We recruit Forward Deployed Engineers for AI companies, and advise early-stage AI startups.
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We aren’t playing the volume game. We go deep on your product, your customers, and the role before we source anyone.
We learn what you’re hiring for, where you are in the process, how the product works, what makes it different, and the vision for the company.
We get into a day in the life of your deployed engineers: what the role entails, its challenges, which parts of the sales cycle it covers (pre- and post-sale), and what makes a candidate a good fit versus a bad one.
We’ll often ask to run parts of your interview loop or, depending on your stage, get a product deep dive or see a deployment. We need to understand these pieces deeply to source well.
We match candidates to this profile, some net new and some from our existing network. We only put people in front of you who have genuine interest in your product or space, have researched it, and think it could be a fit.
We send the people we believe would genuinely do well in the role, not everyone who is available. They arrive with an understanding of your product, so your first call starts well past the basics.
We’re also open to running specific interview stages for you, so candidates can go straight to the onsite. For these, we work with your team to define what each stage looks like and what it produces, so the hiring manager has clear evidence to review. It saves your team a lot of time, especially at an early-stage startup where bandwidth is tight.
We help you define the profile you should be hiring, and set the interview process and the stages candidates should go through.
Note: we are allergic to slides, we help you ship.
Define which customer engineering roles your product needs, from pre-sales and post-sales to specialists.
Define the profile and desired candidate spikes for each role.
Reporting lines, segments, meeting cadence, and how you onboard and enable the team.
The stages candidates should go through, and what each one should test.