For founders

Keep building. Your hiring runs itself.

Post the role or just describe it. Agents read every applicant, reach the right people from your LinkedIn and book the best ones in your calendar.

Jobs / Founding engineer
Running
Founding engineer · posted Monday
312applied
6worth your time
306 others got a kind reply
Best firstApprove from your phone
ApplicantVerdictFit Score
Payments APIs at a scale-upWorth a call94
Backend lead · fintechWorth a call89
Go, 6 years, ex-startupWorth a call85
You built the first sales team at a seed startup. We’re exactly there. Coffee this week?
Happy to! Thursday morning works.
Talent teams hiring with agents
The problem

Your most important job. The one you never have time for.

01

No time

Hiring matters most, and it is the first thing to slip when the product is on fire.

02

No budget for headhunters

15–30% of a salary per hire, before you have closed the next round.

03

Too many applicants

You post the role, 200 people apply, and you cannot tell who is worth a call.

Agents do the legwork. You take the calls.

No success fee, no agency contract. Your hiring keeps moving while you build.

5 wksmedian to a signed hire
1 in 2 replyWith Alter Ego Sourcing, on 11,010 people messaged
10 minfrom brief to first candidates
How it works for founders

Hiring that runs
while you build.

01Applicants

Posted a job? We read every applicant.

Agents read each one the day it lands and bring you the few worth a call. Everyone else gets a kind reply.

Backend engineer · 6 yrsCV alone 71 88
FoundWhat the CV doesn’t say
GitHub1,240 commits in Go this year
TalkSpeaker, GopherCon EU
Open sourceMaintains a ledger library
CheckedCV dates match LinkedIn ✓
312 applicants enriched · 41 with proof of work not on their CV
02Sourcing

From your own LinkedIn, approved from your phone.

The people who never apply hear from you, the founder. Nothing goes out until you approve it.

From your Head of Engineeringto Staff engineer · logistics
You scaled routing infra through Series C. We’re about to hit the same wall in Go. Up for a 20-min chat?
✓ Approved by your Head of Engineering · sent from their LinkedIn
Yes, happy to chat. I could move in January.
InterestedAvailable in JanuaryWants a call
Call booked · Tue 14 · 15:30Written to your ATS
03The maths

Headhunter or Umamy? Compare.

A flat price per role instead of a share of the salary, and every candidate stays yours.

See pricing →
HeadhunterUmamy
What you pay15–30% of the salary, per hireA flat price per open role
Who writes to candidatesA recruiter they’ve never heard ofYou, from your own LinkedIn
What you seeA shortlist every few weeksEvery profile and every score, live
Your applicantsNot includedEvery one read, the same day
When it’s overThe network leaves with the firmEvery candidate stays in your workspace
A firm takes ~20% of salary: about €14,000 on a €70k hire.

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