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ANYONE CAN LOOK LIKE
A STAFF ENGINEER
FOR 45 MINUTES.
we run the technical interview before your team ever sees a name.
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Seed – Series B
02 / The gap
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With AI, anyone can write the perfect CV, sound confident about systems they never built, and pass a recruiter screen. The screen still runs — it just stopped screening.
This is the pipeline most agencies still run:
This is the pipeline most agencies still run:
Typical agency pipeline · 2026Exhibit A
01POST THE JOB
02MATCH CV KEYWORDS
03RUN A RECRUITER SCREEN
04SEND CANDIDATE TO ENGINEERING
05COLLECT THE FEE
YOUR ENGINEERS
BECAME THE SCREEN.
BECAME THE SCREEN.
03 / Method
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We are engineers, so we built our own tools — and we speak the candidate's language. You meet them only at the last stop.
SOURCEStaff engineer
SCREENStaff engineer
TECHNICAL INTERVIEWStaff engineer
YOUR TEAMYou
Source —
Our own tooling, not keyword search. It finds people who build with and for AI even when their profile says nothing about it — including the ones too busy shipping to update it.
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Same engineer, start to finish
04 / Who runs the interview
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You can tell an engineer by the question they ask. Every note on this page was written by the person who will be on the call.
Our own CV · read the way we read yoursExhibit B
• IMPLEMENTED FULLY AUTONOMOUS
PR REVIEW ACROSS THE ORG:
1,000+ PRS A DAY,
95% BUG DETECTION RATE.
90% OF THE SDLC AUTOMATED.
PR REVIEW ACROSS THE ORG:
1,000+ PRS A DAY,
95% BUG DETECTION RATE.
90% OF THE SDLC AUTOMATED.
Walk me through the arithmetic. How many engineers in the org, PRs per engineer per day — and what share of the 1,000 was agent-driven rather than human-authored?— A. Ternero · Forward Deployed Engineer · Vercel
95% of what? To compute recall you need the bugs you missed. How did you establish ground truth for the bugs the system didn't catch?— G. Levitskyi · AI Solution Architect · Dedicated
List the SDLC stages as you defined them and which ones were automated. Is 90% measured by stage count, by engineer-hours removed, or by something else?— A. Ternero · Forward Deployed Engineer · Vercel
CV shown: Maksym Holovenko · Staff AI Product Engineer · Behavox
No recruiters on the call
05 / For candidates
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YOU ALWAYS
KNOW WHERE
YOU STAND.
KNOW WHERE
YOU STAND.
Every stage is on the platform: who is reviewing you and what happens next. Written feedback within two hours of the technical interview. If the client picks someone else and we know you're strong, you move to the next matching role — without repeating a single step.
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Candidate status · liveFri 14:52
First message from usTue
Intro callterms, expectations · 20 minWed 11:00
Profile on the platformCV and expectations entered by usWed 12:30
Technical interviewR. Lastname · Staff EngineerFri 14:00
Written feedbackwithin 2 hoursby 16:00
Client reviewstatus visible to you—
Offer — or next matching roleno new interview—
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No silence · no disappearing recruiter
06 / Terms
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One fee, when your hire starts. Nothing before, nothing on retainer, nothing for exclusivity.
1Fee, per hirePaid on start date
14Days to hireIntake to signed offer, on average
3–5Candidates per shortlistEach with a written assessment
90Days, free replacementWe run the search again
We turn down searches we don't think we can win. You'll know at the intake call whether your profile exists at your compensation — before either of us spends two weeks.
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No retainer · no exclusivity
07 / Request talent
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TELL US WHAT
YOU'RE BUILDING.
YOU'RE BUILDING.
A 30-minute call with an engineer, not a salesperson. You'll leave knowing whether this profile exists in the market at your compensation — even if you don't work with us.
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