AI recruiting infrastructure for high-growth startups

We build intelligent sourcing and candidate scoring software that helps startups hire top engineering talent 5x faster. Our platform processes millions of signals to surface the best candidates before your competitors do.

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22K+

Engineers profiled

50+

Startup customers

4.2 days

Avg. time to first qualified candidate

87%

Response rate on outreach

Platform

End-to-end recruiting infrastructure that integrates with your existing workflow. API-first, built for engineering teams.

Intelligent Candidate Sourcing

Our ML pipeline ingests data from GitHub, LinkedIn, academic publications, and open source contributions to build rich candidate profiles. We identify high-signal engineers who match your technical requirements.

Predictive Scoring Engine

LLM-powered candidate evaluation scores engineers on technical fit, experience relevance, and role alignment. Trained on thousands of successful startup hires.

Automated Outreach Sequences

Personalized multi-touch email campaigns generated by AI. Each message references the candidate's actual work, projects, and interests for authentic engagement.

Analytics Dashboard

Real-time pipeline visibility with funnel analytics, response tracking, and hiring velocity metrics. Data-driven insights to optimize your recruiting process.

ATS Integrations

Native integrations with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and custom ATS systems. Candidates flow directly into your existing hiring workflow via API.

Talent Market Intelligence

Compensation benchmarks, hiring trends, and talent availability data for your target roles. Know where the market is before you start hiring.

How It Works

Get from job description to qualified candidates in minutes, not weeks.

1

Define your role

Upload a job description or specify technical requirements. Our system understands nuanced skill requirements beyond keyword matching.

2

AI sources candidates

Our pipeline searches across multiple data sources, builds enriched profiles, and scores candidates against your specific criteria.

3

Review top matches

Get a ranked list of qualified candidates with detailed profiles, scoring breakdowns, and contact information ready for outreach.

4

Automated outreach

Launch personalized email sequences with one click. Our AI generates messages that reference each candidate's actual work and interests.

Built for Startups

We work with companies who are scaling fast and need to hire exceptional engineers.

Seed & Series A

Find your first 10 engineers. We help early-stage teams compete with Big Tech offers by identifying candidates who are motivated by mission and equity upside.

Growth Stage

Scale from 10 to 100 engineers. Our platform handles high-volume sourcing while maintaining quality, so your internal team can focus on closing.

Specialized Roles

ML engineers, infrastructure, Rust developers, founding engineers. We source for hard-to-fill technical roles where traditional recruiting fails.

Technology

Our cloud-native platform is built for reliability and scale.

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SageMaker) Node.js Python PostgreSQL OpenAI / LLMs Vector Embeddings Real-time Data Pipelines REST & GraphQL APIs

Team

Technical founders with experience building and scaling startups.

Albert Su

CEO & Co-Founder

1st employee at crypto unicorn. Founded world's largest livestream betting platform. UC Berkeley.

Brian Ruan

Co-Founder

Founded stablecoin lending protocol with $1B TVL. Previously quant trading. UC Berkeley.

David Song

Co-Founder

AI engineer at OpenAI-backed startups. Previously Elad Gil fund. Stanford.

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