# Welcome to Clodo

> Find the right people, enrich their contact details, and turn research into personalized outreach — all through a single API.

## Get started

Create an account, get your API key, and make your first request.

- [Get an API Key](https://docs.clodo.ai/get-api-key) — Create your account and connect to the Clodo API.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-quick-start) — Make your first request in just a few minutes.

## APIs

Search for people with natural language, resolve their professional identities, and reach them from your own connected inbox.

**Search API**

- [Agentic Search](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/agentic-search) — The canonical agentic people search endpoint. Describe the people you want to find in as much detail as you like—their role, background, expertise, company, or specific experiences. Clodo searches and researches potential matches, returning people with evidence explaining why they fit your criteria.
- [People Search](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/people-search) — Find sales leads, source candidates, and discover industry experts with a natural-language people search. Describe your target audience and retrieve matching professional profiles.
- [Deep Search](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/deep-search) — Find and qualify sales prospects, candidates, and subject-matter experts against detailed criteria. Turn a targeted people search into a researched shortlist with professional context and fit scores.

**Enrichment API**

- [Email Enrichment](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/email-enrichment) — Find a professional email address from a profile URL or a name and company domain.
- [Phone Enrichment](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/phone-enrichment) — Find a person’s phone number from their professional identity.
- [Professional URL](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/professional-url) — Resolve a person’s identity to a professional profile URL.
- [Professional Profile](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/professional-profile) — Retrieve a person’s work history, education, and current role from their profile URL.

**Outreach API**

- [Outreach Emails](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/outreach-emails) — Draft personalized emails, review them, and send from your connected inbox.
- [Sequences](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/sequences) — Create, review, and run personalized email sequences with automatic follow-ups.
- [Sending Accounts](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/endpoint/sending-accounts) — Check your connected mailboxes before creating outreach emails or sequences.

## Build a workflow

Start with a [people search API use case](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/use-cases), then connect the endpoints your application needs:

- [GTM lead generation](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/gtm-lead-generation) — find B2B prospects, qualify decision-makers, enrich contact details, and prepare sales outreach.
- [Recruiting and candidate sourcing](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/recruiting-candidate-sourcing) — turn job requirements into a candidate search, review professional evidence, and draft recruiter messages.
- [Expert discovery](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/expert-discovery) — identify practitioners for industry interviews, customer research, and advisory projects.

## Build with your AI tools

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The [documentation index](https://docs.clodo.ai/llms.txt) gives agents a list of all available pages. [Download the full documentation](https://docs.clodo.ai/llms-full.txt) for a single text reference.

## Developer resources

- [Authentication](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/authentication) — API keys and request headers.
- [Webhook events](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/webhook-events) — receive search and enrichment results.
- [Async polling](https://docs.clodo.ai/guides/async-polling) — follow a job through completion.
- [Handling errors](https://docs.clodo.ai/api-reference/errors) — understand failures and retry safely.