Use cases

JOGL Network is built around one question: who should I talk to, and why? The same few features answer it whatever you are after. This page starts from common goals and says which features to use, in what order. Each step links to the page that explains the feature in full.

Two things hold for every goal below:

• Search covers the people in your communities and your network, not the whole internet. The communities you create or join decide who you can find (see Communities).
• Reaching people follows their own settings. You can message, connect with or book people in your own communities and your connections when their settings allow it; reaching people outside that circle needs a verified account (see Who you can reach).

Find clients or customers

1. Make yourself findable. Write a headline that says what you offer and to whom, and let Enrich profile or Interview fill in the rest. Members searching for what you do can then find you.
2. Be where your clients are. Join the communities they belong to from Discover Communities (Communities), and read a community's Signals to see its members' organizations, roles, skills and cities.
3. Search for the people who would buy from you. Describe them in plain language, for example heads of R&D at battery manufacturers in Germany working on solid-state cells. Each result says why it matched, and filters such as a place, an organization or a seniority are read from your question (Search).
4. Keep a list. Save to project builds a list of prospects, and you can share a project with a colleague who is one of your connections (Projects).
5. Reach out well. Connect with a short message, or open a conversation; Generate personalized intro drafts a first message from both profiles, and Write it for me does the same for a connection request (Messaging).
6. Make the meeting easy. Open your bookings in Settings → Meetings so people can book time with you from your profile (Meetings), and keep private notes on each person you talk to, to follow up.

Events are often the fastest route: see At an event below.

Find partners, suppliers or a pilot site

Search for the capability you need rather than for a job title, for example labs with cleanroom access for MEMS prototyping or hospitals that have run clinical trials on digital therapeutics. For a need with several parts, choose Deep Search: it splits your need into search lanes you can check before it runs (Deep Search). The Meet view of a community or of My Network also suggests people who work closest to what you work on (My Network).

Raise funding, or find startups to invest in

Founders can search for investors by what they have backed or the stage they invest at, as their profiles describe it, and save them to a project before reaching out. Investors can search for founders and teams working on a technology, and for experts to ask before an investment decision. Either way, a complete profile matters: it is what the other side's search reads.

Hire or build a team

JOGL Network has no job posts. Instead, describe the skills you need and search for the people who have them. To assemble several complementary people, run a Deep Search with Suggest team composition on: it proposes teams, says what each covers and its gaps, and lets you save a team to a project, copy it or download it as CSV (Deep Search).

Find an expert or a research collaborator

Search reads publications, patents and professional backgrounds, not just keywords, so you can ask for people who have published on perovskite stability or someone who has taken a medical device through CE marking. Open a profile to see its Publications and Patents (Your profile), then contact the person or book a meeting with them. As a researcher, run Enrich profile so your own publications are on your profile and others can find you by them.

At an event

When a community runs an event, open it from Events and join it (Event mode):

1. Answer the short AI interview about what you hope to get out of the event, for example meet procurement leads from pharma companies. Your Matches tab fills with the attendees worth meeting.
2. Browse Participants, and Request meeting with the people you want to see, at a time that is free for both of you.
3. Switch on Let people at this event book a meeting with you on the Meetings tab so other attendees can book you too. It offers times only once bookings are on and you have set a weekly availability in Settings → Meetings (Meetings).
4. Before each meeting, read its Conversation starters; after it, keep a private note and send a connection request to stay in touch.

Keep track of the people you meet

• Private notes work like a personal CRM: notes on anyone, visible only to you (Private notes).
• Projects group the profiles, searches and teams that belong to one goal (Projects).
• My Network holds your connections, your requests and suggestions of who to meet next (My Network).

Search your own LinkedIn network

Import your LinkedIn connections, on the Create a community screen, builds a private community from your LinkedIn data export, so you can search the people you already know by what they do today. Creating a community needs a free trial, or a plan or contract that includes communities (the Pro plans; Plus includes none) (Create a community).

Use JOGL from the tools you already use

You can search from Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord or Slack once your account is linked (Chat bots), and connect an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT through the MCP server.

What JOGL Network does not do

JOGL Network is not an advertising or mass-mailing tool: you reach people one at a time, within their own settings. It does not find people outside the communities and network you belong to, and it does not keep a sales pipeline for you beyond your projects and private notes. If you run a community and want to bring your own members, contacts or event guests into JOGL Network, see the guides for community owners and admins.