# Managing contacts

> Track hiring managers and client stakeholders, and keep every interaction attached to the right person.

_Collection: Companies, Contacts & Candidates (records) — Kepler Help Center. Canonical: https://keplercrm.com/support/articles/managing-contacts/_

Contacts are the people you sell to and take briefs from — hiring managers, HR partners, founders. Each contact links to a company and accumulates their own history of emails, notes, tasks and meetings.

## Creating contacts

Contacts can be created several ways:

  - **Manually** — from the **Contacts** page, or from a company's Contacts tab (which pre-links the company).

  - **From email** — with contact creation enabled, people you correspond with become contacts automatically.

  - **From LinkedIn** — save a profile as a contact in one click with the [Kepler Chrome extension](/support/articles/linkedin-chrome-extension/).

  - **By CSV import** — see [Importing your data](/support/articles/import-your-data/).

  - **By AI suggestion** — Kepler may propose new contacts it spots in conversations; these arrive in [Notifications](/support/articles/ai-suggestions/) for approval.

## The contact page

A contact page has tabs for **Overview, Communications, Calls, Notes, Tasks, Lists, Files and History**. The Overview includes a preview of the *open* roles at the contact's linked company; there are no separate Jobs or Interviews tabs. The **Communications** tab shows threads matched to the contact's email address from every connected account you're allowed to see.

## Linking contacts to companies

Set the company on the contact's Overview tab. Once linked:

  - The contact appears on the company's Contacts tab.

  - Their conversations contribute to the company's Communications tab.

  - They become selectable as the client contact on the company's jobs.

## Keeping data fresh

Contacts go stale fast in recruitment. Kepler's AI watches synced conversations for signals — a new job title in a signature, an out-of-office announcing a move — and proposes field updates in [Notifications](/support/articles/ai-suggestions/) rather than silently editing your data.

> **NOTE:** A person can be both a contact and a candidate (the hiring manager you place next year). Kepler keeps these as separate records with separate histories, and email threads can appear on both.