12,108 candidates read. One generalist software engineer.
Plastic Labs, AI-native memory and personalization platform for AI agents (Honcho), needed a generalist software engineer. Superposition ran the search and closed it in 19 weeks.
Vince TrostCo-Founder
AI-native memory and personalization platform for AI agents (Honcho)Generalist Software Engineer · the search by the numbers
- 19weeks, brief to hire
- 12,108candidates evaluated
- 117surfaced to the founder
- 39interviewed
- 1hired
The brief
Plastic Labs builds AI-native memory and personalization platform for AI agents (Honcho). The open seat was a generalist software engineer, 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 12,108 candidates against the brief, wrote to the ones who fit, and surfaced 117 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 39 interviews, not in an inbox.
The result
A Generalist Software Engineer hired 19 weeks after the search started, in July 2026.
Plastic Labs has come back to Superposition for more than one search.
“Any time I need to hire now, my default is to get Superposition on it. It runs and just does the work for me.”Vince Trost, Co-Founder, Plastic Labs (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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