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We only accept the top 2% of recruiters.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84634&key=user_uploads/5516/5b78d9d2-2b56-4bf3-8c70-9d233f4a3396)\n\n# Key features\n\n1️⃣ On-demand expertise: Get help from experienced recruiters when you need it, without the overhead of a full-time hire. Perfect for startups and companies with variable hiring needs.\n\n2️⃣ Flexible pricing: Ramp up or down based on your hiring needs – pay only for the hours you use.\n\n3️⃣ Tech-enabled efficiency: Recruiters can use Dover’s ATS, Sourcing Extension, and other tools so they can focus on strategic work and keep their costs low.\n\n4️⃣ Transparent metrics: We share cost-per-hire and fill rates for our recruiters before you hire them so you can find the perfect recruiter for you.\n\n# 🤔 Why did we build this?\n\nRecruiting consistently ranks as a top 3 problem for startups, regardless of their stage or industry. Before companies are big enough to justify hiring a full-time recruiter, they often have to resort to agencies.\n\nWe like to say with agencies, \"You'll be unhappy either way\"—either you won't make a hire and waste time, or you will make a hire and pay $30k+ per placement. There’s a reason you don’t hire engineers or marketers on “contingency.”\n\nWe wanted to provide a more flexible, higher-quality solution. Dover Recruiting Partners gives you access to top-tier recruiting talent without the long-term commitment or exorbitant fees. Our fractional recruiting model allows you to work with a separate expert recruiter for each role you're hiring for, whether it's a senior engineer, a sales leader, or a product manager.\n\n# 💰 How much does it cost?\n\nMost companies spend an average of $80 per hour, depending on the services they use. 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Yet it’s harder to filter down to top candidates and you can’t get back to everyone. It sucks for candidates too — they never hear back, and candidate experience takes a hit.\n\nThe proprietary tech that powers our automated outbound sourcing engine is now applied to reveal top applicants across all your job boards. Use extremely powerful filters and chat to find candidates matching exactly what you’re looking for and review resumes 10x faster — for free.\n\n**What is Dover?**\n\nOver the last five years, Dover (YC S19) has enabled Scale AI, OpenSea, Benchling, Vanta, Stripe, and 500+ other startups to make thousands of hires. You may have seen some of our other launches like our [Applicant Tracking System](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dover#free-ats-by-dover) and [Sourcing Autopilot](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dover-autopilot).\n\n**What’s different from other resume review tools?**\n\nDover’s AI Applicant Sorting goes far beyond keywords. Dover has a knowledge graph of companies, industries, skillsets, and more.\n\nAI Applicant Sorting allows you to use super powerful filters and chat to find candidates based on exactly what you’re looking for.\n\nAs you review candidates, quickly approve or reject with a click. Take bulk actions to send the next steps in a fraction of the time. 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It costs $0 and takes 10 minutes to set up.\n\nJust want to try it out? Start using the tool with sample candidates in only a few minutes.\n\n**How much does it cost?**\n\nDover’s AI Applicant Sorting is totally free to use, just like our Applicant Tracking System.\n\n**Why is Dover releasing this for free?**\n\nDover’s mission is to help every company run an incredible hiring process and every candidate has a great experience. The best way to do this is by building easy-to-use tools to help every company get the basics right.\n\nWe make money by selling [Sourcing Autopilot](http://dover.com/sourcing-autopilot) and [Embedded Recruiter](http://dover.com/embedded-recruiter) to companies that need help with sourcing or full-cycle recruiting.\n\n**How do you ensure the AI doesn’t create bias?**\n\nIf you throw AI at a problem, bias can be created. We’ve built this model by inputting specific data and criteria and examining what’s happening with the AI output. 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Hatchways helps you build a state-of-the-art practical interview process that is customized to your role while saving you engineering interview load along the way.\n\n# 👋 The Origin Story\n\nI've shared my personal struggle with traditional interviews on [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20578850) and how I’ve never been great at \"performing\" on the spot.\n\nThis summarizes well what our mission has always been: _“Mainstream hiring processes are biased towards those who went to great schools, had high GPAs, are native-English speaking, have worked at brand name companies, are extroverts and great networkers, etc. But there are so many talented people who don't fit that profile. We're excited to work on ways of hiring that give them a better chance.”_\n\nOver time, we realized the challenge in solving this issue lies in the fact that companies lack incentives to improve their processes unless it saves them money or time.\n\nThus, Hatchways is on a mission to make talent discovery efficient yet fair. 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The price for this insurance depends on your payroll and employee duties. Since your payroll and employee duties change annually, you’ll go through an audit process to determine the proper amount you should be paying. In the backend, this process is costly and inefficient, and you probably end up underpaying/overpaying. We use a combination of LLMs and human judgment, leading to higher-quality audits at half the price of traditional audit solutions.\\\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Hussein](https://linkedin.com/in/hussein-syed-44115a164) and [Omar](https://linkedin.com/in/omar-dadabhoy), and we’re creating [Arcimus](https://www.arcimus.com/)! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77849&key=user_uploads/977376/187811a1-ef85-43ca-9203-7a8e3eab50b5)\n\n### **📑 Problem:**\n\nWorkers' compensation insurance pricing depends on a business’s total payroll and its employees' duties (a roofer is at higher risk of injury than a Software Engineer). However, these factors change as companies hire/fire and change salaries.\n\nEvery year, insurance companies contract auditing firms or individual premium auditors to hand review their customers’ information. They report changes in total payroll and employee duties, enabling insurance carriers to assign them a new premium.\n\nThis manual process can take auditors 1-3 hours per customer annually and is prone to human error. Insurance carriers are at a high risk of failing state compliance tests and getting fined due to human errors.\n\n### **🤖 Our Solution:**\n\nWe use a combination of LLMs and human judgment to read a customer’s documents and compile their information into the same final report created by premium auditors. We can do this within minutes, at half the cost, and with higher accuracy than any singular auditor.\n\n### **📖 Our Story:**\n\nWe were originally S23 but decided to demo with W24 because we pivoted mid-batch from AI meeting notes (yeah, we know…). \n\nWe talked to dozens of insurance workers and eventually learned about premium auditors. After talking to \\~50 premium auditors, we had an inkling that their processes were ready for innovation. To better understand their jobs, we decided to go back to school in the middle of YC and take a community college class on premium auditing. \n\nLike any other college experience, we graduated from YC with 9-5 jobs as premium auditors. After working as premium auditors for 3 months, we were able to write code to automate parts of the premium audit process. AI and humans together led to unmatched performance and dramatically less cost, better than any auditor alone.