Find a specific person by exact first+last name, or find people at a company (by name or by LinkedIn company id) — optionally refined by geographic location and seniority band. Returns name, current title, current company, location, and LinkedIn URL. Global directory search — NOT scoped to the caller's workspace/contacts. Requires first_name+last_name, company_name, OR company_social_id; region/seniority alone are not enough. company_name is resolved server-side to a LinkedIn id — an ambiguous or unmatched name is rejected asking you to resolve it yourself (e.g. via web search) and retry with company_social_id. Results are capped and ranked by follower count; use page for more.

Use when: Use when the user wants to find a specific known person by name (e.g. 'find Satya Nadella'), or people at a named company, optionally narrowed by where they live (US state or metro) and how senior they are (C-suite, VP, director-and-above). For a fixed SET of companies known by social id/slug rather than a name, prefer SearchPeopleInCompanies instead.

Behavior: read_only, idempotent

Returns people[] with fields: full_name current_title current_company location country_code linkedin_url social_followers person_social_id: Stable person social id (profile-data graph identifier). Not for display — carry through to any export/CSV for de-duplication and re-lookup.

IMPORTANT: If the response contains more than one record, always present the options to the user and ask them to choose before taking any follow-up action. Do not act on all results automatically.