People modules & options

The People Intelligence search type exposes five Modules in the captured build. Each Module is a card in the grid that runs one person search against a specific data source — the external third party that holds the data — or, for People (OneScan), across several data sources at once. Selection is single-select: the active tile carries a coral-orange border and title. All five Modules take the same input — one multi-field person form (see below).

For the composer flow that surrounds these Modules, see People search: overview; for reading what comes back, see Reading People results.

The five Modules

Module (as shown on the tile)	data source	What it returns	Cost	Integration
Person (Data: Pipl - Social) (selected by default)	Pipl (Social)	Person search over Pipl’s social dataset — social profiles and personal information for an individual	$1.00 (fixed)	Pipl
People (OneScan) · RECOMMENDED	Multiple (OneScan)	One person query run across several data sources at once, merged for comparison	Dynamic — not captured	—
Person (Data: Predicta)	Predicta	Single-source person search over Predicta data	Not captured (fixed)	Predicta
Person (Data: Pipl - Business)	Pipl (Business)	Single-source person search over Pipl’s business data	Not captured (fixed)	Pipl
Person (Data: OsintIndustries)	OSINT Industries	Single-source person search over OSINT Industries data	$0.70 (fixed, observed 2026-07-10)	OSINT Industries

The module names, data-source sub-labels, and grid order above are taken directly from the composer.

Caution

Two costs are captured: Person (Data: Pipl - Social) at $1.00 and Person (Data: OsintIndustries) at $0.70 (observed 2026-07-10). People (OneScan) is known to be dynamic (its total is the sum of the data sources left enabled). The exact Credit cost of the remaining Modules — Person (Data: Predicta) and Person (Data: Pipl - Business) — was not captured, though each is a fixed-cost Module per the module registry. Confirm the Cost per search line on the tile before running any paid Module.

The lead Module: Person (Data: Pipl - Social)

Person (Data: Pipl - Social) is pre-selected when you open the search type (sub-label “Pipl social data”). Its description panel reads: “Person search using Pipl social dataset. Finds comprehensive social profiles and personal information for an individual.” Its Cost per search is $1.00, and selecting it loads the multi-field person form with the Pipl-specific intro text. It searches Pipl’s social data.

Note

The leftmost card is pre-selected as the app’s fixed out-of-box default (per Lee, 2026-07-10), not your last-used choice. Click the Module you want whenever you need a different one.

The single-source Modules

Besides the lead Pipl (Social) Module, three further Modules query one named data source directly. Pick these when you want a specific source rather than the merged OneScan run:

• Person (Data: Predicta) — person search over Predicta data. See Predicta.
• Person (Data: Pipl - Business) — person search over Pipl’s business dataset. See Pipl.
• Person (Data: OsintIndustries) — person search over OSINT Industries data. See OSINT Industries.

Every data source in this search type has a dedicated integration page; none was missing.

People (OneScan) — the multi-source Module

People (OneScan) is badged RECOMMENDED and subtitled “Multi-source scan”. It fans a single person query out across several data sources at once and merges the results, so the results table attributes each row to the data source that returned it — broader coverage than any single-source Module in one run. Its tile carries a gear icon that opens the Choose Data Source modal.

OneScan’s cost is dynamic — the charge is the sum of the data sources left toggled on (per Lee, 2026-07-08). See OneScan explained.

Caution

The People (OneScan) description-panel text and its exact Cost per search value were not captured (the composer was captured with the single-source Person (Data: Pipl - Social) Module selected, not OneScan). Its cost is known only to be dynamic.

Choose Data Source

The People (OneScan) Module carries a gear icon that opens the Choose Data Source modal. As documented generally in How UserSearch works and OneScan, the modal lets you:

• toggle each data source on/off with a checkbox, each row showing its own per-search cost;
• read a Total cost line that sums the enabled data sources (this matches the composer’s OneScan cost line);
• optionally tick “Remember my choice and hide this from future searches” to persist your selection;
• commit with Apply Filters, revert with Reset, or dismiss with Close or the ×.

Toggling a data source off removes its cost from the total and narrows which data sources OneScan queries — the lever for trading coverage against spend.

Caution

The specific data sources listed inside the People OneScan modal, and their individual costs, were not captured. The worked example in the general OneScan concept (Predicta $0.50 + OsintIndustries $0.70 = $1.20) is from the Username Intelligence search type, not People Intelligence — do not carry those data sources or prices over here. Open the Choose Data Source modal in the app to see the actual People data sources and their costs.

The person form (shared input across every Module)

All five Modules feed the same multi-field person form. You need only one detail, but supplying more reduces false positives. The intro text observed with Person (Data: Pipl - Social) selected reads: “This search uses PIPL.com data to find a person based on one or more of the details below. Providing more information reduces false positives. While you only need to enter one detail, adding guesses for other fields and reviewing the results is recommended.”

The captured fields are:

Field	Captured label / placeholder
Country Code	dropdown, set to “US (+1) United States”
Phone Number	prefilled “+1”
Email	”Enter an email address”
VIN	”Enter a VIN”
First Name	”Enter first name”
Middle Name	”Enter middle name”
Last Name	”Enter last name”
Country	”Enter country”
State	”Enter State”
City	”Enter City”
Username	”Enter a username”
Age Range	”Enter an age range, e.g. 20-30”

The Search Now button (coral-orange, magnifier icon) sits inline with the Phone Number field, and the Cost per search line ($1.00 for the selected Module) sits below the form.

Caution

The form was captured with Person (Data: Pipl - Social) selected. Whether the other Modules present an identical field set is not separately captured — the module registry records all five as using the same multi-field person form, but confirm in the app if a specific Module matters. The intro text quoted above is Pipl-specific and changes with the selected data source.

Per-tile affordances

Each Module tile shows a data-source icon, a bold title, a greyed data-source sub-label (as “(Data: …)”), and a short descriptor. Tiles also carry a circular ”?” help icon; the People (OneScan) tile additionally carries the gear (Choose Data Source) icon.

Caution

The content shown by the per-tile ”?” help icon was not captured. Its contents are not asserted here.

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Related: People search: overview · Reading People results · OneScan · Data sources & reliability

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