Search that understands the question, not just the words in it.
Type what you actually want to know. Not keywords.
- Is a 12% option-pool top-up at seed a signal?
- Pricing a B2B product with no comparables
- Hiring engineer number one before the round closes
- Taking money before a priced round
- Moving on from founder-led sales
You should not have to know the jargon for your own problem.
Search on most professional networks is a keyword match with a job-title filter bolted on, which means you have to guess the vocabulary before you can find anything. If you do not already know the phrase “convertible note”, you cannot find the people who have opinions about one.
CHiiRO’s search parses what you asked — the intent, the constraint, the kind of thing you are looking for — and goes and finds it. That is a small difference in a demo and a large one when you do not yet know the jargon for your own problem.
The archive it searchesOne box, five places.
The useful case is rarely “find me a document” — it is “who here has done this”. A query about people should return people, not a list of posts containing the words.
- CommunitiesThe room working on your problem
- DiscussionsThreads, in context
- Question archiveAnswers that stay findable
- PeopleWho has done the thing you need to ask about
- CompaniesCompany pages with real detail
Results come back as cards you can act on: open the community, read the thread, look at the profile, start a connection request.
What a connection request doesTwo ways to look, one place for the results.
When you can name it
Ordinary search, for when you know exactly what you want — a community by name, a person, a company.
When you can only describe it
The natural-language path, for when you are describing a situation rather than naming a thing.
Ordinary search and the natural-language path sit side by side in the app.
You can see and re-run recent searches.
What search deliberately does not do.
- No shadow profile
- It does not build a shadow profile of you.
- No paid placement
- It does not rank results by who paid. There is no advertising product and no paid placement.
- No activity-as-relevance
- It does not rank people by how recently they were active.
Matching: a first piece is in the app.
The harder version of this problem is not search — it is matching. Search answers a question you already thought to ask. Matching answers the one you did not: who should you be talking to this week. The first piece of it is in the app today — investors see suggested people on their home screen. Nothing wider is shipped, so nothing wider is described here.
What else is unfinished- LiveNatural-language search, in the app, for signed-in members
- LiveJobs For You: roles matched to your career, in the newest build
- Not shippedMatching people to people
Asked about search.
Where the app runsHow does search work on CHiiRO?
CHiiRO’s search reads a question written in ordinary language and works out what you meant, rather than matching keywords. It searches communities, discussions, the question archive, people and companies from one box and returns results you can act on directly.
Can I search CHiiRO without an account?
No. Guest mode in the app lets you browse public communities, but search requires an account. CHiiRO does not put a search box on its website, because that would query live member data from a public page.
Does CHiiRO have AI search?
Yes. CHiiRO parses natural-language queries so you can describe a situation instead of guessing keywords. It is available to signed-in members inside the app.
Does CHiiRO’s search rank results by who paid?
No. There is no paid placement in search. CHiiRO has no advertising product, and ranking is not for sale.
What is the difference between search and matching?
Search answers a question you already thought to ask. Matching proposes the person you did not know to look for. CHiiRO has search today. The first piece of matching is in the app: investors see suggested people on their home screen. Nothing wider than that is shipped, and this site says so.