You have a brief, a vague idea of the role, and a blank search box. The hard part isn’t writing one Boolean string — it’s knowing how tight to make it. Too strict and you get four results; too loose and you drown. This tool skips the guessing: you fill in what you know — up to three skills, a city, a country, a primary and secondary title, and a comma-separated list of donor companies — and it builds a fixed ladder of variants from strictest to broadest, live as you type. Empty fields drop out, so partial input is fine.
Fill Java, Web Development, SQL, city Paris, country France, primary title IT, and donors IBM, Capgemini, Thales, and the top of the ladder is the tightest combination — all three skills AND the city AND the title — while the bottom drops the city, widens to country-wide, keeps only your main skill, and runs the donor list both ways: one variant AND-ing those companies in, one NOT-ing them out. AND clauses render green, NOT clauses red, so you can see at a glance what each step adds or cuts. Copy any single variant, or download the whole batch as .txt.
The point isn’t a perfect query — it’s scanning the space. Start strict, see what comes back, then step down the broader rows. Identical outputs are deduped, so a sparse brief may yield fewer than 16. The matrix is fixed sourcing logic, not magic: it won’t read your brief or rank candidates. It just lays out the search angles so you don’t have to hand-write each one.