\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask:**\n\n**Are you an insurance carrier or premium audit vendor:** We’d love to meet and see how we could fit into your workflow! Email us! \n\n**Customer Intros:** If you have contacts at insurance carriers or premium auditing vendors we'd love an introduction to talk to them! Email us!\n\n\\\nFeel free to reach us at [founders@arcimus.com](mailto:founders@arcimus.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KFd-arcimus-ai-powered-insurance-premium-audits", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-01-25T17:30:22.721Z" } ] }, { "id": 28863, "name": "Serra", "slug": "serra", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de1a90717852abf9734482354e7229c962c19089.png", "website": "https://www.serra.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serra is an AI recruiter that fully automates candidate sourcing and outreach, finding ideal talent from LinkedIn, GitHub, Crunchbase, and your ATS. Companies hiring Serra skip sourcing entirely and simply get qualified interviews on their calendar.", "one_liner": "Your 24/7 AI Recruiter", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "launched_at": 1689272119, "tags": [ "Recruiting", "HR Tech", "Enterprise Software", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Recruiting and Talent" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/serra", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/serra.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/serraio/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/Serra-Technologies", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de1a90717852abf9734482354e7229c962c19089.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1241137, "full_name": "Alan Wang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder/CEO @ Serra. Former Data Engineer at Disney+. UCLA Stats + Data Science.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d5e8e535f08b4b0844dc4bfc4e16d1c99f22353.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94993, "title": "Serra — The AI Recruiter That Hires Through Your Network", "tagline": "Find the best talent in your team's network and outside of it. ", "body": "Hey YC community! 👋 We’re the cofounders of [Serra](https://serra.io/) — an AI recruiting agent that automates sourcing, outreach, and warm introductions through your team’s network.\n\nCompanies like Waymo, Verkada and Replit use Serra to skip manual sourcing and get qualified interviews straight on their calendar.\n\nTell your agents who you’re looking for, and Serra will use your team’s combined network, LinkedIn, Github, and Crunchbase to find the right people and who can intro you to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/3894ace7-4e45-4e49-b12e-ed243d06f2ef)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/9a73d72e-2304-4235-bafa-faa179b7b35e)\n\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\nRecruiters and founders spend most of their week manually searching LinkedIn, sending cold messages, and juggling tools.\n\nEvery company already knows thousands of great candidates through its employees—but that data just sits unused.\n\nSerra combines **outbound search** + **your team’s connections** to find warm paths to the best talent.\n\nIt drafts personalized outreach, tracks replies, and books interviews automatically.\n\n---\n\n### **What’s happened so far**\n\n* Serra has made hires for \\~100 companies like Replit, Verkada, and EquipmentShare\n* 5–10× higher reply rates on warm intros vs. cold outreach\n* Average recruiter saves 15 hours per role\n\n### **What’s next**\n\nWe’re expanding our **AI Referral Network** so that every recruiter and employee in a company contributes to a shared warm graph.\n\nThat means smarter recommendations, faster hires, and a compounding network effect with every new user.\n\nIf you’re a founder or recruiter who’s tired of cold sourcing, give Serra a try: https://serra.io/contact", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oi9-serra-the-ai-recruiter-that-hires-through-your-network", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-10-29T03:19:26.500Z" }, { "id": 89379, "title": "Serra 🧑‍🏫 Your 24/7 AI Recruiter", "tagline": "Serra is your AI-powered recruiting assistant that sources and engages ideal candidates nonstop, letting your team focus on hiring—not searching.", "body": "Hey YC community 👋\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley/) here! We're excited to introduce Serra—the fully autonomous AI Recruiter that transforms how startups find and engage talent.\n\n**🚀 TL;DR**\\\nSerra autonomously handles your candidate sourcing 24/7. It identifies, evaluates, and engages top-tier talent so your recruiting team can focus on meaningful human interactions.\n\n📺 **See Serra in action:** \n\n**❌ The Problem**\\\nTalent sourcing today is still manual, inefficient, and repetitive. Recruiters spend countless hours creating Boolean search strings, sifting through profiles, and handling outreach manually—taking precious time away from meaningful interactions. This slows down hiring, increases costs, and risks missing top candidates.\n\n**🤖 Our Solution**\\\nSerra is your AI-powered sourcing partner, working around the clock to:\n\n* **Find ideal candidates** across LinkedIn, GitHub, and your ATS.\n* **Automatically review and shortlist** candidates by precisely matching your criteria.\n* **Engage proactively** via personalized, automated outreach sequences directly through LinkedIn and email.\n* **Continuously source** new talent, keeping your pipeline fresh without manual effort.\n\nSerra ensures your recruiting team spends their valuable time engaging and hiring the best candidates—not searching databases.\n\n**🛠️ How It Works**\\\nSimply talk or type your hiring criteria into Serra:\n\n> \"Hi Serra, find me a technical Head of Product at Series B-D startups, preferably with co-founding experience and recent promotions.\"\n\nSerra clarifies any additional details, conducts exhaustive searches, vets profiles automatically, and starts personalized candidate outreach—all autonomously.\n\n**📖 Our Story**\\\nWe built Serra after talking to dozens of YC founders experiencing firsthand the pain of inefficient sourcing in high-growth startups. The goal became very simple: help companies build better teams, faster.\n\n**🎯 Our Ask**\n\n* **Are you hiring or scaling your team?** We’d love you to try Serra firsthand. Visit [serra.io](http://serra.io/) and mention YC for priority onboarding.\n* **Know someone who could benefit from automated sourcing?** Introductions are greatly appreciated!\n\n👉 **Reach out directly:** [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)\n\nLet Serra handle the heavy lifting so your team can focus on what matters most—your people. Excited to hear your thoughts!\n\nCheers, \\\nThe Serra Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFb-serra-your-24-7-ai-recruiter", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-04-10T16:44:46.577Z" }, { "id": 83930, "title": "Serra — Find the best talent using AI", "tagline": "AI search engine to find the best talent to hire", "body": "**✅ Value-Prop:**\n\nCutting down time to hire + increasing quality of candidates top-of-funnel. Try us out at cloud.serra.io.\n\n**TLDR;**\n\nInstead of manually selecting keywords and reviewing candidates one by one, recruiters can search in plain English on Serra and instantly see the best matches, with all their research done for them. Serra now has \\~1 billion candidates in their database, emails and phone numbers included. Watch our demo [here.](https://youtu.be/KWGNcVFMH_k)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHey everybody! We’re Alan and Albert, and we built Serra to speed up time- and increase quality-of-hire for founders and recruiters. We reached out to dozens of founders at Series A and B YC companies and found that hiring the right people, faster, was a recurring painpoint.