Haley
What Haley does
Ladel’s sourcing agent: what it can find, count, rank and save for you, and what it won’t do.
Haley is Ladel’s sourcing agent. You describe who you’re looking for in plain words, and Haley turns that into a search across 75 million Indian profiles and about 3,000 fully described companies, then shows you the people in a table you can refine, rank and shortlist. Haley works for every level of hiring, from freshers and technicians to the board.
Where to find Haley#
- The Ask Haley to find someone… box on Home.
- Haley in the sidebar, or the pen icon New chat with Haley.
- Inside a project, under Chats, where the box reads What should Haley find for and the project name.
Every request starts or continues a chat. While Haley works you see what it’s doing, such as Reading your request, with a seconds counter. When it’s done, a line lists the steps it took.
What Haley can do#
Find people
Haley searches people by role, level, function, place, current and past company, the employer’s sector, funding stage and size, the investors behind the employer, and school. The answer always gives the real number of matches, and the people go into a table on the right.
Count and compare
Ask “how many” or “break down by”, and Haley counts people grouped by city, state, sector, current company, past company, function, level, or the employer’s funding stage or size.
Read a profile
Ask about one person and Haley reads their full profile: every job on record and any education.
Find and research companies
Haley finds companies by what they do, sector, city, funding and size, and reads one company in depth: its categories, funding rounds, investors and current leaders. Give a name, a website or a LinkedIn page and Haley works out which company you mean.
Funding rounds, acquisitions and investors
Haley searches funding rounds and acquisitions, ranks investors by how many companies or rounds they’ve backed or how much they’ve put in, and shows who co-invests with a given investor.
Understand places
Haley knows which towns a metro covers, such as Gurugram and Noida in Delhi NCR, and which towns are nearby. See Cities and metros.
Change the table
Follow-ups edit the table on screen: add or remove companies, places, levels, titles, sectors, functions or particular people. Each change makes a new version, so you can always go back. See Working with results.
Rank against a brief
Paste a job description or a long brief, or attach one, and Haley searches for the role and scores the matches from 0 to 10 against it, with a short reason for each. See Searching from a job description.
Save people to projects and lists
- “Shortlist these” or “Shortlist the top 10” adds people from the table to the project.
- “New project called Plant heads, Gujarat” creates the project and adds the table.
- “Rename the project to Area sales managers, UP” renames the project you’re in.
See Shortlists.
Look up contact details
Ask for one person’s email, phone, or both and Haley looks them up, up to three people in one message. An email uses 1 of your own credits, a phone uses 4, and both use 5, the same as on the profile. See Finding contact details.
What Haley won’t do#
Haley is built for research on the people and companies in Ladel. It politely declines:
- Writing code, SQL, scripts or spreadsheet formulas.
- Writing essays, messages, translations or a job description. To email someone, use Write email on their profile or Reach out on a shortlist, where Haley drafts the email for you. See Emailing one person.
- General knowledge, maths and advice that aren’t about the data.
- Exporting or deleting. Use the Export button instead. See Exporting.
When a request is out of scope, Haley replies:
Fair hiring
Haley never filters, ranks or guesses by gender, religion, caste, age, ethnicity, health, marital status or family. Requests like these are declined.
What the data can and can’t tell you#
| You ask for | What Haley does |
|---|---|
| Years of experience | There’s no experience filter. Haley counts years on record from the earliest job on file, and can say so in the answer. |
| Skills | Skills aren’t in the data. Haley searches the words in job titles and headlines instead, such as “payments” or “SAP”. |
| Salary or notice period | Not in the data. |
| “Good”, “best” or “strong” people | Not a filter. Give a brief and Haley ranks the matches against it. |
| School | On record for about 2 in 100 people, so a school filter misses most good matches. |
| Function | Unknown for about 4 in 10 people. |
When results are thin#
If a search finds fewer than 10 people, Haley widens it, at most twice, in this order: more ways of saying the title, then nearby towns, then the next level, then dropping the least important filter. Haley tells you what it changed.
Limits#
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| One message | Up to 20,000 characters |
| People Haley reads per search | 20, though the answer gives the full count and the table holds more |
| Contact lookups in one message | 3 |
| Shortlisting “the top N” from a chat | Up to 500 people at once |
| Searches ranked against a brief | 2 per message, plus the table’s own search |
| Attached files | .txt, .md, .csv, .pdf or .docx, up to 8 MB |
Your plan sets how many messages you can send Haley each month. See Plans and limits.
Questions#
Does Haley search the internet?
No. Haley searches Ladel’s own data on India’s people and companies, so every person in an answer is someone you can open and shortlist.
Can my teammates see my chats?
No. Chats are private to the person who started them.
Haley stopped without an answer. What happened?
If a question needs too many steps, Haley stops with “I stopped after 12 rounds of tool calls without reaching an answer. Try a narrower question.” Split the request, or name the role and place more precisely. See Troubleshooting.