Superposition for YC Startups
The hiring system YC founders use to scale post-demo-day.
Post-demo-day, hiring becomes your full-time job
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
You just raised. The hiring clock starts now. You need engineering, design, and maybe GTM — yesterday. Every week you spend not shipping compounds into months of lost progress.
YC puts you in a founder network that helps with referrals, but the well runs dry fast. You end up back on LinkedIn Recruiter, writing InMails between investor meetings, paying retained recruiters out of a pool you can't afford to drain.
What you need is leverage — sourcing that scales with the number of open roles without scaling your time.
How Superposition works for YC founders
Parallel agents for parallel roles
Spin up an agent per open role. Each one sources, researches, and reaches out independently.
Runway-conscious pricing
$500/agent/month plus a success fee on placement. Far cheaper than retained search or 20%-of-salary agency fees.
Fast to first match
ESAI hired a CTO in 8 weeks. Plastic Labs hired a Platform Engineer in 5 weeks. That's the pace you need post-YC.
Founder-led intake
Voice intake captures your specific vision — no account-exec translation layer. You talk, we source.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Superposition for Founders
You should be building your company, not reading resumes.
Superposition for Talent Leads
Multiply your sourcing capacity without multiplying your headcount.
Superposition for Technical Cofounders
You should be in the codebase, not LinkedIn Recruiter.
Build the team faster.
Get back to shipping while we handle the hiring grind.