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Clado

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Clado is a people-search and enrichment platform for recruiting and sales teams. It accepts natural-language criteria to find professional profiles, supports AI-validated deep research and asynchronous jobs, and can enrich results with contact and profile data in structured JSON.

Vendor's own claim
activation/delivery

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Natural-language people search across professional profiles
  • Deep research and AI-validated profile discovery
  • Asynchronous job management for large searches and result continuation
  • Contact discovery for email addresses and phone numbers
  • Profile scraping and bulk enrichment
  • LinkedIn post-reaction and engagement analysis

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
Bearer API token; the docs state keys begin with lk_.
Notable endpoints
  • People Search with natural-language queries
  • Deep Research Advanced Search
  • Asynchronous job management
  • Search continuation
  • Contact discovery
  • Profile scraping
  • Bulk enrichment
  • LinkedIn post analytics
Machine-readable spec
No OpenAPI link

What is Clado

Vendor's own claim

Clado presents Atlas as a team-oriented deep-research and profile-enrichment workspace, while its API docs describe an explicit search and enrichment surface. The docs also state that responses are AI-generated and may contain mistakes, which matters when using output for sourcing or outreach decisions.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Recruiting and sales teams that need to turn a complex human-profile request into a structured candidate or prospect set, then enrich that set with contact, profile, or engagement data through an API.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

Teams that require deterministic, error-free identity data or a fixed subscription cost should not use Clado as an unreviewed source of truth: its docs explicitly say AI-generated responses may contain mistakes, and its API is credit-based per successful operation. Treat its results as research inputs that need validation before high-stakes hiring, compliance, or automated outreach decisions.

Tools in the same layer

Our read

No curated rival set covers this tool yet, so these are simply other tools in the same architectural layer and product form. Treat it as a starting point, not a shortlist.

Clado FAQ

What can Clado search for?

Clado's API is designed to find LinkedIn profiles from natural-language requests, such as people by role, company, location, education, or investment criteria.

From official docs
Can Clado enrich contact information?

Yes. The API documentation lists contact discovery for email addresses and phone numbers, plus profile scraping and bulk enrichment.

From official docs
How does the Clado API authenticate?

All endpoints require Bearer-token authentication with API keys that start with lk_.

From official docs
Does Clado support large research jobs?

Yes. Its docs describe asynchronous job management for large-scale searches and continuation support for expanding existing research with more results.

From official docs
How is the API billed?

The documentation describes a credit-based system where customers pay for successful operations with per-request pricing. No public price table was retrieved in this pass.

From official docs
Can I rely on Clado output without review?

No. Clado's own API documentation warns that responses are generated using AI and may contain mistakes. Treat that as a reason to validate important results, not as a claim that every result is inaccurate.

From official docs

Verify before you buy

  • Public pricing figures, documented MCP support, changelog, integration catalog, numeric rate limits, and machine-readable OpenAPI specification - not retrieved in this pass
  • A machine-readable OpenAPI specification was not included in the reviewed source set.
  • Published pricing was not available in the reviewed source set; confirm current commercial terms with the vendor.

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