Getting started
Navigating Ladel
The sidebar, Home, projects and where everything lives.
Everything in Ladel hangs off the sidebar on the left. This page walks through each part of it, what Home shows you, and how projects, chats and shortlists fit together, so you always know where to find something.
The sidebar#
The sidebar has three parts: the top row, the main pages, and the current project. Your settings and account sit at the bottom.
Top row
- Ladel logo: takes you back to Home.
- Pen icon (New chat with Haley): opens Haley, ready for a new request.
- Collapse icon (Collapse the sidebar (⌘B)): folds the sidebar into a thin rail of icons. Ladel remembers your choice on this browser.
- Search: opens quick search, the same as pressing ⌘K. See Quick search and LinkedIn links.
Main pages
| Page | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Home | Where each project stands, your recent work, and a box to start a new request to Haley. |
| Haley | All your chats with Haley, and a box to start a new one. |
| People | People search with filters, no sentence needed. |
| Companies | Company search by what they do, funding, size and city. |
| Projects | Every project you’ve made, with its status, chats and shortlist counts. |
Current project
Below the main pages, the sidebar shows one project: the one you’re in, or else the last one you opened. Click its name to open Switch project and pick another, or press + New project. Under the project name are its parts:
- Overview: the project’s page, with its details, chats and shortlist.
- Chats: the number of chats in the project, and up to eight of the latest by name.
- Shortlist: the number of people you’ve saved. This link appears once you’ve shortlisted someone.
A new project starts as Untitled project. Rename it from its overview page. See Projects.
Bottom of the sidebar
- Integrations: connect Gmail, Outlook and your calendar. See Connecting email and calendar.
- Settings: your profile, booking link, sign-in methods, workspace and time zone. See Settings.
- Support: opens these docs in a new tab. The Help button at the bottom left answers questions from the same docs. The Getting help page has the team’s email.
- Theme switch: the sun and moon icons swap between light and dark.
- Your name: opens a menu with Your workspace when you belong to more than one, Reload from account, which fetches your projects and chats again if something looks out of date, and Sign out.
Home#
Home is the first page you see after signing in. It greets you by name, and the Create new button opens a menu with Chat with Haley and New project.
The request box
Type into Ask Haley to find someone… and press Enter to start a new chat. Use the paperclip to attach a job description, and the project picker (it starts on No project) to start the chat inside a project.
Overview
The Overview card shows Where each project stands. Pick the period (Last 7 days, Last 30 days or Last 90 days) and either All projects or one project. Three tiles sit on top:
- Active projects: projects with a change in the period.
- People shortlisted: people added to shortlists in the period.
- Contact lookups: how many of your own credits have been used this month, out of your limit.
Below them, a table lists each project with how many people are shortlisted, how many have contact details, the last activity, and a Next column that tells you what the project needs, such as No contact details found yet or Quiet for 9 days.
Your recents and Activity
Your recents shows your three latest projects and three latest chats. Activity lists what happened lately: projects created, people shortlisted, new searches and exports.
How the pieces fit together#
Ladel is built around one idea: one project per role you’re filling.
A project holds one role
For example “Plant supervisor, Chakan” or “CFO, Series C fintech”. Give it a role, a location and a status.
Chats with Haley live in the project
Each chat is one conversation about the role. Ask follow-ups in the same chat to refine the search.
The people you pick go on its shortlist
From any chat or search, shortlist people into the project. The shortlist is where you find contacts and reach out.
You don’t have to start with a project
Start a chat with no project. The first time you shortlist someone from it, Ladel asks Which project? and the chat joins the one you pick.
Searching with Haley or with filters#
There are two ways to find people, and they search the same 75 million Indian profiles:
- Haley: describe who you want in a sentence or paste a job description. Haley picks the filters, ranks the matches and answers follow-ups. Best when the brief is fuzzy or long. See What Haley does.
- People and Companies pages: set each filter yourself and see results update. Best when you know exactly what you want. See People search.
Collapsing the sidebar#
Press ⌘B (Ctrl + B on Windows) to fold the sidebar into a rail of icons and give your results more room. The rail keeps Open the sidebar (⌘B), New chat with Haley, Search (⌘K) and a project icon whose menu has Overview, Switch project and New project. You can reach Settings and the rest from the rail too.