A Wellfound alternative for startups
When the applicant pool is not the problem you have.
A job board can only show you people who are looking
- Waiting for better applicants.
- 300 CVs, none close.
- Match percentages.
- Roles that stall at week three.
Posting on a startup job board is close to free and occasionally lands someone excellent. The pool is real, and for roles with wide appeal it can carry a whole search.
The failure mode is specific: the more unusual the role, the thinner the pool gets. A founding engineer who has run payments infrastructure at volume, or a GTM engineer who has actually shipped, is almost never in an application queue. They are employed and not looking.
Teams notice this around week three, when the applications have slowed and none of them were close. At that point the only remaining move is to go and find people.
Outbound, done properly
Read the web, not the queue
Personal sites, GitHub, papers, talks and your own network. The agent looks for evidence of the work, not a profile that happens to be public.
One email per person
Written from something they actually did, sent from your mailbox, with follow-ups that stop the moment they reply.
Applications handled the same way
Keep the job post. Inbound candidates get read against the same requirements and screened by the same agent.
Interviews booked and recorded
Slots offered, invites sent, no-shows chased, notes written against your requirements.
Side-by-side
Compare the workflow, not just the feature list.
Pricing and features checked 21 September 2026. Tell us if something is out of date.
Questions.
Answered.
No. Inbound costs almost nothing and occasionally lands someone excellent. The agent covers the people who will never see it.
Yes. They are read against the same requirements and get the same screening questions and scheduling.
Yes. Sales, design, product, operations and marketing searches run the same way, though the sources it reads differ by role.
$500 per agent per month while the search runs, plus 15 percent of first-year base salary on a hire.
Superposition vs Wellfound
One fills your inbox with applicants. The other finds the people who were never going to apply.
A LinkedIn Recruiter alternative
A seat licence gives you a search box. Somebody still has to use it.
Hire a GTM Engineer
The role that replaced hiring three SDRs, and the reason your first revenue hire might be an engineer.
Go and find them.
Tell us the role and we will show you three people who were never going to apply.