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BreakoutAI is designed for expert sourcing for senior technical roles. Find, enrich, and reach the exact people you need, fast.

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Finding the right people should not look like this

10+ tools, complex workflows, instead of talking to candidates and clients.

But like this with BreakoutAI

A team of AI agents researches every candidate and builds the evidence for your shortlist.

Recruiter buried in sourcing tools
Recruiter working with BreakoutAI

Researching candidates

reading 19+ sources…

Daniel Reyes

VP Research at Exact Sciences

Led an oncology assay from research to FDA clearance

Verifying team-scaling claims

Ask anything…

Evidence-backed dossiers from these sources

  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • arXiv
  • DBLP
  • Google Scholar
  • Semantic Scholar
  • ORCID
  • DOI / Crossref
  • ResearchGate
  • Hugging Face
  • PyPI
  • GitLab
  • Medium
  • X
  • YouTube
Live signals

We read everything they’ve ever shipped.

Share a job description and one calibration call. We trace every candidate across eight evidence streams so depth, not keywords, drives your shortlist.
LinkedIn & professional profiles
GitHub & code
Papers & preprints
Scholar & publication indexes
Personal sites & CVs
University, lab & thesis records
Company & team pages
Projects, models & demos
BreakoutAI
Shortlist ready
12,400 researched · 5 surfaced
Overnight
01 · Interview firstRole fit: 8.8
Dr. Maren Fischer
First-author action model — evaluated on real robots, code public
Evidence:PaperGitHubModel weights
Verify next: Did she own training & hardware debugging?
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
12 sources
02 · Strong scientist
One uncertainty to check live
Role fit: 8.4
03 · Hidden gemRole fit: 8.1
James Whitmore
Missed by the title filter — title says engineer, output says research lead
Evidence:ThesisDemos
Verify next: Availability and notice period
Location: London, United Kingdom
9 sources
Human reviewed
Agents research · people decide
7/7 sourced

What usually takes weeks…

The mandate

A Research Scientist in robot learning for a European robotics scale-up. Must have first-author work on action-generating policies (RL / VLA), a public builder trail of code, models, benchmarks, and EU work authorization.

Sales Navigator
Sales Navigator
Action_Policies_preprint_v3.pdf
Action_Policies_preprint_v3.pdf
github.com/lv-robotics/policy-rl
github.com/lv-robotics/policy-rl
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter
Clay · enrichment
Clay · enrichment
app.zoominfo.com
app.zoominfo.com
app.apollo.io
app.apollo.io
ChatGPT · approach email
ChatGPT · approach email
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01427
scholar.google.com
openreview.net/forum
huggingface.co/models
dblp.org
orcid.org/0009-4121-…
semanticscholar.org
Gmail7,251
who’s doing similar research?
the client call is Friday!
can you get their contact info ASAP
client said they’re not really relevant at all
email them please
filters no good
nobody senior enough
pure AI slop
no email found
still no reply

Becomes an evidence-backed shortlist with BreakoutAI

All we needed The job description One calibration call
Research Scientist in robot learning with first-author work on action-generating policies (RL / VLA), real-robot experience, a public trail of code and models, and EU work authorization.
LinkedIn85% GitHub81% arXiv57% Google Scholar37% OpenReview27% Hugging Face8%+ 15 more sources

Real numbers from this search: 689 candidates researched into 432 evidence dossiers — median 17 sources per candidate.

Dr. Lena Vondra
Postdoc, Robot Learning · ETH Zürich
First-author dexterous-policy papers · 2× challenge winner
21 sources
BULLSEYE
Tomas Brandt
Sr. Software Engineer · warehouse robotics
Title says engineer, output says researcher · 1,900 commits on policy repos
14 sources
HIGH FIT
Priya Menon
Research Scientist · foundation-model lab
First-author VLA paper · public checkpoints · real-robot evals
17 sources
BULLSEYE
Shortlist ready. Every claim linked to its source
Specialties

The rare senior profiles your clients ask for

Research scientists, medical officers, and AI engineers: the candidates who never show up in a keyword search.

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Boutique executive search firms use BreakoutAI to deliver shortlists their clients can interrogate.

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