Who OneSearch is for

OneSearch is one product on every page in this cluster: type a name, confirm the person, read a sourced public-web brief, then ask follow-ups. The ticket changes. The confirm gate does not. A Slack referral, a partner intro, a first-call name, or a source you need to verify all start as a string. A string is not a person until you have disambiguated them, and it is never a license to run a background check.

This hub is for people who already have a professional reason to research someone in public. Recruiters who need a first note that could only have been written about that candidate. Founders walking into a partner or investor meeting. Salespeople who want a first-call brief instead of a contact waterfall. Researchers and operators who need citations attached to every claim. If you do not have a job like that — if you are browsing names, looking up a neighbor, or trying to decide whether someone is eligible to be hired, housed, lent to, or insured — stop. The product is not for that.

When to stop is as important as who this is for. Stop if two public trails could be the same name and you cannot tell them apart. Stop if the public web is quiet and the brief would have to invent a career. Stop if the next action is an eligibility decision. OneSearch is not a consumer reporting agency, is not FCRA-compliant, and does not produce consumer reports. The short policy is FCRA and legal use. The classification method is people search is not a background check.

The four pages below are the same ten-minute workflow with different questions on the brief. They are not four products and they do not unlock different data. Read the one that matches the ticket you actually have, then leave. If you want the product without an audience frame, start at people search. If you want the methods you can run by hand — collisions, operators, verification, first-call briefs — start at people-research guides.

Audience pages

Pick the job you actually have. None of these pages license a background check.

• People search for recruiting

  Private public-web briefs before outreach. Confirm the candidate. Not a background check.

• People research for founders

  Walk into a partner or investor meeting already briefed from the public web.

• Pre-call people research for sales

  A sourced first-call brief from a name — not a contact waterfall.

• Sourced people research

  Confirm a source or subject and keep citations attached to every claim.