| Profile | Match | Link | Company | Title | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amina Okonkwo | 93% Leadership Grew and leads an 8-person backend team. Mentorship Runs a returnship program for career switchers. | Engineering Manager | ||||
Mateus Oliveira | 88% Non-Traditional Path Self-taught into a strong frontend role. Community Runs a local meetup for underrepresented devs. | Frontend Engineer | ||||
Priya Deshmukh | 89% Returnship Re-entered tech via a structured returnship. ML Skills Strong applied ML with a focus on fairness. | Data Scientist | ||||
Kofi Asante | 90% Inclusive Design Designs for low-bandwidth and accessibility-first. Underrepresented Region Brings perspective from emerging markets. | Product Designer | ||||
Sofia Castillo | 87% Accessibility QA Owns accessibility test coverage across products. Inclusion Advocate Drives disability-inclusive hiring practices. | QA Automation Engineer |

Engineering manager and advocate for women in tech. Leads a backend team and mentors early-career engineers.
Diversity recruiting is the practice of intentionally widening how and where you source candidates so your pipeline reflects a broader range of backgrounds, experiences, and communities. Diversity sourcing is the work that makes it happen: reaching beyond a single network into communities, professional organizations, schools, and regions you would otherwise miss, then evaluating everyone on skills and fit. The goal is a wider, more representative candidate pool drawn from public professional information — not screening people on protected attributes, which Lessie AI never does.
Most sourcing tools search one network for the words on a profile. Lessie AI is built to widen the net: describe the role and your inclusion goals in plain English, and an AI agent assembles a wider candidate pool live across 100+ sources — reaching communities, professional organizations, schools, and regions a single channel never touches. Matching is skills-first to reduce pedigree bias, and every candidate is found from public professional information, never screened on protected attributes. Each match arrives with a verified contact, so you can move from a broader pool to real, inclusive outreach without manual sourcing.
The six kinds of sources Lessie AI reaches to widen your candidate pool beyond a single network
Public professional communities, forums, and networks surface qualified people who are active and visible far from the usual sourcing channel.
Graduates and members of HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, bootcamps, and apprenticeship programs broaden the pool beyond a handful of feeder schools.
Public membership in women-in-tech and women-in-leadership organizations helps you reach qualified candidates who are easy to overlook on a single network.
Veteran professional groups and transition programs surface skilled candidates whose experience often does not map to conventional title-based search.
Candidates across regions, markets, and time zones widen the pool well beyond the city or country a single channel tends to center on.
Public affinity networks and professional associations reveal active, qualified talent that a one-channel search rarely reaches.
Four steps from your role and inclusion goals to a wider pool with verified contacts
Describe the role by skill and the kind of pool you want to widen — communities, regions, and programs to reach. Inclusion goals shape where Lessie AI looks, not who it filters out by protected attributes.
An AI agent searches 100+ sources in real time — communities, organizations, schools, and regions — to assemble a broader candidate pool than any single network would surface, all from public professional information.
Each candidate comes with the evidence behind the match and a skills-first score, so you evaluate everyone on demonstrated ability and fit rather than pedigree, title, or background.
Get a verified email for every candidate and send AI-personalized outreach that speaks to their actual work — no database to license, no manual sourcing.
AI-powered tools to source, evaluate, and reach a more diverse candidate pool
Stop sourcing the same faces from one network. Lessie AI assembles a wider candidate pool live across 100+ sources, reaching communities, organizations, schools, and regions a single channel never touches.
By matching on demonstrated skills instead of titles, employers, and pedigree, Lessie AI helps you build a wider pool and give underrepresented and non-traditional candidates a fair look.
One network surfaces one pool. Lessie AI reaches into communities, professional organizations, schools, and global regions so your pipeline reflects far more of the talent that is actually out there.
A wider pool means nothing without a way to reach people. Get a verified email for every candidate and AI-personalized outreach that references their actual work.
How widening your pool with Lessie AI compares to one-network sourcing and diversity job boards
| Comparison | Single-Channel Sourcing | Diversity Job Boards | Lessie AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pool Width | One network, one talent pool | Limited to who posts on the board | A wider pool across 100+ live sources ✓ |
| Reach | Same channel, same faces | Only candidates actively job-hunting there | Communities, orgs, schools, and regions you miss ✓ |
| Skills-First | Filters on titles and keywords | Self-selected applicants only | Skills-first matching to reduce bias ✓ |
| Contacts | Often missing or outdated | Gated behind the platform | 95%+ verified at search ✓ |
| Cost | Premium seats per recruiter | Per-post or subscription fees | $39.9/mo, unlimited ✓ |
| Outreach | Manual, copy-paste outreach | You wait for applicants to come to you | AI-personalized outreach, built in ✓ |
Single-channel sourcing keeps surfacing the same pool, and diversity job boards only reach the candidates who already post there. Diversity recruiting with Lessie AI widens the net across 100+ live sources — communities, organizations, schools, and regions — matches everyone skills-first to reduce bias, and hands you a verified contact for each. The result is a broader, more representative pool built from public professional information, never a filter on protected attributes.
From building diverse pipelines to reducing pedigree bias — wider sourcing for every team
Widen a one-network pipeline into communities, organizations, and regions so your pool reflects far more of the qualified talent that is actually out there.
Support DEI hiring goals by widening reach into communities and organizations you usually miss — evaluating everyone skills-first, never screening on protected attributes.
Reach beyond a single city or country to source qualified candidates across new markets, regions, and time zones a one-channel search never touches.
Build a skills-first pool that evaluates demonstrated work over pedigree — giving career-switchers and non-traditional candidates a fair look no matter their background.
Source underrepresented talent at scale — widen your candidate pool with AI across 100+ live sources.
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Search millions of candidate profiles across 100+ live sources — no uploads, contacts verified in real time.
Find candidates by skill, not job title — source talent on proven skills and real work across 100+ sources.
Build living talent pools that never go stale — AI keeps candidate contacts fresh across 100+ sources.
Automate sourcing and candidate outreach end to end — AI finds, verifies, and contacts talent.
Describe your product and audience — Lessie AI surfaces creators, sites, and operators ready to promote you on revenue-share, with verified emails.
Find Amazon FBA sellers, private-label brands, and aggregators by category, revenue tier, and marketplace — with verified contacts.
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