Perfectly
Small startups have the hardest recruiting problem and nobody spare to work on it. Perfectly puts agents on the sourcing and outreach so a recruiter only handles the conversations. I built the first working version back when it was called Hire, and the team raised on it and got into Y Combinator.
What the problem was
Sourcing candidates is a volume game, and a small startup has nobody free to play it. The recruiter's time should go on talking to people, not on finding them.
How I built it
Make the loop work before making it pretty
An MVP you're going to raise money on is a different thing from an MVP you're going to demo. It has to survive contact with a real hiring pipeline.
So everything went into the loop itself: find, qualify, reach out, follow up, hand over, running unattended on actual open roles, rather than into the dashboard around it.
How it turned out
- First working product shipped. The team raised on it and got into Y Combinator's S25 batch.