New AI Agent Can Search for People for You: Meet Lessie from Singapore Startup

SUPERLINEAR PTE. LTD., a Singapore-based tech company, has launched Lessie, the world’s first People Search AI Agent. The product automates the entire process of finding and connecting with the right people — from identifying targets to sending personalized outreach.

The idea for Lessie came from the team’s own struggles as a startup. “We asked ourselves, in an era of self-driving cars and AI writing code, why are we still finding contacts like it’s 2010?” the founders write. Traditional tools may give you a list, but the actual connection — checking data, sending messages, and following up — is still manual and inefficient.

Lessie was built to close that gap. It utilizes large language models and a multi-agent architecture to comprehend a user’s intent, search extensively across various sources, verify results, and even automate outreach. It aims to help find influencers, customers, experts, and partners.

“Thrilled to see the official launch of Lessie AI! This is a game-changer for anyone who’s tired of the manual grind of finding the right people,”

Gang Liu, Early Investor & Board Director at Lessie AI.

What are AI Agents?

AI agents are autonomous or semi-autonomous systems that can perform tasks on your behalf: searching, processing, communicating, acting on data, sometimes coordinating multiple sub-agents. Recently, many tools have incorporated agent-style features: bots that take actions, platforms that allow workflows, assistants that schedule, draft emails, or follow up.

How Lessie AI Works

The process starts with a simple request in plain language: “product managers at fintech startups in Europe” or “podcast hosts who cover climate tech.”

From there:

• Discovery: Lessie scans professional networks, public databases, conference lists, GitHub, YouTube, and more.
• Verification: It checks whether emails are valid, filters out old data, and ranks the best matches.
• Outreach: The AI drafts personalized messages that reference achievements or shared context, and sends them at the optimal time.
• Learning: Each response feeds back into the system, so Lessie gets smarter with every search.

Lessie AI is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

What’s Next

Superlinear sees Lessie as more than a productivity tool. The company frames it as a way to democratize access to connections: a two-person startup could generate a sales pipeline as strong as a large enterprise team, and nonprofits could reach sponsors without relying on existing networks.

The vision also stretches beyond people search. The team imagines a future of AI-to-AI networking, where agents reach out to each other, schedule meetings, and assess opportunities on behalf of their users — creating a new kind of professional network.

Lessie is currently in early beta (users can join via an invitation code through Discord or join the waitlist), with plans to expand its data sources, improve accuracy, and integrate with tools like Slack, email, and CRMs. Superlinear is also hiring AI engineers, researchers, designers, and marketers as it builds toward what it calls “a smarter way to connect.”

Ultimately, the company’s mission is not just about sales or recruitment but about transforming how people connect and form meaningful relationships in the digital age.

For years, people search has meant digging through directories like Whitepages or Intelius, tools that provided raw data but left the hard work of verification and outreach to users. Lessie represents a shift beyond that model.

Instead of handing you names, it acts like a digital assistant: understanding who you need, searching across multiple sources, checking relevance, and even starting the conversation on your behalf.

Currently, Lessie is focused on business use cases, helping sales teams, marketers, and startups find the right contacts. But the bigger vision is broader. In the future, people search might not be just about business leads — it could be about anyone finding anyone, powered by AI agents.