Changelog

Session restoration, round switching and history views have been improved. Add criteria, revisit previous results or switch to another search while keeping your existing progress and results.

New templates cover financial AI, embodied intelligence, simulation engineering and quantitative research. Choose a scenario to fill the search box, adjust locations, skills and experience, then confirm before starting.

Step-by-step onboarding and a video explain how to describe requirements, upload attachments and review results. The video has English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese subtitles. Replay the guidance or watch complete search examples without spending Credits.

Switch between personal and team workspaces, with the sidebar remembering its expanded or collapsed state. Search and history are easier to reach. For Talent Radar, team plans or bulk API search, select your needs and submit an inquiry to arrange a product demo.

Team members can search for talent, keep search history, manage shortlists and track candidates through Talent Radar. Owners and administrators can invite members, assign roles and monthly allowances, manage subscriptions, and view and export member usage. Contact sales to arrange an enterprise workspace.

The referral program announced with this update offered 500 Credits to each person after an invited friend activated their account, for up to five rewards and 2,500 Credits for the inviter. Invitation links can be shared through LinkedIn, X, WhatsApp or email.

A full product video on the homepage introduces the main workflows for discovering, evaluating and managing talent.

A new OpenReview signal shows a researcher’s main collaborators, shared papers, institutions and OpenReview profile, helping you explore their research network.

Search supports requests involving roles, skills, industries, locations, experience and candidate counts, across people, teams, open-source projects and academic research. Sources include professional profiles, research, code and AI model communities, and personal websites.

Enrich brings together roles, experience, skills, research, projects, papers and recent professional activity from public sources, with checks to help distinguish people with the same name and confirm affiliations. Match Confidence explains why a candidate matches, while email results show source information.

Prepare personalized outreach using the candidate and hiring context. The composer supports different languages, reference files, reusable templates, custom instructions and multiple sending accounts.

View and enrich candidate profiles directly from Shortlist. Updated Talent Radar tables, filters and details make ongoing review easier. Adjust search criteria and schedules, pause or resume a radar, and check its next run.

Organization administrators can export member information as Excel or CSV.

New guides explain how to connect DINQ Search to Claude, Codex and WorkBuddy. Follow the setup steps and try a talent search from your existing AI workflow.

Multi-round searches default to a combined results view. Switch back to an individual round when you want to review or compare earlier results.

Deep search added support for GLM 5.2 and GPT 5.6 in this update.

Public links found in search results and candidate profiles are passed to Enrich as sources for identity checks and additional information. The enrichment flow brings together sources including GitHub, Hugging Face, Scholar and LinkedIn.

Profile terminology and navigation are more consistent, with direct links to your profile and search in the account menu. Google sign-in opened inside WeChat now guides you to continue in your default browser.

Results now include source sorting and platform icons, with DINQ data shown first. When a candidate is a DINQ user, you can start a direct message from their profile.

The sidebar shows when a background search is running and notifies you when it finishes.

Enrich displays visual analysis from Scholar, LinkedIn and GitHub in the candidate view, so you can review information from several platforms without opening separate pages.

Search replays demonstrate a complete search, including requests with documents and images. Advisor search, citation tracking and profile analysis share the main search box, with examples to help you get started.

API Playground now includes a Profile Email request for finding work email candidates from public profile links. You can paste candidate URLs directly, pull profile links from People Search results, and test the request without leaving the playground.

The form supports GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Hugging Face, and other profile URLs, so developers can try the same kinds of profiles they expect to handle in production.

The playground layout is cleaner, candidate URL rows are easier to edit, and the add-URL action is more visible. The current plan card now also includes a pay-as-you-go toggle, so billing setup is closer to the API test flow.

Email usage records are clearer, so it is easier to understand what each charged request was for.

A new Fugu roster post is live, with better cover images and table-of-contents behavior on blog pages.

The homepage now includes V-START, the footer links to docs, and pricing layouts were adjusted for smaller screens.

Candidate results now have a cleaner table layout with clearer names, statuses, and result details. The goal is to make it easier to compare people without losing the context from the search answer.

On mobile, result cards were tightened so names, key information, and actions stay easier to read on smaller screens.

When DINQ looks for a profile email, the page now shows progress step by step instead of leaving the result area feeling static. You can see the lookup continue, review the sources as they come in, and keep the email panel open while reviewing the candidate.

Follow-up choices now handle longer text better, including two-line options. Summary replies are also more reliable when you continue a search from a previous answer.

Search model names are now easier to understand, without raw internal IDs appearing in the interface.

Pricing now shows yearly savings more clearly, and subscription and pay-as-you-go labels were cleaned up across languages.

You can switch languages from more places, including the account menu, footer, and public header.

Search, Inbox, My DINQ, Shortlist, Talent Radar, Organizations, Integrations, History, and Settings now support the new language options.

The homepage, profile pages, analysis pages, pricing, blog, legal pages, sign-in, signup, payment results, and onboarding now have clearer English and Chinese copy.

