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The Wiggli Intelligence search engine

An 850M+ profile database paired with AI query interpretation, so you can find candidates without writing complex Boolean strings.

Overview

Why it matters

Traditional search tools make you learn a query language. You guess which job titles candidates use, remember the right operators, and keep adjusting until results look reasonable. It’s slow, brittle, and biased toward what you already know.

Wiggli inverts that. Describe the role in plain language and the engine works out the job-title synonyms, infers the relevant skills, and proposes filters you can adjust. Boolean and manual filters are still there when you want full control. They’re an option, not a requirement.

How it works

The engine sits on 850M+ people profiles and 70M+ company profiles, aggregated from public sources and refreshed in real time. Four ways to start a search:

Smart Prompt

Type a plain-language description. The engine extracts job title, skills, location, industry, and language, then proposes synonyms you can accept or remove.

Job Description

Upload a JD (.doc, .docx, .pdf). The engine parses it like a prompt and applies the extracted criteria.

Similar Profile

Upload a CV that represents your ideal hire. The engine finds others with comparable background and skills.

Manual Filters

Build by hand: job titles, companies, exclusions, skills, location radius, industries, schools, certifications, experience, languages, and Boolean.

Once results return, refine with AI-suggested titles, skills, and industries, which surface adjacent terms (and hidden A-tier candidates) you might not have thought of. Exclude irrelevant companies, widen the radius, and save the search as a Saved Filter to re-run later.

A useful split to keep in mind: the search engine finds the pool, the AI Co-pilot qualifies it. Precise, judgment-based criteria (years in a specific field, current vs past role) are better handled by the Co-pilot inside a project than forced into search filters.

When to use which method

  • New role, clear in your head: Smart Prompt
  • New role with a written JD: upload the JD
  • “More like this great candidate”: Similar Profile
  • Niche role, exact titles and skills known: Smart prompt + Manual Filters or Boolean

Many recruiters seed with a Smart Prompt, then switch to manual to fine-tune. Mixing is normal.

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