Problem

Clodo addresses the labor-intensive problem of finding the exact person who matches a complicated profile, particularly when ordinary filters cannot capture niche expertise, company context, timing, or buying intent. The pain spans sales prospecting, recruiting, expert sourcing, and market research: teams may need a former regulator, a specific product user, a hard-to-reach buyer, or an expert who is available at the right moment. Clodo frames the economics as substantial, citing roughly $900 billion spent each year on the task of finding the right person.

The killer use case is high-specificity discovery where broad databases produce too much noise or miss the relevant person entirely. Examples include finding former FDA reviewers with medical-device clearance experience, expert verifiers for AI-model training, customers of a particular startup, or decision-makers showing active signals such as hiring, funding, or tool evaluation.

Product / Service

Clodo is an AI people-discovery platform delivered through a natural-language web product and an agent-ready API. A user describes the target persona in plain English; Clodo searches the live web and hundreds of proprietary datasets, qualifies matches against the description, and returns a ranked list enriched with verified email addresses, phone numbers, profile data, company context, and intent signals. Its API fuses public and licensed sources at query time, de-duplicates them, and supports natural-language search, enrichment, MCP, and agent integrations.

The product is sold as a credit-based SaaS offering, with an Individual plan priced at $125 per month and an Enterprise plan with custom pricing, unlimited credits, signal monitoring, automated outbound, collaboration features, and CRM, ATS, and database integrations. The benefit is to compress hours of manual research into a repeatable workflow for finding, qualifying, enriching, and reaching scarce experts, hires, and buyers.

Market

Clodo competes in the emerging AI people-search and people-discovery market, overlapping sales intelligence, recruiting technology, expert sourcing, account research, and automated outbound. The most clearly evidenced comparison points are LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Apollo for prospecting, while customer testimonials position Clodo as an Exa-like search product for people and niche personas. Its differentiation is the combination of natural-language discovery, broad web and proprietary-data synthesis, fresh intent signals, and actionability through verified contact data and outbound integrations.

Clodo appears to have commercial usage rather than being merely pre-revenue: the company reports more than 1,000 organizations, 1.3 billion searchable profiles, 11,800-plus meetings sourced, usage in 43 countries, and more than 28 hours saved per month. Its customer stories name organizations including U.S. News & World Report, Mercor, Flagright, Eragon, Novoflow, Acctual, and Ergo, while its Y Combinator profile lists the company as founded in 2025, active, and part of the Summer 2025 batch. However, the available evidence does not disclose revenue or ARR, so traction is best characterized as customer and usage traction with undisclosed financial performance.