Better Recruiting Exists

We offer three ways to work together:

Contingency Recruiting - For building out your team. Deep startup expertise, vetted candidates, and we close 2/3 of the offers we extend. Pay only when you hire.

Executive Search - For your most critical leadership hires. Hand-picked candidates, white-glove service, face-to-face meetings. We own the entire process from strategy to negotiation.

Embedded Recruiting - We become your in-house recruiting team. Deployed in days, scaled to your needs, equipped with our tools. What's ours becomes yours.

Most of our clients work with us exclusively across all their roles. That's when we're most effective.

Engineering, AI/ML, product, design, sales, marketing, finance, operations, and executive leadership.

From founding engineers to C-suite. From individual contributors to VPs.

We've placed thousands of candidates across every function that matters in a high-growth startup. If you're hiring for it, we've likely filled it before.

Some examples: ML engineers, product managers, sales leaders, CFOs, heads of engineering, growth marketers, platform engineers, founding designers.

It depends. (We know, not the answer you want.)

Senior roles: 6-12 weeks
Mid-level roles: 4-8 weeks
High-volume hiring: We can move faster with embedded teams

But here's what matters more than speed: We don't rush. A bad hire costs you more than time. It costs momentum, culture, and money.

We're not cheap. And we're upfront about that.

Our fees reflect the quality of our work and the value of your time. We charge a percentage of first-year compensation with an upfront retainer.

Contingency: Small retainer per role, remainder due when you hire
Executive Search: Retained engagement with milestone payments
Embedded: Monthly retainer based on team size and scope

Want specifics? Book a call. Pricing depends on your needs, and we'd rather explain it properly than give you a number that doesn't mean anything yet.

Yes. If you're serious about hiring.

We work best with founders who:

• - Are well-funded or revenue-generating
• - Understand that great hiring is an investment, not a cost
• - Want an exclusive recruiting partner who knows their business deeply

We don't work well with:

• - Companies looking for the cheapest option
• - Founders who want to "test" multiple recruiters on the same role
• - Teams that aren't ready to move quickly on the right candidate

If you're pre-seed and bootstrapping, we're probably not the right fit yet. If you've raised a seed+ round and need to build a world-class team fast, let's talk.

Three things:

Signal, not volume. We send a stream of select candidates per role. Usually 80% get invited to interview, and we can get to a hire in 1-3 months.

Context, not just job descriptions. We thirst to understand your company, your people, your moment. Our team and AI constantly adjust to explicit and implicit feedback and data from the process.

Partnership, not transactions. We build multi-year partnerships with our clients.

Ruthlessly.

Every candidate we send has been:

• - Sourced from networks we've built over 8 years
• - Screened for skills, culture fit, and motivation
• - Contextualized for your specific needs

We have proprietary software that helps us source faster and understand fit deeper. But the final filter is always human judgment.

If we're not confident someone is worth your time, we don't hit send. That's the standard.

Yes. If a candidate doesn't work out within the first 90 days, we'll replace them at no additional cost.

But here's what matters more: Our 77% offer-to-close rate and 80% interview rate mean we're getting it right most of the time.

We don't make guarantees about timeline or number of candidates. We make one guarantee: We will find your dream candidate. Not might. Not try. Will.

Sometimes it takes longer than expected. But we don't stop until we get it right.

More than you'd think. Less than we talk about.

Our team uses proprietary software to source faster, screen better, and understand context deeper. It's how we can vet 5,000+ candidates a year and still maintain an 80% interview accept rate.

You won't see our tech. You'll see the result: better candidates, delivered faster, with more insight.

We build technology so our team can make deeper human connections. Because recruiting isn't a software problem. It's a people problem.

We extend your team, we don't replace it.

Most of our clients use us for:

• - Roles their team doesn't have bandwidth for
• - Specialized or senior roles that need deeper networks
• - Building new functions (when you're hiring your first sales leader, first CFO, etc.)

We share candidates with your ATS, align on process, and move at your speed.

Some clients have us handle everything. Others use us strategically. Both work.

Yes. But know this: We're better when we work exclusively with you.

Why? Context compounds. The more roles we work on together, the deeper we understand your company, your culture, your standards. That's when we're fastest and most effective.

But we understand you want to see us in action first. Start with one role. If we deliver, let's talk about working together across all your hiring.

That's when you'll see the results we're known for.

High-growth tech companies. That's it.

We know this world. We've placed thousands of candidates at startups from seed to post-IPO. We understand the pace, the pressure, and what great looks like.

We work with companies backed by a16z, Accel, Lightspeed, Index, and more. We know what it takes to build fast without breaking things.