEDrew

Run it as a periodic search

Turn any search into a weekly check, so new candidates show up automatically as they open up.

Saved search · runs weekly
RL
Ryan Lopopolo
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Open to talk
MT
Michael Trinh
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
Strong fit
SP
Stephen Purcell
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Newly open

Get the real read on a candidate

Every candidate shows which teammate knows them best. Skip "can you intro me" and ask what actually matters: was this person great to work with?

You
You
PM
Pavlos Moros
Strongest mutual
MC
Michie Cao
Stripe
Drafted for you · ready to send

Pavlos, Michie Cao seems like a strong candidate. Was she great to work with at Stripe?

Turn the whole company into a referral engine

The engineers know the engineers. Pool everyone's networks in one group and every sourcing search draws on the whole company, not just the recruiting team.

One company's pooled network
Favicon imageLovable
AORLRCDS+40
106k
searchable people

Works with your recruiting stack's AI tools

Point Claude, ChatGPT, or your own agents at a job posting and let Happenstance find the candidates.

mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "happenstance": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://happenstance.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your network is bigger than you think

Connect your accounts, add friends, join groups. Every signal of who knows who becomes one searchable map.

1.Connect your accounts

Gmail, Calendar, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.

Gmail
Contacts
Calendar
LinkedIn
Twitter
Instagram
Outlook
BS
Boris Sofmanvia Alex Teichman
Co-Founder & CEO, Bedrock Robotics
0connections

Your whole company, one talent pool

Create a group for your company. Every employee's connections pool into one network your team can source from, and whoever actually knows the candidate makes the referral.

Favicon imageLovable106ksearchable peopleAORLRCDS44 members
Favicon imageScribe49ksearchable peopleSBMZZNMH37 members
Favicon imageTrail of Bits67ksearchable peopleCRBSLRES61 members
Favicon imageWhop14ksearchable peoplePTCMPVHD37 members
Favicon imageWonderful435ksearchable peopleRDAVBSJS291 members
Favicon imageAngelList91ksearchable peopleGRMBJWJJ105 members
Favicon imageEmi74ksearchable peopleLMNRNPBE55 members
Favicon imageTrawa25ksearchable peopleAKDBGTMM31 members
Favicon imageLorikeet110ksearchable peopleCSDPSKJC74 members
Favicon imageRedesign Health51ksearchable peopleNPTDSDPM28 members
Favicon imageNagish45ksearchable peopleNYTASSOO22 members
Favicon imageModel ML40ksearchable peopleEAAKRSOL26 members
Favicon imageOdyssey100ksearchable peopleOCSHAKJH25 members
Favicon imageOnepilot39ksearchable peoplePLMPLBLC32 members
Favicon imageNorthslope38ksearchable peopleCPMWMHSQ42 members
Favicon imageEllo27ksearchable peopleJNCMZEPP42 members
Favicon imagePeec AI96ksearchable peopleMLMMMYAK60 members
Favicon imageAdaptive24ksearchable peopleKMSMLCSJ42 members
Favicon imageComulate24ksearchable peopleMMNDDBJE20 members
Favicon imageSynonym22ksearchable peopleDHCBJKCH23 members

What Happenstance users say

As a recruiter, thank you. [Happenstance] is better than the Swiss Army knife of OSINT tools we rely on.
Marc Hamel
Marc Hamel
Staff Talent Researcher, Waymo

Private and secure

You control what you share. Your public profile shows a constellation of named people you know by default, which you can turn off anytime, and your data is never used to train AI models.

Frequently asked questions

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Make your own luck

Your next hire is one referral away. Join 500,000+ professionals already searching their whole network.