Hire a Technical Cofounder
Not a hire. A partner who builds the company with you.
A cofounder search is not a recruiting search
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Hiring employee #1 and finding a cofounder are different problems with different pools. The people who want to cofound are rarely on the job market. They're building side projects, contributing to open source, or quietly looking for the right mission to join.
Most matchmaking services ship you generic resumes. You end up on coffee chats with people who love your deck but don't want to own anything. You burn months on introductions that go nowhere.
The right cofounder is someone whose technical judgment you trust, who gets the domain, and who wants this problem to be their next 7 years. That's a specificity problem, not a volume problem.
How Superposition finds your cofounder
Taste-driven intake
Our agent pushes on who you actually want to work with daily: values, working style, domain obsessions, not a skill checklist.
Beyond the usual pools
We surface builders from open source, technical writing, and past startup roles, not the 'open to cofounding' LinkedIn filter.
Candid, specific outreach
Messages that explain your actual problem and why it matters, the kind of note a potential cofounder will actually read.
You stay in control
We surface curated people. Chemistry, equity, and the hard conversations stay with you, as they should.
Questions.
Answered.
We can find and approach candidates, and many cofounder relationships start exactly this way. What we cannot do is manufacture the trust, which is built over months of working together.
Equity, decision rights and salary risk. A cofounder shares the company; a founding engineer is an early employee with deep ownership. Being vague about which you are offering wastes everyone's time.
Almost always. A paid trial project of a few weeks surfaces more than any interview loop, and strong candidates usually suggest it themselves.
Standard advice is a four-year vest with a one-year cliff for both of you, whatever the split. Get it in writing before anyone starts.
Hire a Founding Designer
The one who owns product, brand, and the marketing site, and ships.
Hire a Founding Product Manager
An operator who owns roadmap, research, and launches, not a process manager.
Superposition for Pre-Seed Startups
Your first three hires will define the company. Get them right.
Find your cofounder.
Stop fishing in matchmaking pools. Let us surface builders who want to own this.