How to Find Industry Experts with Copilot

Profile industry experts in your IDE with Copilot and ToolRouter. Expert discovery and data.

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Social Profiles

Copilot pulls expert profile data from your IDE for building expert discovery features into your knowledge platform. Search for domain experts and Copilot helps write the credibility scoring, topic matching, and expert ranking algorithms that power automated expert identification in your application.

Connect ToolRouter to Copilot

1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouter
Server description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.
Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp
3Set Authentication to None and click Create

Steps

Once connected (see setup above), use the Social Profiles tool:

  1. Ask: "Fetch LinkedIn and YouTube profiles for these subject matter experts"
  2. Review the profile data
  3. Ask Copilot to generate a structured expert database entry
  4. Use the data to populate your expert directory or advisory board tracker

Example Prompt

Try this with Copilot using the Social Profiles tool
Pull LinkedIn and YouTube profiles for @expert1, @expert2 and output as structured records for our expert database.

Tips

  • Great for building searchable expert directories
  • Copilot can generate schema definitions for expert profile databases
  • Integrate with knowledge management systems for easy retrieval