Superposition for Technical Cofounders
You should be in the codebase, not LinkedIn Recruiter.
The CTO hiring tax
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
As the technical cofounder, you're the one reviewing engineering candidates. You're writing cold outreach between pull requests. You're the tie-breaker on every hiring debate. Your shipping velocity is dropping as a result.
Traditional recruiters send you candidates they can't evaluate technically, so you end up grading every resume yourself. You're doing the screening work anyway, just with a 25% markup attached.
You need sourcing that does the technical screening, not just the outreach.
How Superposition works for technical founders
Technical agent, not generalist recruiter
Our agent reads code, evaluates open source, and filters on real engineering signal before surfacing candidates.
You review shortlists, not firehoses
Instead of 100 resumes, you get a small set of high-conviction matches, the ones worth your interview time.
Intake that speaks engineer
Voice intake captures the stack, the system, and the shape of engineer you want. No translation tax.
Flat-rate pricing
$500/agent/month. Predictable, not tied to salary levels.
Questions.
Answered.
That is the point. Intake is a 30-minute conversation and then approvals take minutes a day. The sourcing, writing, screening and scheduling happen without you.
It reads evidence rather than claims: repositories, papers, writing, talks, and says which of your requirements each person meets. You still run the technical interview.
Yes, and you should. Calibration uses real examples of engineers you would and would not hire, and every approve and pass sharpens the bar further.
They stay in your account with the reason, so the next search starts from what this one learned rather than from zero.
Stay in the codebase.
Let Superposition handle sourcing while you build the product.