Find people open to your role.
Search candidates open to opportunities, ranked by fit for your role, and bring them into your pipeline in a click.
Free to start. No card.
- Who appears
- Candidates open to work
- Ranking
- By fit for your role
- Fit
- Arithmetic, not AI
- Counts more
- Verified skills
- In one click
- Add to pipeline
The problem
With Winkle
The problem
Cold lists go nowhere
Scraped profiles are people who never asked to hear from you.
Only candidates open to opportunities appear.
The problem
Matches without reasons
A list of names doesn't say why any of them fit.
Results rank by fit for your role, each with a reason.
The problem
Finding isn't hiring
Search tools stop at a profile; the work starts after.
Add them to a pipeline in one click and carry on there.
How it works in Winkle.
- 01
Describe the role
Search by the skills and level you need.
- 02
See who fits, and why
Each match comes with a short reason.
- 03
Act on it
Add one or many to a role's pipeline, then message them or invite them to an interview.
A fit score you can work out yourself.
It’s arithmetic, not a guess. Your must-haves and nice-to-haves, and whether each skill is proven or only claimed. A verified skill counts for more. Try it.
Must-have · weighs 70%
avg 0.87
Nice-to-have · weighs 30%
avg 0.50
Tap a skill to change it. Verified 1 · Claimed 0.6 · Missing 0.
Fit for Backend Engineer
Strong
75 and up is strong
(0.87 × 0.7) + (0.50 × 0.3)
= 76
No AI in this number. The same inputs always give the same score.
Only people who asked to be found.
No scraped profiles. Candidates switch themselves on, and off again whenever they like. What you see is their verified skills, never another company’s results.
Niles’s profile
Niles D.
Payments engineer · Remote
What an employer sees
Go · verifiedWinkle skills test, Sep 2026
Test score 92Stays with the company that set it
Search results
- HWHannah W.Backend engineer · Berlin85
- Niles D.Payments engineer · Remote76
- LMLucas M.Platform engineer · Lisbon65
Open, so Niles shows up.
What you get.
Open to opportunities
Only candidates open to work appear, and they can switch it off. No scraped index.
Ranked by fit
Pick a role and results rank by fit, each with a reason.
Straight to pipeline
Add one or many to a role in a click.
Reach out
Message them once they're in your pipeline.
Where do the profiles come from?
From candidates on Winkle who are open to opportunities. It's on in their profile and they can switch it off at any time. There's no scraped index behind the search.
How is the fit score worked out?
From your role's must-have and nice-to-have skills against the candidate's. Must-haves count for 70% and nice-to-haves 30%. A verified skill earns full credit, a claimed one 60%, and a missing one nothing. There's no AI in the number.
Can I see another company's results for a candidate?
No. One company's test and interview results stay with that company. What travels is a verified skill, with where and when it was verified.
Start with this, free.
Search candidates open to opportunities, ranked by fit for your role, and bring them into your pipeline in a click.
Free to start. No card.