Orbit Search gives you a powerful API to search, discover, and read professional profiles using natural language queries. Whether you need to find founders in a city, filter by company and role, or search across your own custom contact directories, Orbit handles query understanding, entity resolution, and ranking automatically — so you can focus on building.Documentation Index
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Quick Start
Make your first search API call in minutes
Authentication
Get a dashboard-issued key and choose scopes
Smart Search
Full reference for the search endpoint
Search Directories
Search across your own people data
How it works
Orbit Search exposes a simple REST API. You authenticate with a developer API key, send a natural language query, and receive ranked profile results. No query language to learn — just describe who you’re looking for.Get an API key
Sign in to the Orbit developer dashboard and generate a developer API key with the scopes you need (
search:read, profile:read).Run your first search
Call
POST /v2/social/profiles/searches/smart with a natural language query like "founders in San Francisco".Read profile details
Use profile IDs from search results to fetch full public profiles via
GET /v2/developer/profiles/:id.Key features
Natural Language Search
Query profiles with plain English — Orbit routes your query through structured, semantic, or agentic modes automatically.
Search Directories
Upload CSV contact lists or import connections to create searchable private corpora.
Credit Metering
Transparent per-request credit usage with idempotent retries and automatic refunds on failed searches.
Organization Access
Issue organization-scoped API keys and control directory access with fine-grained grants.