Instant Expert vs AmazingHiring: search engineers by their work, or pay to talk to a few

Use AmazingHiring to find engineers by the work they show across developer communities and professional profiles. Use Instant Expert to invite particular people to a paid conversation about your role; it does not replace your applicant tracking or interview process.

AmazingHiring finds engineers by their public work

AmazingHiring brings together profiles from GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, LinkedIn and other sources. It offers skill and experience filters, contact information, email campaigns and a Chrome extension that shows linked accounts while you browse a profile.

That helps when a job title says little about someone's technical work, and it lets a recruiter run outreach after the search.

The product page checked on September 26, 2026 asks buyers to request a demo and shows no subscription price. Ask the cost of your seats, contact access, campaigns and any required ATS integration. The free extension does not tell you the price of the full platform.

Bring a real hiring question to the demo

Say you need an engineer who can maintain a production recommendation system. A public modelling notebook may show relevant skills, but not whether its author deployed a service or handled failures after launch.

Give the vendor that requirement and check a few results together:

• Which work suggests the person has operated a production system?
• How recent is that experience, and what did the person personally do?
• Do the linked accounts clearly belong to the same person?

The test is whether you could explain the shortlist to your hiring manager. Public activity is useful evidence, but engineers who work in private repositories may have little to show.

Instant Expert pays selected people for one conversation

Instant Expert lets you search by professional experience or import people you already know from an email address, LinkedIn URL, or name and company. Select recipients, review their individual offers, and request a paid call or reply. Reply recipients choose text or voice.

For the engineering role, offer a 15-minute introductory call. Include the actual salary range, location and production responsibilities. A useful invitation could ask: "Would you be interested in discussing a role that combines recommendation modelling with deployment and on-call work?"

Use the call to explain the job and learn what the person wants next. Being paid for an introduction does not mean they have applied or want the role, so agree on any technical interview separately.

Start with what is missing

If technical discovery and campaign outreach are the gap, book the AmazingHiring demo and bring your real requirement. If you already know whom you want to talk to, send them a clear paid invitation.