Find the 1% of AI tech talent actively looking for their next move.
The best AI talent isn’t on job boards — it’s publishing papers and shipping models. Lessie reads GitHub, arXiv, and career signals to surface who’s about to move, each with a verified email.
14 candidates found
Senior ML engineers · US · LLM experience
Watch one signal become a conversation.
One signal fires. Lessie reads it, finds the person, verifies the contact, and writes an opener about the exact thing they did.
No sequences. No lists. You just get the reply.
Reads GitHub · arXiv · tenure · funding · talks
New arXiv preprint on efficient LLM inference — 3rd paper this year
Reads context → shifting from research to systems · lab funding ended in Q1 · matches your Senior ML Engineer role
Aisha K.ML Researcher · BerkeleyA note that opens with her inference paper — not “I came across your profile.”
“Hadn’t thought about leaving academia, but this is exactly my area. Happy to chat.”
Live data beats a stale database
Why teams source with Lessie
Catch the transition moment
Reach AI talent while they’re merely curious — before they field 50 pitches a day.
Contact info that lands
Real-time verified emails, so your outreach reaches a live inbox.
Sourcing that never clocks out
Your agent hunts and reaches out even while your team is offline.
They stopped guessing. So can you.
Ran one search for ML engineers. Two replied the same day — both had just dropped a new paper.
It surfaced a researcher right as her lab funding dried up. We had her signed in three weeks.
I stopped scraping LinkedIn. Lessie hands me a few warm, verified AI engineers every week.
Give your AI agent a sourcing instinct.
Lessie’s people-search ships as a skill for Claude Code. Your agent can find anyone, get verified contacts, and act on signals — straight from the terminal.
Explore Skills & CLI →$ npx skills add LessieAI/lessie-skill -y -g
✓ lessie-skill installed
# your agent now has people-search:
# describe who you need in plain language →
# verified emails, phones & LinkedIn come back
Stop searching the cold list. Find the active 1% today.
Run a live search and see the hidden AI talent Lessie can uncover for your team right now.
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