Development and Launch of PeopleCite AI Platform

PeopleCite is an AI research agent for finding people. You describe who you need in plain words, such as a hire, a founder, a speaker or an expert. It searches the live web and, in about 15 minutes, returns a slate: a ranked list where every person has a written reason and sources you can check. I designed and built it: the product, the brand, the interface, the app and the launch site. It's live at peoplecite.tech.

Most people search tools search their own database, and a database starts going stale the day it ships. You type keywords or a boolean string, get hundreds of matches with a score you can't see into, and then spend hours checking each name by hand.

The people I built PeopleCite for find people for a living: recruiters and sourcers, investors and BD teams, event organisers, journalists and researchers. They don't need a longer list. They need a short one they can trust, and the evidence to show someone else why each name is on it.

A brief in plain words. You describe the people you need in a sentence. No boolean strings and no filters.

Research you can watch. You can follow the search as it runs and see every source it reads, or close the tab. The search keeps going, and your slate waits for you.

A ranked slate with receipts. Every person is ranked on your criteria, with a written reason they fit and a source behind every claim.

Flags instead of guesses. When a detail can't be verified, the person is flagged so you know to check it.

Export. The slate goes to Excel or CSV in one click.

Monitors. Standing searches that re-run on a schedule and bring you the new names.

Verify a shortlist. Upload a CSV of people you already have and check each one against the live web.

Your own tools. Connect tools like Notion or Linear and attach them to a search.

Search from your AI assistant. PeopleCite works inside Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, so you can start a search from the assistant and get the slate back with its sources.

Receipts, not a mystery score. A number on its own asks you to trust it. Every ranking comes with the reason in writing and the links to check it.

The live web, not a database. Each search reads the web the moment you ask, so someone who published last week can already be on your slate.

Research leads, not decisions. PeopleCite never decides for you. A person reviews every name and its sources before acting, and results from hiring searches are for sourcing only.

Clear limits. It won't research anything illegal or hostile, or anyone under 18. Those searches are refused and you aren't charged.

You control the data. Export or delete candidate data at any time, and trace every source. PeopleCite never sells data.

I designed the brand around one idea. The logo is a single continuous line that connects a brief to a person, and it ends at a cobalt dot: the person you found. The logo draws itself along that line in under three seconds, and I made that animation too.

The same idea runs through the product. On the landing page a line draws down the three steps of a search and ends on the cobalt dot, and cobalt appears only where a person has been found. Violet is the accent, green means verified and amber means flagged, so a status reads at a glance.

The motion is calm on purpose. Each section arrives with one small movement, and the hero replays a sample search from brief to slate, so a first-time visitor sees what they'll get before signing up.

PeopleCite is a Next.js and TypeScript web app. Supabase handles accounts and data, Stripe handles subscriptions, and the app runs on Cloudflare. AI agents do the research, and a search keeps running after you close the tab. PeopleCite is also an MCP server, which is how AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can run searches and read the results.

PeopleCite is live at peoplecite.tech with three plans: Pro, Max and Ultra Max. Every plan can run searches from an AI assistant, and Ultra Max adds API keys for teams who want to build it into their own tools.

The screen I'm happiest with is the candidate card. It shows the person, why they fit in a sentence or two, and the sources behind it, with anything unverified flagged in amber. It's the whole product in one card.

Co-Founder. Product strategy, brand identity and logo, UX and UI design, design system, full-stack engineering, AI agent product, AI assistant integration, subscriptions and billing, marketing site and launch motion.

Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Brand Identity, Logo Design, Design Systems, Web App Development, Full-Stack Development, AI Product Development, AI Agents, Landing Page Design, Motion Design, Copywriting, SaaS

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare, MCP, Vitest, Remotion