Public "Whitepages" for Pros
The soft side of our network are the professionals. It’s been easy to onboard highly skilled technology professionals. To date, we have professionals from Square, Meta, PayPal, Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft, GitHub, Google, and multiple top tier universities.
We’ve spent time developing an experience for professionals. Most professionals hear from us directly. For others, we can build public profiles for not-yet-onboarded professionals, using publicly available LinkedIn data and LLM-based scraping tactics, which those pros can then “claim” as their own. We use ScrapIn to pull LinkedIn URLs, BAML to abstract the data into a readable format, and convert it to Postgres queries run as part of our data seeding migrations.
We can convert professionals by InMailing them when a user pays to start a thread with them on Outpost. Here is how:
User messages public profile on Outpost.
Outpost will message that professional on LinkedIn via an InMail.
Pro clicks into link and sees how much they’ve earned from these messages.
We auto-import the pro’s LinkedIn profile and allow them to complete a few final steps:
Pros can share AI-written messages with their network before replying to messages.
Once a pro is done with onboarding, their profile is no longer “claimable”, and they can reply to messages to earn the money available in their account.