> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.landbase.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Search Contacts

> Find people by title, department, management level, location, and career trajectory.

# Search Contacts

Find people by who they are professionally — their role, seniority, department, location, and career trajectory.

## What you can filter on

* **Job title** — with automatic normalization ("CEO" and "Chief Executive Officer" are treated as equivalent)
* **Department and management level** — validated taxonomy values (Engineering, Sales, Marketing / C-Level, VP, Director, Manager, IC)
* **Location** — country, state, or raw address search
* **Tenure** — how long they've been in their current role (in months)
* **Career signals** — recently promoted internally, or hired externally into a new role
* **Skills and experience** — keyword matching against job descriptions, skills lists, and profile descriptions

The career signal filters are particularly useful for timing-based outreach — someone who just got promoted into a VP role is more likely to be evaluating new tools than someone who's been in the seat for 3 years.

## How it differs from Build Audience

Search Contacts returns **person-level results only**. [Build Audience](https://www.landbase.com/docs/overview/capabilities/build-audience.md) combines company and contact filters together in a single query. Use Search Contacts when you're looking for people independent of company criteria; use Build Audience when you need both.

## Result limits

Search Contacts returns up to 10,000 matching contacts per query.


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