Boolean Search String Builder

Describe who you are looking for in plain English and get a correct, nested boolean search string with synonyms expanded, ready for LinkedIn, your ATS or a Google X-ray. No sign-up.

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Stop hand-writing boolean strings

Good boolean is fiddly: nest one bracket wrong or forget an OR group and the search quietly returns the wrong people. Describe the role the way you would to a colleague, and this builder produces a clean string, with titles and skills already expanded into synonym groups, plus a short explanation of what each block matches.

Boolean operators, quickly

  • "quoted phrase" forces an exact match, e.g. "product designer".
  • OR widens: ("developer" OR "engineer").
  • AND narrows: "react" AND "typescript".
  • NOT or - excludes: NOT "recruiter".

From a string to real candidates

A boolean string is only as useful as the index you run it on. Run this exact query inside HeroHunt to search a live candidate index, screen every match against your role, and go straight from search to outreach with verified contact details.

Frequently asked questions

A boolean string combines keywords with the operators AND, OR and NOT to precisely describe who you want to find. Recruiters use them on LinkedIn Recruiter, in an ATS, on job boards, and in Google X-ray searches. This builder turns a plain-English brief into a correct, well-nested string with synonyms already expanded.

It is free and needs no sign-up. Describe who you are looking for and it returns a ready-to-copy boolean string plus an explanation. There is a fair-use limit; after that, sign in to keep building.

Most generators just concatenate the words you type. This one uses an intelligent model to expand titles and skills with real synonyms, nest the logic correctly, and explain what each block matches, so the string actually works. It never returns any real person's profile or contact data.

A boolean string only searches the platforms you already pay a seat on. Sign in to HeroHunt to run the exact query against a live candidate index, screen the results against your role, and reveal contact details in one place.