Find people with experienceyou can’t search for by title.
Daero turns a messy request into the right people, not just people with adjacent titles. Each one comes with why they fit, what the evidence actually establishes and what to confirm before outreach.
Example: a request, a mark for each must-have, and one fictional person under the Strong leads heading with a quote and a question for the call.
01Request
“Engineering leaders who personally led a monolith-to-microservices migration in the last five years. Leave out consultants.”
02Must-haves
✓Large production systemShown by a source
✓In the last five yearsShown by a source
~Led the migration personallyLikely from the sources
03Strong leads
Marcus OyelaranPrincipal Engineer · Tidewell Logistics
“We moved the order platform off the monolith and onto events between 2022 and 2024.”
Conference talk page · 2024
Ask on the call: Did you lead the migration yourself, or one team’s part of it?
The problem
Titles, keywords and networks miss the right people.
Titles
Say what someone was called.
Not what they actually did. The person who led the work often never had the obvious title.
Keywords
Find pages that mention the words.
Not the person behind the work, or whether they did it themselves.
Databases
Start from who is already listed.
Directories and profile databases begin with the profiles they hold, not with what the person must have done.
Daero
Starts from the action.
It reads interviews, trade articles, publications, case studies and conference talks for evidence of what the person did.
How it works
Describe. Check the reading. Review the proof.
01
Describe the person you need.
A messy request is fine: who the person is, what they must have done, in what context and what rules them out. When you confirm, pick a search size: About 10, About 30 or 40 or more.
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Describe who you want to find.
Who are you looking for?
Find engineering leaders who personally led the migration of a large production system from a monolith to event-driven microservices in the last five years. Leave out consultants and current employees of our company.
A niche, a vague idea or a detailed brief all work. Daero states any assumption it makes alongside the results.
Review request
02
Check what Daero understood.
Daero breaks the request into the person, the action, the context, the exclusions and the constraints, and shows every point it will check. Nothing is searched until you confirm.
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Missions › New project › Check the request
Before searching
Check what Daero understood
Nothing has been searched yet. Fix anything that’s wrong so the search looks for the right people.
Before Daero searches
Must the person still be in that role?
A current or former role counts · Daero’s pick
In the role now · the search then requires: Is in the role now
What the search checks for each person
From your request as you’ve left it above. A person counts only when a source shows every must-have.
Must havePersonally led the migration of a production system from a monolith to event-driven microservices
Must haveThe system was a large production system
Must haveThe migration happened in the last five years
Leave outConsultants
Leave outCurrent employees of your company
Looks right, start searchBack to my request
03
Get people in groups, with the proof on every card.
Daero searches the public web and reads the pages it finds. People come back under Recommended, Strong leads and Also worth a look, each with a ✓, ~ or ✗ for every must-have and a question to ask on the call.
✓ Large production system✓ Last five years~ Led it personally
A result, up close
The evidence, and the gaps, on every person.
Each must-have gets its own mark, and the quote shows its source and date. What the sources can’t settle becomes a question to ask on the call. Where Daero couldn’t check something, it says so instead of guessing.
✓Shown by a source. A page Daero read shows this must-have.
~Likely from the sources. The sources point to it, but none says it outright. Ask on the call.
✗A source says otherwise. Shown, not hidden, so you can judge it.
Gave a conference talk on moving Tidewell’s order platform from a monolith to events between 2022 and 2024.
✓ Large production system
✓ In the last five years
~ Led the migration personally
“We moved the order platform off the monolith and onto events between 2022 and 2024.”Conference talk page · 2024
Ask on the call: Did you lead the migration yourself, or one team’s part of it?
Left Tidewell Logistics in 2025 · usually easier to book, and free to speak
KeepNot a fitFind on LinkedInMore sources (2)
Plain boundaries
What Daero is, and what it isn’t.
Daero is
Software your team runs on its own requests.
A search of public sources that reads the pages it finds.
A clear reading of your request, shown before anything is searched.
Evidence, currentness and open points for each person.
Daero isn’t
A people database or a pre-vetted pool. Every search starts fresh from public sources.
An outreach tool. Daero doesn’t contact anyone; your team decides who to approach, outside Daero.
A source of contact details. It doesn’t promise them.
A guarantee. Where it can’t check a role or claim, it says so.
Who it’s for
Built for any “who has done this?” question.
Executive recruiting
Find candidates who have done the exact job, not only held the title.
“Find executives who have led this specific transformation.”
Research and investing
Find the practitioners and specialists behind a niche question, and see why each one may be worth talking to.
“Find physicians who have actually used this treatment pathway.”
Consulting and diligence
Find operators, former buyers and specialists who have seen a market from the inside.
“Find operators who have dealt with this niche regulatory or commercial problem.”
Also used for healthcare, partnerships, founder, operator and strategy questions, and for finding people to speak with on expert calls: any hard “who has done this?” request you can describe in plain English. These are the kinds of requests Daero is built for, not reported results.
Evidence, limits and review
Built for responsible review.
Daero never turns “possible” into “verified”. A highly relevant person stays visible even when public evidence is thin, with exactly what to confirm. When fewer people meet your must-haves than you asked for, Daero says so instead of loosening them to fill the list.
Daero is early software. Treat every shortlist as a starting point for your own judgment.