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People Search

Find the right contacts at any organization with filters, presets, and saved company lists, then unlock their emails and reach out.

People Search helps you find the right people to contact at any organization. You narrow the list with filters, save the searches you run often as presets, and unlock verified emails when you're ready to reach out.

Watch: how to use People Search

Open People Search

Select People Search from the left sidebar. Results load right away, and you narrow them with the filters at the top of the page.

Choose a tab

  • All: search every contact in FirstIgnite.

  • Saved: search only the people you've saved to lists or projects.

  • Email Accessed: see the people whose email you've already unlocked.

Switching tabs clears the filter bar, because each tab searches a different group of people.

Filter your results

Set one or more filters, then click Apply. Click Reset all to start over.

Companies

Type company names to see people who work there. To use a list you've already built, turn on Select From Saved Company List and pick the list. Then tick Search all companies in this list, or click the companies you want.

Job Titles

Tick one or more title categories: Commercial, Research, Leadership, or Recruitment. Hover the help icon next to a category to see the titles it covers. You can also type your own titles, and open Exclude Job Titles to leave some out.

For more control, switch on Boolean Search and write a query such as Director AND Research AND NOT Assistant. Put phrases in quotes for exact matches.

Locations

The Locations filter has two tabs, and you can use both at once:

  • Person filters by where the person lives.

  • Company HQ filters by where their employer is based.

On each tab, search By region (countries, states, or cities, or a ZIP or postal code followed by its country) or By distance (a US ZIP code or a city, within 10 to 100 miles). When you search by region on the Person tab, open Exclude Locations to leave places out.

Industries

Pick the industries to include, and open Exclude Industries to leave some out.

Name

Find a specific person by name.

Keywords

Add keywords such as dental, AI, or robotics to find people whose profile matches them.

Email Status

Switch to Verified to show only people with a verified email.

Company Size

Filter by the number of employees at the person's company. This filter appears on the All tab only.

Alumni

Find graduates of specific schools. Search for one or more schools, then narrow by degree (Bachelors, Masters, or PhD), major, and graduation year. If your search starts from your own institution, Alumni Search is built for that.

Save your filters as presets

If you run the same search often, save it as a preset:

  1. Open Presets and click New Preset.

  2. Choose the job titles, locations, industries, and email preference you want.

  3. Name it and click Create Preset.

To use a preset, tick it and click Apply. You can combine presets with other filters, and use Edit or Duplicate to change one.

Work with your results

  • Unlock an email. Click Get Email next to a contact. People without a verified email show No email. Unlocked contacts also appear on the Email Accessed tab.

  • View a profile. Click a contact to see their background, experience, education, and public patents and publications.

  • Write outreach. From the profile, use the panel on the right to draft and edit an outreach email.

  • See more at once. Change the number of results per page at the bottom left of the table.

Tips

  • Combine filters for tighter results, for example a title category, a saved company list, and Verified email.

  • Use a saved company list to find contacts across many organizations in one search.

  • People Search remembers the filters you last applied, so you can pick up where you left off.

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