HunterBuddy

Independent headhunters and senior search consultants, especially those who handle both business development and delivery, with a few hard-to-fill roles on their desk and a candidate database built up over the years. Leads are scattered across funding news, careers pages, CV databases, papers and open-source communities, too many for one person to watch every day and read in full. The research you’ve done is kept, ready for the next search.

General-purpose AI is good at answering one question at a time, but it doesn’t know your clients and candidates, or which companies you’ve already mapped. When it gives you a list of names, you often still have to check for yourself whether two entries are the same person and where each piece of information came from. HunterBuddy always starts from what you already have: the companies you know, the candidates you’ve worked with, the org charts you’ve mapped and the people who can introduce you. When the same person turns up in different places, the records are checked before they are merged, and every finding names its source. The work you finish is kept, so the next search goes faster.

Yes. You can have it check for you regularly, say once a week: whether any new companies in a sector you follow have raised funding, whether a target company’s careers page has changed, or whether a candidate you’re watching has updated their public profile. It only alerts you to changes worth your time, merges duplicates and stays quiet when there’s nothing new. It never acts on its own. What happens next is your call.

From your existing candidates and org charts, the public web and careers pages, papers and patents, open-source projects, and the CVs and documents you upload. Every lead keeps a note of where it came from. When the same person turns up in different sources, the records are checked before they are merged. It also shows which sources have been searched and where the gaps are, so you can decide what to fill in next.

Yes. Upload CVs one at a time or in bulk, and import org charts from Excel or similar formats to keep building on them. Everything you bring in goes through the same identity checks and de-duplication, and can be matched against all your live searches in one go.

Treat them as sourced guidance, not a final verdict. Every reason for a match comes with its source, so you can click through to the original material. Anything without a reliable source is marked “To confirm”, and guesses are never presented as facts. Some things you only find out by talking to the person, such as how big a team they really lead or whether they’re open to a move. HunterBuddy leaves those explicitly to you.

Those are where you post roles, search for candidates and get in touch with them, and HunterBuddy doesn’t replace them. It does the research before and during a search: putting public information alongside what you already have, verifying identities, mapping connections and citing sources, to help you decide who to approach first and what to say. CVs downloaded from these platforms can be uploaded too and checked along with everything else.

A CRM or ATS records your clients, roles and candidates, and where each submission stands. It manages work already under way. HunterBuddy helps you find what’s worth doing next: it looks for leads and connections in public information and your own resources, and gives you findings backed by sources. The two can be used together. People and relationships you’ve confirmed in HunterBuddy go into your CRM or ATS as usual.