Dev tools · September 17, 2025
Person search API
Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here https://youtu.be/IouWW97hBN8 If you run agents at scale, tokens become a line item. The web data is the worst input: long pages, repeated content, mixed entities, stale claims. The usual web search -> scrape -> summarize + structure forces the agent to spend tokens doing…
Person search API launched on September 17, 2025 with 790 votes, #10 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Person Search API is a developer tool that finds people data through a single API call, designed for AI agents and platforms. It offers over 60 filters that can be combined in various ways to identify specific individuals for hiring, sales, or investment purposes. The service provides comprehensive, programmatic access to web-based people data, enabling users to target and retrieve exactly the candidates or contacts they need.
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From the sources
The ultimate search for people data on the web for AI agents and platforms - comprehensive, targeted, and programmatic With 60+ filters (& unlimited ways to combine them), you can find exactly who you need to sell to, hire, or invest in with one API call
Crustdata provides real-time B2B data API for AI agents with 1B+ people and 60M+ companies to power sales, recruiting, and investment workflows.
“After trying Affinity, Clay and other vendors, nothing matched the depth and responsiveness of Crustdata.” “Crustdata shows 50 to 60 people that are great fits. A huge jump in quality.” “One of the best vendors we've worked with. Great product, even better people.” “After trying Affinity, Clay and other vendors, nothing matched the depth and responsiveness of Crustdata.” “Crustdata shows 50 to 60 people that are great fits. A huge jump in quality.” “One of the best vendors we've worked with. Great product, even better people.” Crustdata indexes every web page on the internet and parses it into one live graph of people and companies. Available via API or MCP. Crustdata indexes every web…from crustdata.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi HN! We’re Abhilash Chowdhary, Chris Pisarski and Manmohit Grewal. We built Crustdata (YC F24). Today we’re launching our web search API for AI agents, which not only returns the most relevant documents from the web but also maps them to the correct entity (person, company or event). Demo video here…
Pricing, as stated on its site
Free — Crustdata is a B2B data API provider for AI agents offering people and company search capabilities. No pricing information is provided on their website.
checked October 2026 · prices change
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