Startups

The first ten engineersdecide the next hundred.

Seed to Series B. You need people who’ve built the thing before, and you don’t have a recruiting team — or the time to run four agencies. We take the role from your founder’s head to a shortlist of people who want to build it.

No retainer · No platform fee · Pay on joining
Founding and staff engineersMatched to recruiters who’ve placed early engineers at funded startups — people who can explain equity, runway and why this beats a job they like.
A brief your founder approvesThirty minutes, then a working brief the same day: must-haves, deal-breakers, target companies, comp band, the pitch.
Pay when they joinA percentage of salary, on the day they walk in — with a 90-day guarantee. No retainer, no posting fee. If they don’t join, no fee. Contact us for exact pricing.
What an engagement looks like
The brief
Founding / Staff engineers, ₹40–80L, equity-heavy, hybrid Bengaluru or Pune
Who works it
Specialists who’ve placed early engineers at funded startups
What you see
A shortlist of screened, interested people in days — and a recruiter who stays through notice
The guarantee

An offer isn’t a hire.

The average notice period for a senior engineer in India is sixty-two days. For leadership it's ninety. That's two to three months for a counter-offer, a competing process, or a quiet change of heart — and it's where most searches actually fail. Your recruiter stays on the candidate through every week of it. And we don't invoice until they walk in.

Joining guaranteeno fee if they don't join
90-day replacementfree re-run
Recruiter engaged — every weekOfferAcceptedNotice period · 62 daysJoinedInvoice raisedcounter-offercompeting processdeferred dategoes quiet

Frequently asked questions

A hiring marketplace. You post your hardest roles; we match them to specialist recruiters who have filled that exact kind of role before, supported by six AI agents that handle search, outreach, screening, scheduling and follow-through. Anyone can also refer someone great and earn a payout when that person joins.

An agency gives you one recruiter and one database. We match your role to the specialists in the network who already know it, so you get the reach of several firms through one contract, one point of contact and one invoice — with no duplicate outreach to your candidates.

Yes, and most of our clients use us that way. We’re non-exclusive and run alongside your own team and any existing vendors. We only earn if our person is the one who signs.

We charge a percentage of the hired person’s salary — only on a successful hire, with a 90-day guarantee. No retainer, no setup fee, no posting fee, no seat licence. Contact us for exact pricing.

On the day the person joins. Not on offer, not on acceptance.

If they accept and don’t join, there is no fee. If they join and it doesn’t work out within ninety days, we run the search again free of charge.

Make hiring the thingyou’re good at.

Seed, Series A to D, or enterprise — send us one hard role. We'll match it the same day, and you'll meet a shortlist in days. Pay only when they join.

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