63,003 candidates read. One founding sales.
ESAI, AI-powered college-admissions platform, needed a founding sales. Superposition ran the search and closed it in 8 weeks.
Julia DixonFounder and CEO
AI-powered college-admissions platformFounding Sales · the search by the numbers
- 8weeks, brief to hire
- 63,003candidates evaluated
- 36surfaced to the founder
- 24interviewed
- 1hired
The brief
ESAI builds AI-powered college-admissions platform. The open seat was a founding sales, the kind of hire a small team cannot get wrong.
Instead of a job post or an agency retainer, the founders described the role to the agent in their own words and let it run outbound from day one.
What the agent did
It read 63,003 candidates against the brief, wrote to the ones who fit, and surfaced 36 for the founder's review, each already contacted and interested.
Scheduling, reminders and follow-ups ran inside the agent. The team spent its time in 24 interviews, not in an inbox.
The result
A Founding Sales hired 8 weeks after the search started, in March 2026.
ESAI has come back to Superposition for more than one search.
“Superposition solved the problem of filling the role we desperately needed and the problem of time, which is something I don't have a lot of as a startup founder.”Julia Dixon, Founder and CEO, ESAI (published case study)
More searches
- 8 wks
- brief to hire
- 18,410
- candidates researched
- 28
- curated into Slack
“Superposition sourced my CTO from start to finish with no human in the loop, and it really did find our needle in the haystack.”
Julia DixonFounder and CEO, ESAI
- 5 wks
- brief to hire
- 43,802
- candidates scanned
- 15
- high-conviction matches
“Your outreach emails are too good, candidate quality is the highest by far. We certainly wouldn't have found this person on our own.”
Vince TrostCo-Founder, Plastic Labs
- 5 wks
- brief to hire
- 24
- interviewed
- 1
- hired
“It handles all our sourcing and outreach, so we focus on hiring the right person, not just whoever applies.”
Gabriel LespéranceCTO, Trampoline AIGet started
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