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Date: December 19, 2025 We’re launching Exa People Search, a new way to find and discover people on the web, designed for real production use across sales, recruiting, research, and more.
Try People Search in our API Playground with category = "people". Try People Search in the dashboard →

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What’s New

State-of-the-art people search: Exa indexed 1B+ public profiles and trained a hybrid retrieval system (fine-tuned embeddings + Exa Search) to deliver highly accurate role, skill, and company based people search at web scale. Usecase focused: Customers can run queries like “VP of Product at Microsoft” or “enterprise sales reps from Microsoft in EMEA” and programmatically enrich results with profiles for sales, recruiting, and market research workflows.

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What Changed

We’re replacing the linkedin category with the new people category to provide better, more comprehensive people search results.

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Before

# Old approach - limited to LinkedIn
result = exa.search("VP of Product at Microsoft", category="linkedin")

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After

# New approach - comprehensive people search across the web
result = exa.search("VP of Product at Microsoft", category="people")
Simply use category="people" in your search requests: 
curl -X POST https://api.exa.ai/search \
  -H "x-api-key: EXA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "query": "Product managers at Microsoft",
    "category": "people",
    "numResults": 10
  }'
The new people category provides:
  • Broader coverage: 1B+ profiles across the entire web, not just LinkedIn
  • Better accuracy: Fine-tuned embeddings specifically for people search
  • More relevant results: Hybrid retrieval system optimized for role, skill, and company queries

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Learn More

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Need Help?

If you have questions about migrating from the linkedin category or want to learn more about optimizing your people search queries, reach out to [email protected]. We’re here to help you get the most out of Exa People Search!