The plays
Five things we'd build under the engine.
Ordered by how fast Elyssa could run them. Play 01 is the missing layer in every lookup today.
01
Every lookup comes back with dated, same-team evidence.
The missing layerRun it this week
The form already collects a name and a profile URL. Crustdata reads that person live and matches every past job and school against Superhuman's 2,397 people in our index: who overlapped, where, which months, in which seats, at what size of company. A shared badge at a 100,000-person employer isn't a back channel, so those count light unless the two sat in the same function. At the reference stage the same rows show who sat in the same org at the same time, and in what seat.
How it runs
- The engine sends the profile URL to
person_enrich. Live, so last week's job change is there.
- Match against Superhuman's roster, kept current with
person_search across all seven company records.
- Return evidence rows (company, months together, seats, company size) to the engine's warmth logic and the Slack read.
Today's overlap says "both worked at Box". This says "same sales org, July 2012 to January 2017, 54 months side by side".
Destination Superhuman GoCadence every lookupTrigger form submit
One evidence row, as the engine gets itOct 19, 2026
At SuperhumanSolutions Engineer
Shared companyBox · about 4,400 people today
TogetherJul 2012 → Jan 2017 · 54 months
Their seatsLead Sales Engineer, while the candidate ran renewals and then enterprise inside sales
Same orgSales
Also overlapped22 more Superhuman people, at Box
→ your warmth logic decides the rank
02
Kenny's network sessions start from a map, not a blank page.
Closes the first-degree gapRan it on Sierra
166 people started a Superhuman role since July. Before each 30-minute session, Crustdata builds the new hire's map: who they worked beside, who joined while they were hiring, who engages with them in public, cut to the roles Superhuman has open. We ran it on Sierra, who joined in August. 6,829 people overlapped with Sierra at Box or Miro. 439 sat on the same recruiting and people teams, and 725 joined Miro in business roles while Sierra led business recruiting there. 1,376 of the strongest ties now work in a function Superhuman is hiring for, including 191 account executives and 135 sales leaders. The session turns that list into confirmed ties.
How it runs
- On the start date,
person_enrich the new hire, then pull everyone who overlapped at each past employer with person_search: dates, team, hiring window.
- Add the people who engage with their posts (
social_post_list_live), then cut to titles that match Superhuman's open reqs (job_search).
- The new hire confirms in the session. RecOps writes the confirmed ties into the engine as the top warmth tier.
The employee does one thing: the 30 minutes Kenny already wants with them. A list to react to beats a blank page and a memory test.
Destination RecOps + the sessionCadence once per startTrigger start date
Sierra's session mapOct 19, 2026
6,829
overlapped with Sierra at Box (2014 to 2019) or Miro (2019 to 2023)
1,376
strong ties now in a function Superhuman is hiring for
Eng & data480
People & recruiting209
Account execs191
Sales leaders135
Customer success135
Marketing128
Product & design50
Finance & legal48
Strong = same team, joined during Sierra's hiring years, or two or more years side by side. Names come back in the pull, for Sierra and RecOps only.
03
Catch the ties that never show up on paper.
Beyond overlap
Repeat reactions, comments and tags are a public record of who actually talks to whom. We read Sierra's last 23 posts: 207 people engaged more than once or left a comment. 104 of them have no employer and no school in common with Sierra, mostly recruiting and people leaders at other companies, plus founders and executives. Overlap logic can't find a single one. In the engine, the same check runs on the candidate: whose posts they engage with, and who at Superhuman engages with theirs.
How it runs
social_post_list_live on the candidate's recent posts, with reactors and commenters.- Resolve those people with
person_enrich and match them to Superhuman's roster.
- Flag repeat engagers and commenters as a warmth signal next to the overlap rows.
It only sees people who post or engage in public, and recent posts at that. It's proof of interaction, not a confirmed connection, so it should sit under a layer-three tie in the engine's weighting.
Destination Superhuman GoCadence every lookupTrigger form submit
Who engages with Sierra's posts · 207 peopleOct 19, 2026
Worked with Sierra at Box, Miro or since84
Share a school19
No shared employer or school104
Recruiting, talent and people leaders elsewhere51
Founders and executives20
Sales and GTM8
Everyone else25
Engaged with two or more of Sierra's posts, or commented. Names withheld.
04
Open reqs, sorted warm-first.
Head of SMB and Commercial SalesSide by side with Noon
Superhuman posted Head of SMB and Commercial Sales on September 19. We pulled 906 US SMB, commercial and mid-market sales leaders at software and internet companies. 654 have a path to someone at Superhuman. 162 have a strong one: a year or more side by side, in the same function or at a company small enough that it means something. 146 different Superhuman people are a strong path to at least one of them. The most common strong paths run through Samsara, Yelp and Datadog.
How it runs
person_search on the req's titles and segments for the pool (semantic mode works when the req reads loose).- Score every candidate's paths against Superhuman's roster, weighted by company size and function.
- Hand the list to Noon or Ashby in warm-first order, with the path on every row.
Noon finds the people. This tells the sourcer who at Superhuman can open the door, before the first message goes out.
Destination Noon · AshbyCadence per open reqTrigger req opened
Strongest path per candidate · a sample of the 162Oct 19, 2026
Companies and titles only. Names come back in the pull. Some of these companies may be Superhuman customers.
05
Every team that joins brings its network.
Only Superhuman can run this one
Superhuman sits across seven company records in our index: Superhuman, Grammarly, Superhuman Mail, Coda, Rows, GPTZero and Fathom. Each team that joins adds its whole career history to the back-channel graph. Fathom's 142 people alone bring 875 past employers, and on their own they're a path to 268 of the 906 sales leaders above, 24 of them strong. A CSV process would need every one of them to export, then export again. Here the roster refreshes from public profiles, and a watch flags it when someone with a strong path changes jobs.
How it runs
person_search across all seven company records each week: add starters, drop leavers.- Re-score open reqs and saved candidates against the new roster.
watch on strong-path candidates: a job change or a new title sends the engine a webhook.
Five teams joined in under two years. Each one should make every lookup warmer the week it happens, without anyone asking for a spreadsheet.
Destination RecOpsCadence weekly + on changeTrigger roster change
The roster, by company recordOct 19, 2026
2,397 people in our index, each counted once under their main current record. Past-employer counts overlap across records.