\n\n**❌ Problem:**\n\nHiring requires sorting through hundreds of resumes, reaching out to dozens of candidates, and buying expensive search licenses that still rely on outdated keyword matching. Candidates can game ATS filters by stuffing their profiles with keywords. This wastes months of time and money, often leading to poor hires and this cycle repeating itself.\n\n**✅ Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83930&key=user_uploads/1241137/27d9b45c-baa7-432c-a325-bb145e9d9c3d)\n\nSerra is a vector-based search engine that focuses on understanding the context of each profile. It delivers more accurate matches based on what you actually asked for rather than relying on exact keyword matches. Serra utilizes LLMs to rank and research millions of candidates simultaneously.\n\nSerra fact-checks what candidates put on their profiles—if a candidate claims they have experience in training and deploying machine learning models in production, Serra checks GitHub for tangible evidence.\n\nSerra can also hook up directly to your ATS, allowing you to apply the same search benefits to candidates inside of it.\n\n**❓Ask from us:**\n\nTry us out with 2 free searches at [cloud.serra.io](http://cloud.serra.io)!\n\nFor founders aggressively hiring and looking to source better talent faster, book a demo [here](https://calendar.app.google/ZiqkQL11E458DAV8A) or drop us a note at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lpi-serra-find-the-best-talent-using-ai", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-09-11T04:01:03.076Z" }, { "id": 82024, "title": "🔍 Serra: AI-powered candidate search", "tagline": "Search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates.", "body": "**tldr;** [Serra](https://www.serra.io/) is an AI-driven search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates, both within their ATS and outside of it. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82024&key=user_uploads/1241137/9b4c6415-ec10-49a2-9543-f352447ab2bb)\n\nHi everyone, 👋 [Alan](https://linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang) and [Albert](https://linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley) here—we’re best friends from UCLA and co-founders of Serra!\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nIdentifying best-fit candidates, both inbound and outbound, is time-consuming, manual work for recruiters.\n\nThis leads to longer hiring times, missed opportunities, and suboptimal hiring decisions.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\nSerra is a search engine for recruiters to find the best-fit inbound and outbound candidates.\n\nConnected to your ATS and external candidate sources, recruiters can search “B2B sales reps that have managed key enterprise accounts” and see top matches.\n\nSerra improves on keyword matching by understanding the context of candidates' profiles, ensuring you receive the most accurate results.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **🔦 Analyze Inbound Applicants**: Uses vector search, GPT to sift through thousands of applications in your ATS for signal.\n* **🔍 Conduct Outbound Searches**: Scans external candidate databases to find profiles that match specific job requirements.\n* **🚚 Deliver Actionable Insights**: Get ranked candidate results, classify candidates, and automate pre-screening Q&A collection.\n* **📊 Visualize Results:** Get dashboards that track hiring efficiency, candidate engagement, and long-term employee performance.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\nDrowning in inbound applications? Looking to speed up your hiring times while maintaining the quality of hires? Try out Serra to improve the quality and speed of candidates entering your recruitment funnel. Here's how you can get started:\n\n* **Demo and Consultation**: If you’re a startup that’s hiring and want a demo or wish to discuss your recruitment needs further, please book a call with us [here](https://calendar.app.google/b8ytpup7wg3EpgAX7) or shoot me an email at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKy-serra-ai-powered-candidate-search", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-07-10T14:03:16.813Z" }, { "id": 73883, "title": "🔹Serra - Simplify SQL with one command", "tagline": "SQL to PySpark Translator", "body": "**tl;dr:** never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again. [Serra](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra) simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Check out our repo [here](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra)!\n\nHey everyone! We’re back again to announce the open-source launch of Serra—never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again.\n\nWe’re also launching the beta of our translate feature with a free week trial! Get an easy starting point/suggestion for simplifying your SQL scripts into PySpark objects by running _serra translate your_script.sql_.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/65845ad3-4950-4357-a32b-dcd33981816f)\n\n### **❌ Problem:**\n\nSQL scripts are huge, messy, and hard to debug. Declarative, monolithic SQL gets overwhelming quickly for data analysts, scientists, and engineers—leading to huge time sinks and data outages.\n\n### **😌 How do we solve it?**\n\nWe’re a low-code ETL framework that simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Think end-to-end dbt with the benefits of object-oriented Spark!\n\nWe wrap all of this into a command-line tool that allows you to create your own PySpark jobs, run them locally, and simplify your SQL scripts to PySpark.\n\n### **👏 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/f1469834-d630-417d-942a-c9efec1a8e0d)\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n### **Asks:**\n\n* Check out (and star 🤩) the repo: \n* Intros to any companies struggling with their SQL/data workflow—we’ll help retool their data workflow! Email us at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io).\n* Try it out yourself by doing a pip install of serra! For setup help feel free to reach out—make sure you have python >= 3.10 installed!).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JDf-serra-simplify-sql-with-one-command", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2023-08-07T21:28:44.592Z" }, { "id": 73132, "title": "🔹 Serra - Low-code, modular SQL", "tagline": "Python-based dbt alternative", "body": "**tl;dr:** [Serra](https://www.serra.io) takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to a few lines of code. Serra simplifies complex pipeline logic with reusable testable objects, saving hours of development and maintenance time.\n\nHi everyone! We’re Alan and Albert, the best friends behind Serra. We want to simplify ETL so that even your dad (👨🏻) can maintain a data pipeline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/e069458b-6108-48e2-b2b2-33304afc6880)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nCompanies spend **$520K** annually building and maintaining data pipelines.\n\nData engineers spend **44% of their time** fixing pipelines that inevitably crash.\n\n> **12 data engineers** \\* **$98K salary** \\* **44% of their time** = **$520K** ([Fivetran](https://get.fivetran.com/rs/353-UTB-444/images/2021-CDL-Wakefield-Research.pdf))\n\nSo why do data pipelines crash and burn?\n\n* Complex scripts\n* Limited alerting, debugging\n* Inadequate testing\n\nAll of these make data pipelines a nightmare to fix, especially at 3am.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n**Serra is a python-based DBT alternative that takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to just a few lines of code.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/7eec5a59-66c0-4007-9b22-efd89aa5e2ca)\n\nSerra’s framework emphasizes software engineering best practices like **readability, testability, modularity, and reusability**.\n\nSerra **simplifies** complex SQL scripts to just a few lines of Python code with modular transformers and in-house connectors.\n\nSerra provides **fully-customizable error logging** for every transformer and connector.\n\nWith a command line tool, developers can easily create pipelines, auto document them, **run local tests**, and **run jobs with their favorite data warehouse.