Superposition for YC Startups
The hiring system YC founders use to scale post-demo-day.
Post-demo-day, hiring becomes your full-time job
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
You just raised. The hiring clock starts now. You need engineering, design, and maybe GTM, yesterday. Every week you spend not shipping compounds into months of lost progress.
YC puts you in a founder network that helps with referrals, but the well runs dry fast. You end up back on LinkedIn Recruiter, writing InMails between investor meetings, paying retained recruiters out of a pool you can't afford to drain.
What you need is leverage: sourcing that scales with the number of open roles without scaling your time.
How Superposition works for YC founders
Parallel agents for parallel roles
Spin up an agent per open role. Each one sources, researches, and reaches out independently.
Runway-conscious pricing
$500/agent/month plus a success fee on placement. Far cheaper than retained search or 20%-of-salary agency fees.
Fast to first match
ESAI hired a CTO in 8 weeks. Plastic Labs hired a Platform Engineer in 5 weeks. That's the pace you need post-YC.
Founder-led intake
Voice intake captures your specific vision, no account-exec translation layer. You talk, we source.
Questions.
Answered.
Most teams start the moment the round closes, which is also when every other batch company starts. Moving first on outbound matters more than usual in that window.
You should, and the agent reads your own network first. The limit is that the network is finite and every batch company is working it at once.
Intake is 30 minutes and the agent starts reading sources the same day. First written candidate reads usually land within a few days.
Below market cash and meaningful equity is the standard shape. The outreach leads with ownership rather than compensation, because that is what moves people who could earn more elsewhere.
Build the team faster.
Get back to shipping while we handle the hiring grind.