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Find Anyone on LinkedIn: Three Prospecting Layers, Boolean Search, and Two Free Unlimited-Search Hacks (LinkedInProspect, RecruitmentGeek)

Uttam Gupta Trainer - former director of growth at Growth School, founder of Agent Valley (agentvalley.ai)

The short version

  1. Ten real relationships beat a thousand random connections. Three prospecting layers: exact ICP and past clients; second-degree; common ground (alumni, past employers, city) - the first and third work best (0:00-0:04).
  2. Boolean: AND narrows, OR broadens across equivalents, NOT excludes; a live string for founders and partnership leads at AI companies, minus sales, support, HR and agencies (0:04-0:11).
  3. LinkedInProspect.com turns include/exclude fields into the Boolean string (feed it a ChatGPT list of '10 AI companies that raised $1-20M in 3 months'); RecruitmentGeek.com x-rays LinkedIn past the free-tier page cap (0:12-0:26).

At a glance, three clicks deep

Skim here first: the closed row is the glance, open is the study card with the key points and timestamps, and the ↓ link drops to that concept's full write-up below.

01Three prospecting layers and Boolean searchLayers 1 and 3;›

Layers 1 and 3; AND / OR / NOT.

Three layers (0:01-0:04)

Operators with examples (0:04-0:10)

Filters (0:10-0:12)

↓ Full write-up of this concept

02LinkedInProspect and RecruitmentGeek: unlimited free searchPrompt -> LinkedInProspect string -> RecruitmentGeek x-ray.›

Prompt -> LinkedInProspect string -> RecruitmentGeek x-ray.

LinkedInProspect demo (0:12-0:21)

RecruitmentGeek demo (0:21-0:23)

↓ Full write-up of this concept

The concepts in full

01

Three prospecting layers and Boolean search

'Sales manager' returns the world. 'CMO OR head of growth AND SaaS NOT intern' returns your list.

Layers: 1) your ICP and past clients; 2) friends of friends; 3) common ground - alumni, former employers, same city. Trainer's ranking: 1 and 3; 2 is 'slightly random'. Boolean in native search: AND to narrow ('marketing director AND SaaS'), OR for equivalents ('CMO OR head of marketing OR head of growth'), NOT to exclude ('NOT salesperson NOT intern'). Live: (CEO OR founder OR marketing manager OR partnerships) AND AI NOT sales NOT 'customer support' NOT HR NOT agency, then filters for location, current company, follower-of, past companies, schools.

Why it matters

Targeted lists without paying for Sales Navigator.

02

LinkedInProspect and RecruitmentGeek: unlimited free search

Let a form write the Boolean, then read page ten without Premium.

PROCEDURE: 1) ask ChatGPT or Claude for the target companies ('10 AI companies that raised $1-20M in the last 3 months'); 2) LinkedInProspect.com -> job titles to include and exclude, company names, keywords in and out -> it generates the Boolean string; 3) paste into LinkedIn search. Then RecruitmentGeek.com ('LinkedIn X-ray'): paste the same string, browse ~2,000,000 hits past LinkedIn's free page cap, click through to live profiles. Both presented as free. Homework: sit down and decide who your right people are.

Why it matters

Two free tools that remove the main reason people buy Sales Navigator early.

Tools referenced

ToolCoverageMomentContext
LinkedIndemonstratedNative Boolean search and filters
LinkedInProspectdemonstratedBoolean generator
RecruitmentGeekdemonstratedLinkedIn x-ray search
ChatGPTdemonstratedCompany list

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