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/0588746d-9b72-4e91-bc4f-cea9e6eab736)\n\n## **🤔 How are we different from DBT?**\n\nSerra is not tied to SQL and therefore handles all parts of ETL. Serra provides intuitive control flow, more complex transforms with Python, full streaming support, and comprehensive debugging/testing capabilities.\n\n## **👏 The Team**\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n## **🙏 Ask**\n\nTry out our live demo [here](https://replit.com/@serra-technologies/SerraDemo) (fork the Replit)!\n\nIf you like what you see, join our [waitlist](https://www.serra.io) and [Discord](https://discord.gg/3VbvqWbE)!\n\nIntros to any data engineers, data leaders, Databricks users, and anyone from companies that are trying to optimize their ETLs would be amazing. Please reach out at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1Y-serra-low-code-modular-sql", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:13:53.699Z" } ] }, { "id": 29263, "name": "Alex", "slug": "alex-com", "former_names": [ "Apriora" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98b76c25c75fac04ce234cc570b0dd988698507a.png", "website": "https://alex.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team.\r\n\r\nWe're past 1M+ interviews, integrate with 33+ ATS platforms, and 96% of candidates prefer interviewing with Alex. 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For candidates, we provide an equitable, interactive interviewing experience.\n\n### 📸 Intro\n\nHey all! We’re [Aaron Wang](https://linkedin.com/in/aaronjwang) and [John Rytel](https://linkedin.com/in/johnrytel) from Alex (fka Apriora).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/794bc140-1ba0-4b71-bdaa-8b29d09722bf)\n\n### **❌** The problem\n\n**Interview processes are slow and expensive.** Companies spend over $5,000 per hire, most of which is time spent by internal recruiting teams and hiring managers interviewing candidates, and the average length for an interview process is \\~30 days.\n\nExisting video interviewing platforms were built to solve this for companies, but their one-way interfaces and cookie-cutter questions create a disappointing candidate experience, resulting in low completion rates and a limited hiring signal.\n\nHow can we offer companies the efficiency of interview automation while providing candidates with a personalized, conversational interview experience?\n\n### 🚀 The solution\n\n**Our AI interviewer conducts real-time video interviews with candidates**, including technical screens, phone screens, system design, coding, behavioral, and more.\n\nUnlike interviewing your candidates manually or with an automated assessment, Alex is:\n\n* **Convenient**: Your AI interviewer is ready to interview candidates 24/7 with unlimited capacity.\n* **Candidate First**: Over 90% of scheduled candidates complete their interviews with an average candidate experience rating of 4.5/5.\n* **Reliable**: Data-driven feedback after each interview is customized to your hiring goals so you can feel confident that you’re moving forward with the right candidates.\n* **Robust**: Alex’s fairness system flags cheating based on multi-modal data, so you can trust your interviewer’s feedback.\n* **Accessible**: One-click integration with your ATS so you don’t need to change your workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/ef44f880-fb72-4e1d-a641-eb413571aaa5)\n\n_Check out a full interview at apriora.ai/demo_\n\n### 🙏 Ask: How you can help\n\n1. **Who do you know in recruiting or talent acquisition?** We want to learn more about their work and help them! Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n2. **Who do you know that’s hiring and could benefit from AI interviewing?** Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n\nThe blurb: “My friends are working on a YC company building AI interviewers that conduct real-time video interviews. I think this could be relevant to you, so feel free to check them out and contact [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) for more.”\n\n### **🤝** The Deal\n\n**Sign up before Demo Day** to get started with our YC Deal. Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) to set up your custom interviewer.\n\n❤️ _Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building. Find some time [here](https://calendly.com/apriora/aaron) or shoot us an email._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KY6-alex-fka-apriora-your-ai-interviewer-to-identify-the-best-candidates-faster", "votes": 545, "created_at": "2024-03-04T02:36:40.405Z" } ] }, { "id": 30038, "name": "Lightscreen AI", "slug": "lightscreen-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fe703a7786db01d44cd03aafbbbf2dd7b0cc99cf.png", "website": "https://lightscreen.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lightscreen’s voice + video AI interviewer enables companies to identify and invest in genuinely skilled candidates. It's already being used by high-growth startups and recruiting agencies to screen technical candidates. \r\n\r\nWe provide companies with a voicebot that can run a full-length technical interview, does smart interruptions, and multi-modal cheating detection. 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Engineering teams use Lightscreen to identify genuinely skilled candidates -- a different approach than other screening tools that unlocks greater insight into a candidate's engineering fundamentals and critical thinking skills.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n* Engineering managers spend about 40% of their time on hiring, and engineers spend about 10% of their time interviewing candidates\n* Up to 30% of candidates cheat on coding tests. With the increased prevalence of AI tools and remote interviewing, cheating is only becoming more common.\n* New AI technologies have made it easier for candidates to apply to hundreds of jobs, so volume of applications has drastically increased\n * This volume is going to keep growing, increasing the burden on managers and engineers\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nLightscreen’s AI interviewer assesses candidates’ skills by working through coding problems with them collaboratively. This unlocks deeper insight into a candidate's engineering fundamentals and critical thinking skills, unlike other screening tools that simply evaluate code.\n\nStrong candidate [evaluation](https://app.lightscreen.ai/eval/demo/matthewgreen/PalindromeChecker):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85029&key=user_uploads/749712/4f786403-a3aa-44c7-b271-85ba328ee9da)\n\nFlagged candidate [evaluation](https://app.lightscreen.ai/eval/demo/danielwhite/PalindromeChecker):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85029&key=user_uploads/749712/7deb5773-445c-475f-8182-1fb55f4a56af)\n\nOur AI can interview on any technical subject. It avoids hallucinations and eliminates bias by justifying feedback with specific examples, and can scale to any volume of candidates. It identifies cheating by monitoring the full feed of keystrokes, video, and audio from the candidate.\n\nAllow your engineers to focus on building products instead of screening candidates by trying Lightscreen today!\n\nWatch our short [demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRCfDuGpSA):\n\n# **The Founders**\n\n[Prachie Banthia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prachiebanthia) previously was VP Product at a Series C speech model company called AssemblyAI that has built the current SOTA speech transcription models. Before that she was at RideOS which she helped sell to GoPuff for $115M, and prior to that worked at Google.\n\n[Gavin Saldanha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-v-saldanha) is a veteran ML engineer who has led engineering teams at Cauzal AI and Stacked. Prior to that he also worked at Google - which is where he first met Prachie! He brings extensive experience in scaling and productionizing ML and NLP systems.