Talent search for founders
Describe your next hire in plain English. Read twenty-five people with recent proof of work who are open to a move — not five hundred stale profiles matching a title.
Start searchingTHE PROBLEM
In a small team, sourcing is somebody’s second job.
Five hundred profiles that match a title. Cold emails nobody answers. An agency that takes a fifth of the salary to do the same thing slower.
The engineer you need shipped something last week, and never heard from you.
Five levels down
LEVEL 01The briefSay it in plain English.your time · 10 s
senior backend engineer, payments, early-stage⌘↵
ROLEBackend · payments infrastructure
LEVELSenior to staff
SIGNALShipped in the last 90 days
WHERENew York, or remote (US hours)
LEVEL 02The searchA log, not a progress bar.your time · 0 s
searching · 00:00:26
00:00:02Here's how I read that →payments infra
00:00:11Searching 115,402,881 profiles
00:00:3825 people ranked
LEVEL 03The listTwenty-five who would actually leave.your time · 2 min
MOshipped this week91
Maya Ochoa
DAactively looking88
Devin Aslan
TR55
Tom Reyes
LEVEL 04The emailOpens on what they shipped.your time · 0 s
Draft · to Maya Ochoa
SUBJECT — the ledger rewrite
Maya,
You shipped the double-entry ledger rewrite at Ramp in March. Your write-up is the shape of what we're building.
Nine people, pre-Series-A, payments is the whole product. Worth twenty minutes?
LEVEL 05The replyDrafted in your voice. Waits for you.your time · 0 s
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