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CLODO launches an AI-powered people search engine that uses natural language to query 1.3 billion live profiles

Story Overview

YC-backed Clodo is pitching an AI search layer that takes plain-English descriptions of people and matches them against 1.3 billion live web profiles, then enriches results with verified contacts and signals before handing off to outreach tools.

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Chubby♨️@kimmonismus#1360inTech

Try typing "the founder who wrote one great paper in 2021, left to build something, and would actually reply to a cold email" into LinkedIn search.

You get a dropdown for job title and company. That's it. Everything that actually matters gets ignored.

Clodo (@clodo_ai) takes that whole sentence, searches 1.3 billion profiles across the live web, finds who fits, and gives you back verified emails and the signals it found.Kind of scary how well it works. Also really useful.

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

11:15 AM · Jun 29, 2026 · 9.3K Views

Market Adoption

Early traction shows up in surprising places

Mercor AI, U.S. News & World Report, and clusters of AI-native and Fortune 500 teams are already listed as users, with the U.S. Intelligence Community named among early adopters.

Pricing Watch

Access starts paid and demo-heavy

Solo plans run $125 per month with credit limits while enterprise requires booking a demo for custom pricing, SLAs, and integrations; exact launch date and total funding beyond YC participation remain unstated in public sources.

Sentiment

Many users praised CLODO's new AI tool for searching 1.2B profiles via natural language intent, while others criticized the branding's negative French meaning and high pricing like $12k per year.

Pos

64.9%

Neg

35.1%

49 comments with sentiment.

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Santiago@svpino

LinkedIn better do something if they don't want to become the next StackOverflow.

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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elvis@omarsar0

Finally, a people-search tool that actually works.

Most people-search tools sell you a frozen list.

@CLODOAI searches the live web, reads the signals, and tells you why this specific person, right now.

Good stuff, @sixtensor @vikchuppala 👏

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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LIKES25

Jaymin Shah@JayminSOfficial

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Excited to see how @CLODOAI continues to reshape talent discovery and outbound workflows! Kudos @sixtensor

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Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

Most people search tools are still keyword matching with a LinkedIn wrapper. They surface the same active candidates everyone else wants.

Clodo actually searches the live web plus hundreds of proprietary datasets, qualifies every result against your plain English description using real ranking by fit, and surfaces intent signals it picked up along the way. Verified emails and phone numbers included.

Backed by YC. @clodo_ai @sixtensor @vikchuppala

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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Sarah Chieng@MilksandMatcha

When OAI first launched deep research, I paid $200 for the subscription (which at the time was a CRAZY subscription price) and the first thing I did was ask it to deep research me.

It's both terrifying, exciting, and unbelievably difficult to index humans.

Pumped to see the team launch @CLODOAI @sixtensor @vikchuppala

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

This is really cool.

AI is now coming for the most broken search problem on the internet: finding the right person.

@CLODOAI is moving the intelligence back to the search query:

Describe the person in plain English, search across 1.2 billion indexed profiles, qualify the match, enrich the contact, and surface a way to reach them.

People discovery is finding the right humans for whatever you're working on. But most current people search tools sell you access to a snapshot. A frozen moment in time with a CSV at the end of it.

Clodo searches the live web, reads the signals, qualifies the fit, and tells you why this specific person, right now.

@sixtensor @vikchuppala 👏

Sid Rajaram@sixtensor

Introducing CLODO, trusted by @mercor_ai, @usnews, @UseCorgi, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and more.

Describe exactly who you’re looking for, and find them every single time.

1.2B profiles.

We find, enrich, and reach out to them for you.

It’s that easy.

Backed by @YCombinator, @CRV, @daltonc and @paultoo at @Standard_Cap, @louisberyl at Four Cities Capital, @theo, and more incredible angels.

Book a demo today:

https://clodo.ai/demo

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Theo - t3.gg@theo

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi First investment I’ve made that my team likes more than me! Approved by @Alykkat

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Not Elon Musk@ElonMuskAOC

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi I’m going to use it so I can get to Mars faster…

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Dalton Caldwell@daltonc

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi nice shot of the dish

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Charly Wargnier@DataChaz

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Microsoft dropped $26B on LinkedIn to build this exact workflow... and still blew it...

It looks like you guys absolutely NAILED IT!

I've already got a few ppl asking for a demo, just dropped into your DMs ;)

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Matthew Chen@mlaurencechen

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi LFG!!

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Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Really cool to see how far you guys have come 👊

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Kevin Le@xkevin_le

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Lfg clodo is fire

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Akhil Sachdev@akhil_sachdev

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Congrats on the launch! Great product!

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vas@vasuman

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Congrats on the launch!

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Markets & Mayhem@Mayhem4Markets

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Congratulations on this launch! I love the streamlined approach to gathering live, relevant data for maximizing the impact of outbound marketing.

This is something I need to look at for a few things I'm building. Would love to link up sometime! Wishing you all the best!

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nico laqua@nico_laqua

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Great team and product, congrats!

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Veee@vikktorrrre

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Congrats team

This is biggg

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Sarah Chieng@MilksandMatcha

@sixtensor @mercor_ai @usnews @UseCorgi Super hard to do, great launch!

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