Blogs

Thoughts, insights, and updates from the Superposition team.

Featured•September 21, 2026

Founding engineer salary in 2026: what is measured and what is guessed

The cash figure is well measured and founders budget it correctly. The equity figure traces back to a 2018 survey, and our own hiring briefs show founders still writing it down: a median of exactly one percent, against the 1.54 percent Carta measures on real cap tables.

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ProductAugust 20, 2026

Superposition learns who you actually want throughout the search

Calibration lets Superposition reason over the full history of a role, work through the candidates who changed your mind, and update who it searches for next.

ManifestoJuly 20, 2026

There's no such thing as a good hire in the abstract

Our manifesto on hiring: why generically good isn't good enough, why two-sided recruiting never compounds, why the wrong questions get you the wrong people, and why culture is the operating system of a company.

AIJuly 14, 2026

Superposition MCP Setup Guide: Connect Claude, Codex, and External Tools to Your Recruiting Data

Set up Superposition MCP in both directions: connect Claude, Codex, or another MCP client to your recruiting data, then let Superposition call your external tools mid-workflow.

BrandJuly 2, 2026

On the Record with Roger Mondrane: The Film Behind Superposition

Why Superposition made a mockumentary instead of a safe startup launch video, and how Roger Mondrane turns our hiring thesis into a film.

HiringJune 24, 2026

Find your perfect weirdo

Hiring only works when a company knows exactly who it is and who belongs there. Superposition turns that specificity into an AI headhunter that finds the people no generic search would surface.

ProductMay 20, 2026

Superposition works inside your AI tools

We've shipped bidirectional MCP support. Connect Superposition to Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, and let our agent call into Notion, Linear, or your custom endpoints. Your recruiting data lives wherever you're already working.

PodcastApril 16, 2026

Total Internal Reflection: Episode 4

Skills written for one person break on everyone else's machine. Meta skills let agents negotiate bespoke workflows between themselves, so humans never have to align on tooling again.

AIApril 14, 2026

I couldn't design a skill that worked. Our agents figured it out themselves

The skills I write for myself keep breaking on my cofounder's machine. Meta skills let two agents negotiate bespoke versions of a shared workflow without either human typing a message.

AIApril 5, 2026

How can your agent design its own soul?

Your agent can't know itself until it knows you. OpenClaw's soul.md is the best idea in personal agent design. It's also empty for almost everyone. We built Anson, a skill that interviews you and co-designs your agent's personality in a single sitting.

PodcastApril 5, 2026

Total Internal Reflection: Episode 3

Most agents bootstrap with zero taste. We built a meta-skill that interviews you, generates bespoke skills on the fly, and solves the bootstrap paradox of agent identity.

AIMarch 7, 2026

Our Agents Talk to Each Other So We Don't Have To

We put our AI agents in a Slack group chat together. They debate podcast ideas, fetch context from each other's machines, and handle tech support while we talk strategy.

PodcastMarch 7, 2026

Total Internal Reflection: Episode 2

Our agents live in Slack now. They debate each other, share context across machines, and freed us from being information bottlenecks for each other.

AIMarch 1, 2026

The $100K Consulting Question Our AI Agent Asked for Free

We built a context architecture that lets our AI agent ask strategic questions no consultant could. Here's how structured databases, MCP servers, and a single Reflect skill turned raw startup chaos into compounding insight.

PodcastMarch 1, 2026

Total Internal Reflection: Episode 1

Recording our reactions to building agents. This week I gave Li AGI goosebumps without writing a single line of code.

ProductFebruary 6, 2026

Your Agent Now Knows When Interviews Happen

Calendar integration is live. The agent sees when interviews are scheduled, stops nagging, and quietly moves on. This is the first step toward giving it real workflow visibility.

ContentFebruary 3, 2026

Why I Stopped Thinking of Content Ideas Myself

Writing isn't the hard part. Repeatedly thinking of good ideas is. Here's how I built a pipeline to mine content ideas from the raw material of building a startup.

AIJanuary 25, 2026

Why We'll Never Buy a CRM (And What We Use Instead)

Most startups buy a CRM. We think the entire premise is wrong. Here's how we use Granola, Notion, and Claude Code to build a better system with AI orchestration.

HiringJanuary 8, 2026

The screening call prompt that helped us hire 2 founding engineers in 21 days

With 41 screening calls in 3 weeks, keeping context in my head was impossible. Here's the Granola Recipe I created to turn screening calls into structured, decision-ready notes, and how you can use it too.

AINovember 10, 2025

Building an AI Agent That Actually Understands Linear Time

Most people assume LLMs can handle basic things like time. Wrong. Here's how our AI recruiter almost booked a candidate into a meeting that literally couldn't happen, and how we fixed it by giving the agent a manager.

ProductOctober 12, 2025

CAP: find the overlap, make the right intros

CAP makes the helpful thing the easy thing. It maps the overlap between which VCs I'm willing to intro and which VCs you want an intro to, so founders can agree on the best two or three VC intros in minutes, not hours.

HiringOctober 10, 2025

How to write recruiting emails so good engineers bookmark them for 4 years

A proven approach and full example for writing recruiting emails candidates remember (and return to) years later.

HiringSeptember 24, 2025

Your 2025 Playbook for Writing "We Are Hiring" Posts That Don't Suck

Most hiring posts are bland platitudes that talented people scroll past. Here's how to write ones that actually work in 2025.

AIJuly 18, 2025

How to be a 100x engineer, literally

AI coding isn't the unlock anymore, everyone's doing it. The real unlock is parallelization. Here's how I ship 10 features while you ship one.

StartupMay 14, 2025

How we renamed our startup in 48 hours

Candid customer feedback led us to rename our startup from Boolio to Superposition. We share why the old name didn't work, the meaning behind the new one, and our 48-hour renaming process.

AIMay 13, 2025

Superposition Launches AI Recruiter for startup founders

We've been refining our AI recruiter with a select group of early stage founders and are excited to share what we've been working on.