# Candidate Generation

> Generate more relevant candidates for your recommendation and personalization systems using vector search in Pinecone.

CANDIDATE GENERATION

## Make recommendations that engage

Generate more relevant candidates for your recommendation and personalization systems using vector search in Pinecone.

[Get Started](https://app.pinecone.io/)

[Contact Sales](https://www.pinecone.io/contact/)

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- ![Microsoft](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/9f1a1e8edfb77639ee53acf49a1f8ec3673813d7-301x62.png)
- ![Hubspot](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/ab7219a1516e1c83a82fada65af94ee34209917e-1000x284.png)
- ![Klarna](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/468190e8ef7ad82dcd927f1227a023c135d4b7a4-248x61.png)
- ![clickup](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/dbd157379336492fae1f389f3259ad539a8bbd89-374x100.png)
- ![CS DISCO](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/37aadb918940693df3c62c1ee7fa99c7adb47449-145x21.png)
- ![Frontier](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/vr8gru94/production/604c3226771be136216b475260435020ceea1c40-224x51.png)

## Candidate generation with Pinecone

A key part of a recommendation system, candidate generation provides a set of items likely to be recommended to a user. The Pinecone vector database lets you index and search for the most relevant items for your users as part of your AI-powered RecSys stack.

### Remarkably better recommendations

Deliver the most relevant and freshest recommendations with fast, fresh, and filtered hybrid search combining vector and full-text search.

### Scale effortlessly

Scale workloads easily with a serverless architecture that separates storage, reads, and writes.

### Hassle-free and fast

Go to production in hours, not days, with a fully managed vector database that is easy to use without any infrastructure to manage.

## What developers can build with Pinecone

### E-commerce product recommendations

### Personalized digital ads

### Personalized streaming content

### Personalized news

## Resources for developers

### Build an article recommender with Pinecone

[Learn more](https://github.com/pinecone-io/recommender-example-typescript)

### Audio recommendation with Pinecone

[Learn more](https://www.pinecone.io/learn/audio-recommendation-openai/)

### Learn to build a product recommender engine

[Learn more](https://colab.research.google.com/github/pinecone-io/examples/blob/master/learn/recommendation/product-recommender/product_recommender.ipynb)

## Start building knowledgeable AI now

Create your first index for free, then upgrade and [pay as you go](https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/) when you're ready to scale, or [talk to sales](https://www.pinecone.io/contact/).

[Get Started](https://app.pinecone.io/)

[View this page on Pinecone](https://www.pinecone.io/solutions/candidate-generation/)