More Meaningful Work
Most people are working at the wrong job. Few feel fulfilled. We're flipping that ratio.
Why We're Building This
The human connection in recruitment is everything.
But we've allowed an unnecessary middleman into the process: recruiters.
The presence of a middleman is a sign of an inefficient system. Unlike other service-driven middlemen, recruiters often add friction rather than value.
The Cost
The Reality
When the status quo is this broken, we're aiming higher than making a copilot.
We're building an agent that is better at finding talent than any human in history.
The Team
Edmund
CEOI'm from a family of serial immigrants. My son is the 3rd successive generation of the family to be born on a different continent to his father. A singular anecdote to help you understand me: when I was 8 I memorized the periodic table and performed it set to music for my entire school.
I started a career in recruitment immediately after my double major in Physics and Philosophy. I loved science but I love selling more, and recruitment is the hardest form of sales because your product has an opinion. I recruited hundreds of engineers for startups, including hiring engineer #1 at Brex.
I learned to code, thinking it would make me a 10x recruiter (I was wrong), then pivoted into Product Management at Omnipresent ($120M Series B, lost to, and eventually acquired by, Deel). I built the MVP of Superposition, and used it to recruit Li. I am motivated to build a recruiter that is not just better than me, but is better than the summation of all recruiters in history.
Li
CTOI've been obsessed with building things since I was a kid. A singular anecdote: in high school I built our student management system, won a national first prize, and got into college at 16. I later co-founded Vitable Health (YC S20) and rejoined while doing my master's at CMU, taking it from pre‑seed to a product relied on by hundreds of thousands of patients.
In an early stage startup, 'engineering' turns into 'whatever it takes'. I got my first real taste of how broken technical hiring is from the inside, sifting through noisy inbound, rejecting great people because the process couldn't handle nuance, and watching recruiters spam candidates who'd never thrive in our environment.
I believe repetitive intellectual work should be automated. When Edmund reached out with an eerily on-point message written by an agent, it stopped feeling like a pitch and started feeling inevitable. Superposition is my bet that we can delete bullshit jobs in hiring and maximize fulfilling work for more people.
Principles
Decision frequency >>> decision quality
In startups, the ability to decide with incomplete information, iterate, test, and move forward radically outperforms overthinking and analysis of every possible decision.
I ship therefore I am
We like people with a pathological need to complete work and get it into the hands of customers as quickly as possible. Whose ego is strongly tied up in the work they complete and the impact it does. 'I shipped it' always wins an argument over 'I think' and theoreticals.
Discovery led
We will win by having the highest fidelity mental model about our customer, their pain points and how they attempt to solve them today.
Write it down, then talk about it
We are an in-person culture with a strong bias to writing before you discuss.
No managers. Ever.
We will never hire anyone whose sole job is to oversee and manage the work of other people. We believe in hands-on player-coaches who do the job, and can inspire, guide, and coach their peers to get better.
Removal of bullshit work as a primitive
Our mission of maximizing fulfilling work also applies internally, and we default to using AI to eradicate as much bullshit work inside the company as well as outside of it.
Self aware but not self conscious
Posting is cringe. Watching a customer struggle through the UI you shipped is cringe. All opportunities to put yourself out there are fundamentally cringe but we can't let that hold us back. We must be introspective but not self conscious.
Belief in the mission is mandatory
If you ever fall out of love with our mission your obligation is to let us know. We will help you find the best next move whether that's a new job, founding your own startup or something else.
This list will evolve over time
You will shape and define our future principles.
Our Vision
The Star Trek Future
A post-scarcity world where work is chosen, not compelled.
We believe the future of humanity is a world of artists and scientists, where AI has liberated us from drudgery. In that post‑scarcity future, most people will choose to build, explore, and collaborate.
"Jean‑Luc Picard does not receive a salary. He is compelled to assemble a crew of highly competent peers and explore."
In a world like that, the hard problem isn't "finding a job," it's finding your crew: the people who share your values and want to rally around the same mission.
Whether you're writing a play or building a starship, the set of possible collaborators explodes. We believe small, high‑concept, tightly‑knit expedition crews will be the future—and Superposition will be the mechanism that builds them.
The 10-Person Unicorn
Small teams, infinite leverage.
We are entering the era of the 10 person unicorn: fully AI‑native companies where small teams of builders get the leverage that used to require hundreds of people.
The New Operating System
In teams like this, every hire is effectively a cofounder. Culture stops being a forgotten Notion doc and becomes the operating system.
When you add employee number 11 to a high-leverage team, being a values match becomes existential. The more leverage a person has, the more dangerous a misalignment becomes.
We are building for these companies; our customers are the future 10 person unicorns. And we are also building one of these companies ourselves.
The Agent
An AI headhunter with taste.
We are not building a tool for recruiters. We're building an agent that can do the job of a high‑taste human recruiter.
Edmund was a recruiter for seven years. Frankly, humans suck at this job. The human brain is not well‑equipped to look at a thousand candidate profiles in a day and make a nuanced, high‑taste match.
Voice conversations
High-taste matches
Voice is the unlock. Our agent talks with hiring managers to design their ideal hire, then sources in real time.
We have an absurdly ambitious roadmap and a preposterously high bar for product quality. We're excited to show you what we're working on.
Life at Superposition
Moments from our journey so far.
Working out of Betaworks in Meatpacking, NYC
Coffee breaks and deep work at Betaworks
Where Hugging Face started—building in good company
Our first company offsite—bouldering together
Demo day at Betaworks
Edmund on stage at Demo day
Testing the whitebalance for our customer interview set
Benefits & Perks
Work at Betaworks
Work in-person out of the most curated and highly aesthetic startup hub in NYC (Betaworks). You'll bump into the founders of FourSquare, teams building androids and hats that read your mind.
Unlimited Transportation budget
In-person work is great, commuting sucks. Get where you're going faster with less hassle.
Paid gym membership & trainer
Paid gym membership (any gym, Equinox, F45) plus a personal trainer.
Cleaner & laundry service
Paid cleaner and laundry service for your apartment - you shouldn't have to worry about chores.
All meals at the office covered
Sweetgreen, DoorDash or chopped cheese. Whatever you have for breakfast, lunch or dinner while here is provided.
Angel check when you leave
If you leave to start your own startup we'll be your first angel check (and hire your founding engineer for free).
Boring benefits (but important)
Premium health, vision and dental
Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance, fully covered by the company.
Untracked PTO
Take time off when you need it. No accruals, no limits, no approval process.
Life insurance
Full life insurance coverage to protect you and your family.
Join Us
Join our team and help build the future of recruiting.
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