Superposition for Pre-Seed Startups
Your first three hires will define the company. Get them right.
Pre-seed hiring is disproportionately high-stakes
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
At pre-seed, every hire is roughly 20-30% of the team. A miss doesn't just slow you down — it fundamentally reshapes the company's trajectory and culture.
You can't afford a retained recruiter ($30K+ upfront), and you can't afford the time cost of DIY sourcing. LinkedIn DMs work until they don't; most founders at this stage hit a wall after the first great hire.
What you need is the specificity of a retained search at a price point that makes sense for pre-seed runway.
How Superposition works for pre-seed
Taste-specific sourcing
Our voice intake captures the 'perfect weirdo' profile — the odd specific shape your first hire needs.
Runway-friendly pricing
$500/agent/month. Pay success fee only when you make a hire. No retainer, no cancellation drama.
Fast first hires
Curated matches in weeks. Because at pre-seed, every week without shipping is a week closer to your next raise.
Founder-led process
You talk to our agent directly. No account exec layer. The founder's vision stays intact.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Superposition for Founders
You should be building your company, not reading resumes.
Superposition for Talent Leads
Multiply your sourcing capacity without multiplying your headcount.
Superposition for Technical Cofounders
You should be in the codebase, not LinkedIn Recruiter.
Make your first hire count.
Pre-seed pricing, retained-search specificity.