Superposition for Pre-Seed Startups
Your first three hires will define the company. Get them right.
Pre-seed hiring is disproportionately high-stakes
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
At pre-seed, every hire is roughly 20-30% of the team. A miss doesn't just slow you down. It fundamentally reshapes the company's trajectory and culture.
You can't afford a retained recruiter ($30K+ upfront), and you can't afford the time cost of DIY sourcing. LinkedIn DMs work until they don't; most founders at this stage hit a wall after the first great hire.
What you need is the specificity of a retained search at a price point that makes sense for pre-seed runway.
How Superposition works for pre-seed
Taste-specific sourcing
Our voice intake captures the 'perfect weirdo' profile, the odd specific shape your first hire needs.
Runway-friendly pricing
$500/agent/month. Pay success fee only when you make a hire. No retainer, no cancellation drama.
Fast first hires
Curated matches in weeks. Because at pre-seed, every week without shipping is a week closer to your next raise.
Founder-led process
You talk to our agent directly. No account exec layer. The founder's vision stays intact.
Questions.
Answered.
If you are hiring your first two or three people, no. Those hires matter more than any later ones and the pool of people willing to join at pre-seed is small enough to need real outbound.
The monthly fee is far below a recruiter salary and the success fee applies only on a hire, on base salary. Most pre-seed teams run one agent on one role at a time.
Usually the thing you cannot do yourself, hired senior enough to work unsupervised. Beyond that it depends entirely on what the product needs, which intake pins down.
With the problem and with ownership. At pre-seed the pitch is that they shape what the company becomes, which the outreach leads with.
Superposition for Seed-Stage Startups
Hire 3-10 people without hiring a recruiter first.
Superposition for Series A Startups
The key hires that will define your next 18 months, without the 30% retained fee.
Hire a Technical Cofounder
Not a hire. A partner who builds the company with you.
Make your first hire count.
Pre-seed pricing, retained-search specificity.