\n\n# \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85029&key=user_uploads/749712/2edda484-5817-4cea-9b3b-f36da80f4332)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\n* If your company, or someone you know is hiring engineers, please reach out or make an introduction to [founders@lightscreen.ai](mailto:founders@lightscreen.ai)\n* Try our short [demo interview](https://app.lightscreen.ai/trial)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M7R-lightscreen-ai-voice-agent-for-uncheatable-tech-screens", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2024-10-24T17:08:06.622Z" } ] }, { "id": 30176, "name": "Outship", "slug": "outship", "former_names": [ "Trace" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/500ff8202faf0a9f25c1a4ee0f51ff6e2499c9b6.png", "website": "https://outship.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Software engineering is being rewritten in real time, and hiring is getting pulled along for the ride. \r\n\r\nWith tools like Claude Code and Cursor, being able to ship is the new baseline. The signal for finding extraordinary engineers is the process: how candidates break down work, steer the agent, make tradeoffs, and recover when things break. \r\n\r\nOutship is a recruiting tool that allows you to capture and analyze that process alongside the final code so you can hire with confidence.\r\n\r\nCandidates work in a cloud workspace that's ready to code. 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Import a task repo from GitHub and send an invite link for a take home or an interview. We spin up a cloud workspace for them to work in.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98459&key=user_uploads/979984/e030f7b7-7cf7-4d83-bcd3-402c750994d0)\n\n# ⁉️ Why?\n\nEveryone’s feeling the AGI when it comes to coding. We spoke with over 50 YC teams in the past few weeks, and almost all of them are aggressively using coding agents to build product.\n\nThis naturally means that the skills that differentiate an okay engineer from an amazing one have changed significantly! Teams are no longer hiring for typing out code character by character. Instead, they need ambitious builders who can leverage the latest tools and techniques to achieve in a day what a team of five used to achieve in a week.\n\n* “I usually ask them which agent they are using. If it’s still Cursor, I’ll send them to the bottom of the queue” – YC founder 🤵\n* “If they know the latest stuff like a Ralph loop, that’s usually a really good sign that they are passionate” – another YC founder 💁‍♀️\n\nSeeing a candidate work with AI can give you a lot of signal about their thought process and whether they’re the engineer you’re looking for.\n\nThe YC application, along with several companies, now asks applicants to attach AI agent sessions:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98459&key=user_uploads/979984/93653791-8e34-4aaa-a2c5-d5f9ceec3de2)\n\n## 💩 Existing hiring tools can’t capture this\n\nTools like CoderPad and HackerRank have tried to band-aid a “AI Agent” on their Leetcode interview platforms, but honestly, these toy environments and their crappy GPT wrappers have nothing to do with how your engineers work today.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98459&key=user_uploads/979984/ad12a850-2927-42ae-a154-71ebb0394c61)\n\n# 🚀 The Solution\n\nWe’ve built a platform to send tasks to candidates and record how they work on them with coding agents. We then analyze their implementation and coding agent sessions against customizable rubrics.\n\n\n\nOutship spins up a cloud VM and drops the candidate into a browser based VS Code workspace with coding agents ready to use. They get a real remote machine: they can use the terminal, run web apps, forward ports, and more!\n\nWe handle the environment setup and secrets management so you can evaluate candidates on a level playing field.\n\n# 🦞 Our Ask\n\n1. If you are hiring engineers, try [outship.ai](https://outship.ai/)! I will personally help you get set up. (in person in SF Bay Area or over Zoom elsewhere)\n2. If you want to chat more, book a meeting: [cal.com/saner/outship](https://cal.com/saner/outship?overlayCalendar=true)\n3. If you know founders hiring engineers, we’d love an intro: [saner@outship.ai](mailto:saner@outship.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pc3-outship-hire-amazing-engineers-by-seeing-how-they-use-ai", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-03-05T00:39:46.018Z" } ] }, { "id": 30183, "name": "Tweeks.io", "slug": "tweeksio", "former_names": [ "NextByte" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15b909d4c8661518fff6299030fee363e1654179.png", "website": "https://tweeks.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Make websites work exactly how you want", "one_liner": "Lovable for Chrome Plugins", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "launched_at": 1738808449, "tags": [ "Consumer", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Recruiting and Talent" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tweeksio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/tweeksio.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextbyte-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15b909d4c8661518fff6299030fee363e1654179.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2387967, "full_name": "Jason Madeano", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Nextbyte\n\nPrior to Nextbyte, Jason was a Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest leading ML recommendations for modules on the Homefeed Relevance team. He holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree from MIT in Computer Science and Brain & Cognitive Science. His research on Cultural Transmission and Reinforcement Learning received a best paper award at NeurIPS.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-madeano/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bfbc3bd2b6b4092a098c2fa01bbfce5e74b6407a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2304301, "full_name": "Matt Stallone", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of NextByte. \n\nBefore tackling agents, Matt was leading the post-training of Foundation Language Models at IBM Research, working on major releases including the Granite model series. During his career, he published multiple first author papers on his LLM research. He is classically trained in ML and Distributed Systems and holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattstallone/", "x_url": "https://x.com/mattstallone/", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ed40cb4eaae3042faf52f629759fe4b4a940929c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 88114, "title": "NextByte - AI recruiter tuned to identify the best vibe coders", "tagline": "Screen candidates for ability and output, not rote memorization", "body": "**TL;DR:** AI is changing how engineers work - it's time hiring caught up. Built by MIT engineers, NextByte tests for real-world skills, conceptual knowledge, and AI tool usage, not memorized algorithms.\n\n## The Problem\n\nToday's best engineers aren’t grinding Leetcode - they're vibe coding. AI copilots and codegen tools are making developers more productive than ever, yet tech hiring is stuck in the past.\n\nCurrent coding screens reward those who memorize algorithms, not those who can actually build and problem solve. Worse, LLMs can ace many Leetcode problems better than humans, so what are these screens really testing?\n\n## Our Solution\n\n[NextByte](https://youtu.be/bVO5k4ssmGg)\n\nNextByte is an AI-first interview platform that helps companies screen for the skills that actually matter. Our approach ensures that hiring decisions are based on practical ability rather than memorization.\n\n#### Problem Creation\n\nInstead of testing candidates on obscure theoretical concepts, we focus on challenges that reflect real engineering work. Our Magic Import tool helps companies design assessments tailored to their job descriptions, ensuring that candidates are evaluated on the skills they will actually use. We eliminate unnecessary algorithmic puzzles and instead measure problem-solving ability in a way that aligns with on-the-job performance.