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We help teams hire exceptional early engineers and operators with startup DNA.
Built by founders, for founders.

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Unlike traditional recruiters, we get it.

We’ve started and scaled startups ourselves — we know finding exceptional talent takes endless hours you don’t have.

Move at your speed

Targeted AI-powered sourcing to give you real candidates in days, not weeks.

Built for busy founders

We don't optimize for quantity. Just high-signal candidates excited to join your team.

Startup-proven talent

Find candidates who thrive in the chaos and magic of early-stage.

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, with support from our team throughout the process.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, with support from our team throughout the process.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, with support from our team throughout the process.

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.

Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.

Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, with support from our team throughout the process.

Get started

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Step 1

Kickoff

Share your open roles and culture. We’ll refine the job requirements to find talent who truly fit your vision.
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Step 2

Sourcing

Within days, we source and send pre-vetted candidates who match your exact needs. Carefully screened for technical skills and culture-fit.
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Step 3

Review

Browse rich candidate profiles on our platform, including detailed screening notes from our team. Move forward with top matches.

Step 4

Hire

Interview and make an offer with confidence, with support from our team throughout the process.
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Get started

Trusted by venture-backed founders who don't settle on talent

"Candor was a lot more hands-on and very focused on what we wanted. They moved fast, adjusted based on feedback, and found candidates who actually fit our culture."

Conner Aldrich
Co-founder & CTO at GovSignals

"The candidates from Candor have been great and I wouldn’t have been able to find this caliber of talent on my own. They’ve allowed us to focus our time on closing sales and pushing the business forward, without sacrificing on building our team."

Jordan Shamir
CEO at Yofi

“Candor is like an extension of our own team. They consistently source extremely high quality candidates and communicate what we do to candidates as though they are in-house. Any company is lucky to work with them."

Austin Diamond
CEO at Universal

“Working with Candor made our hiring process easy and took the most time intensive stuff about recruiting off my plate. We ended up closing a senior engineer two weeks after I drafted the JD. It moved way faster than if I was owning the process and Iʼm super stoked about the hires we made."

John Donner
Co-Founder & CTO at

"Working with recruiters can often be difficult as an early-stage founder. So few really understand the unique needs of a startup and require too much handholding. Working with Kelsey (Candor’s founder) has been extremely refreshing - she’s in my same boat and get’s it. She gets her work done efficiently and has a unique ability to turn very vague requirements into a gameplan."

Alex Seutin
Founder of Drillbit

Frequently asked questions about hiring

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How do you assess candidate fit?

We vet candidates for two things: relevant role experience and startup culture fit. Startup culture fit includes experience in roles that are autonomous, fast moving, and ambiguous.

How much does it cost to hire with Candor?

We charge a placement fee for our services that's paid upon a candidate accepting an offer with your company.

What types of teams does Candor work with?

We work with founders and leaders at Seed, Series A, and Series B companies. We work well with founders who take hiring seriously and care about team culture.

Can you help with salary benchmarking and market insights?

Yes! Happy to provide salary benchmarks for your roles and any local nuance you need when hiring in a new market.

Where do you find candidates?

We find candidates through AI-powered sourcing and outreach. We also have a database of 30k+ candidates.

What roles can I hire for?

Candor can help you hire fullstack, frontend/backend engineers, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, DevOps, mobile engineers, and more.

We're not a fit for everyone.
Candor is for founders who:

Value quality over quantity

You don’t want to see 50 resumes. You know what drives success in the role and can identify it. You’re decisive, know how to recognize signal, and move when you see it.

Care about the candidate experience

Because how you hire says everything about how you build — and the best people notice. You're willing to invest to get this right.
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Want a real partner to collaborate with

You want someone to help you think through the role, challenge the spec, and close the right person.
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Make your next

10x hire

Move at your speed

Built for busy founders

Startup-proven talent

Trusted by startups backed by the best

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Close your open roles in 4 steps

Trusted by venture-backed founders who don't settle on talent