Public-web people research
Type a name. Confirm it's them. Read one sourced page from the open web — work, talks, writing, profiles — then keep asking without opening another tab.
Public pages only. They never get a notification. Not a background check.
Confirmed match
Head of Product · Northwind Labs · Berlin
Leads product for a 40-person climate-software lab. Public trail includes a 2025 Wired interview on grid forecasting, a Chaos Commun talk, and an active GitHub org under Northwind. Previously product at a Berlin mobility startup.
Public work
Built from indexed public pages — not a purchased people file
Google
LinkedIn
X
GitHub
News
Instagram
Facebook
Reddit
TikTok
PinterestGoogleLinkedInXGitHubNewsInstagramFacebookRedditTikTokPinterest< 60s
Typical time from name to first brief
Public web
Indexed pages only — no bought files
Private
They are never notified you looked
Sourced
Claims link back to the original URL
How a lookup actually feels
OneSearch is built for the ten minutes before a conversation — the gap between “who is this?” and walking into the room. It is not a people database you browse.
01 — Confirm
Common names collide. OneSearch shows candidate cards with role, city, and a public snippet so you pick the right person before a single paragraph is written. Wrong match, no brief. That is the point.
3 public matches · pick one
Alex Chen
Staff engineer · Stripe · SF
Confirm this person
Alex Chen
Principal · Two Sigma · NYC
Alex Chen
Founder · Harbor · Austin
02 — Brief
Work history, talks, writing, and public profiles land in one document. Every line carries a source you can open. If the web is quiet, the page stays thin — we do not fill gaps with guesses.
Confirmed match
Head of Product · Northwind Labs · Berlin
Leads product for a 40-person climate-software lab. Public trail includes a 2025 Wired interview on grid forecasting, a Chaos Commun talk, and an active GitHub org under Northwind. Previously product at a Berlin mobility startup.
Public work
03 — Ask
Follow-ups run against the same brief: last role, recent interviews, who they published with. No new search. No extra windows. The conversation stays attached to the person you already confirmed.
Most “people search” skips the hard parts: the wrong match, the unsourced sentence, the quiet web. These are the constraints OneSearch will not relax.
You choose the person. The brief is never generated against a guessed match.
Every material line can be opened on the page it came from.
Ask against the same sources. The thread does not start a second search.
No subject alerts. No profile-view pings. History stays on your account.
If it is not on an open page, it will not appear. We will not invent it.
Reopen yesterday’s brief before the meeting. Continue the same conversation.
Who it is for
Recruiters, founders, sellers, and researchers ask different questions. They all start with a name and need a sourced page before they speak.
You have a name from a referral and twenty minutes before outreach. OneSearch builds a public-web brief — recent roles, talks, writing — so the first message is specific without a LinkedIn tab binge. They never see a profile view from you.
Recruiting →The workflow
01
A first and last name is enough. Add a company, city, or title when you already have a breadcrumb — a badge, a signature, a Slack mention. You do not need their LinkedIn URL.
02
Candidate cards show just enough to choose: recent role, location hint, a public snippet. You confirm before research runs, so a common name never silently becomes the wrong person.
03
We gather indexed public pages — company sites, talks, writing, social and developer profiles, press. No login walls, no purchased consumer files, no non-public records.
04
Findings are structured: summary, work, education, mentions, accounts. The summary is not a black box. Open the original page when a fact has to hold up in the room.
05
Chat stays on the same brief. Ask what they shipped, who they wrote with, what changed last year. History keeps the page so you can reopen it the morning of the call.
The limits are part of the product. If a tool promises a complete private life from a name, it is not doing public-web research.
Not a consumer reporting agency. Not FCRA-compliant. Do not use it for hiring, tenant, credit, or insurance decisions that require regulated screening.
People search is not a background check · FCRA and legal use
Lookups do not notify the subject. There is no “someone viewed your profile” from OneSearch. Research stays on your side of the table.
Some people barely exist online. We return a short page rather than a confident fiction. Add a company or city and try again — or accept the silence.
The job is not “find a person in a database.” The job is walk in already briefed.
“I used to assemble a dossier from six tabs before a first conversation. Now I send myself one page, with the links still attached.”
“It reads like a briefing memo. Short enough for the hallway, sourced enough that I can defend a line in a partner meeting.”
Andre Silva
Head of talent
“Private enough to use from a coffee shop. Fast enough to use between the calendar ping and the Zoom wait room.”
Jordan Hale
Founder
“The confirm step is the whole product. I have been burned by the wrong Alex Chen before. This refuses to skip that.”
Priya Nair
Agency recruiter
“I asked three follow-ups on the cab ride and did not open a new tab. That is the bar.”
Chris Okonkwo
Account executive
“When the web is quiet, the page is quiet. I trust it more for that than for the long briefs.”
Samira El-Sayed
Editorial researcher
Pricing
Unlimited lookups for normal professional use. Follow-up chat included. Cancel whenever — access runs through the period you already paid.
Weekly
$7.99
/week
Monthly
$19.99
/month
Quarterly
$39.99
/quarter
Yearly
$59.99
/year
Short answers. The longer method is on How it works.
OneSearch is a private research tool. You enter a name, confirm the person, and get a sourced brief built from public web pages.
No. OneSearch only uses publicly available web pages. It is not a consumer reporting agency and is not FCRA-compliant. Do not use it for hiring, tenant, credit, or insurance decisions.
No. Lookups are private. OneSearch does not notify the people you research.
Public pages — company sites, news, talks, social profiles, repositories, and similar open sources. Every claim is linked so you can open the original.
Add a company, city, or title and try again. Some people barely exist on the public web, and we will not invent what is not there.
Most complete in under a minute: name, confirm the match, then the brief. Follow-up chat is immediate after that — it uses the sources already gathered.
No. A name is enough. Filters help when the name is common. You never have to paste a profile URL to start.
Yes. Lookups are saved to your account. Reopen the page before a call and keep asking against the same sources.
Search a name. Confirm the person. Read a sourced page from the public web. They will not know. Cancel anytime.