\n\n#### Candidate Interview\n\nTechnical interviews should reflect how engineers actually work. Our process is interactive, guided, and built to evaluate both technical skill and thought process.\n\n* **Conversational deep dives:** Our AI-driven voice discussions start with fundamental topics and push deeper based on candidate responses. This allows us to evaluate reasoning, adaptability, and true understanding – not just memorized answers.\n* **Vibe Coding:** Our unique system design questions ask candidates to translate an image into text prompts and leverage cursor-like tools to generate code for their solution.\n* **AI pair programmer:** Candidates receive real-time assistance, just like they would from a great colleague (or copilot). The AI helps navigate syntax, debugging, and edge cases, keeping the focus on problem-solving rather than getting stuck on minor details.\n\nBy mirroring a real-world coding environment, we prevent candidates from simply rehearsing answers and instead uncover how they think and work through challenges.\n\n#### Results & Evaluation\n\nA correct answer isn’t enough – we analyze the entire coding process to provide a deeper, more meaningful assessment of candidate ability including\n\n* **Code quality:** Evaluate readability, documentation, and maintainability to ensure candidates write clean, production-ready code.\n* **Efficiency:** Compare runtime and memory usage against other candidates, identifying optimization skills that go beyond just getting the correct output.\n* **Conceptual understanding:** Assess depth of knowledge and ability to articulate complex ideas.\n\n## The Team\n\nWe’re MIT grads, engineers, and longtime friends who have experienced the flaws of technical hiring firsthand.\n\nMatt led post-training efforts for Enterprise LLMs at IBM Research delivering open weight models, including the Granite family which achieved state-of-the-art benchmarks that rivaled Meta's LLaMA 3. Jason worked on Home Relevance at Pinterest, leading the development of new recommendation systems that scaled non-pin content from zero to 100M daily impressions in months.\n\n## Our Story\n\nDespite working on different problems at different companies, we kept running into the same hiring issues.\n\nAs candidates, we saw how arbitrary and inconsistent technical interviews could be. As interviewers, we saw colleagues struggle to find time to properly evaluate applicants while juggling their own workloads. Some interviews were so broken that proctors would literally fall asleep on Zoom calls.\n\nWe built NextByte to fix this. Our goal is to make hiring decisions fairer, more efficient, and focused on what actually matters. 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Over 2,500+ engineers and 15+ companies are using Contrario to get jobs and fill roles.\n\n**_Ask:_** Can you refer talented startup recruiters in your network to join Contrario’s platform? Also, if you’re looking for exceptional talent to hire across GTM or engineering, you can reach out to me at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGu7fBLud48 \n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nRecruiting is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, worth over $2T and employing 60M+ workers per year.\n\nYet, today’s recruiting market still follows outdated, manual processes from 20+ years ago – leaving candidates stuck with a poor job search experience. There are three major pain points: \n\n1. Endless job applications with zero transparency\n2. Low recruiter response rates leaving applicants in the dark\n3. Failing behavioral screens with recruiters\n\nThese challenges compound over time, widening a critical gap in the recruiting market.\n\nUntil now, people relied on referrals and network connections to have a better chance at getting more interviews. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing … \n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Contrario, we’re a team of former candidates, recruiters, and AI experts using the latest technology to build the best candidate experience possible.\n\nCompanies can import their job from an ATS or upload their info, and our system immediately:\n\n* Defines **top recruiters** to work on your role based on past expertise and placement history\n* Uses **proprietary AI models** to dynamically generate **talent scorecards** that capture their top skills.\n* Leverages inbuilt integrations with **ATS systems** like Ashby/Lever and Slack/Calendly for seamless management.\n\nWith Contrario, companies conduct an intake call + upload their most important info for a job, and we handle the rest.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n✅ Hiring GTM talent or engineering talent for your startup?\n\n✅ Know top startup recruiters or agencies looking for additional revenue extension opportunities?\n\n👉 Contact us at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai) \n\n👬 **The Team**\n\nContrario was founded by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha (CEO, ex-BCG, led product at 5+ startups) and Aditya Sood (CTO, ex-NASA NLP, published at Stanford AI Lab x Anthropic). \n\n\\\nThey met in their first-year dorm at Stanford and have been building together ever since. Their firsthand experience on both sides of the hiring industry—Aditya as a candidate, and Arya as a recruiter—drove them to build an automated solution that bridges the gap.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88187&key=user_uploads/2304578/6fd2cf72-0768-46e7-9633-8ed9fd682aba)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88187&key=user_uploads/2304578/63b480fd-ad1b-4f05-9120-9afb42cdb7ef)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MwN-contrario-the-1st-ai-powered-recruiting-network", "votes": 764, "created_at": "2025-03-02T00:35:18.358Z" } ] }, { "id": 30322, "name": "Spott", "slug": "spott", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5f49530f7f80f640f3de8119e00764c7ea777491.png", "website": "https://spott.io", "all_locations": "Leuven, Flanders, Belgium", "long_description": "Spott is the first AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing firms. 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We are the modern alternative to Bullhorn and Loxo. We offer an all-in-one, AI-native system that truly understands your data and helps you act on it. This enables you to make more placements, faster.\n\nHundreds of recruitment agencies worldwide, from executive search firms to temp agencies of all sizes, already made the switch.\n\n\n\n**📉** **Problem**\\\nRecruiting is a $1T+ industry, yet the most widely used recruitment platforms were built 20 years ago. They were never built for AI and have shown a clear lack of innovation, which has led to a growing reliance on add-on functionality. Most of today’s \"AI features\" are just layers on top of outdated systems that can’t properly understand, update, or act on data. This is despite the enormous potential AI has in recruitment.\\\n\\\n**📈 Solution**\\\nWe built Spott from scratch in the AI era. It captures all your data, understands the meaning behind it, and can act on it. That is how you can find the candidate who mentioned six months ago that they were open to relocating. This helps recruitment agencies make more placements, faster.\\\n\\\n**How it works**\\\\\n\n* **AI Matching.** Contextual, not keyword-based. Matches across CVs, notes, Socials, call transcripts, and interviews. Shows _why_ each candidate was matched.\n* **Deep Customizability.** Custom attributes, AI-prompted columns, drag-and-drop views, kanban boards.\n* **AI Note-Taker.** Transcribes calls, creates smart summaries, auto-updates candidate profiles. No manual data entry.\n* **Unified Inbox.** Email, Socials, WhatsApp, calendar, VOIP. Two-way sync. Every conversation auto-attached to the right record.\n* **Candidate Presentations.** Client-ready presentations in your own Word/PPT template plus CV reformatting and a client portal.