Company search: AI Search, Tags and Text Contains

AI Search is best when you have a complex, nuanced, or hard-to-define idea that you can express in a natural language sentence

Best for: Testing a complex investment thesis (e.g., "businesses developing drugs similar to Ozempic"), finding companies based on qualitative concepts, or when you're not sure which specific keywords to use

How it works: Your query is passed to an LLM, which finds initial matches. We then expand that list using our similar company algorithm and text search, before using the LLM again to screen for only the most relevant results. Each result comes with a "Motivation" column explaining why it was included 

Best Practice: Use AI Search for your initial qualitative search. Then, apply hard quantitative filters (like Revenue, EBITDA, or HQ location) afterwards to refine your results

The Tags filter is your most powerful tool when you have a good idea of the business activities, products, or sectors you're interested in and want to build a broad list.

Best for: Building a view of companies in a known niche (e.g., "food delivery" or "cybersecurity") and expanding or narrowing with exact terms

How it works: Start typing a keyword, and the system will suggest related tags. You can then combine them using powerful logic:

• OR (Default): Widens your search to include companies with any of the selected tags
• AND: Narrows your search to only include companies with all of the selected tags
• EXCLUDE: Refines your search by removing companies with specific tags

The Text Contains filter is best when you need to find a specific word or phrase within a company's profile, including its business description or LinkedIn "About Us" page. It uses semantic search to understand your intent.

Best for: Finding companies that mention a specific technology, standard, or keyword that might not be a formal tag 

How it works: The search understands the meaning behind your query, not just the exact keywords. For example, searching for "solar panel manufacturing" will also find a company described as a "solar panel manufacturer"

Best Practice:

• Use quotes (e.g., "solar panel manufacturing") to enforce the exact word order in your results
• Use Boolean logic for complex queries: AND to combine terms, OR to expand, and a dash (-) to exclude terms

• No. We do not use your data or searches to train our models. All of your activity on Gain.pro remains secure and private
   

• AI Search is for interpreting a complex idea or concept expressed in a sentence, and leverages an LLM to understand and respond to the query
   
• Text Contains is for finding a specific word or phrase within the text of a company's profile, and leverages a semantic search to query our database