Find literary agents who fit your book

Smart Search is PairPi's natural-language matching tool. You describe a book in a sentence or two — genre, themes, comparable titles, anything that captures the essence — and PairPi ranks open literary agents by how well their stated tastes overlap with what you've described. It's a starting point for building a shortlist, not a verdict.

Smart Search compares the description you provide against agents' publicly stated tastes — what they say they're looking for, the kinds of books they've represented, and the manuscript wishlists they've published. PairPi computes a relevance score for each open agent and ranks the results, prioritising agents currently accepting submissions.

No. Anyone can try Smart Search once for free without creating an account — you'll see the top-ranked open agent for your idea. Free accounts get one Smart Search a month with the top match; Plus and Pro accounts get more searches per month and the full ranked list.

Yes. Smart Search works on a book idea, not a finished manuscript — paste anything from a one-line concept to a paragraph describing themes and characters. Writers often find it inspiring on its own: type in an idea you've been turning over and see real literary agents who might want it. That's sometimes the nudge a project needs to move from 'maybe one day' to actually being written.

Smart Search is a starting point, not a verdict. It surfaces agents whose stated tastes overlap with your description, but the final submission decision should always be informed by reading the agent's full submission guidelines, their representation list, and their recent deals — all of which PairPi links to from every profile. Smart Search finds candidates; it doesn't replace doing the homework.