The Sourcing tab finds people two ways. The Prospects tab runs a smart search over people you've already sourced — free, instant, no external lookup. The Search tab runs a Mission: you describe the role in plain language and Chosen searches the web for matches. Use the first when the right person might already be in your pool; use the second when they aren't.

Search your existing pool

Open Sourcing → Prospects. The search box at the top reads your query in plain language — "senior backend engineers in Berlin who've worked at a fintech" — and ranks the prospects you've already sourced against it. No web lookup, no usage cost. It's the fast way to notice that someone a Mission surfaced three months ago is suddenly right for a new role.

Go to Sourcing → Prospects.
Type what you're looking for in the search box. A sentence works better than keywords.
Results re-rank in place. Click any prospect to open the full record.

This is the same idea as smart search for candidates, scoped to your sourcing pool instead of your applicant pool.

Run a Mission against the web

A Mission searches the web for people who don't yet exist in your system.

Open Sourcing → Search.
In the box, describe who you want — role, seniority, location, the kind of company they're at. Constraints in the sentence are read as constraints.
Run the search. Results stream in live as Chosen finds them — you don't wait for the whole run to finish before you can read.
If a job is selected in the left sidebar, the Mission is linked to that role, which helps later when you import.

A Mission's results don't replace your earlier ones — they're added to the Prospects table, so the pool grows over time.

What a prospect record shows

Each prospect Chosen surfaces comes with:

Name, current title, and current company — the basics, pulled from public profiles.
A why-they-matched summary — a short note on what in their background fits your query.
An assembled work history — every public role Chosen could piece together, shown in full on the experience timeline.
A best-guess work email, or a "no email available" flag — confirming an address is a separate step. See email enrichment.

Open a prospect and the detail drawer also shows skills, education, and a Key insights panel of auto-detected signals — career patterns worth knowing before you reach out.

Plan limits

On the Starter plan, sourcing searches and email enrichments share a small lifetime allowance — the Search box shows a counter like "3 of 5 free searches used", and the button disables once you hit the cap. Growth lifts those caps. Missions and enrichment also draw on usage tiers, so a heavy day of either can pause until the window resets.

The takeaway: don't re-run a Mission ten times to nudge the wording. Read the results, refine the description, then run again. Exact numbers and current caps live on plans and limits.

When it gets it wrong

A Mission is a web search, so it inherits a web search's failure modes. A role described too loosely returns a loose, noisy list. A role described too narrowly returns three people. Niche or stealth-company candidates with thin public footprints may not surface at all — the absence of a prospect isn't proof they don't exist.

Treat the first run as a draft. The fix for a bad result is almost always a sharper description, not a different tool. Once you have prospects worth contacting, move on to enrichment.