What we're shipping.

Recruiters can now request access to Placements from the homepage. Give us one candidate and get back a ranked list of companies that need them right now, each with the reason, the person to contact, and a draft you send from your own account. See it →

Installing now starts with signing in, instead of waiting until your first search. Brief knows who you are from the very first page you visit, so anything your account includes is there straight away rather than hidden until later.

Brief no longer shows anything when you hover over a name — the card that used to appear over LinkedIn and X profiles is gone for good. The Research button is smaller and quieter on every site, and on X it now sits up with the profile buttons instead of interrupting the bio.

The pilot-access form now fills itself from your account — your email and LinkedIn are already there, so all that’s left is an optional note on what you’d use Signals for. See it →

Getting your first brief now takes just a sign-in and your LinkedIn URL. Telling Brief what you sell moved onto the brief itself — add it there whenever you like and the talk track tailors in place.

The homepage now introduces Signals for recruiters — a sample of the hiring-momentum cards the private pilot shows, with the waitlist one click away — alongside the free Chrome extension. See it →

A new tool for recruiters that reads the market and ranks companies by hiring momentum, so you reach the ones about to staff up before the role is ever posted — each with the reason in plain English and the sources behind it. Add a candidate and Signals points you to the companies most likely to need them. Now in private pilot — join the waitlist for early access. See it →

Tell us your sales lens once — what you sell, who to, and the pain you solve — and every brief leads with a hook, talk track, and discovery questions matched to your motion. A quick one-time setup, then it carries across the web app and the extension automatically.

When there isn't enough public information to brief someone from a name alone, Brief now keeps your search on screen and asks for their company or LinkedIn URL right there — the details that usually pin down the right person — so you can try again in one click instead of starting over.

The Brief extension now shows a quiet chip beside external senders in Gmail and external guests in Google Calendar — open their brief in a side panel right where you already work, no new tab, no copy-paste. Detection happens on your device; nothing is researched until you click. See it →

Each brief suggests others in the same orbit — co-investors, colleagues, fellow founders — so you can go one click deeper instead of starting a fresh search.

A pasted LinkedIn URL used to be reduced to just the name on it — so someone sharing a name with a well-known figure could get the famous namesake's brief instead. The URL itself now pins who you mean.

Searching someone with an unusually rich public footprint could end in "Synthesis failed" after two minutes of research. Long briefs now complete, and if the final write-up ever stumbles, Brief retries it instead of giving up.

Links to brief pages shared in Slack, LinkedIn, or X now unfurl with the branded preview image they were always meant to have.

When you tell Brief where someone works and the research can't verify that person at that company, it now asks you to pick from the people it found — or says so plainly — instead of confidently briefing a better-known stranger with the same name.

When several people share a name, each match now shows who they are at a glance — name and role together — and if none of them is right, type or paste your way out: a LinkedIn URL, "Name, Company", or just the company.

When a meeting guest shows up as a bare email address but the event title names them — "Intro: Leo James & Gina Quinlan" — the Brief chip now appears for them too. Matching happens entirely on your device, and only when the title names exactly one person it could be.

When someone keeps a personal site or blog, their brief now looks for it, names it, and links it in the sources — and only when it's verifiably theirs, never a namesake's. People notice when their own site is missing from a profile of them.

When a brief lands on someone who shares your contact's name, you can now say so — add their company or LinkedIn and Brief re-runs the research on the right person, on the website and in the extension. Your correction sticks: the same contact resolves to the right person next time.

Chip clicks from Gmail and Calendar now use more of what's already on screen to find the right person — including for personal email addresses, the hardest case. When several people genuinely match, Brief asks you to pick instead of guessing.

The Chrome extension is out on the Chrome Web Store — add it free. A quiet chip beside a person's name, on LinkedIn or an article about them, streams a sourced brief into a panel next to the page, so you never switch tabs to research who you're about to meet. See it →

While Brief researches someone, it now narrates each step — reading across the sources, writing the briefing, lining up your openers — instead of leaving the progress line frozen during the longest part. On the website and in the extension.

A new support page covers installing and using the extension, what data it reads, how it's billed, and how to remove or correct a profile — with a direct line to a real person. See it →

Plain-English rundowns of the best AI sales tools, prospecting tools, and sales intelligence software, plus how to research someone before a meeting, each grouped by what the tools are actually for. See it →

Researching someone on your phone no longer cuts out if the screen would lock partway through — the brief keeps going and arrives.

New side-by-side comparisons of Brief and the tools people weigh it against — ZoomInfo, Apollo, Clay, RocketReach and more — with an honest take on which to pick for pre-call research. See it →

Browse 140+ notable angel, seed, and pre-seed investors by stage, sector, and country — each with a live brief. See it →

87 seed and pre-seed firms join the directory — Felicis, Pear, Hustle Fund, Seedcamp and more — with new stage pages alongside country and sector. See it →

Tell Brief what you sell and the openers rewrite for your pitch on any brief — including ones already in the library — with a "Tailored to what you sell" badge so you know it's yours.

When a person's company shares its name with another, the brief covers the right one — or says plainly that public data is thin, instead of blending the two.

A background refresh now keeps whichever version is better-grounded, so a page never trades sourced facts for unsourced ones.

Searching a common or sparse name with no company attached? Brief now works out where the person works on its own, so those searches come back as full briefs instead of "not enough information."

When the public web genuinely has too little on a person, Brief now says so plainly instead of padding the gap with generic advice.

The upcoming Chrome extension streams the brief in live as it's researched — no more staring at a spinner — and long research runs no longer drop the connection. See it →

A small, unobtrusive chip beside the person's name and a cleaner reading panel. Detection now works across more LinkedIn profile layouts and reads the person's company from more headline styles.

Research is offered only on real person profiles and articles about people — never on feeds, company pages, or search results.

Briefs open alongside what you're reading, with a free preview before sign-in. Nothing is generated until you ask.

Company sections no longer include figures that can't be traced to a source. If it isn't sourced, it doesn't appear.

Company and market sections now draw on current reporting, not last year's news.

The extension signs in with your existing Brief account, so your saved briefs and seller lens follow you.

How sales, recruiting, customer success, financial advisors, founders, and job seekers use Brief — each with its own playbook and FAQ. See it →

Briefs now refresh automatically in the background, so the pages you revisit reflect recent news without you re-searching.

Public brief pages show when the research was actually last refreshed, not when the page was rendered.

Anyone featured in a brief can request removal or correction without creating an account, and every brief is clearly labeled as AI-generated. See it →