Mobile navigation and onboarding were updated, and new help docs were added for API Playground, Talent Radar, and the mobile app.

Organizations can now update their branding, and team pages handle longer setup forms more smoothly.

Team conversations now support replies, and deleting team conversations is clearer.

Invite codes now work after signup too, so new members can create an account first and still join the right team.

The playground now includes Skill and MCP modes, plus clearer guidance when choosing how many results to return.

Pay-as-you-go billing now has clearer setup steps and lets you remove saved payment methods when needed.

You can choose active-time filters, pick sources, and see clearer feedback after each request.

Search results are shown as people cards, with support for GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, Hugging Face, and company-style sources.

The Code tab now includes examples you can copy and adapt when building your own integration.

Deep Search now accepts file-only requests, and demo requests now end with a direct way to schedule a call.

Subscription pages now show renewal timing more clearly, support invoice PDF downloads, and refresh credits more reliably after paid actions.

The task workspace is now called Talent Radar, with clearer access rules for people using the early version.

Onboarding now suggests profile handles from your information, keeps previews editable, and handles expired resume uploads more gracefully.

API Playground is easier to find from Integrations, and related actions now live in cleaner workspace menus.

The homepage now has a warmer look, smoother motion, a world-map search direction, company logos, clearer demo entry points, and better mobile layouts.

Public talent pages now tell a clearer candidate story, show real profile data, and work better on mobile.

Signup now handles organization invites, profile handles, text input, and profile setup from existing account data more smoothly.

Pricing cards and upgrade steps were cleaned up so plan choices and credits are easier to understand.

Deep Search now keeps the whole search in one workspace, including the answer, candidate results, saved history, profile details, and outreach actions.

Shortlists now support folders, table and card views, candidate statuses, tags, bulk actions, PDF export, and profile lookup from saved candidates.

Teams can create organization workspaces, manage members, send invites, review join requests, open team chats, and use team recruiting features.

Talent Radar helps teams track candidate searches, review search records, open task details, and ask follow-up questions.

The workspace now has mobile navigation, a My page, mobile search history, improved shortlist actions, and better layouts across profile, task, settings, and search pages.

Signup and profile setup now support social-link detection, invites, profile drafts, editable previews, and resume management.

The workspace now includes clearer plan, credit, billing, and subscription pages, plus the first API Playground for trying DINQ search APIs.

The profile message panel now has a cleaner conversation layout, a redesigned input, and smoother behavior when starting a chat from someone's profile.

Inbox now includes a notifications tab with simple navigation, so messages and updates are easier to scan in one place.

Product updates now live on a dedicated changelog page and are linked from the footer, so new features are easier to follow.

The blog now supports markdown posts, with better page titles, descriptions, and social sharing previews.

Hover any dot to see the city, visitor count, and up to 3 visitor previews. You can zoom, use the map controls, or click a viewer to move the map to their location.

The visitor list shows each viewer's name, company, and last visit time. Click a card to open their DINQ profile. DINQ Basic subscribers get the full paginated list, while free accounts see a preview of up to 10 visitors.

Open the tool from Discover, choose By Author or By Paper, and enter a name or paper title. DINQ shows papers that cite the work, with author affiliations, h-index, citation counts, and research topics. Authors with DINQ profiles include a direct profile link.

When you search for a Scholar, GitHub, or LinkedIn profile in Discover, DINQ can show two quick analysis cards inside the chat. Use Shuffle to see different cards, or View Full Analysis for the complete breakdown.

Go to Discover, open Tools, choose Find My Advisor, upload your CV, optionally choose target countries, and add any notes that matter. DINQ returns up to 5 advisor recommendations with a clear explanation for each match.

Each recommendation shows the advisor's name, position, institution, related research areas, match scores, and a plain-language explanation of why the match may fit.

Each card shows available contact information. You can copy an email, or open Scholar, GitHub, or LinkedIn links to analyze or visit the profile.

1. Get your API key

Visit dinq.me/settings/apikeys, sign in, and copy your API key.

2. Install the plugin

Go to the Dify Plugin Marketplace, search for DINQ, and click Install.

3. Configure

Open the plugin settings, enter your API key, and click Save.

Enter a researcher's name or Scholar URL to see publications, citations, h-index, research themes, and important work.

Enter a GitHub username or URL to see activity, stars, pull requests, language use, top projects, and other signals that help you understand a developer's work.

Enter a LinkedIn profile name or URL to see skills, career history, education, and a simple summary of the profile.

Analysis results can be shared as a card for Twitter/X, LinkedIn, or anywhere else you want to post it.

Click any saved search to reload the full conversation, including messages and candidate results.

Hover a saved search to rename or delete it. You can use names like the role, team, or hiring project to keep searches organized.

Pro and Plus users can search saved history by title. You can also scroll to the bottom of the list to load older searches.

Your username, links, and social handles are brought over automatically. A confirmation dialog helps you review any domain conflicts before anything is overwritten.