Referral mining agent

Your team already knows your next hire

Flock maps the professional networks of your employees, hiring managers and past candidates, finds the people in them who fit your open roles, and shows you who can make the introduction. Warm intros instead of cold outreach.

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Referral miningSenior Backend Engineer4 networks · 19,858 people
TeammateConnection or overlapFit for the roleMapping your team's networks…
Warmest paths0 strong fits
  • 3×reply rate on warm introsWarm intros versus cold outreach
  • 30%of hires via referralsSecuritas on Flock, vs 10% through regular channels
  • 100%opt-in per employeeNobody's network is mined without their yes

01 · Map the network

Every network on your team, mapped

Employees opt in and their connections sync in a minute. Hiring managers, their former teams and everyone in your ATS join the map. You see how many people you can reach through someone you trust, not just how many you could cold-message.

Mapping your team's networks8%
  • Employee connections212 of 260 colleagues opted in4,060
  • Hiring managers14 managers, their old teams too0
  • Past candidatesEveryone your ATS remembers0
  • Inferred overlapsShared employers, schools, teams0
Reachable through a warm path4,060 / 37,912

02 · Find the overlaps

Overlaps nobody thought to mention

Most relationships never show up as a connection. Flock reads work and education history to find who overlapped where: same employer, same years, same team, same school. Every overlap gets a confidence level, so you know which paths are real.

How Emma knows Maartje
Not connected anywhere, found from work history
Emma
Adyen
Maartje
Adyen
2016201920222025
    ConfidencePossible

    03 · Mine every role

    Every open role is mined before it's posted

    The moment a role opens in your ATS, the agent runs it against the whole map and ranks the fits by how warm the path is. Narrow it to connections or overlaps, or to one teammate's network.

    NEW ROLE · OPENED IN GREENHOUSE
    Senior Backend Engineer · Amsterdam
    0checked
    ✓ Connections✓ Overlaps✓ Past candidatesWhole team ▾

      04 · Ask one colleague

      One question for your colleague, not a referral form

      Instead of asking the whole company to think of someone, Flock asks Emma about Maartje, in Slack, Teams or email. She answers in one tap and chooses whether to make the intro herself or have you mention her.

      Emma de VriesSlack · direct message
      Flock AgentHi Emma, we're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer. You and Maartje Kleyn both worked on Payments Infrastructure at Adyen. How well do you know her?

      05 · Warm outreach

      Outreach that opens with what you share

      Messages lead with the path Flock found: the colleague who suggested it, the employer you have in common, the school half your team went to. You approve the first one before anything goes out.

      Mutual connectionShared employerShared school
      To Maartje Kleyn · Email
      Emma suggested I reach out

      Hi Maartje,

      Emma de Vries suggested I reach out. She said you two built the payouts platform together. We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer in Amsterdam, and your Go work at Mollie is close to what the team needs. Up for a 15-minute call this week?

      Written from the path Flock found

      06 · Credit to hire

      Credited to the colleague, all the way to hire

      When the candidate replies, the scheduling agent books the interview. The referral stays credited to the colleague who made it possible, syncs to your ATS, and their reward is paid automatically when the hire is made.

      Maartje Kleyn
      Referred by Emma de Vries
      Synced to Greenhouse
      1. Intro confirmed by Emma
        Slack · 2 min after asking
      2. Maartje replied
        Email · same day
      3. First interview booked
        Thu 14:00 · by the scheduling agent
      4. Hired
        Offer accepted

      From a customer

      “Finding the right talent to keep growing at the rate we wanted was a big bottleneck, a blocker for growth.”
      Michiel Roodenburg
      Michiel Roodenburg
      Co-founder and CFO, Crisp

      Warm intros that keep your team’s trust

      • Opt-in, per employee

        Colleagues choose to share their network and can withdraw it any time. Nobody is mined by default.

      • Your colleague decides

        No candidate hears from you through a colleague until that colleague says yes, and says how.

      • Networks stay private

        Employees' contacts are only used to match open roles. Nobody browses anyone else's address book.

      • Paths you can check

        Every match shows how the colleague knows them: a connection, or the employer, years and team they shared.

      • GDPR by default

        Candidates found through a network are told where their details came from and can opt out in one click.

      • Your ATS stays the source of truth

        Referrals, intros and outcomes are written back to the candidate record, credited to the referrer.

      See who your team already knows

      Connect your ATS and a few colleagues, and we'll mine one of your open roles live on the call.