\n* **Multi-channel sequences, Analytics, Automations, Data enrichment…** All included. No add-ons required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99581&key=user_uploads/2229948/d5bf76a4-6589-4a1f-9d97-9dafe14a3329)\n\nBook a demo at [Spott.io](http://Spott.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pu9-spott-the-ai-workspace-for-agency-recruiters", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-04-08T21:02:09.556Z" }, { "id": 87367, "title": "Spott: AI agents for recruiting firms", "tagline": "Supporting recruiters to focus on human interactions and increase placements", "body": "**TL;DR** \\\nSpott is building AI agents for recruiting firms to replace legacy recruiting platforms like Bullhorn. Today, headhunters use our first agent to generate detailed candidate presentation reports in their template within minutes, using data they already own.\n\n[Spott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w3Ae-KDHEU)\n\n**📉Problem**\n\nHeadhunters create detailed reports for every candidate they propose to a company at the end of their search process. Manually writing these reports from scratch can take several hours, while most of the required inputs are readily available in their recruitment platform (think CV, cover letter, job description, interview notes). Similar tasks such as rewriting job descriptions and CVs are time and labor-intensive, adding up to \\~10% of the total workload. These tasks primarily involve converting raw information into standardized formats, which is time-consuming and slows down the hiring process.\n\n**📈Solution**\\\nSpott's candidate report writing agent streamlines this process by ingesting CVs, job descriptions, and interview notes to generate polished drafts in seconds. You can import recordings of in-person conversations and link transcripts from Zoom or Teams meetings to quickly create an 80% complete draft. Our context-rich editor, powered by AI, helps you efficiently finalize your report in minimal time. What sets Spott apart from ChatGPT and comparable solutions is the exceptional quality of its reports, the anonymized processing of sensitive client data, and the ability to export directly to your custom Word or PowerPoint templates. Our solution allows exec search recruiters to truly create reports in minutes rather than hours.\n\n**Founders**\\\nFounders [Manu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuvanderveeren/), [Samuel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelsmeys/), and [Lander](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lander-degr%C3%A8ve/) bring recruiting expertise from McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. There, we saw clients struggle with legacy systems and realized AI-powered solutions could prove a transformative growth lever in executive search. 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Previously founder associate at Alan, the French healthtech unicorn, where he worked on internal recruiting infra.\n\n(+ an **amazing founding engineer** and **amazing in-house recruiter**, both hired with Prism!)\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n🔵 **Hiring?** Run a search with us. Reply, DM, or grab a slot: \n\n🔵 **Looking for your next role?** Meet Ray, our AI career advisor. One conversation and we'll match you with companies hiring people like you. Free [here](https://tryprism.com/?view=candidates), takes a few minutes\n\nThanks!\n\nTheo & Axel", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QOK-prism-ai-native-recruiting-agency", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-05-18T17:13:33.801Z" } ] }, { "id": 31153, "name": "Perfectly", "slug": "perfectly", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/13607170eb2ca92be8c6b3fe617797b6b16e279a.png", "website": "https://www.perfectly.so/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Perfectly is the first AI-native Recruiting OS.\r\n\r\nSince starting YC, we’re already helping top startups like Giga, Corgi, LlamaIndex, Porter, and dozens more hire faster.\r\n\r\nWe’re seeing:\r\n-> 4× faster hiring\r\n-> 10× candidate volume\r\n-> 2× higher interview pass rates\r\n\r\nBehind the scenes, it’s even more impressive:\r\n-> 20x higher recruiting efficiency: from 20 hours to 1 hour\r\n-> 250% higher candidate interview retention\r\n\r\nWe automate the entire recruiting function: sourcing, outreach, screening, and qualification. 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Customers tell us that Perfectly’s candidates pass interviews 2x more often, and with 10x the volume of a traditional agency.\n\n**Why You Should Trust Us:**\n\nIt’s working so well, one of our clients fired all their other agencies two weeks into using us.\n\n> We moved off Paraform and canceled our Juicebox subscription because of the velocity we saw from Perfectly - Caleb from Series A Stealth Startup\n\n**Launch Exclusive Offer:**\n\nGive Perfectly a try. **We’ll undercut your current agency by 50%** for your first role, while filling your pipeline with BETTER candidates - all in the same day.\n\nIf you don’t currently use an agency but want to try, we’re offering a YC Launch exclusive discount. Just mention YC Launch in your onboarding call.\n\nBook a demo [here](https://calendly.com/victor-perfectly/30min).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97008&key=user_uploads/179090/bb395a9b-579a-40de-809e-caa7bf81d9ea)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PEe-hire-with-perfectly-your-ai-recruiting-agency", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2026-01-21T15:44:58.964Z" } ] }, { "id": 31363, "name": "Saffron", "slug": "saffron", "former_names": [ "Saffron AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3143a0fc23ce4251d146cce9ebb5799fc664317.png", "website": "https://www.trysaffron.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code. \r\n\r\nThe way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. 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Teams can now get structured metrics on how candidates actually build, not just whether the final output compiles.\n\nBook an onboarding call here: [**https://trysaffron.ai**](https://trysaffron.ai)\n\n**Our Launch Video**\n\n\n\n---\n\n**The Problem**\n\nAI coding tools have finally gotten good enough to actually change how engineers work. But the way companies evaluate SWEs hasn't changed at all.\n\nNow, interviews are testing the wrong thing and candidates are passing every round of your hiring process, before showing up on the job unable to build a single feature without AI doing the thinking for them.\n\nOn the flip side, companies are missing out on engineers who actually know how to use AI to be ten times more efficient.\n\nWe know because we've been on both sides. As candidates, we realized how how much potential there was to become 10x with AI. As founders, we’ve heard the same story from dozens of teams: \"They crushed the interview. Two weeks in, they couldn't ship anything independently.\"\n\n---\n\n**Our Approach**\n\nWe’ve built an assessment that embraces AI and measures how efficient an engineer is. Candidates get a real codebase, AI tools they’d actually use on the job, and a task that simulates engineering work. We capture the full process and evaluate it automatically.\n\n---\n\n**⚙️ How It Works**\n\n**Step 1: Create an assessment in under 5 minutes.** Point us at your GitHub repo or choose a question from our bank, configure AI agents, and invite candidates.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=100291&key=user_uploads%2F2767627%2F8e7827fe-4250-4411-b495-f0b5d2dbbd18&variant=large)\n\n**Step 2: Candidates build in a fully managed environment.** They get an online IDE that they can customize, a timer, and a real task. No setup required on their end. 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When a role fits, your agent makes the intro. \n\nFree for talent, success-only for companies.\n\n\n\n**The Product:** **a CLI that proves you**\n\nResumes and LinkedIn are proxies. They tell a company what you claim, never what you can do. So we moved the assessment to where the work actually happens: the terminal.