Your Agent or Ours

One search layer, every stack

The people data landscape is fragmented by design. Every vendor wants to be your single source of truth, which means locking you into their platform, their schema, their workflow, and their pricing model. Ploid takes the opposite approach. We built the search and enrichment layer — the hard part, the part that requires indexing billions of people across hundreds of sources and resolving them into unified profiles — and we made it available however you want to consume it. Through our platform directly. Or embedded inside the AI agent you are already building. We do not care how you use it. We care that it works.

This is not a philosophical position. It is an architectural decision. Ploid is stateless, schema-consistent, and designed to be the people intelligence primitive that any application can call. Whether you are building a recruiting agent in LangChain, a sales automation pipeline in n8n, a research tool on top of Claude, or a custom CRM integration — Ploid plugs in the same way. One format. No platform lock-in. No rip-and-replace. No six-month migration project.

Built for the agent era

The companies building the most interesting products right now are not building monolithic SaaS applications. They are building agents — autonomous workflows that reason, search, decide, and act. These agents need access to real-world data about real people, and they need it in a format they can consume programmatically. A human can look at a LinkedIn profile and extract meaning. An agent needs structured JSON with consistent field names and reliable coverage.

Ploid was designed from the ground up to be the people data layer for these agents. Ask Ploid “who is the VP of Engineering at this company” and you get a structured response in milliseconds. Ask it “find me twenty machine learning engineers in Berlin who have contributed to open-source projects” and you get twenty enriched profiles, ready for your agent to reason over, filter, and act on. No HTML parsing. No rate-limited scraping. No brittle integration that breaks when a website redesigns.

We have seen customers embed Ploid into GPT-based agents that autonomously source candidates and draft outreach. Into Claude-powered research assistants that map competitive landscapes. Into custom sales bots that enrich inbound leads in real time and route them to the right rep. The use cases are as varied as the teams building them, and they all share one thing in common: they need people data, and Ploid is the fastest, most complete way to get it.

No vendor lock-in, by design

We do not require you to use our UI. We do not require you to store data in our system. We do not charge differently based on which tool you use. If you want to use Ploid through our web platform, it is beautiful and it works. If you want to embed it inside your own agent, that works too. If you want to switch from one integration pattern to another, your data and your queries remain the same. This is how infrastructure should work — invisible, reliable, and yours to use however you see fit.

We built Ploid this way because we have seen what happens when companies get locked into data vendors. The vendor raises prices. The vendor changes their schema. The vendor gets acquired and sunsets the product you depend on. Every one of these scenarios is devastating when your entire go-to-market stack depends on a single provider with proprietary lock-in. Ploid eliminates that risk. Our schema is documented. If you ever want to leave, you take your queries, point them at another provider, and nothing in your application changes. We bet that you will stay because the data is better, not because the switching cost is high.

Every vertical, one primitive

The people data problem is too important and too universal to be solved by a single application. Sales teams need it. Recruiting teams need it. Marketing teams need it. Research teams need it. AI agents need it. Product teams building people-powered applications need it. Security teams running background checks need it. Compliance teams verifying identities need it. The list is endless because every business, at some level, is a people business.

Ploid exists to serve all of them — not by building a different product for each use case, but by building one extraordinarily good search and enrichment layer and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere, through every interface that matters. One primitive. Every vertical. That is the product.

Start in minutes

There is no onboarding call. No six-week implementation. No professional services engagement required. Sign up and start searching. Open the platform, type a query, and get answers. Ploid meets you where you are, works the way you work, and scales from your first query to your billionth without any architectural changes on your side.

People data should be as easy to access as a database query. We built Ploid to make it exactly that. No friction. No gatekeeping. No artificial complexity. Just the most complete index of people on the internet, available to you in whatever form you need it, whenever you need it. That is the promise. And if you are reading this, you can test it right now.