Superposition vs. Gem
Gem makes you a better recruiter. Superposition replaces the recruiter.
Gem is a great CRM — if you have a recruiter to run it
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Gem is a recruiting CRM. It organizes your pipeline, automates follow-ups, and makes outreach sequences easy. It's a genuinely useful tool for a recruiting team.
But Gem doesn't source for you. It doesn't write personalized outreach, research candidates, or make judgment calls. You still need a recruiter to run it. At a pre-seed or seed-stage startup, that recruiter is you.
If you don't have hours a week to operate a recruiting CRM, Gem becomes shelfware. You need outcomes, not tooling.
How Superposition is different
Agent, not CRM
Superposition sources, researches, and reaches out — autonomously. You don't operate the tool. You review its work.
Personalized, not templated
Gem sequences are templates with merge tags. Our outreach is written per-candidate, referencing their actual work.
Outcome-priced, not seat-priced
Gem charges per seat whether you place anyone or not. We charge $500/agent/month plus success fee on placement.
Right-sized for 2-30 person teams
Gem is built for recruiting teams. Superposition is built for founders without one.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Superposition vs. hireEZ
hireEZ gives you a bigger candidate pool. Superposition does the work of fishing in it.
Superposition vs. Juicebox
Juicebox is a tool. Superposition is the recruiter.
Superposition vs. Retained Recruiters
Same specificity. A fraction of the cost. Ten times faster.
Stop paying for CRM you have to operate yourself.
Get outcomes, not outreach templates.