AI recruiting for Series B startups
The year you hire more people than in the previous three combined.
The window where the old way of hiring quietly stops working
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Series B is when headcount plans get ambitious. Multiple functions hiring at once, roles that did not exist last year, and a board deck with a number on it. It is also the point where the founder-led hiring that got you here runs out of hours.
The usual answer is agencies, and the bill grows fast. Four searches at 25 percent of first-year compensation is a line item that starts showing up in board conversations for the wrong reasons.
The other answer is a recruiting team, which is right eventually but slow: you are hiring recruiters during the quarter you most need hires, and they take a quarter to ramp.
How teams at this stage use the agent
Run several searches in parallel
One agent per function, each with its own brief, mailbox and pipeline. Roles do not compete for one recruiter's week.
It learns the bar once and applies it everywhere
Every approve and pass feeds a model of who belongs at your company, so the fifth search starts from what the first four learned.
Your ATS stays the system of record
Two-way sync with Ashby, Greenhouse and the rest. Interviewers and hiring managers never adopt a new tool mid-scale-up.
Cost that scales with hires, not headcount
Flat monthly per agent plus a success fee on base salary. Adding a fifth search costs one more agent, not one more agency relationship.
Questions.
Answered.
Yes, and it is the most common setup at this stage. The recruiter owns the bar, the loop and the closing conversations; the agent covers sourcing, outreach, screening and scheduling across every open role.
Yes. Sales, marketing, product, operations and finance searches all run the same way, with different sources read for each.
An RPO rents you a team and a process. The agent is capacity without the ramp, and the research stays in your account when the hiring wave ends.
You stop the agents and the monthly fee stops. Everything learned about your bar stays, so restarting is fast.
Superposition for Series A Startups
The key hires that will define your next 18 months, without the 30% retained fee.
Superposition for Talent Leads
Multiply your sourcing capacity without multiplying your headcount.
Hire a VP of Engineering
The hire that either buys you a year of focus or costs you one.
Hire through the window.
Tell us your next four roles and the agent will start on all of them.