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title: "People at a company"
description: "Openlead finds up to 3 people at every company a search returns: CEOs, founders and heads of sales or marketing, each with a title and a profile link. People are free."
canonical_url: "https://openlead.ai/docs/people-at-a-company"
last_updated: "2026-11-10"
type: "concept"
section: "Search"
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# People at a company

Openlead finds up to 3 people at every company a search returns: CEOs, founders and heads of sales or marketing, each with a title and a profile link. People are free.

## How Openlead finds people

People come with companies. Once a search has found its companies, Openlead looks up the people at each one by name. It asks for up to 3 public professional profiles per company, and keeps the ones that have a name. Up to five companies are looked up at a time.

You do not search for people on their own. Openlead finds companies first, then the people at them.

## Which roles it looks for

Openlead looks for these roles at every company: CEO, Founder, Head of Sales, Head of Marketing.

All four roles go into one lookup, so you get up to 3 people in total, not one per role. A company can come back with fewer than 3 people, or none. You cannot change the roles in the app today.

To skip the people altogether, write "companies only" or "no people" in your sentence. See [describe your ideal customer](https://openlead.ai/docs/describe-your-icp).

## What you see for each person

- **Name.**
- **Title.** Read from the profile. When none could be read, Openlead shows "Title unknown".
- **Profile link.** The public profile the person was found on, for example a LinkedIn profile.
- **Location**, on the person page, when the profile has one.

Openlead does not show email addresses or phone numbers.

Click the number in a company's People cell to open the people under its row. The company page shows them as cards. Click a name for the person page, which also shows "From the profile": the first lines the search read, unedited. See [results and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/results-and-sources).

## Your database is checked first

Before it looks anyone up, Openlead checks for people it already knows at each company. People seen at a company within the last 90 days are reused instead of looked up again. Only companies with no known people get a lookup. The search shows this as "Checking your database for known companies", then "Finding people at each company" with a count of the lookups it really makes.

Every search adds what it finds to the database, so later searches can reuse it. See [data and sources](https://openlead.ai/docs/data-and-sources).

## People are free

People never count against your month. A company counts once, the first time your workspace finds it, and the people at it come with it. See [plans and credits](https://openlead.ai/docs/plans-and-credits).

## FAQ

### How many people do I get per company?

Up to 3. Some companies come back with fewer, or with "none found".

### Why does a company show "none found"?

The lookup came back without a named person, or it failed. A failed lookup never fails the search: the company stays in your results.

### Can I choose which job titles to find?

Not in the app today. Openlead looks for CEO, Founder, Head of Sales, Head of Marketing.

### Does Openlead find email addresses?

No. It shows each person's name, title and profile link.