\n\nRun Standout in your CLI and it evaluates real skill, how you approach a problem, how you build, how you challenge AI. The output isn't a score on a test. It's a living profile of your capability that no resume can fake and no keyword filter can bury.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102530&key=user_uploads/2886794/22a37a4e-49e2-4da9-a649-9f7f04a2a78c)\n\nThat profile is the product. Everything else follows from it.\n\n**The CLI is what makes the intro real**\n\nOnce you're assessed, an autonomous agent represents you. It reads the roles that never hit the market, matches them against what you've actually proven, and only makes the intro when the fit is real.\n\nThe intro lands as a single message: who this is, what they can do (proven, not claimed), why they fit, why now. No applications. No cold outreach. No spam on either side.\n\n•⁠ ⁠Proof, not proxies — capability measured in the terminal, not inferred from a title.\n\n•⁠ ⁠Privacy by default — you stay invisible until you greenlight a role. Identity is never exposed without consent.\n\n•⁠ ⁠Intros in hours, not weeks — the assessment is already done, so the match is instant.\n\n•⁠ ⁠Aligned cost — free for talent, companies pay only on hire. No retainer, no exclusivity.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102530&key=user_uploads/2886794/4ce0af3f-d51b-4375-9715-48c2a7684e39)\n\n**Starting with the startup ecosystem**\n\nFounding engineers, early product hires, GTM leaders. 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Both sides get an autonomous agent that vets the other end and only makes the intro when the fit is real. Introductions in hours, not weeks. Free for talent, success-only for companies. One month in: 100 intros done.\n\nHiring is broken on both sides. We're rebuilding it around agents.\n\n\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nHiring should match the right people to the right roles. It rarely does. Five failures repeat on every search, and almost no one escapes them.\n\n* **Spam** — Talent fire hundreds of AI applications. Recruiters fire hundreds of AI messages. Both inboxes drown in noise.\n* **Visibility** — Early stage founders struggle to reach the talent worth hiring. The best talent gets buried in the inbound. Both sides struggle to stand out.\n* **Asymmetry** — Talent see titles and comp bands. Founders see resumes and LinkedIn. Neither side sees what actually matters.\n* **Privacy** — Looking around means risking your current job. There's no way to say \"I'm open\" without saying \"I'm leaving”\n* **Cost** — Recruiters take 20–30% of first-year salary, after weeks of back-and-forth, and the role still goes to someone they didn't find.\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nStandout is an agentic hiring marketplace. Talent and companies each get an autonomous agent that represents them, vets the other side, and only makes the intro when the fit is real.\n\n* **Spam, gone** — No applications, no cold outreach. The agent only surfaces matches when the fit is real.\n* **Visibility, restored** — We see the roles that never hit the market and bring them to the people they're meant for.\n* **Symmetric context** — Both sides see what actually matters. The intro lands as a single message: who this is, why they fit, why now.\n* **Privacy by default** — Talent stay invisible until they greenlight a role. Identity is never exposed without consent.\n* **Aligned cost** — Free for talent. Companies pay only on hire — no retainer, no exclusivity.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100833&key=user_uploads/2886794/19cf3727-8a22-4910-b69a-12bde13936c1)\n\n**Starting with the startup ecosystem**\n\nWe're starting with founding engineers, early product hires, and GTM leaders — the roles where the right person changes a company's trajectory and the wrong person sets it back six months.\n\nWe're already representing 10,000+ builders, matched with 60+ startups from P26 pre-seed teams to Series B unicorns.\n\nIf your next five hires will define your company, plug Standout into your stack.\n\nIf your next role will define your decade, get represented.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* **If you're a builder** — get represented at [standout.work](http://standout.work). Free, three-minute onboarding, and we start matching you the same day.\n* **If you're hiring** — book a demo at . 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We’re building Pluto ([talentpluto.com](https://talentpluto.com/))\n\nResumes made careers readable. LinkedIn made them searchable. Pluto makes them understood.\n\n\n\n**TL;DR** - A professional talks to Pluto for 10 minutes about what they’ve done, what they’re great at, and what they want next. Pluto makes that context discoverable to the right people and AI agents, helping them understand the person more fully. When there’s a real fit, Pluto can also make a warm introduction to a startup.\n\n18K+ professionals have already shared their career context with Pluto. 100+ companies use Pluto to meet people with their full story, including Mercor, David AI, Rho, Warp, and Runlayer.\n\n**Ask:** Talk to Pluto and let it get to know your work. If you’re hiring, send us the role and we’ll introduce you to people with context and confirmed interest.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nA resume and online profile are not enough for the AI era.\n\nThey show where someone worked and what title they had. They do not capture what the person actually did, what they are unusually good at, and what they want next.\n\nThat context usually lives in conversations. So professionals get reduced to keywords, logos, and titles, while the people and AI agents trying to understand them are left with an incomplete picture. \n\nHiring makes this problem obvious. Companies miss great people because the real signal never makes it online. But as AI agents increasingly help people find, evaluate, and connect with one another, every professional will need a richer, more accurate way to be understood.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nPluto is an AI voice agent that understands a professional’s career and puts that understanding to work.\n\nProfessionals talk to Pluto for 10 minutes about their experience, strengths, goals, preferences, and what they want to keep private. Pluto asks follow-up questions, remembers the context missing from their resume, and makes them discoverable to the right people and AI agents.\n\nCompanies tell Pluto who they want to meet. Pluto searches its network and the broader market, understands fit on both sides, privately confirms interest, and makes a warm introduction when both sides want to connect. No mass applications. Professionals stay private and in control. Companies meet people who are already understood.\n\n**How It Works**\n\n1. Talk to Pluto for 10 minutes\n2. Review what it learned and choose what to share\n3. Get found and understood by the right people and AI agents\n4. Get introduced to startups when there’s a fit\n\n### **Why We Started This**\n\nThe best hiring has always happened through trusted, high-context introductions. We think AI can make that possible for everyone.\n\nWarm introductions are one way Pluto puts that understanding to work today. Long term, Pluto becomes the career context layer for the AI era - the version of a professional’s story that agents can understand, trust, and act on, while the professional stays in control.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re a professional, talk to Pluto and let it get to know your work. \n\nIf you’re a founder, hiring leader, or talent engineer, send us the role you’re hiring for.\n\n[talentpluto.com](http://talentpluto.com)\n\n\\- Sahil, Maki, Tony", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RTP-pluto-ai-voice-agent-that-helps-professionals-get-discovered", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2026-07-16T16:33:18.764Z" } ] } ]